I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!-Chapter 53 - 29 Just Today_1

To Ke Jin, his despair feels like the last eunuch in history who had just castrated the Qing Dynasty.

No, that’s not right.

How can you play a good hand so badly?

Gou Chehua, are you even doing your damn job?

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

Just as Ke Jin was pondering this, a phone call came through.

And Gou Chehua’s voice, brimming with excitement he could barely contain, came through.

“Congratulations, Designer Ke! Our game’s first week’s revenue performance is stellar! The payment response has exceeded expectations! It’s been just a week since launch and we’ve already hit the 53rd spot on the NAA new game rankings! It’s already getting a lot of attention from players, and it looks like the momentum is only going to grow from here! At this rate, I predict we will hit over one million in revenue in the first month after launch!”

At the same time, Gou Chehua is also contemplating.

Should he tell the boss about his own heroic deeds, battling against paid posters, deleting tens of thousands of comments, and carving out a bloody path for “Gotham”?

To fight against those lurking paid posters, Gou Chehua barely slept for two whole days, constantly manning the computer doing a ‘delete and report’ quality combo.

But then he thinks better of it.

The boss is still persisting through clenched teeth despite not having the funds for promotion, not wanting to burden the staff with problems.

Making a fuss over the small part he played would just be inappropriate.

Moreover, he did not take part in the development of this game, just stepped up the operations a bit.

If the game is slowly gaining traction, it’s mostly due to its quality, not so much his own merit.

He believes that if he continues to work hard, Designer Ke will surely recognize his effort!

However, what confused Gou Chehua was.

After he reported all that good news about the game, the voice on the other end of the phone.

Seemed unenthusiastic, didn’t it?

“Designer Ke… are you troubled by something?” Gou Chehua cautiously asked.

“Ah… hahaha, no, no, I’m just so delighted to hear this news, it took me a while to process it all,” said Ke Jin, who barely mustered a smile after thinking through all the happiest things in his life.

Delighted!

Damn, I’m just so delighted!

A heart with myocardial infarction.

After brushing it off with a few words, Ke Jin gave Gou Chehua a few days off, acknowledging his hard work over the past few days and suggesting he take a good rest.

But at the same time, doubts started to plague his mind.

It seemed the approach of completely handing over the design plan to others wasn’t going to work.

Because he wasn’t in charge, he was clueless if there were any issues at any stage.

Like this sudden spike and fall in the payment rates and revenue.

Unable to identify the core problem, he couldn’t shoot for the weak points either.

“It seems like for the next game, I still need to oversee things myself, at least setting the general direction, so I can quickly make adjustments if things go wrong.”

That’s what he said.

But as the proverb goes: Initial success is easy, subsequent progress is difficult, and sustained effort is the hardest.

Several consecutive mission failures have taken a significant toll on Ke Jin’s confidence.

High prices won’t do.

Low prices won’t do either.

Hands-off approach also doesn’t do the trick.

So what the fuck am I supposed to do then?

He even pondered at one point whether to just give up and be a salted fish, content with muddling through the rest of his life.

Just churn out a couple of halfway decent games.

No talk of overnight riches, but at least he wouldn’t have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

As for the perfect, flawless game version mentioned in the ultimate reward.

I don’t want it one bit.

I don’t want it at all… wuwuwu.

While Ke Jin’s thoughts kept bouncing between ‘giving up and scraping by for the rest of his life,’

suddenly, he heard a loud curse coming from the living room.

“Damn it! Why can’t I close this shitty ad? So damn annoying!”

“What’s wrong?” Ke Jin walked out of his room and saw Ke Yu, her little face crimson with rage, seemingly incensed.

Despite her teeth-grinding expression, her movements were cautious.

She held her phone in one hand, her little finger poised, held her breath, and delicately aimed for a spot on the screen.

But at the next moment.

“Arghhhh!! I’m so angry at this damn ad! I really want to smack this phone to death!!”

Ke Jin: “…”

If you can’t close the ad, what’s the point of smashing the phone…

Moving closer to take a look, Ke Jin then understood.

Turns out it was just some unscrupulous businesses playing their little tricks.

He had become accustomed to it in his previous life.

He didn’t expect that Blue Star would have them too, and just as frustrating.

Usually, most apps will pop up ads during their use.

Moreover, these ads charge based on the number of clicks they receive.

For every user who clicks on it, the advertiser has to pay you for one click’s worth of ad revenue.

Where there is potential for profit, there will be people with ulterior motives.

As a result, unscrupulous software merchants, in order to earn more from ads, deliberately induce users to click the ads by mistake.

Typical ad close buttons are usually in the top right corner and will display as a red cross or a “Skip” button.

But the unscrupulous merchants’ ads come in all shapes and sizes.

At the light end, they’re displayed in the top left corner, going against intuition, causing users to subconsciously click the top right corner and then be taken directly to the ad.

At the extreme, they simply hide the close button within the ad itself, helping the user exercise their brain’s thinking ability.

Little user, can you tell me where the close button is?

The ad that Ke Yu faced now was even more intense.

As the young girl described through gritted teeth.

She was following a drama and found out there were cuts, so she went to a pirate website to see what had been edited out.

The moment she entered, an ad popped up.

At first glance, the ad seemed normal, with a skip button in the top right corner.

Just as Ke Yu was about to press it to close the ad.

Suddenly, the ad automatically redirected on its own…

The reason was that, in addition to providing a close button, the ad also thoughtfully set up a shake-to-activate feature for the user.

As soon as the user reaches out to press the close button, their hand will slightly shake.

Thereby activating the phone’s built-in gyroscope and detecting that the user is shaking the phone.

Consequently, it automatically redirected to the ad page.

Want to leave the hospital?

You’ll have to go back in!

Once on the ad page, Ke Yu found out that it was a countdown ad.

You had to watch for 30 seconds before a “Skip” button would appear.

Unable to bear it, she decided to hit the big retreat button.

If I close the app, won’t that mean I don’t have to watch the ad?

Genius!

But with modern touch-screen phones, to provide a better experience for the user, the back button is usually hidden on the edge of the phone.

You have to manually swipe to bring up the small menu before you can click it.

And this swipe across the screen was defaulted by the ad as ‘user has touched the screen,’ directly taking Ke Yu to the next ad page.

Unable to tolerate it any longer, Ke Yu finally exploded, waited out the 30 seconds to skip the ad, and exited the app.

She promptly downloaded an “ Blocking Software” from the app store at lightning speed.

The moment the software started up, Ke Yu completely lost her cool.

“Please watch an ad to unlock the ad-blocking feature of this APP.”

Fuck your ad!

Can’t stand it at all!

Just thinking about what she had just endured made Ke Yu angrier and angrier, and she felt like putting her phone on airplane mode and throwing it out of the window.

But after listening to the whole story, Ke Jin couldn’t help but let the smile on the corner of his mouth grow wider.

His eyes shone bright like torches!

Of course, he was not making fun of his silly little sister.

Rather, he had thought of a perfect method to complete the ultimate task!

If!

I mean, if.

If I make the recharge page with this kind of mechanism…

Won’t the players, no matter how willing they are to pay, find themselves completely unable to spend a penny?

Holy shit!!!

This idea is brilliant!

Why didn’t I think of it sooner?

Ke Jin regretfully smacked Ke Yu’s thigh.

His previously dispirited confidence instantly skyrocketed!

When will I unlock the ultimate gift pack, you ask?

Today!