I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!

Chapter 33: Chapter 16: Wuhu Zhuge Liang Applies for Battle!_1 Chapter 33: Chapter 16: Wuhu Zhuge Liang Applies for Battle!_1 The next day.

Noon.

It had been a full 12 hours since “Goose Duck Kill” was launched.

Because the system task required the platform download ranking to reach the top.

So, the system displayed the current download ranking of “Goose Duck Kill,” not the total number of downloads.

“Forty-first,” Ke Jin went online again to check the detailed data.

The current weekly download volume was about 2000+.

Hmm, steady improvement.

At this rate, it should take about three days to reach the top.

He also looked at the revenue displayed by the system.

“Huh?”

On the system interface, the revenue had already reached over 8000 yuan.

“Could there be a display error?” Ke Jin was puzzled.

How could just over 2000 downloads generate 8000 yuan for him?

He carefully checked his store’s gift package codes again.

“No mistake, there’s only one one-yuan recharge interface, and it even includes a full 1 yuan discount voucher, so they won’t be charged any extra fees for further spending.”

“2000 downloads, even if everyone spent money, it should only be 2000 yuan, right?”

Ke Jin was even more baffled.

“It must be a problem with the cloud data. It’s quite common for such small platforms to have bugs every now and then.”

That’s what he said, but to be on the safe side,

Ke Jin still went on Thunderbolt to search for discussions about “Goose Duck Kill.”

The good news was that almost no one was talking about “Goose Duck Kill.”

The few videos made by some small UPs only had a few dozen views, hardly making an impact.

“There’s no discussion on Thunderbolt either, so it seems like a cloud error. Now I can rest easy.” Ke Jin put his mind at ease, turned on his computer to play Iwanna, and quietly waited for the ultimate task reward package to arrive.

Meanwhile,

On another platform that he hadn’t noticed, WWgame,

The name “Goose Duck Kill” had emerged at the top of the daily active user list!

Since it wasn’t a game from their own platform, they couldn’t disclose the download figures for “Goose Duck Kill.”

But the backend real-time monitoring data was very clear.

33784 downloads!

After WWgame’s all-out promotion across all channels,

In just 12 hours, “Goose Duck Kill” had achieved over 30,000 downloads!

And the number of paying players had also reached nearly 25,000!

With an almost 83% conversion rate, even on Blue Star, where spending money for happiness was common, this was an incredibly high percentage!

In WWgame’s statistical data, even for the current top turn-based game “Witch’s Curse” on their platform, the proportion of players willing to pay was only 47%, not even half; the majority were still free-to-play users. (Here’s a rough comparison: in the real world, the majority of games have only about 20% of players who pay, or even less.)

This revenue, coming from various WWgame channels, therefore, had a delay in settling on the cloud.

Even with General Manager Liu Tianding urging on, so far only about seven or eight thousand yuan had been settled.

Faced with such a great situation, even Liu Tianding couldn’t help but marvel.

“This kid seems to be born for this, with his first game mildly successful, his second game a hit. And now his third game is a blockbuster!”

“The willingness of players to pay is too high.”

“Genius! He’s cut out for this!”

However, just as Liu Tianding’s gaze fell on the total revenue, he was stunned.

“Only so little?”

“Twenty-five thousand?”

“Why is the revenue so low? We at WWgame went all out to promote it, so how did it only make twenty-five thousand?”

He knew that Ke Jin had launched “Goose Duck Kill” at dawn, but he hadn’t had time to understand the gameplay or in-app purchases of this game.

But you should know, even a mediocre game on their WWgame platform, with a hundred thousand daily active users, could easily break thirty thousand in daily revenue with just a small recommendation.

With such a strong promotion for “Goose Duck Kill.”

You’re telling me it only made twenty-five thousand?

What a joke!

“Is there a mistake in the data, missing a zero? 250,000 sounds more like it.”

“Manager… his recharge interface this time seems to have only a one-yuan first recharge.” The employee responsible for data interfacing replied.

“What?” Liu Tianding was dumbfounded: “One yuan?”

“Um…”

“There are no other options?”

“No…”

“Is this kid crazy? Isn’t he short of money? Why does the new game only have a one-yuan first recharge option?” Liu Tianding was freaking out.

He was hoping the new game would let Ke Jin bounce back big, and then roll up his bedding to repay WWgame with gratitude.

But now the total sales were only 25,000 — not even enough to get stuck in his teeth. Why would anyone thank him?

“No, this isn’t enough! We need to push harder!” Liu Tianding frowned and paced back and forth anxiously.

The traffic had been sent out, but the cash flow hadn’t been drawn up.

Rounded up, doesn’t that mean the traffic was given away for free?

Besides, that 25,000 — it doesn’t sound good to spread around.

Divided by 100, isn’t that just cursing someone out?

At the very least, we should get the cash flow above 50,000 — ‘Five blessings arriving at the doorstep,’ that’s more auspicious, right?

Without time to ponder why Ke Jin suddenly dropped the price to one yuan, Liu Tianding quickly took out his phone. After rifling through his contacts list.

He found the number of the contact person in charge at Shark Platform.

“Hey, hey, Liang Bro, it’s me, Old Liu.”

“It’s like this, our platform has this guy recently, named Ke Jin… Ah, you’ve heard of him too, huh? Yes, yes, that’s right… His new game has a promising start, and I was thinking, maybe you guys could consider having your streamers promote it for us?… Oh boy, money issues are negotiable, just promoting today is fine… Alright, alright, I’ll treat you to a meal when I’m in Jianghan City.”

He hung up the phone and only then did Liu Tianding’s brows slightly relax.

Shark Platform really knew how to get things done.

As soon as they heard it was about promoting a new game from the author of Iwanna, they didn’t charge an arm and a leg for it. They even gave a discount, finalizing the deal with a small six-figure sum.

After all, more than 70% of the live streaming platform’s users are brought in by the gaming sector.

Nowadays, the games on the market are too homogeneous. If there’s an author who can bring some novelty to the games, once it takes off, it will naturally benefit the streaming platforms as well.

“Ke Jin, Ke Jin, I really did my best this time. I hope that one day when you soar to success, you’ll at least remember a tiny bit of my goodwill.” Liu Tianding looked at the rapidly increasing download numbers for “Goose Duck Kill” and thought to himself.

…

Three o’clock in the afternoon.

Shark Streaming Platform.

“Classmates, good afternoon.” A middle-aged man with square-frame glasses and a square-shaped face appeared on time in the live stream room.

As soon as he showed up, the barrage in the live room flew rapidly, gifts kept coming, and the heat of the live room soared.

As a top broadcaster on Shark Platform, Dasima almost never plays up showmanship.

Because he himself is the showmanship.

Playing any game, he brings along a daft goose factor. His otherworldly game understanding, which is different from ordinary people, along with the occasional baffling yet hilarious terms that pop out of his mouth, combined with his serious face, create a stark contrast, making his live stream explosively entertaining.

“What game is Mr. Ma going to stream today?”

“How about playing Iwanna? I’ve watched it before, and the showmanship of the game is amazing! It’s super funny!”

“No, if you let Old Ma play this game, before he becomes a ‘red skin duck,’ I’ll lose my sanity first.”

“This shows that Mr. Ma’s live streaming is very unprofessional, after all, good streaming should be captivating and not lead me to the altar /pout /pout.”

“The guy in front, tone down your manliness, it’s so strong it almost woke up the gold wheel on my bed.”

“So, we’re all full of manliness, huh? I guess I am too, then no problem.”

The barrage teased relentlessly.

Dasima slowly pulled up a game window.

On the UI, three big characters were starkly displayed.

“Goose Duck Kill”

Accompanied by a few goofy and cute duck characters, Dasima began leisurely.

“Classmates, it’s said that this is a social game played with schemes and tricks.”

“Everyone knows, I’m pretty strong with both overt and covert strategies. They call me Wuhu Zhuge Liang, •.•. Usually, when I play these games, it’s all about random killing.”

“Let’s call Tuanzi and the others over, no need to talk more, let’s take off directly!”