Chapter 24 (1/2)

A moment later…

The group chat exploded!

“Isn’t Tengda the company that created The Lonely Desert Road?!”

“!!!… They’re not making any messed up games anymore and have changed to mobile games?”

“To think that company could be said to have a heart! Is this for real?”

All of those people made a quick search and naturally found out that the game was created by the same company which made the messed up game that had gotten popular for a little – The Lonely Desert Road!

How was it possible that this company had a heart?

Ruan Guangjian explained hurriedly, “It’s for real. If you guys don’t believe it, you can download the game and try it for yourselves. The game’s extremely fair and you can play it all you want for just the fixed price of 10 yuan! The only in-game purchasable item is a 30 yuan permanent membership card that only gives you an additional 10 draw chance daily. Other than that, there’s no other paywalls!”

“Are you serious?”

Chen Qi was skeptical.

A mobile card game that did not have any in-game purchasable items?

How were they expecting to make money?

Were they hoping to recoup their cost with just 10 yuan from every player?

Wouldn’t that make this a game that was destined to lose money?!

Everyone were doubtful about it and purchased the game to check it out.

After they tried it, they found out that the game really did have conscience!

While there was indeed an in-game market, the only item on sale was a permanent membership card fixed at 30 yuan!

Most other card games would include purchase options for energy, stage challenge counts and card draws et cetera, but Ghost General did not have that!

Which meant to say that the gamers would be going through an almost identical gameplay experience without any distinction between the free gamers and the whales!

Even the only in-game purchasable item was a membership card that cost a mere 30 yuan!

That was equivalent to a single refill card for Fantasy World and what’s more, it was permanent!

Chen Qi was shocked.

He could not believe it!

As a famous game concept artist domestically, he was working for a top domestic game company and was a professional operating within the field.

While he was in charge of the aesthetics aspect, he had some knowledge about game design as well.

In-game purchasable items were the main source of profit for card games where many whales would top up in the ball park of hundreds or even thousands. A single whale would be equivalent to a couple hundreds of normal players.

That paywall model had originated from Qute Three Kingdoms and indeed, the in-game purchases of that game was the envy of many game companies.

Naturally, there were many gamers who would accuse that game of being corrupted.

But, which game company would pit themselves against money?

Chen Qi had not expected that there would be a company this righteous that not only would they spend all their money on developing the game such that they had nothing left for advertising, they would even cut their own source of income just to provide an equal gameplay experience for all gamers!

What sort of a spirit was this?

Childish… but noble at the same time!

Chen Qi’s eyes brimmed with tears. He recalled that he had joined the industry back when standalone games were prospering. Gamers like him had always remembered their core values and were striving to create standalone games that people could deem had a heart…

But now, there truly wasn’t much of these companies with souls left.

“No problem, I’ll help you share it on Weibo right away. A good game like this must not be buried away!” Chen Qi was the first to reply.

The others naturally agreed with vigor.

“Indeed, it’s a game with a heart! I’m off to advertise it too!”