Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 689: Game Auto-Downloaded on My Phone

"Brainwashing-style promotion, although it easily provokes players' aversion, if taken to the extreme, players' complaints can't form any scale at all."

In the meeting room, Chen Yiyang marveled at Tengxu's move this time.

They had initially prepared a contingency plan to counter Tengxu's promotion.

But when Tengxu's brainwashing-style promotion truly kicked off, he realized their previous plans were useless.

Because their plan was to provoke players' disgust towards this kind of promotion.

However, Tengxu's promotional power was so strong that the topic on all platforms was Star of Yuan Meng.

As long as you mentioned this name in a post or video, the bots and paid commenters would flood the comment section.

Normal players' opinions couldn't form any scale.

This was indeed somewhat terrifying.

What is called promotion? This is what the heck is called promotion.

Yet when Chen Yiyang least expected it.

On the day Star of Yuan Meng officially launched, a seemingly trivial incident took place.

That is, when Chen Yiyang woke up in the morning, he found today's phone not only had pop-up intelligence about deals but also a notification that Star of Yuan Meng had already been automatically downloaded.

What does automatically downloaded mean?

Chen Yiyang was dumbfounded.

He indeed planned to download this game today and give it a try.

But he hadn't downloaded it yet, how did it automatically download successfully?

Chen Yiyang checked into a group he joined in his early gaming days.

He found that everyone in the group was complaining today about Star of Yuan Meng's auto-download.

Whether you actively reserved Star of Yuan Meng, or when you turned on your phone and accidentally triggered the phone's shake-to-reserve function.

Today, with Star of Yuan Meng's launch, Tengxu automatically downloaded the game for everyone.

And if you're very lucky not to reserve or trigger the shake-feature,

As soon as you enter any group chat, if anyone mentions the word "star,"

Then star patterns will rain down from the top of the chat screen.

If you accidentally click one.

Congratulations.

The huge multi-gigabyte Star of Yuan Meng installation package can be downloaded to your phone in thirty seconds.

No matter how slow your typical phone download speed is, Tengxu's system automatically speeds it up today.

Letting you truly grasp how fast your phone's maximum download speed can be.

It's absurd.

Chen Yiyang originally didn't intend to play the game on his own phone.

He had a dedicated phone for gaming, so he planned to delete the installation package and use another device to try the game.

But after searching high and low, he couldn't find the installation package.

He had no choice but to call in technical personnel for consultation.

"Boss, Tengxu hid the game's installation package in the data directory. Android 11 and above restrict access to this directory, that's why you couldn't find it," the technician replied.

Six.

That's all Chen Yiyang could say.

Since Tengxu's promotion had already started, Chen Yiyang decided to test the game on another phone while notifying the Sugar Bean Man Adventure team to prepare for a meeting.

After launching the game, Chen Yiyang discovered that although Tengxu's Star of Yuan Meng is purportedly a variety show game,

It crammed every possible feature and gameplay into it.

This resulted in numerous modes and gameplay styles, each done quite crudely.

Complimented with Tengxu's unique array of gift packs, cosmetic gacha, and passes, the interface became a chaotic mess.

After a quick hands-on experience, Chen Yiyang concluded that the game's potential doesn't match its ambition.

Tengxu wanted to turn the game into a comprehensive platform, but due to technical issues, it was bloated and not fun to play.

This wasn't the first time a game company attempted to cram all fun elements into a single game.

But the issue with this approach is that,

For instance, if you introduce a card game feature, why would players want to experience a trimmed-down version within your game?

If they want to play cards, they'd just download a dedicated card game.

The most notable derivative game mode was Gwent in The Witcher series.

But Gwent was a unique mode created by the developers that offered players novelty, leading it to become a hit.

The developers wisely turned Gwent into a standalone game, instead of expanding it within the main game.

Now, Tengxu is doing the exact opposite.

It haphazardly sewed together various originally interesting mini-games as unfinished products into a singular game.

Why would players want to play an unfinished game? Why not just download a finished game?

Upon reaching the meeting room.

Chen Yiyang's expression was quite relaxed.

He had a premonition that due to the game's poor quality, combined with Tengxu's ridiculous promotion, it might lead to player backlash in a few days.

The originally planned comment armies might not even be needed, as player outrage alone would suffice in creating a massive uproar.

However, others in the meeting room didn't seem as relaxed.

"We anticipated Tengxu would use brainwashing-style promotion,"

"But never expected Tengxu would not only brainwash but also auto-download the game for players."

"Doesn't this violate user agreements?" someone asked.

"Tengxu likely circumvented such issues."

Jiang Ming brought out some newly found information and stated, "If you calculate it carefully, these downloads aren't exactly automatic downloads.

Users who had the game auto-downloaded had tacitly accepted such promotions.

For example, when you open QQ, a pop-up window for Star of Yuan Meng appears. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

There's no 'X' on this pop-up, only a confirm button in the middle.

You think pressing confirm will close the ad.

However, pressing confirm actually automatically reserves the download.

Because under the confirm button lies tiny text that describes the reservation and automatic download process.

Thus, Tengxu's so-called auto-download had been completely confirmed beforehand."

Unbelievable.

Nobody expected Tengxu to pull this move.

"Oh, right." Chen Yiyang curiously asked Jiang Ming.

"I accidentally downloaded this game today.

But the download speed was incredibly fast. I asked others and found the download speeds for everyone downloading this game were much faster than usual. What's the reason?"

"Tengxu likely purchased specific carrier services, allowing the game package downloads to be unrestricted."

Jiang Ming explained, "In other words, using this game's download speed to test your network speed is more effective than professional speed test software and can truly measure your phone's actual network speed."

Tengxu indeed spared no expense.

Chen Yiyang was genuinely impressed by Tengxu this time.

Every conceivable promotional method Tengxu truly employed, giving Chen Yiyang a firsthand experience of what being a giant means.