Chapter 26 (1/2)
“Brother Qian!”
“Brother Qian!”
Pei Qian stirred awake through Ma Yang’s repeated calls.
“Sigh, I know that you’re naturally excited now that things are getting better since you’ve put in so much effort for this game. But, don’t get overly emotional. It’s not good for your body.”
“Hurry and calm down! We’ve succeeded!”
Ma Yang’s excitement was displayed entirely through his words.
Pei Qian was exasperated and rolled his eyes in a fit.
Do I look happy?
Do I look excited?
I’m despairing!!
Pei Qian’s face was ashen as he forced a smile. “Yeaps, we did it…”
He was perplexed – just where had things gone wrong?
Even though he was in pain, despaired and had no choice but to acknowledge his defeat, Pei Qian had to know why he failed!
How did this game get popular?
Was it because some UP Master had dissed this game again?
But the main point was that the game he created this time round had nothing to diss at!
First, he searched up keywords of Ghost General on Qiandu to check if there were any hints he could rely on.
The review section of the game did not have ‘XX’s sightseeing group’ or any other similar messages.
“Just what was the problem?” Pei Qian was thoroughly stumped.
There were just that many people who knew about this game!
Pei Qian had not done any advertising of it himself.
It was even less possible that Ma Yang was the one who did it. Even if he had wanted to, he would lack the connections to do so.
That left Pei Qian with the people he had interacted with on ESRO’s website when he was purchasing the resources and templates.
“Wait a minute. Most of the players who left reviews seemed to have commented on the original arts!”
“Clearly, they were drawn in by the original arts!”
“But, how could they have seen the original arts without seeing the game?”
With a testing attitude, Pei Qian turned on Weibo and searched for Ghost General.
This time round, he got results.
Many famous artists have shared Ghost General’s original arts freely!
All of those posts were even shared further within the gaming and animation communities; even some Big V of the tech scene had shared it too!
The number of shares by the average Weibo was equally high as well.
Because of that, Ghost General had popped up on Weibo’s hot searches. While it wasn’t at the top of the list, the amount of traffic it generated was rather significant too!
Pei Qian was dumbfounded.
Who did it?
Who could have had such an influence to cause this many industry veterans to help promote Ghost General?
Even any average advertising firm or provider would not have been able to do it!
The main point was that most of these artists were famous characters in their circles respectively – these were people with such egos that they may not even accept paid sponsorship deals to advertise!
Following the shares to the root, Pei Qian found the original poster – Ruan Guangjian!
This was Ruan Guangjian’s personal account and he only had a couple hundreds of followers. Yet, that post had been shared for thousands of times and the popularity of it was not going down at all!
Even though Pei Qian could not understand how a post by an account that merely had a couple of hundreds of followers could have such an impact, it was evident that everything had stemmed from Ruan Guangjian’s promotional post!
He slapped himself on the head. “I’m dead! The problem this time round came from one of us!”
However, he could not figure out why Ruan Guangjian would go through the effort to help him advertise the game.
It didn’t make sense at all.