Chapter 25 (1/2)

Ma Yang was troubled.

“Brother Qian… is our game really that trashy? There’s absolutely no hype around it…”

“When a new game’s published, it would normally get a few tens of thousands of downloads on just the first day. Why is ours only getting a couple of dozens…”

Ma Yang was thoroughly affected.

Ever since the game was published, he was refreshing the figures for Ghost General on the official games platform every other minute to check for number of downloads and reviews by players.

Yet, one hour had passed…

Three hours…

Five hours…

The figures had hardly changed at all!

That was because Ghost General had only taken on a small spot on the recommendation list and that title by itself wasn’t anything particularly attractive nor were there any beautiful advertising images – who would even notice it?

The Lonely Desert Road was discovered by Teacher Qiao because he was an UP Master who specialized in dissing standalone games and would seek out new games on the regular.

That could be said to be an exception amongst exceptions.

Most mobile gamers would not go around looking for new mobile games on the regular unless they were exceptionally popular or poised to be at least.

For a new mobile game such as Ghost General, the chances of it being buried into oblivion was almost 100% without any marketing measures planned.

“It’s fine, this is always the case for new games. We just have to wait and see,” Pei Qian consoled.

Wait and see?

Yeah, right!

Even though Pei Qian looked to be as worried as Ma Yang on the surface, he was long gloating internally.

It was normal that there would be no downloads – after all, where would the players come from since this game had not seen the light of day just yet?

A couple of days aside, this game would most likely end up into stagnation even after a week or a month had passed!

Pei Qian was just waiting for the week to pass by as quickly as possible. Eventually, Ghost General would drop from the games platform’s recommendation spot and so would its popularity. With that, the system’s settlement would convert all 300,000 of System Funds to his Personal Wealth.

Amazing!

Pei Qian’s consolation did not bring about much results as Ma Yang still looked despondent as ever.

“Sigh, let me check the figures again. Perhaps there might be some changes now that three hours’ passed,” Ma Yang said as he opened up ESRO’s official games platform and searched for Ghost General.

When he got to the information page of the game, Ma Yang was stunned.

He rubbed his eyes, thinking that he might have been hallucinating.

When he had checked it multiple times previously, the downloads were always in the tens. However, it had suddenly increased to more than 2,000!

Ma Yang thought that he was seeing things. But, when he checked out the ratings and reviews by players, he knew that it was true.

A group of gamers had indeed discovered this game!

The first thing Ma Yang checked was the rating of the game – it was at an exaggerating 9.7!

Initially, Ghost General’s review section was absolutely empty. However, there were already hundreds of reviews by now!

“Why is this game sold at 10 yuan? It’s more expensive than Qute Three Kingdoms, what the hell?!”

“The previous commenter, you must not have played the game yet, right? You’re complaining that 10 yuan is expensive? It’s too cheap!”

“I’ve played it seriously for a little and found that it’s a mobile card game filled with sincerity! The key is that there’s only a single permanent membership card that the game sells to you. If you were to lump it together with the cost of the game, everything costs a mere 40 yuan!”

“40 yuan to play as much as you want while everyone’s equal without any top up values or paywalls. I’m appalled! Is this even a mobile card game?”

“This game’s quality is rather decent. As a loyal fan of mobile card games, I’ve finally found one that is unique!”