I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!-Chapter 52 - 28 Wolong and Fengchus Risk Hedging_1

“This game is awesome, keep it up!”

“‘Goblin Pinball’ is so much fun, everyone should go play it!”

“#Goblin Pinball# This is simply the best game I’ve played in my life! /Praise/ Praise”

What followed was a high repetition of these three sentences, each time slightly altered and posted again.

Visible all over various social media platforms.

This poor copywriting, even by the standards of notorious paid posters, was subpar.

But then again, there was a problem.

“Gotham’s” sales were climbing steadily.

Gou Chehua didn’t really think that this level of paid posters could boost a game’s sales.

After all, people aren’t fools… Such blatant paid poster comments looked like a step backward, and even if your game was well made, players unaware of the truth would shy away from such ludicrous statements.

So, there was only one answer left.

“We’ve likely been suppressed by peers,” Gou Chehua took a deep breath.

He had not expected industry competition to be so severe.

A novice game designer whose two games had made a splash, albeit only relatively speaking.

The combined heat of those incidents couldn’t compare to a hair of the domestic TOP100.

And yet someone was suppressing him?

Moreover, this suppression tactic was pretty high-level, the kind that involves underhanded promotion.

They even spared no expense in brushing data for “Gotham.”

Paired with such idiotic copy that it was laughable.

Obviously fake.

Inevitably, it would backfire from the real gamers.

If mishandled, it might even ruin Designer Ke’s hard-earned reputation as the ‘newcomer dark horse.’

“No, I have to report this to Designer Ke.”

Gou Chehua was about to dial the number when he hesitated.

Wait a minute!

This godsend opportunity could be a different kind of test, couldn’t it?

If he couldn’t handle such trivial paid posters without reporting to the boss for a solution.

What was his significance then? It would be negligible!

The time to prove himself had come!

A good game planner, besides overseeing game pricing, naturally has to cover all aspects of game operations.

Moreover, Gou Chehua genuinely appreciated the designer Ke Jin.

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His successive games were innovative and had outstanding gameplay.

Given time, he was bound to make a big impact!

Gou Chehua truly wanted to achieve something great with him and carve out a blue ocean in the game industry!

He set to work immediately.

Gou Chehua, who didn’t have enough clout to boss others around, could only write a small program for reporting by himself.

After entering keywords, it could automatically detect statements from suspected paid posters over the past two days and then submit a report request.

Gou Chehua wasn’t worried about the success rate of reporting.

As the game’s planner, he had proof in the game’s backend data; all it took was submitting the evidence to the social platform’s officials.

It was practically one report, one hit.

“Heh, no one today better think they can harm a single hair of Designer Ke!” Gou Chehua felt mighty, as if he were Lu Bu brandishing the mighty Fangtian Huaji!

…

Ke Jin, who thought he was steady as an old dog, began to panic after the sixth day of “Gotham’s” release.

He, who was always monitoring the system interface, noticed something off with the data in the last two days.

The numbers had been steadily increasing before.

After all, it was a good game, so an increase was normal.

But the total revenue of the previous four days hadn’t even surpassed thirty thousand, and on the fifth day, it took a sharp turn and shot up to one hundred thousand!

And by the start of the sixth day, total revenue had soared to two hundred thousand!

The pay rate was also flashing green all the way, charging up to the 72% milestone.

Whether it was task B’s requirement of a three hundred thousand quota or task C’s requirement of a pay rate below 80%, things looked dire.

You’re giving me two tasks to complete all at once, huh!

“Where did it go wrong?” Ke Jin, sweating bullets, was almost desperate enough to consult fortune-telling.

But soon, good news came!

The data.

It stopped!

At ten in the morning, the revenue started to return to normal, increasing by dozens or a hundred bucks every ten minutes.

The pay rate also began to increase by decimal points rather than the scary whole numbers.

After watching for another two hours, the data’s growth didn’t show any significant change.

Although he did not understand what had happened,

it seemed to have settled down.

Following this pace, the tasks should be stable by the time they end at midnight.

“Phew,” Ke Jin finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“With that being the case, it’s time to set up the company and officially kick off the era of the gaming empire!” he thought to himself.

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“Qiaoqing, we’ve got trouble!”

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Yuan Qiaoqing’s game fan group had a significant impact, boosting “Gotham” up to the top hundred hotlist of NAA games in just two days.

NAA, as an independent domestic game rating agency, is not affiliated with any gaming platform.

It compiles a comprehensive ranking of all new games released nationwide each month.

With Yuan Qiaoqing’s efforts, “Gotham” squeezed into this list and ended up at an impressive ninety-first.

Having reached this point, she had no intention of pushing further.

She had also tried out the game in the past two days.

Only to say, Designer Ke did not disappoint her expectations.

The new game was still as fresh and interesting as ever!

It also focused on a gameplay experience where you couldn’t just pay to win, and maxing out the store wouldn’t allow you to breeze through everything.

Sometimes, even if you’re prepared, death is inevitable.

Yuan Qiaoqing was very satisfied.

Whether for tycoons or ordinary players, it was equitable! It was that familiar flavor she’d come to love!

This was precisely why she became interested in this designer in the first place.

As for inflating the data, she had called a stop to it that very morning.

She only wanted to help him gain some decent exposure during his startup phase.

Though she prided herself as Designer Ke’s number one fan, she didn’t want to be like those crazy fans next door who would sell their belongings to vote for their stars.

Moderation is key.

If the game couldn’t reach a certain level, forcefully pushing it to the top could actually do more harm than good, attracting a deluge of slander and insults.

Yuan Qiaoqing understood this well.

This was as far as she could help him, the rest was up to the game’s quality.

But just then, a friend suddenly came over with bad news.

“The person in charge of paid posters just told me all the promotional comments they spread across various platforms have been maliciously reported en masse, and now they have all been deleted.”

“What?” Yuan Qiaoqing frowned.

Such a damper!

Bros, we’ve got a problem!

“Has the game industry really become so vulgar? Are there really people who can’t stand seeing others succeed?”

“Exactly, I suspect it’s the work of Designer Ke’s competitors,” the friend chimed in. “There are plenty of people like that, who, despite failing themselves, can’t bear to see others climb over them.”

“Heh,” Yuan Qiaoqing scoffed, her pretty little face freezing over, her eyes narrowing dangerously, “I only stopped the traffic earlier because I trusted in the quality of Designer Ke’s game.”

“But now, it seems like some might think we can’t afford to keep it up, huh?”

“Add another ten sets of data! Ten sets per person!”

“I want to see today whether the despicable snitch can report faster than I can inflate the numbers!”