Chapter 310 Old Ma, Old Ma!
"The Story of Abba" is very popular.
Originally, Chen Ba didn't expect to make money from this game. He made the bold statement that he would donate half of the revenue from the game because there was a high probability that the game would not make money.
But the result...
In just half a month, "The Story of Abba" sold 8 million copies across all platforms. Yes, a full 8 million copies!
According to Chen Ba's original statement, half of the profits would be donated to establish a special charity fund, and the remaining half of the profits, after deducting various miscellaneous expenses, would be the money he could actually get.
Based on the current game sales of 8.34 million copies and the official price of 198 yuan, even if Tianba Studio fulfills its promise, it will still be able to recover the production cost of the game "Abba's Story".
It’s more than just a payback.
Because game pricing varies in different regions, for example, the price of "Abba's True Story" in China is only 198 yuan, while in Japan and South Korea it is as high as 50 US dollars, so overall, they even made a profit.
Chen Ba regretted it so much that his intestines turned green.
Damn it!
No one told him how this crappy game "Abba's Story" could sell so many copies?
If he had known that this game could achieve sales of tens of millions, and at the original price of 198 yuan, he would never have agreed to donate half of the game's revenue.
Assuming that the final cumulative global sales of "Abba's Story" across all platforms is fixed at 15 million to 20 million copies, Chen Ba will lose at least $200 million to $300 million because of that unintentional remark.
It hurts, it hurts so much! When asked by a reporter how I felt about the sales of Abba's Story about to break 10 million copies, the feeling of having to put on a forced smile even though my heart was bleeding was really terrible.
But having said that.
Although the company suffered heavy losses due to a momentary wrong decision, the ultimate goal of the game "Abba's Story" has achieved initial results thanks to Chen Ba's efforts.
According to foreign media reports, this year's global game awards, The Game Awards, has begun the final media voting, professional voting and online voting stages.
In the past year, there are four games that have received the most acclaim and are most popular among gamers, and they have been nominated.
The Chinese name is "Abba's Legend" and the English name is "Abba's legendary life" is one of them!
Of course, once this list was announced, it immediately caused controversy and criticism among many players.
The most controversial game among them is "Abba's True Story".
In the eyes of many people, Aba's True Story is not a "game" at all. Yes, they think it is a virtual currency calculation software with a very strong purpose.
Why do you say that?
Of course it is because, although "The Story of Abba" has very high sales, it is also highly discussed and topical on the Internet, and its popularity is not low in all aspects.
But... do you want to see what the players of Abba are doing? Are they playing games? No, no, no! They are mining, they are panning for gold, they are working...
How could such a game be nominated for the TGA annual award? Although the selection of "Abba's True Story" puzzled many players, the opinions of netizens could not sway the decision of the jury.
At least in the eyes of professionals, "The Legend of Abba" is worthy of selection based solely on the game's subject matter and final quality.
As for the fact that netizens complained that this is not a game but a professional mining software...it is actually difficult for the jury to decide.
However, no matter how difficult it is, among the games nominated for TGA this year, none is better than "Abba's True Story".
Besides!
Although "Abba's Story" lost a lot of points due to the discovery of a serious bug, Tianba Studio had done the public relations in advance and no one would deliberately mention this matter.
“Yeah!”
"Now that he's nominated, doesn't that mean Brother Ba is almost certain to win this year's annual award?"
Xiao Lu was very excited and was even ready to open some champagne in advance to celebrate for Brother Ba.
But Chen Ba is very opposed to the practice of opening champagne halfway through the race, saying that before the final result comes out, it is better not to be too happy, so as to avoid being slapped in the face later.
"Regarding the award, Brother Dong just needs to keep up the public relations efforts. Our meeting today is mainly to talk about the "Abacoin" matter..."
Clearing his throat, Chen Ba turned on the large screen behind him and projected a set of shocking data through the computer.
"As of today, more than 4 million players around the world have experienced one or more bugs in the Abba game."
"For reasons known to all, a card game bug will cause the game algorithm to be abnormal, resulting in a certain number of NPC Abba characters being obtained."
4 million players around the world, no matter what their ideas were, no matter if it was a single bug or multiple bugs, in short, so many people participated in the "Aba Coin" mining activity.
So how many Abbas are there in the end?
The answer is 1.27 million! This number is lower than everyone expected, but it is understandable. After all, at the beginning, due to the game bug, one or two Abbas could be easily produced. However, as time went on, the difficulty of producing NPC Abbas gradually increased.
More than one million NPC Abbas have fostered a fairly large market due to their ability to "exist independently of the game", be freely traded, and be stored in any device.
It is also known as the "Abba Black Market"! Abba Black Market is a website, the full name is Abba market. As far as Chen Ba knows, under the environment where Tianba Studio officially prohibits and cracks down on "Abba Coin" transactions, most of the Abba Coin transactions are conducted through this website.
“Who is behind this website?”
If it was an ordinary website, everyone felt that Brother Ba’s expression would not be so solemn, and he would not have mentioned it prominently in the work meeting.
Therefore, there must be something special about this website. It is very likely that there is some incredible background or secret, otherwise Brother Ba would not be like this.
"According to the information I know, Abba Market was originally a website founded by several Abba players, but a week ago, the website received a private investment of about 18 million US dollars from Lao Ma."
"Old Ma?"
When hearing this name, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is Ali, or Mr. Ma from Pengcheng Penguin.
They couldn't understand why these two people would go and invest in a website that mainly trades "Abacoin"?
"I'm not talking about those two Mr. Ma. The old Ma I'm talking about is the one on the other side of the ocean who's working on electric cars and rockets!"
"It turned out to be him!"
Everyone suddenly realized that the old Ma that Brother Ba was referring to was not the two Mr. Ma in China, but the Mr. Ma who was working on rocket cars on the other side of the ocean.
That's right.
Mr. Ma has a "criminal record". In the past, he personally hyped up a certain animal-related cryptocurrency, raised the price, and then suddenly cashed out and ran away, leaving a group of investors who followed suit crying.
So, is this guy planning to repeat his old tricks and target the newly released "Abacoin" to cheat people again? "I thought so too."
Chen Ba nodded, then posted a picture and said, "Look, this is a tweet he posted last night. It contains a photo and a paragraph."
The photo is very simple. It is nothing more than a picture of the wealthy man Lao Ma sitting on the sofa, holding a DSE elite controller in his hand and playing "Abba's Story".
This shooting angle is definitely intentional, because from this photo you can clearly see the game screen of "Abba's True Story", and there are "two Abbas" in the screen.
As for his caption, it is also quite concise and clear.
Bottom line: "This might be my favorite video game of all time, I think you all should try it!"
Ma has bad intentions! Looking at this tweet alone, there may be nothing wrong with it, but considering the special environment of the game "Abba's Story" and his private investment in the website Abba market, it is worth pondering.
"Is he planning to hype up the Abacoin? I don't think that's necessary. With his wealth, would he still care about such a small amount of money?"
Liu Jinfu was puzzled. After all, Lao Ma was a world-class tycoon, worth as much as a hundred tycoons. Was there any need for him to do something like this? Others had similar opinions.
However, Tianba Games CEO Huang Qing said that no one would complain about having too much money, and that Lao Ma's style of doing things cannot be viewed by ordinary people.
“No one can accurately judge the prospects and future of Abacoin. At least for now, it still lacks the hype potential compared to mainstream cryptocurrencies.”
"Maybe Lao Ma saw something, so he wants to get involved personally. My suggestion is to wait and see what he has in mind!"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
If Lao Ma really has bad intentions and joins the game just to hype up the price of Abacoin, and then waits to cash out at a high level, making a bunch of investors or players who "chase the rise and sell the fall" cry, then it would be fine.
Why do you say it’s okay?
Because of this situation, to be honest, it has basically no significant impact on Tianba Studio, because Tianba officially does not support "Aba Coin" transactions and does not recognize this thing.
If you hype up the market privately and lose money, why don't you go and blame the dealer, Lao Ma? Why do you come here to blame Brother Ba? Brother Ba has always advised everyone not to get involved in this kind of thing and just play the game honestly!
The worst outcome is that Lao Ma joins the game not just to make money, but has other plans.
"What else can he plan?"
"I really don't understand, if he is not trying to be a banker, buying low and selling high, what else can he think of this thing called Abacoin?"
"Who knows?"
Chen Ba feels that one must be on guard against others. Regardless of what Lao Ma is planning, he should just keep a close eye on any developments in the Abacoin market.
"Oh yeah!"
As if he had thought of something, Chen Ba added: "After Lao Ma's tweet was released, within just a few hours, the transaction price of Abba Coin on Abba market rose from US$200 to US$400, nearly doubling."
This is the influence of Lao Ma.
Too perverted!
He is worthy of being the most active tech giant. His every move can attract global attention. This tweet of his directly made "Abacoin" the world's number one hot search.
It seems that there are still a lot of smart people.
When Lao Ma posted this tweet, it seemed that he was praising the game "Abba's True Story" for being fun, but in fact he was still mentioning "Abba Coin".
Not long after the tweet was sent out, a group of Wall Street elites and speculators who smelled business opportunities rushed into this small pool and raised the black market transaction price of Abacoin by 100%!
400 USD/Aba, this price makes countless people excited.
Because based on past experience, there is still a lot of room for speculation at this price. How can a mere 400 US dollars be enough? If the speculation continues, it will not stop until it reaches 4,000 US dollars.
"Speaking of which..."
At the end of the meeting, Huang Qing seemed to have thought of something, so he turned to Yang Dong and asked, "Do we have some Abacoins as well?"
“Well, there is indeed a batch!”
Yang Dong thought about it and conducted many bug reproduction attempts within the studio in order to test and fix the game bug.
In other words.
They were the first batch of miners, and they dug the first-hand rich mines, so the amount of Aba coins they saved was quite a lot.
Of course, at that time, no one realized that the NPC Aba created by a game bug would have special value, so they didn't take it seriously.
It's different now.
Because this thing has become extremely special now, Yang Dong plans to sort it out and summarize it after the meeting to see how many Abbas the studio has produced during the testing and reproduction of the bug.
"Go and compile a statistics first, then store everything in the company's server. Don't worry about it for now."
Chen Ba waved his hand.
He estimated that the number of Aba coins produced by Tianba Studio for testing and reproducing bugs was generally quite large. After all, it was the first batch of mining, but no one noticed it at the time.
Then these NPC Abas must be kept well.
No matter whether it is 400 US dollars or 800 US dollars, Tianba officials will definitely not do anything with this batch of Aba coins, but keeping this thing in hand may be of miraculous use in case you are short of money someday.
However, this is unlikely to be used.
Even if one day in the future, the price of Abacoin becomes almost the same as that of Bitcoin, Chen Ba will most likely not look down on it.
Don’t ask why, the reason is that he is at the upstream of the industrial chain.
Do you understand the value of Mirage Electronics' new "Batian" graphics card series, with annual cumulative sales exceeding 20 billion?
joke!
"The Legend of Abba" was only sold for 198 yuan, and half of the proceeds were donated. That was just a joke on the players, it didn't make any money at all.
The place to make money is Xianyu Digital and Mirage Electronics, which are must-buy productivity tools for everyone!
What does this situation look like? Chen Ba discovered a gold mine, so he advertised it, attracted millions of people to come and dig for gold, and then what did he do?
He opened a shop next door, specializing in selling tools such as pickaxes, shovels, and hammers used for mining. He also sold fried rice, stir-fried vegetables, mineral water, drinks, melon seeds, peanuts, and instant noodles.
Oh, yes! So many people come here to mine and pan for gold. No matter whether you find gold or not, if you want to enter, you have to buy a "mine ticket" worth 198 yuan from Chen Ba.
With business going this far, who would be stupid enough to go mining and panting for gold? A guy can make a fortune selling fried rice at the door! By the way, the source code of the game is in the hands of Tianba Studio. If they can make Abacoin, then do you think they can make Aniucoin, Agancoin and Axicoin?
(End of this chapter)