Chapter 388: Explosive Popularity
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Tianjing City, southern city area, in the Qian Family’s secret villa.
Sitting on the sofa drinking tea, Shiroishi Kazuma insipidly asked, “How’s our progress? Is everything still going smoothly?”
“Currently, they’re all still going fine.” Qian Youjin held a thick docunt in his hand, looking through it as he said, “According to your instructions, Mr. Shi, we’ve put up advertisents on all the various websites, and they were all put up at very striking positions. The website has been created such that it looks very pretty, and the speed is fast as well. Now, there are already approximately eighty to ninety thousand players who have expressed keen interest. As long as the advertisents go on for two more days, the ga can officially undergo open beta testing.”
“Mm, almost the sa as what I’d predicted.” Shiroishi Kazuma closed his eyes slightly and, after thinking for a while, insipidly said, “Any reaction from Liu Mingxin’s side? This young man is still very adept with the online gaming aspect.”
“At the mont, we haven’t heard any response from him. He’s probably investigating into our background.” Qian Youjin smiled. “Mr. Shi, do we need to do anything?”
“There’s no need to at the mont.” Shiroishi Kazuma shook his head. “Now, the most important thing we need to do is to attract their attention, especially Hong Dali. This young man is quite lucky, we have to guard against this. These few days, the more I investigated into his background, the more shocked I beca. He earns money in literally everything he does. Though the effects of many things might not be able to be seen in the short run, in the long run almost all of them earn money. Oh right, you’ve previously sold him two projects, one a smartphone company and the other a basketball team. Is that true?”
“Yes.” Qian Youjin was rather stunned. “Mr. Shi, you’re not thinking that Hong Dali can make those two properties that I’ve sold to him earn money as well, are you?” He thought for a while, then laughed and said, “This is impossible, right? Apart from a large number of stocks in that smartphone factory, I’ve already transferred all the technical personnel away. There isn’t anything apart from the equipnt factory workshop. How can he earn money without technical personnel?”
“Mm, OK.” Shiroishi Kazuma touched his chin, then suddenly asked, “Oh right, how are things going on regarding the basketball team’s side?”
“They’re all old and weak people.” Qian Youjin grinned. “Moreover, I’ve disallowed them from change teams, or else, we’d still need to pay compensation for the breach of contract. It just happened that not long later, there will be a few rounds of competition. By then, we can make them participate in it. It’ll be so fun to watch.”
“This is quite good.” Shiroishi Kazuma nodded and said, “Rember to divert their focus and ask them to concentrate on the basketball match. You can find a dependable person to go and inform them.”
After the two of them had discussed the upcoming plans, Qian Youjin cautiously said, “Mr. Shi, regarding the resource chamber of comrce...”
Heavenly State’s Resource Chamber of Comrce held a eting once every three years, which would decide the dividing of the resources in Heavenly State for the next three years. It was extrely important. As the energy tycoon, the Qian Family naturally placed great emphasis on this. The main reason for Qian Youjin work so hard for Shiroishi Kazuma, who represented Toyoda Conglorate, was exactly because of this.
“Rest assured.” Shiroishi Kazuma insipidly said, “As a mber of the big East Asia shared-glory circle, your Qian Family will not lack in the benefits that you would get.”
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As a hardcore online gar, Han Chengwen was quite bored in the recent few days.
He had already reached the top level in Draconic Continent, and he had all the godly equipnt. It wasn’t an overstatent to say that Han Chengwen was already so formidable in Draconic Continent that he had no opponents left. Even if he continued to play it, there was already not anything that would be able to attract him.
Thus, now he really needed a brand new type of ga to satisfy his desire to conquer and dominate, to let him have a fresh feeling and let him once again rise up the ranks from a newcor, to eventually stand on the peak of the entire server.
The process was the most attractive one.
Thus, on one particular morning, he groggily got out of bed. Out of boredom, Han Chengwen clicked onto the largest ga publishing website in Heavenly State, Play Together website, to see whether there were any newly released gas that attracted him. Very soon, he found a new target—Spiritual Sword!
“What the heck, new ga?!” Once he entered the main page of Play Together website, Han Chengwen saw a huge special zone right in the middle of the main page—The Spiritual Sword special zone!
“What kind of ga is so impressive? This advertisent is really breaking new grounds. It looks quite good!” Once Han Chengwen saw that pretty and cute girl on the Spiritual Sword special zone, he was instantly attracted to it. “This is the character style? Quite good, quite good looking. This small little waist, these thighs, this black silk...”
As an online gaming lover, Han Chengwen, thus, was a geek as well. To a geek, it was undoubtedly a pretty second dinsion face, and a small and slim waist as well as long legs with black stockings, which attracted him to a whole new level. Thus, Han Chengwen, without any hesitation, clicked into it. And then, he was very satisfied.
“The speed of this website is quite fast, and the webpage is done very prettily.” Han Chengwen clicked and browsed around on the Spiritual Sword website, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it. “This ga looks quite good. There are many professions, and the characterizations are rather good-looking, and there is very substantial depth in the equipnt as well. I’m just not sure how the gaplay is like. Let see whether open beta testing has started.”
He searched for a short while, and very soon, he found the timing of the open beta testing sowhere in the middle towards the right of the website. “Huh? The open beta testing will start from 2:00 PM tomorrow? This is good. I’ve got to hurry up and download the ga, then I’ll give it a try!”
While the ga was being downloaded, he naturally had to go and take a look at the ga introduction, the ga strategies and so on. Once Han Chengwen clicked into the Play Together forum, the first thing that was displayed was the overall popularity of the forum—Today: 140,077. Yesterday: 4,562,260. Posts: 44,2701,552. mbers: 53,056,442.
A special zone for Spiritual Sword, as expected, had already been opened in the forum. Alas, once Han Chengwen saw the number of posts in the Spiritual Sword zone, he was instantly stunned!
Behind the Spiritual Sword zone, it impressively displayed a huge figure—57,340!
What this figure represented was the number of posts in the Spiritual Sword zone today! Just such a figure alone might not be very obvious, but if a comparison was made, currently, the most popular Draconic Continent among the online gas only had 73,658 posts!
That ant that within a short few days’ ti, the popularity of Spiritual Sword had already reached two-thirds that of Draconic Continent’s! It had even occupied almost one-third of the popularity in the online gaming forums in Heavenly State!
“What the heck. This isn’t true, right? By right, this ga has only been newly launched, right? I’ve only just gotten to know about it, and it’s already so popular?!” Han Chengwen stared in bewildernt. “Looks like this ga is indeed very aweso! I’d better hurry and go look at the news!”
After entering the Spiritual Sword zone, the figures of the various sub-zones at the back almost blinded Han Chengwen’s eyes!
Integrated discussion zone of Spiritual Sword(22103) The: 202,962, Number of posts: 10,715,161, three-item Brilliance Set, Master Bei’s ring enhanced by 4... Posted by Elevencxy 3 seconds ago.
Spiritual Sword popular patch zone(8987) The: 50,227, Number of posts: 7,708,379, So cool~ Muramasa has awoken~ Super cool, isn’t it... Posted by Twi_Light 10 seconds ago.
Spiritual Sword zone nosy rantings(7308) The: 46,560, Number of posts: 1,508,230...
Spiritual Sword sword lovers personal exposure zone(3024) The: 13,963, Number of posts: 688,605...
“What the heck! This is good! This is too impressive!” Han Chengwen liked it the more he looked at it! What was most important in online gaming? The popularity, of course! An online ga that didn’t have popularity would definitely be unable to ignite the interest in hardcore gars! After all, the players had sharp eyes. They could perceive a rough idea of whether the ga was fun or not just by looking at the number of players!
Very soon, Han Chengwen logged into his own account and entered the Spiritual Sword integrated discussion zone and started searching for the information that he needed, as well as occasionally waiting for other players to start up so things: “Brothers, I want to play as a mage, anyone wants to join ?”
More than ten replies appeared below very soon. “I’ll play as a warrior. Brother, which zone are you in?” “I’ll play as a hunter, we’re together in the sa zone!” “I’ll play as a priest, able to warm the bed and ask soone to provide for , sufficient milk!”
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Tianjing City, Mingxin Network.
Liu Mingxin sat in front of his office desk, looking at the various statistical data of this new online ga, “Spiritual Sword,” and frowned seriously.
The statistics of this online ga had been increasing during the recent few days, completely exceeding Liu Mingxin’s imagination. As the largest online gaming company currently in Heavenly State, Liu Mingxin had to pay serious attention to this type of opponent that was about to rise!
After all, people had a limited amount of ti. If the players went to play “Spiritual Sword,” they’d naturally not have ti to play Draconic Continent.
“The increase in popularity is indeed impressive.” Liu Mingxin looked at the number of posts of Play Together forum and was extrely shocked. “It has reached this extent within just a few days. The ga is indeed quite good, and most importantly, their advertising thods are extrely apt. Such a big special zone on the main page of Play Together would probably cost a million and above every day!”
The investnts were definitely horrifying for such a large-scale website with tens of millions of users like Play Together to use such a large advertisent special topic!
It had to be known for gas, advertising had an extrely big difference.
Just a small link attached to the main page would cost an advertisent fee of approximately fifty to a hundred thousand or so, which could be done by the usual online ga.
If there were special zones on the main page for recomndations and introductions, then it would cost around 200,000 or so of advertisent fees every day. Only large-scale online gas would be able to do that. As for the small-scale online gas... they didn’t even need to think of it. The amount of money they earned would probably not even be able to cover the advertisent fees.
anwhile, an online ga like Spiritual Sword which had separately opened up a special zone in the most central part of the main page... it would definitely cost at least one million and above daily! It could be said that just the advertisents put up one month before this ga was launched would cost at least 30 million and above!
“Looks like this company is filthy rich.” Liu Mingxin slightly squinted his eyes. “I wonder what is their background. But nevertheless, they’ll definitely be our biggest competitor!”
Thinking up to this point, the secretary knocked on the door and walked into the room, saying in a soft voice, “Young Master Liu, this company has a very substantial background. With our ability, we won’t be able to investigate on who exactly is backing them up.”
“Mm.” Liu Mingxin took in a deep breath. “Looks like this opponent is very powerful. We can’t even find out his background... Impressive!”
He looked at the statistics again for a while more, then slowly said, “Go and inform the technical departnt to hold so activities to increase popularity. For instance, giving gifts online and rewarding so supplentary props or so on when fighting against monsters.”
“Yes.” The secretary said, “Director Liu, do we need to start carrying out advertisents at Dream Dota League side?”
“Mm, OK.” Liu Mingxin nodded. “Increase the advertising power. At least, it can’t be lacking compared to this Spiritual Sword!”
“Understood.”
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