Chapter 241 Do you want players or not?
China Overseas, Qudou Interactive Entertainment.
As a game company that is unknown in China and many people have never heard of it, Qudou Interactive Entertainment has a very low profile.
But this does not mean that Qudou Interactive Entertainment is a small workshop or even a small business.
Quite the opposite!
In China Overseas, where every inch of land is valuable, Qudou Interactive Entertainment has an independent headquarters building and thousands of employees. Its strength is unquestionable.
joke……
Just because the company is not well-known doesn’t mean the games are not well-known! The games under Qudou are mainly mobile games, and most of them are operated overseas, so few players in China have heard of their name.
Several of their games are making huge money overseas, especially among the wealthy people in the Persian Gulf and Western Europe, where the amount of money they spend is simply jaw-dropping.
Dou Peng is the CEO of Qudou.
Under his promotion, Qudou Interactive Entertainment has poured its resources and energy into the domestic market since the beginning of this year, intending to lay the foundation for a successful game in China.
The name of the game is "Please Stay, Hero".
This is a relatively relaxing and casual Chinese style martial arts RPG online game. The mobile and PC versions are interoperable, and the game quality is pretty good.
Based on the old tradition of Qudou Interactive Entertainment, "Hero Please Stay" has a global server and has a certain player base abroad. However, in China, because Qudou Interactive Entertainment is not well-known, the number of players has not increased.
This made Dou Peng very worried.
This game was originally developed with domestic players in mind, otherwise it would not have been made into a "Chinese style martial arts" game.
But now, the game is ready, but few people are interested in it, and it has not attracted many domestic players. There are even more foreign players than Chinese players. He is really in a difficult situation! "How about some more advertising?"
"I think it's okay. We should allocate more resources to publicity so that more players can know about this game..."
"Don't miss out on game forums and communities, social platforms and game forums. Put some ads there, and you're not afraid that no one will come to play."
Everyone in the marketing department gave Dou Peng many suggestions, and the core idea was: invest more in advertising, because you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb! Qudou Interactive Entertainment is not well-known in the domestic game industry, and players don't know it. If it wants to become famous, it really needs to spend more money in the early stage, at least to let players know about this game.
But Dou Peng was hesitating.
The reason for his hesitation was simple. After the ads were released, the conversion rate was too low. The cost of acquiring a customer was 40 to 50 yuan per player, which was too expensive.
Is there a better alternative?
Although Qudou Interactive Entertainment is rich, it cannot spend money recklessly. It has to come up with a cost-effective plan so as not to be taken advantage of by others.
Just as Dou Peng was hesitating whether he should accept the marketing department's suggestion to place advertisements for "Hero, Please Stay" in many domestic Internet communities, he received a phone call.
"Cultivation Fantasy?"
To be honest, Dou Peng had never heard of the name "Xiu Zhen Fantasy" before. After all, he was so busy with work that he couldn't even play his own game, so how could he have time to learn about the games of his competitors?
However, when he learned that "Xiuzhen Fantasy" is currently the most popular MMO online game in China, with millions of active players and more than 500,000 online players at the same time, Dou Peng became envious.
Holy shit, so many players? The domestic market has a lot of players, so how can a game that no one has ever heard of have so many players?
but……
What does this have to do with Qudou Interactive Entertainment? No matter how many players there are in "Xiuzhen Fantasy", they are all taken care of by Tianba Games. Can it be possible to give some players to "Daxia Qingbubu"? "You are right, I can really give you some players!"
Chen Ba on the other end of the phone asked cunningly, "I heard that the situation of "Hero, Please Stay" is not very good? What do you think, brother? Do you want the players or not?"
Dou Peng: “???”
Is this a ghost?
How could a competitor come to him and ask if he wanted players? He would not operate his own game anymore? He sacrificed himself to help others. Doesn't this guy have some brains? He thought Chen Ba was teasing him!
But after he listened carefully to the so-called "Cultivation Fantasy" whitelist diversion plan, he had to admit that Dou Peng was tempted.
Oh my god!
How can there be such a weird game in the world? Can it be played in the background? If you want to improve your skills, you have to play more other games?
What moral saint? After calming down, Dou Peng asked a crucial question: "What should I do? What do you want?"
"You don't have to do anything, just pay! If you're not sure, you can try it first and pay later. I guarantee you'll be satisfied!"
"Well, that's what you said!"
No matter what the other party was up to, since he had offered it to him, there was no reason for Dou Peng not to accept it. He also wanted to know how to attract hundreds of thousands of players of "Xiuzhen Fantasy" to the game "Hero, Please Stay"? Dou Peng waited for two days with an uneasy mood. It was not until the third day that he received a call telling him that the plan had been implemented and the whitelist trial period would last for two days.
If you want to continue the experience after these two days, you will have to renew your whitelist! Has the trial period started?
Dou Peng was very curious, how come it started suddenly? I didn't hear any noise. Could it be a lie?
Worried that he had heard it wrong, Dou Peng specially registered a small account and went to the "Xiuzhen Fantasy" game to find out the situation.
"My fellow Taoists, please take a look at the top post in the Tianba community. Someone has found a shortcut to merit and can earn 200 merits in one day!"
"I see. The game seems to be called "Please Stay, Hero"? There are quite a lot of foreigners in it, and a game ends quickly. It's really powerful to earn merit!"
"The key is that it gives a lot of merit, and the upper limit of merit acquisition has also been increased from three times to ten times. It's so cool!"
"What, ten times limit?!"
"Now I have to play "Hero, Please Stay", is there any fellow Taoist who wants to play with me? Let's team up and beat the foreigners..."
Heavenly Merit, ten times maximum? Dou Peng didn't understand a single word of the message sent in the world chat channel. After all, he had never played "Xiu Zhen Fantasy" and was confused by the secret language between these players.
But he hit on the key word.
Merit!
This seems to be something that players care about more, and it also has something to do with the pinned post in the Tianba community?
Out of curiosity, Dou Peng opened the web version of Tianba Community again and found the top popular post in the "Cultivation Fantasy" section.
[Shocking! This game allows you to earn merit ten times a day. Here is a list of ways to earn merit in "Hero, Please Stay"...]
The title of the post is related to "Please Stay, Hero", and the number of replies and likes is also very high.
Dou Peng clicked in and took a look.
The poster introduced the game "Hero, Please Stay" in detail and said bluntly: I took money, this post is an advertisement, but what I said is true, if you don't believe me, go and try it! Other players were also undecided. Seeing that Gongde's legs could not move, they immediately went to try it out after seeing the poster's description of it was so magical.
The result is true! The OP is not lying. While other games can only earn merit three times a day, the upper limit of merit in "Hero Please Stay" is ten times.
That’s not all.
In addition to the high number of times, the efficiency of gaining merit in "Hero, Please Stay" is also very high, 2-3 times that of other games! What does that mean? It means that if you spend the same amount of time to gain merit in other games, you can only gain 20 points at most in "Hero, Please Stay", but you can only gain 40-60 points.
Oh my god!
This efficiency combined with the ten-time acquisition limit makes it a "holy land of cultivation" for meritorious monks.
No more words, go for it! What game is not fun? I happen to be interested in this kind of martial arts games, so I'll download a client and play it! I've reached the great perfection of foundation building, and I'm about to pass the tribulation and break through to the golden elixir. "Please Stay, Hero" is coming at the right time! With the help of this game, I will be able to accumulate enough merits, pass the tribulation smoothly, and become the golden elixir ancestor admired by everyone in the fairy world...
In the post, players were discussing the game "Hero, Please Stay".
As expected, the vast majority of the merit monks could not resist the temptation and immediately decided to play the game "Hero, Please Stay".
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Whether it's fun or not is secondary...
The point is that my buddy is about to pass the tribulation, or he will have to refine new magic weapons, elixirs or talismans. In short, he is short of merit.
After scrolling the mouse wheel and reading the players' replies under this post one by one, Dou Peng couldn't help but feel curious. Could this be the plan that Chen Ba mentioned?
Is it really useful? Have those players who claim that they have downloaded the client of "Hero, Please Stay" for meritorious deeds actually played it?
"Boss Dou, Boss Dou!"
Just as Dou Peng was lost in thought, doubting whether this plan was reliable, the head of the operations department suddenly pushed the door open and walked in.
He said with a happy face: "Our game is very popular. Just now, the number of client downloads suddenly soared, and tens of thousands of new players poured in!"
"But I found something very strange, that is, these players all downloaded the PC client..."
"oh?"
Upon hearing this, Dou Peng couldn't help but take a breath. He didn't expect that such a simple and crude traffic-generating plan would actually attract tens of thousands of real players to "Hero, Please Stay".
As for the strange thing that the person in charge discovered, that is, all the players pouring in came from PC rather than mobile phones, he was not surprised.
nonsense!
This group of players came from "Xiu Zhen Fantasy", and as "Xiu Zhen Fantasy" is a PC game, most of the players are definitely using computers.
"What's going on now?"
“The number is still rising!”
The person in charge said with great joy: "Based on this trend, the game is expected to attract 100,000 to 200,000 new players."
These are all living people! Do you understand the value of living players? And in such a short time, so many new players have been added, it's simply too outrageous! "Is this the whitelist?"
Dou Peng didn't expect that Chen Ba actually did what he promised and brought so many new players to "Hero Please Stay".
The facts are before him. Dou Peng has already decided that he can renew his subscription now without waiting for the two-day trial period to end. He must catch this huge wave of wealth.
This is just the fee standard...
Dou Peng thought it would be expensive, but not this expensive. After all, in his opinion, Tianba Studio didn't do anything, it just posted a pinned post and made some adjustments to the game.
How can you have the nerve to charge so much money? "Forget it, just bear with it for now!"
Dou Peng feels that currently we still need players of "Xiu Zhen Fantasy" to attract traffic, so it doesn't matter if the price is a little higher, and we will add to the whitelist first.
As for after a while, when most of the players have been attracted, we can stop renewing the subscription and let that Jiangning vampire go.
Throw it away after use, this is Dou Peng's way of doing business! Don't say he is heartless, he opened the company to make money, not to do charity, who would talk about friendship with you in the business world? ...
Chen Ba, who was far away in Jiangning, had no idea that the first "merit white list" customer he had attracted was already considering how to kick him out.
But even if he knew, he probably wouldn't take it to heart, and might even want to laugh.
Throw it away after use, what a good plan! But is there a possibility that Chen Ba can lead the players of "Xiuzhen Fantasy" to the game "Daxia Qingbubu" and take them away? It is impossible to take them all away, after all, there are always a few players who are addicted to this game and can't bear to give up this game.
But 90% of the players play "Please Stay, Hero" for the sake of merit, and they are truly "whoever gives you milk is your mother".
As long as Tianba Studio removes the whitelist and cuts off the source of merit for "Hero, Please Stay", do you really think these players are so loyal and that this game is so attractive? "Is it so real?"
"Of course!"
Chen Ba was also speechless and said, "I don't know what words to use to describe the players of "Xiu Zhen Fantasy"."
Ever since playing "Xiu Zhen Fantasy", these people have only one concept in their minds: merit!
When playing an FPS game, when other players learned that there was a plug-in in their game, they all had sad faces. Only the player of "Xiu Zhen Fantasy" had his eyes shining, and he screamed and fought with the plug-in for his life.
What is this spirit? Chen Ba thinks that "Xiuzhen Fantasy" may not be that fun, and it can't make players addicted to it, but it definitely has a brainwashing magic.
This kind of magic will cause players who have played "Xiuzhen Fantasy" to consider things differently from others when playing other games.
Commonly known as a person with a strange brain circuit! Others think about how to become stronger and have more fun, but they think about merit all the time. How can they play to maximize their "merit"?
For these players with strange thinking patterns who have been blinded by merits and virtues, "Please Stay, Hero" is at most a little interesting.
But if they were asked to choose between merit and "Hero, Please Stay", it goes without saying that everyone would definitely choose merit.
Don’t ask, the answer is I’m addicted!
Nowadays, young people will play electronic wooden fish when they have nothing to do. Can you say that this thing is interesting?
It’s boring! But the words “merit” and “virtue” are indeed very attractive, and the process of accumulating merit is indeed “accumulating virtue and doing good deeds”.
This means that, believe it or not, in the eyes of "Xiu Zhen Fantasy" players, the merits they have accumulated in the game are roughly equal to the merits they have accumulated in reality! (End of this chapter)