Chapter 985: Chapter 544 Recent Players Are Really Rich Chapter 985: Chapter 544 Recent Players Are Really Rich “Wang,” Fang Cheng called out, “I need one set of Primordial Spirit Activation.”
“Three hundred rits, thank you.”
“Why is it so expensive today?”
“You think it’s expensive? I think it’s expensive too, but where can you find a cheaper Primordial Spirit Activation these days? It’s all this pricey, alright.”
The player who had asked about the price agonized for a long ti, but the temptation of leveling up while AFK was too much to resist. They bought the Elixir Pills and then went to hang up their account.
One Elixir Pill could let you level up while AFK for three hours, and by taking more, you could accumulate up to twelve hours. You could just leave it there and not worry about it.
If you had enough rits, you could also buy the Second Primordial Spirit service from a Dan dicine practitioner, which was like starting a mini-account to hang up there and grind for spiritual power, while your true self could do sothing else to keep improving your abilities.
And the improvent of spiritual power gave the players another boost in strength; so players were already capable of crafting more advanced Magic Artifacts, allowing them to travel back and forth between multiple planets.
However, although their power had increased, the fundantal problem of the players hadn’t been solved.
rits were still not enough.
And with the opening up of AFK leveling, the gap in players’ rits had beco even greater. So players lived their daily lives on a tight budget, and had to count every rit they spent with their fingers.
Moreover, because rits couldn’t be traded, it put many players in a state of desperate craving for rits, resulting in a barrage of savage comnts under the Weibo of Fang Cheng Studio.
“The ga is pretty good; it just doesn’t allow topping up.”
“I am a rich second generation. Before playing ‘Nebula,’ my life was a whirlwind of hedonism and luxury. After playing ‘Nebula,’ I’m grinding for rits every day, and my old friends think I got locked up in jail.”
“Other gas: Why do you top up so much? Fang Cheng Studio’s gas: Why won’t you let top up?”
“Since I started playing Fang Cheng Studio’s gas, I’ve only had one request: Please let us top up, I beg you.”
“That’s it, I’m going to take the college entrance exam. I want to be the first out of the exam hall, so I can ask Fang Cheng to open a top-up entrance!”
Seeing the ssages below Fang Cheng Studio’s Weibo, other ga companies only felt one thing.
Jealousy!
Absolute jealousy!
If their gas had this scale and enthusiasm, they would surely line up various gift packs, turning their players into tycoons.
Monthly and mini cards were just the basics, and daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, and annual gift packs were the norm.
You could top up to improve your success rate in Alchemy, to succeed in transcendence, you could even sell rits, helping you reach the pinnacle of life in minutes.
But what about you!
What are you doing?
Please don’t disrupt the market!
Normally, Fang Cheng Studio would completely ignore this kind of comnt.
Looking at the thousands of comnts piled high below the Weibo post, Wang Xiaoying laughed disdainfully, “The boss has never liked money. No matter how much they want it, he’s never going to open that gate, right, boss?”
“That’s right, I’ve never seen a boss so unattached to worldly desires,” Huang Ping nodded in agreent.
“The boss’s heart is probably filled with nothing but gas; anything else is just trifling to him,” Xiao Douzi said earnestly, looking at Fang Cheng, making Leon beside him feel that these people were even more sick.
But even he couldn’t imagine what Fang Cheng would look like if he liked money, so he just had to accept it.
To everyone’s surprise, Fang Cheng actually started to think about it.
He could feel that his path in cultivating the Tao was complete, that ascension was imminent, but there was still one layer of karma that wasn’t fulfilled.
Calculating with his fingers, he discovered that his opportunity for achieving the Tao was connected to the ga, and now he needed to help the players complete this layer of karma.
However, the players’ strength was currently too weak; many things couldn’t unfold, making it too difficult to fulfill this layer of karma.
After all, it was karma related to himself, so it was indeed a bit troubleso to directly make up for it.
The best thod was to owe the players so karma, giving him a reason to tie his own fortune with the players’, which would allow him to better complete this layer of karma.
Thinking it over, Fang Cheng realized that having players buy so extra but rather useless items seed appropriate.
After pondering for quite a while, he looked at the ga’s Dustfire and hesitated before asking, “Huang Ping, what do you think would be a reasonable amount to charge if we opened an in-ga purchase channel? The items should be the least useful kind, making people feel that buying them would be a bit of a loss.”
This statent, much like thunder on the plains, stunned all the employees at the studio.
What on earth are you saying, Boss?
Xu Qingling touched Fang Cheng’s forehead and then her own before asking in confusion, “Boss, are you feeling alright?”
“Yeah, Boss, don’t you hate pay-to-win gas?” Monkey said panic-stricken, “I thought I’d only ever work on buy-to-play gas in my life.”
“Maybe we should make a call and have soone from the hospital co over to check. Sothing’s not right with the boss.”
“Forget it, my car’s downstairs; let’s just go straight to the hospital.”
Watching his colleagues get worked up, Fang Cheng sighed and then told everyone, “I’m not joking. Think about it seriously and co up with a proposal. Money isn’t the goal here; the aim is to help players progress faster.”
After thinking for a bit more, he added, “Don’t make it too expensive. We want them to gain rit easily and advance their strength more quickly. Xiao Douzi, how long would it realistically take players to max out their growth in ‘Nebula’ if they played seriously?”
“A conservative estimate would be thirty years,” Xiao Douzi said proudly, “When we were developing it, I aid to have players engaged for a lifeti.”
“Let’s shorten that then. The faster, the better.”
Before long, an update announcent for “Nebula” was released.
In the announcent, Fang Cheng Studio indicated that they were about to introduce a paid duplication service.
Seeing this announcent, the players had mixed feelings.
They were happy that they could finally spend money on a ga they loved, proving their devotion to the ga with their wallets and enjoying it even more.
After all, the content was already exciting as it was, and the thought of what could co after the introduction of spending was unfathomable.
Their concern, however, was that “Nebula” had too many potential pay-to-win aspects.
Player skills could be bought, Cultivators’ cultivation could be bought, so Governor’s Planetary Technology, and Weather System enhancents could be bought, and the expenditures seed bottomless.
Yet not spending would leave them feeling restless, a truly vexing sensation.
Amidst great anticipation, the new update from Fang Cheng Studio finally arrived.
In this update pack, Fang Cheng Studio introduced just one feature — outfits.
Players could draw a set for just ten dollars.
The outfits had no attributes and provided no special bonuses.
Aside from looking good, they had no other features; wearing them was simply about a special tab that didn’t replace any other equipnt.
These outfits were replicas from various worlds, so full of technology, others were classic and vintage.
The purchased outfits could be given away or worn by NPCs to foster relationships.
This gift didn’t disrupt the ga balance, perfectly eting Fang Cheng’s criteria for a purchase that felt a little unsatisfying yet attracted others to buy.
Everyone had thought this update might displease the players since nowadays, players were all about high-stakes gaming, and a re outfit hardly seed enough to satisfy them.
But to Fang Cheng Studio’s surprise, the monthly revenue for “Nebula” went through the roof.
A 12 billion inco pushed “Nebula” straight to the top of the charts, indicating that, on average, each player spent 400 dollars, more than the cost of the ga itself.
Looking at this figure, Fang Cheng had only one thought.
Players these days really do have money.
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