Chapter 152: Chapter 118 Silent Competition (Extra 2 for Boss Qiu)_2
“So that’s how it is…” Huang Ping mused, but he quickly realized an issue and hurriedly asked, “Are there cravings in the ga?”
“Oh, there weren’t.” Fang Cheng replied. “No problem, I’ll add them now… Done.”
After adding them, Fang Cheng was ready to continue discussing the magical weapons in the ga when he noticed Huang Ping staring at him in astonishnt.
A mont later, Huang Ping asked in confusion, “Boss, what do you an by ‘add it just like that’?”
“It’s nothing really; it’s my own ga, I’ll add what I want. Oh, I never ntioned it before because I didn’t feel it was necessary: ‘Living Immortal’ is also .”
Covering his head, Huang Ping felt his brain buzzing, and it took him a long while to co to terms with a fact he wasn’t particularly prepared to accept.
The two ga creators he admired had suddenly rged into one.
He didn’t doubt that Fang Cheng was lying because there was no need to lie about such a thing.
And boss…
Do you secretly work overti every day?
It took him a long ti to accept this fact. When he turned his head to look at Xiao Douzi, he found that she wasn’t surprised at all, and was even getting ready to restart the ga.
“Aren’t you shocked?” Huang Ping asked in a low voice, “The boss is that ‘Living Immortal’.”
“I knew it a long ti ago,” Xiao Douzi replied. “The boss’s style is so obvious, I realized it after comparing a few gas. I was a bit excited when I found out, but after that, it didn’t matter much to .”
“The subjects are completely different. You could tell that?”
“Ga tags are always a ss.”
“That’s true…”
After thinking about it for a while, Huang Ping found that Xiao Douzi was right.
But then, he asked in confusion, “Then…why?”
“So ga creators do that, too. I know there are a few who had no money and then beca adult ga creators. Because it’s too shaful, they use pseudonyms. The use of aliases is very common.”
“I know about that, but why did the boss do it?”
“To validate his own ideas, I guess. So ideas are not convenient to test under his own na, like ‘Spreading Traditional Culture Starting from .’ Such a terrifying ga doesn’t look like sothing the boss could make; it’s better to experint under an alias.”
Huang Ping could more or less understand the reasoning behind it, but still found it hard to believe.
Yet, once he got it, it didn’t bother him anymore.
What the boss wanted to do in his own ti was his business. There was no need for him to report everything to his employees.
And no one said that a studio’s boss can’t publish gas privately, anyway.
After making sense of it all, Huang Ping decisively restarted ‘Dark Builder’ and, brandishing his magical weapon, asked, “Boss, which magical weapon should I use?”
“None are of much value. Just stick with Xiao Douzi for co-op play.”
“…Alright.”
Afterward, a new question suddenly occurred to Huang Ping, and he asked, “Boss, I won’t inquire into your decision to secretly create gas using an alias, but Tianyi is clearly copying your gas. Aren’t you going to do sothing about it?”
Upon hearing this, Xu Qingling had the enthusiasm of a Husky, ready to be unleashed.
At a single command from Fang Cheng, she would morph into a legal advocate and drag Tianyi through every court she could.
Even if they lost the case, it wouldn’t matter; they could just find new reasons to sue them all over again.
But Fang Cheng just shook his head: “It doesn’t matter. Let them continue.”
Xu Qingling sadly bowed her head.
Fang Cheng’s calm deanor completely put Huang Ping at ease.
For so reason, Fang Cheng’s words always had a special magic that made people feel particularly reassured.
The next day, ‘Dark Guardian’ officially broke through five million downloads across all platforms.
Free to download and with its light pay-for-play setting, this ga earned a great reputation.
Nowadays, big company gas were all about gacha, MOBAs, and battle royale, a homogenized product range that had left players utterly exhausted, yet the inertia of gaming compelled them to keep playing.
Gas from Fang Cheng Studio were all very good, but compared to the vast demand of users, their output was just too little.
And now, with the finely crafted ‘Dark Guardian’ arriving on the scene, those gars had finally found a worthwhile ga to invest their ti in.
Under Tianyi’s overwhelming promotion, “Dark Guardian” quickly dominated the sales charts, and the substantial returns allowed KongKong, who had been closely monitoring the data, to breathe a sigh of relief and put the developnt of subsequent versions on the schedule.
According to his past experience, gas with numbers like “Dark Guardian” could be considered S-grade masterpieces in the mobile gaming world, and distribution channels would be eager to promote such a ga, turning it into a golden goose.
The upward trend in profits continued for three days.
But on the fourth day, revenue suddenly halved, with the rising trend sharply interrupted, yet KongKong saw no problems with the data.
On the fourth day, profits rebounded by thirty percent, softening the blow slightly for KongKong, but on the fifth day, they were halved again.
He imdiately had the operations team pull all the data, and KongKong scrutinized it carefully, but found no issues.
He had the operations team quickly conduct a user survey, only to be shocked to discover that the data had plumted for two more consecutive days before entering a slower downward trend.
Although it was no longer as frightening as the halving trend, the daily decline was torture in its own right.
Especially for KongKong, who was sure he hadn’t done anything wrong, the invisible tornt was all the more painful.
Finally, the user survey done by the operations team arrived.
Eager to see the results, KongKong saw that the operations group had distributed thousands of survey questionnaires.
Furthermore, the operations team had compiled information about the users, including their age, gender, whether they made in-ga purchases, and whether they were still playing “Dark Guardian,” culminating in an objective and detailed report.
The overall rating of the ga could reach 86 points. Although it was from an initial test, the ga’s quality was stunning, and it truly deserved the 86 points.
When asked about the ga’s shortcomings, minor pay-to-win elents were the biggest flaw, followed by an abundance of cultivation elents, giving it the feel of a PC RPG. But apart from that, the ga was fine.
All things considered, “Dark Guardian” had almost achieved the best results possible, yet it still had an extrely high player churn rate, which was quite incomprehensible.
A significant number of players were leaving even after making in-ga purchases; logically, these players should be the most inclined to stay, but they were departing without looking back.
As KongKong looked at the survey results, he felt lost.
He couldn’t understand how he had done everything to perfection, yet the outco was so absurd.
Where exactly had he gone wrong?
As KongKong wallowed in confusion, the operations director sent over another survey.
“We’ve conducted a survey with the competing ga ‘Dark Builder’ as the focus. I think you might need this.”
Staring at the docunt, KongKong was afraid to read it.
He didn’t know why, but he had the feeling that the docunt contained sothing that could shatter his Taoist Heart, even make him fear creating gas again.
But he also knew that if he didn’t look, he would never get past this obstacle.
This survey also integrated feedback from about a thousand players who had tried “Dark Builder.”
Right from the start, he saw that this ga’s score was only 72 points, which could only be considered good.
The players had a lot more complaints about this ga.
“I don’t really like the pixel art style; it doesn’t look as comfortable as 3D.”
“There’s no background music, only ambient sounds, which are particularly scary.”
“No tutorial for beginners, thumbs down. Not enough cultivation elents, can’t spend money, thumbs down.”
“Dying in the dark tide without an option to watch an ad to resurrect, thumbs down.”
“They don’t provide a guidebook for magical weapons, can’t understand how to combine them at all.”
One was overwhelmingly praised, the other overwhelmingly criticized, but KongKong had long known that players are creatures who lie.
They can fool anyone, but not their own hearts.
These people had all played “Dark Guardian” for a while before decisively switching to “Dark Builder,” and their complaints seed less like grievances and more like advice.
“Kid, you didn’t do well here; do better next ti.”
A high or low rating does not reflect the real playability of a ga; after all, people are easily attracted by first impressions, but what truly keeps them around is its playability.
Having finished reading the report, KongKong felt his Taoist Heart had shattered.
He knew why he couldn’t produce good gas at the mont.
He had grown old.
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