Chapter 402: Spiritual Sword vs Dream Dota League
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
On the internet of Heavenly State, the analysis report of the prospects of online gas—
According to the latest “Year 2014 Third Season Heavenly State App Online Gas Market Survey” data published by Easy Ga Holdings, the overall scale of the year 2014 third season Heavenly State app online gaming market has reached 8.688 billion yuan. A company nad Flying Dragon Network has risen up strongly by commissioning for Spiritual Sword, and it directly broke new grounds with regards to the four big Heavenly State app online gaming companies which are ford by Turkey Gas, Easy Net Gas, Soulang Carefree Ga and Big Star Network.
Year 2014, third season, accompanied by the sudden ergence of Spiritual Sword, the market shares of a few large scale ga manufacturers have also gradually shrunk, resulting in an inevitable situation of the decline of so of the manufacturers.
Facing the situation of the increasing difficulty of getting new users, various main gaming carriers launched new products, hoping to use this to attract new players. The competition between the manufacturers to gain new users is getting more and more intense, and in the process, Spiritual Sword strongly erges, shocking all the various big companies.
Year 2014 ga apps daily active users situation—
According to the average daily number of active users in the main ga app of Heavenly State, the number of players online at the sa ti for “Spiritual Sword” have already exceeded 800,000, and it’s still rapidly increasing. At the sa ti, “Dream Dota League,” which had previously announced its upcoming open beta testing, has started to suffer from a decrease in popularity, and currently, it’s already losing out to the rapid rising of Spiritual Sword in terms of forum posts. According to the related data calculations, currently, “Dream Dota League’s” popularity is not even one-tenth of “Spiritual Sword’s”, and it’s still continually decreasing.
According to the predictions of statistical professionals from Easy Ga Holdings, in the upcoming seasons, in face of the slow increase in the overall scale of the market and increase of players, the online percentage of “Spiritual Sword” will increase further and break a new record. The small-scale ga app manufacturers might either need to undergo restructuring or face integration. The prospects are worrying. We believe that if this situation continues, there will be a situation of “Spiritual Sword” dominating the online gaming market in Heavenly State, and “Draconic Continent” as well as the upcoming “Dream Dota League” might face the danger of being taken over.
The following was comnted by the editor—
“The online gaming market is like rowing a boat against the current—not to advance is to retreat. If soone doesn’t do sothing to stop ‘Spiritual Sword’, the local online gaming market will be completely monopolized. Of course, if the retailer, Flying Dragon Network, is willing to take over ‘Draconic Continent’ and ‘Dream Dota League’, perhaps these two gas might have an opportunity to display their brilliance again(Smile).”
After closing the webpage, Shiroishi Kazuma smiled and said, “Looks like everything is going according to plan. This is quite good.”
Qian Youjin stood beside him and respectfully asked, “Mr. Shi, then what should we do next?”
“Continue to advertise, and at the sa ti, announce that our online ga will be permanently free of charge so that all players will be able to have a superb ga experience.” Shiroishi Kazuma insipidly said, “Free of charge, this is a thod sure to increase popularity. This will definitely not go wrong. Also, create hype about the price of the equipnts in the ga. You don’t need to teach you what to do, right?”
“OK, I got it.” Qian Youjin thought for a while, then he felt puzzled and asked, “Then how should we earn money from the ga in the future?”
“That’s simple.” Shiroishi Kazuma took a small sip of tea. “Let the poor players serve the rich players, and after the popularity has really been increased, just sell so chargeable props.”
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In the next few days, all the various dia in Heavenly State focused their attention on the fierce battle between the two gas!
Spiritual Sword vs Dream Dota League!
This ti, both parties flooded the entire internet with their advertisents. Spiritual Sword had advertisents all around, and news regarding Dream Dota League was constantly erging as well! It started to expand from the internet to the huge advertisent posters in the various internet cafes, then to TV stations, and even the toilets of the internet cafes, hotels and motels had such labels—conveniently wash and rinse, clean and relaxing. Play Dream Dota League, relax your entire mind!
These were only the tip of the iceberg. Next, in the various ga categories on the various web portals on the internet, almost all of them contained the data reports after the open beta testing of Spiritual Sword, as well as various reviews, analysis, and introductions of the heroes in Dream Dota League.
On Sangle Tieba forum, the number of users following the Spiritual Sword official Tieba forum was already close to 800,000, and it was still increasing at an insane speed.
anwhile, the number of people in the official Tieba forum of Dream Dota League had increased like the speed of wildfire to 400,000, and apart from studying into the various skills of the heroes that were already announced, they were also making preparations for the official open beta testing.
And just when Dream Dota League was working hard to make preparations to increase the popularity for the upcoming open beta testing, Spiritual Sword’s official website made a super heavyweight announcent!
Flying Dragon Network announced that Spiritual Sword would be permanently free, allowing all players to have a superb gaming experience!
In fact, the content of this announcent was already entirely unimportant. Once could tell the complete aning of this advertisent just from the topic.
Once this announcent was published, it was instantly forwarded by netizens onto Weibo. The power of the players was great, and with one passing to another and going around to spread the news, within a short half an hours’ ti, it had already been forwarded 130,000 tis, and there were a full 60,000 comnts! Almost everyone was applauding for Flying Dragon Network!
The strength of free things was scary. This ti, Tang Muxin and Liu Mingxin had deeply understood this. When an online ga that already had more than one million players online at the sa ti announced that it would be permanently free of charge, how strong would that kind of power be!
Ever since this notice had been published, Spiritual Sword’s popularity instantly skyrocketed, arriving with the aura of strong gusts of wind blowing the leaves as it instantly swept through all other gas!
The number of searches for the keyword “Spiritual Sword” on Sangle Search Engine had instantly reached the peak. There were topics regarding Spiritual Sword all over Turkey Software, and groups of players from various zones erged all at once. The price of a weapon from Spiritual Sword on Jianbao Plaza was increased to the sky-high price of 100,000 yuan. And it was said that just after that weapon had been placed on the internet, there was a super die-hard fan who flew there in person to show his sincerity in purchasing it.
Very soon, news regarding this sky-high priced weapon was all over the place.
On Xinhai Weibo, all topics regarding Spiritual Sword had beco hot topics of the entire website. There was even an exaggerated post on Weibo, saying that a piece of armor which could be said to rank in the first few places in the ga had been obtained by a female player, and it was said that the price this female player paid was that she had to spend the night with the weapon’s owner...
In no ti, Spiritual Sword had beco a godly piece of work in the hearts of all the players, and there were even so people who went to the extent of not being able to eat if they didn’t play it.
On the forum, countless people showed photos of the great pieces of equipnt they’d gotten, instantly attracting tens of thousands of people to take a look. The television entertainnt channels also broadcasted about how this online ga, Spiritual Sword, was so explosively popular that it was said that a child shouted Spiritual Sword’s slogan “For the Dawn of Victory!” even in school.
And at the sa ti, things were gloomy and worrying at Dream Dota League. The number of followers on its Tieba forum stopped at 55,000 people, and while the daily number of posts were already as high as 500,000 for Spiritual Sword, Dream Dota League’s was just a little more than 60,000...
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Mingxin Network headquarters building. Tang Muxin, together with two lackeys and Ling Xiaoyi, gathered with Liu Mingxin in front of the computer, frowning deeply while looking at the low and gloomy statistics displayed on the screen.
“Young Master Liu, this ti, the opponent has really caught us unprepared.” Tang Muxin said in a troubled voice. “It’s perfect in all aspects, and no flaws can be found. The quality of the ga itself is indeed very good, and the advertising thods are very effective. The most vital aspect is that it’s permanently free. This suits the taste of a very large percentage of players!”
Tang Muxin was extrely worried about the current situation of Dream Dota League.
Had it been another person’s matter, she wouldn’t be concerned even if there were 10 million people online for this Spiritual Sword. But this ti it was different. Spiritual Sword had affected the popularity of Dream Dota League, which had been created by Hong Dali. What it ant was very simple. If everyone went to play Spiritual Sword, who would still play Dream Dota League?
“Yes. Moreover, there is sothing that is also very important regarding Spiritual Sword. Their pieces of equipnt are worth a lot of money.” Liu Mingxin sighed. “This ga is already free of charge, and the props are also worth a lot of money. This will attract a great number of players that don’t want to spend money and instead want to earn money. It could be said that as long as this group of players increases, in the future there will definitely be more players willing to spend money!”
“En, yes, once the popularity increases, by then, they can earn big money from whatever they sell because the base of the players is there!” Tang Muxin was very worried as well.
In that case, it would be very difficult for Dream Dota League to deal with this. Because Dream Dota League was a competitive type of battling ga, and it had an intrinsic deficiency in this aspect. The free of charge issue aside, the key to the problem was that it couldn’t attract those players that wanted to earn money through the ga.
“My head hurts from thinking too much...” Tang Muxin rubbed her bright forehead and carefully pondered about Hong Dali’s previous thods of squandering. After thinking for a long while, she helplessly shook her head. “I don’t have any good ideas. In that case, let’s continue to increase the advertisent power and hope that there will be so effect. When the open beta testing starts and the players get to play this ga, they’ll definitely like it!”
“En, at the mont, we can only do so.” Liu Mingxin touched his chin, then added, “If worse cos to worst, after the open beta testing, let’s hold a few competitions, then the popularity will increase by a certain amount.”
“Right!” Tang Muxin clapped. “That’s settled then! Let’s continue the advertisents. Oh right. Also, set the timing of the competition. If things go as normal, the open beta testing should start the day after tomorrow, right? Then hold the competition three days after the open beta testing, how’s that?”
“En, sure.”
“OK!” Tang Muxin instantly decided. “This period of ti, let’s increase our advertisents, and at the sa ti, announce that the first Dream Dota League competition will be held on the fourth day of the open beta testing. By then, we can set the rewards higher. Let’s set the prize for the first place as one million! I believe many people will definitely be interested in it!”
“Yes, this can work.” Liu Mingxin nodded and smiled. “One million, this reward should not be a problem. It’s already enough to attract attention.”
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