Chapter 180: Have all the players made their money back?

Superstition is definitely not an option.

But there was one thing that really bothered Chen Ba: sometimes he had no choice but to believe in evil.

He has bad luck! The so-called bad luck does not refer to the small things like not being able to draw a five-star exclusive character or getting a guaranteed minimum every time. Although he does have bad luck when playing games.

Chen Ba's bad luck is mainly reflected in his daily life.

In just one week, Chen Ba experienced a series of strange events, including his wallet being stolen, his car being rear-ended, being chased and bitten by a dog while taking a walk, and slipping and falling into an artificial lake.

Fortunately, none of them were fatal.

However, this also reminded him that his luck might not be very good recently. He might have been cursed by a villain or punished by the will of heaven.

In order to save the dog's life, Chen Ba specially bought three statues online, which were said to be consecrated by a master, and placed them in the office to suppress evil spirits.

"Is this thing of yours...reliable?"

As soon as Zhong Shengwei entered the office, he saw the statue of God that Brother Ba had placed on the bookshelf behind him, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Of course it's reliable!"

"This is the statue I asked a master to consecrate. It is said to be very effective!"

Seeing that Comrade Xiao Zhong seemed to be questioning his beliefs, Chen Ba couldn't help but complain: "Don't be fooled by the strange looks of these three gods, but I tell you, these three gods are..."

"No need to introduce, I know him."

Zhong Shengwei waved his hand, indicating to Brother Ba that he didn't need to explain to him what kind of god this was.

He is also a half-card player, how could he not know the three gods that Brother Ba worships? Aren’t they the famous traitor dragon, the sacrificial soldier and the corpse bird in "Yu-Gi-Oh"! Speaking of which...

Is this the three "lucky" gods that Brother Ba spent a huge amount of money to buy, or is it a master-blessed version? Could this master's real name be Yugi Muto?

"What are you doing with this thing..."

Zhong Shengwei was puzzled. Although the Three Magical Gods were very famous, and Brother Ba was probably also a card player, he shouldn't be worshipped, right? "You don't understand!"

"Let me ask you a question. Which anime are the three mythical gods from?"

"Yu-Gi-Oh!"

Zhong Shengwei answered without thinking, and as soon as he finished speaking, he understood what Brother Ba meant.

I see!

The three mythical gods suppressing evil spirits are fake. The main purpose is to express Brother Ba's ambition and hope to become the "Game King".

Thinking about it this way, this thing is really good! Although this game is not that game, the implication is excellent. I hope Tianba Studio will become the king of the game entertainment industry.

"What are you doing here?"

After explaining why he spent a lot of money to buy the statues of the three phantom gods, Chen Ba asked curiously, "Resign?"

"I had thought about resigning before, but not now."

Zhong Shengwei shook his head and said that he was not here to resign, but to find Brother Ba, hoping to be transferred from the game development department to the game operation department managed by Yang Dong.

"Give me a reason!"

The new game development was in need of manpower, but Zhong Shengwei wanted to change his position, which was something Chen Ba could not understand.

The salary and benefits of development positions are much higher than those of the operations department. It is no exaggeration to say that they are two extremes. Why does Zhong Shengwei want to change his position? "I am getting married and my girlfriend is pregnant. Family life may take up a lot of my energy, so I am not suitable for overtime or high-intensity work."

Zhong Shengwei tells the truth.

He and his girlfriend accidentally got someone killed, so they decided to get married. Development positions do have much higher benefits and salaries, but the work pressure is also high, and there is often overtime. Zhong Shengwei felt that he was not qualified for it.

"OK, I agree."

This is a legitimate reason. Chen Ba could also understand Xiao Zhong's dilemma and agreed to his application for transfer.

However, Chen Ba was still very surprised when he suddenly learned that Zhong Shengwei was going to get married, especially because Zhong Shengwei got on the bus first and bought the ticket later, and he even had a child.

Oh shit!

This move is too fast! "What a great thing! We have known each other for such a long time, we have to go to Xiao Zhong's wedding and take advantage of the good fortune..."

After telling Yang Dong about Zhong Shengwei's job transfer, he expressed the same sentiment.

Chen Ba turned his head and looked at him.

He couldn't tell whether Dong Ge's words of "sharing in the good luck" were sincere or just lip service, but the fact was that Dong Ge was still single at the age of thirty.

Can't you really let go of that person? To be honest, after so many years together, Chen Ba, as a bystander, can't stand it anymore. Sometimes he wants to scold this sad person, but every time the words come to his lips, he swallows them back.

Don’t advise others to do good unless you have experienced their suffering.

How can he enlighten Dong Ge if he doesn’t even know what happened between Dong Ge and his ex-girlfriend and what kind of relationship they have till now?

I hope Brother Dong will wake up soon! Chen Ba, who didn't want to discuss this topic in depth, so as not to touch on Brother Dong's sad story, coughed and asked, "How many copies of "Don't Leave After School" have been sold?"

“Soon to break 2 million copies!”

Yang Dong explained: "The sales growth has slowed down a bit, but the popularity of the game remains good, and many players are thinking about getting into it."

"The reason why the game is still popular but the sales growth is very slow is actually because many people have heard the news that "Don't Leave After School" will be turned into a free game."

During this period of time, the Internet has been filled with various news and reports about "Don't Leave After School".

Many players have become curious about this "money-making" game and can't wait to buy a copy to see if they can really make money.

But just when casual players were getting excited and planning to buy the game, an insider revealed that "Don't Leave After School" would soon become a free game.

At this moment, everyone was waiting and watching.

Tianba Studio needs to issue an announcement to either clarify the "false rumors" or disclose follow-up plans, otherwise sales growth will continue to be very slow.

"Then let's make it public!"

Tianba Studio is already very experienced in converting paid games into free games, after all, it did the same thing with its previous game "Star Emperor".

Various compensation plans, and even the game announcement instructions, can be directly copied from "Star Emperor".

It is worth mentioning.

"Star Emperor" became free because almost no one bought the game. Instead of leaving it there, it would be better to make it free to increase its popularity.

The situation of "Don't Leave After School" is slightly special. The reason why this game changed from paid to free is not because no one bought the game, but because Tianba Studio needed to explore new sources of income.

Otherwise, we can’t even afford to maintain the server!

This is not a joke…

As more and more players flocked to the game "Don't Leave After School", the previous five districts all underwent a round of server expansion.

But even so, the server pressure is still very high, and the players of "Don't Leave After School" are extremely active, with an average number of online players being ridiculously high. Tianba Studio is really overwhelmed.

"The players' enthusiasm for online games is really too much! At 3 or 4 in the morning, there are still 400,000 people online in our game..."

Yang Dong couldn't help but sighed when he said this: "In popular areas like Area 3 and Area 5, there are always more than 100,000 people queuing up from 19:00 to 23:00 every night, and the waiting time starts at at least 30 minutes."

It’s no wonder the players are so enthusiastic.

After all, the game "Don't Leave After School" is too special.

Playing other games is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of money. After all, it requires both liver and krypton, and is a definite waste of life.

Playing "Don't Leave After School" is different.

Invite a few friends to play marbles and try out the entertainment mode. Not only can you relax, but you can also share the advertising fees of this area based on the game duration and number of games.

This requires playing hard, right?

To put it bluntly, since "Don't Leave After School" introduced the game partner mechanism and entered the era of "regional autonomy", players' enthusiasm for playing and online time have increased several times.

Yang Dong told Chen Ba.

There is a player in Zone 2 of "Don't Leave After School". I don't know what he does in real life, but he plays the game for more than 12 hours every day.

Not just one day, but every day! This is simply treating "Don't Leave After School" as a job, and it is a job that I am willing to work overtime on.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"Oh? There are people like this?"

Chen Ba asked curiously, "Can he really earn a living in the game by doing this?"

"OK."

"The income he earned from the game is mainly divided into two parts. One part is the advertising fees shared by the district, and the other part is from selling marbles..."

Because he spends a lot of time online and has honed his skills, he can earn a lot of marbles in the game.

These marbles are actually alternative game coins, which can be sold to wealthy players, which is equivalent to the "gold coin merchants" in the game.

In this way, his monthly income was actually quite good, at least about the same as the salary of an assembly line worker in an electronics factory! "Professional gamer..."

Chen Ba was somewhat impressed and said, "This is really treating playing games as a job and making a living from it."

In fact, this type of player is just like the League of Legends’ leveling companions and game merchants in some online games, professional players who make a living by relying on the game.

However, making a living in the game "Don't Leave After School" is relatively easy compared to being a game coach, a companion player, or a game businessman.

Because professional players such as boosters, companion players, and game merchants are, after all, part of the service industry, and need to always maintain a service mentality that the customer is God.

But to make money in "Don't Leave After School", you don't need to serve anyone servilely or keep smiling. There is no concept of guests. You can just play like a normal player.

"Will this be exploited?"

Chen Ba thought of a possibility.

So it's the game studio that uses scripts or multi-opening tools and multiple computers to make money from advertising in "Don't Leave After School"?

“That’s indeed the case.”

Yang Dong nodded, indicating that he had recently discovered that the game had been targeted by many brick-moving studios.

only……

After all, the game "Don't Leave After School" is produced by Tianba Studio, and the games of Tianba Studio all have traditional craftsmanship.

What traditional craft? Of course, it is to distinguish whether the player in front of the screen is a real person or a "fake person"! Chen Ba couldn't explain how this technology was realized, and he could only attribute it to the magical AI judgment mechanism of the Tiehanhan system.

Anyway, whether it is a studio, a script guy or a plug-in dog, they can't escape the eyes of the law. It is basically impossible to deceive the AI ​​review.

That's why.

Those brick-moving studios that wanted to take advantage of "Don't Leave After School" not only failed to get any benefits, but were instead taken advantage of by Brother Ba.

Don't ask, the answer is that buying games costs money, isn't 68 yuan money? The newly bought account was blocked, which is equivalent to giving Brother Ba 68 yuan for free, and these studios have dozens or hundreds of accounts, so the loss is heavy.

"From this perspective, if we switch to free games, it will actually benefit these studios? After all, the account cost is very low, almost equivalent to nothing..."

"That's not the case."

Yang Dong shook his head and said, "Nobug platform is very strict in cracking down on accounts registered in batches by such studios."

Registering a Tianba account may seem like it costs nothing, but the process is actually quite cumbersome and requires multiple rounds of identity verification.

Yang Dong resolutely implemented Brother Ba’s instruction of “one person, one account” and cracked down severely on the behavior of opening secondary accounts.

Under normal circumstances, one ID card and one phone number can only register one Tianba account. Want to open a secondary account? Then you need an additional ID card and phone number.

The cost is still quite high.

And even if you have a bunch of small accounts, it’s useless. Tianba Studio has cheats that can identify the nature of the players in front of the screen and ban the accounts at will.

Forget about fleecing the sheep.

Only normal players can get the benefits from Brother Ba. It is a pipe dream for abnormal players to get the benefits.

Trivia! Among the more than 1.5 million players of "Don't Leave After School", about two-thirds of them have earned back the 68 yuan they spent on purchasing the game by watching ads while playing the game.

"So many?"

Yang Dong hadn't looked at the data carefully. When he heard that so many people had made back their money, he was very surprised.

"A lot?"

Chen Ba smiled and did the math for Yang Dong.

The cost of an advertisement starts at about 300,000 yuan. The duration of the advertisement may be as short as a week or as long as a month. The longer the duration, the higher the advertising fee.

Assuming a minimum of $300,000, the revenue from about 220 advertisements can basically offset the cost of 1 million players purchasing the game.

"Don't Leave After School" has been implementing this model for three months, and the game has five zones. On average, only 40 ads are needed for one zone.

12 weeks in March, 40 ads.

To be honest, this is not an exaggeration. The actual number of server advertisements has already exceeded this number.

Theoretically, all players of "Don't Leave After School" can earn back the money they spent on purchasing the game.

It’s just that some players go online too infrequently and turn on the pure mode, not accepting any advertising harassment, so one-third of the players did not earn 68 yuan.

"Fuck!"

You don’t know until you calculate it. Once you calculate it, you’ll be shocked.

After listening to Brother Ba's calculation, Yang Dong said speechlessly, "We developed a game and sold it to more than a million players, but in the end, the ones who paid were a bunch of advertisers?"

So abstract!

More than one million players got a game worth 68 yuan for free. This is definitely a jaw-dropping scene in the gaming industry.

But it happens in the game "Don't Leave After School", why is it so normal?

(End of this chapter)