Chapter 25: What’s Going on With the Figures?!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Ma Yang was troubled.
“Brother Qian... is our ga really that trashy? There’s absolutely no hype around it...”
“When a new ga’s published, it would normally get a few tens of thousands of downloads on just the first day. Why is ours only getting a couple of dozens...”
Ma Yang was thoroughly affected.
Ever since the ga was published, he was refreshing the figures for Ghost General on the official gas platform every other minute to check for number of downloads and reviews by players.
Yet, one hour had passed...
Three hours...
Five hours...
The figures had hardly changed at all!
That was because Ghost General had only taken on a small spot on the recomndation list and that title by itself wasn’t anything particularly attractive nor were there any beautiful advertising images – who would even notice it?
The Lonely Desert Road was discovered by Teacher Qiao because he was an UP Master who specialized in dissing standalone gas and would seek out new gas on the regular.
That could be said to be an exception amongst exceptions.
Most mobile gars would not go around looking for new mobile gas on the regular unless they were exceptionally popular or poised to be at least.
For a new mobile ga such as Ghost General, the chances of it being buried into oblivion was almost 100% without any marketing asures planned.
“It’s fine, this is always the case for new gas. We just have to wait and see,” Pei Qian consoled.
Wait and see?
Yeah, right!
Even though Pei Qian looked to be as worried as Ma Yang on the surface, he was long gloating internally.
It was normal that there would be no downloads – after all, where would the players co from since this ga had not seen the light of day just yet?
A couple of days aside, this ga would most likely end up into stagnation even after a week or a month had passed!
Pei Qian was just waiting for the week to pass by as quickly as possible. Eventually, Ghost General would drop from the gas platform’s recomndation spot and so would its popularity. With that, the system’s settlent would convert all 300,000 of System Funds to his Personal Wealth.
Amazing!
Pei Qian’s consolation did not bring about much results as Ma Yang still looked despondent as ever.
“Sigh, let
check the figures again. Perhaps there might be so changes now that three hours’ passed,” Ma Yang said as he opened up ESRO’s official gas platform and searched for Ghost General.
When he got to the information page of the ga, Ma Yang was stunned.
He rubbed his eyes, thinking that he might have been hallucinating.
When he had checked it multiple tis previously, the downloads were always in the tens. However, it had suddenly increased to more than 2,000!
Ma Yang thought that he was seeing things. But, when he checked out the ratings and reviews by players, he knew that it was true.
A group of gars had indeed discovered this ga!
The first thing Ma Yang checked was the rating of the ga – it was at an exaggerating 9.7!
Initially, Ghost General’s review section was absolutely empty. However, there were already hundreds of reviews by now!
“Why is this ga sold at 10 yuan? It’s more expensive than Qute Three Kingdoms, what the hell?!”
“The previous comnter, you must not have played the ga yet, right? You’re complaining that 10 yuan is expensive? It’s too cheap!”
“I’ve played it seriously for a little and found that it’s a mobile card ga filled with sincerity! The key is that there’s only a single permanent mbership card that the ga sells to you. If you were to lump it together with the cost of the ga, everything costs a re 40 yuan!”
“40 yuan to play as much as you want while everyone’s equal without any top up values or paywalls. I’m appalled! Is this even a mobile card ga?”
“This ga’s quality is rather decent. As a loyal fan of mobile card gas, I’ve finally found one that is unique!”
“What’s morable are the characters inside! I’ve never seen anyone interpret characters of the three kingdoms using such a unique manner! It’s absolutely unbelievable! Yet, within its ridiculousness, there’s a refreshing feeling to it!”
“The original art’s aweso! I’ll even be willing to pay money in-ga just because of the original arts! What? I can’t pay money in-ga? Seems like I can only give a 5-star review then!”
Ma Yang’s hands were shivering in excitent. After going through the reviews page by page, he couldn’t even find a single negative review!
It wasn’t entirely because the original arts were amazing and the ga charged a reasonable price that there was no negative reviews. The most important reason was that the first batch of players were here just for the original arts!
After the artists from Chen Qi’s group shared the images on their Weibo, there was an extrely warm reception and those people got here by searching for the ga’s title.
While the majority of the people were sowhat disappointed at how Ghost General wasn’t a standalone or large scale online ga, they could not bear to give it a poor review after they started on the ga.
That’s because, the ga truly had too much of a heart!
It was of a decent quality be it in terms of art or music resources. Cost was not an issue to Pei Qian and the first impression it gave off was amazing.
Coupled with the fact that there was no paywall, more players were even more sold on the ga!
As such, Ghost General exploded with amazing reviews after the first batch of gars started it with great word of mouth advertising!
Ma Yang stretched his head out from the upper bunk and said to Pei Qian, “Brother Qian, we did it! Our downloads are increasing and there are many amazing 5-star reviews!
“Pfft!”
Pei Qian was drinking water and he choked on it, coughing for a full minute thereafter.
“What did you say?” He nearly thought that he was hearing things.
Ma Yang repeated excitedly, “We’ve got over 2,000 downloads now! Also, everyone’s giving great reviews for the ga and there are even people who are praising my character designs!”
Pei Qian was completely dazed.
The downloads had gone over 2,000?
How could that be? Where did the gars hear about the ga from?
Besides, they all gave 5-star reviews?
That didn’t make sense! The ga was completely made using universal mobile card ga templates and there wasn’t any breakthroughs in gaplay – how would that render 5-star reviews?
If this was soone else’s ga, Pei Qian’s first reaction would be that the creators must have bought likes and reviews themselves!
However, this was his own ga!
He was none the clearer that he hadn’t bought any reviews at all!
He had already spent all his money, how would he have any bit left to purchase fake reviews?
Besides, even if he had money, Pei Qian wouldn’t possibly do it. What he wanted more than anything else was for the ga to disappear silently – how could he possibly do sothing that would generate this much hype?
Could so other companies have bought fake reviews and ended up reviewing the wrong ga by mistake?
That wouldn’t seem possible as well. Who would provide such a lousy service that they could even review a wrong ga by mistake?
Could it be... that another incident similar to the previous ga had happened?!
Pei Qian logged into ESRO’s resource website and glanced at the ga’s download figures.
Ma Yang had not lied to him – they had truly exploded!
Besides, the reviews of the players seed exactly the sa as what fake reviewers would write – all of them were praising Ghost General for having a heart!
The download figures were still increasing rapidly along with the number of people who had purchased the in-ga permanent mbership card!
Pei Qian was completely stunned as he looked at both leaping figures.
What was up with this world?!
What went wrong this ti round?!
His vision blackening, Pei Qian collapsed back onto his bed.
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