Chapter 27 (1/2)

“Congratulations! Your game, Ghost General, has reached the most popular new game of the month recommendation spot. Please do not update the game’s version in the near future or any unknown bugs may affect the game experience…”

Pei Qian felt his heart die at the sight of the message.

Again! Yet again!

Trouble always came in pairs – it was a chain reaction!

In reality, be it for The Lonely Desert Road or Ghost General, their popularity all stemmed from unassumingly small actions.

The Lonely Desert Road got popular because Teacher Qiao made a dissing video while Ghost General was because Ruan Guangjian had posted his original arts within the circle of artists.

If it was just that, the consequences would not have been so dire.

After all, the people affected by those actions were only a minority.

The games would have continued disappearing into oblivion if their popularities had not continued on.

However, the main reason why Pei Qian suffered so badly was due to ESRO’s automatic recommendation system!

ESRO’s official platform would compare the figures between games that were uploaded at the same time period and those with better results would obtain better recommendation spots.

It was the same case for both games – the small unassuming actions had caused the figures to blow up such that the platform recognized them as concrete figures before pushing the games up the recommendation spots.

From there on, due to the games’ intrinsic qualities, they climbed even further after being pushed up the recommendation spots…

That way, the entire status quo blew out of proportion!

Right now, Ghost General was at a crazy spot in the games section – most popular new game of the month. With that title claimed, the download figures were immense!

Coupled with the high ratings of Ghost General and the acclaimed comments in the reviews section…

It was an unimaginable outcome!

Pei Qian did not even dare to check out the figures on the back end out of fear that he might be further despaired.

In fact, he wished that he could beg the platform to stop pushing his game up the recommendation spot!

However, he could not do that.

The platform’s recommendations worked automatically based on figures and besides, if he did that, it would be considered a violation and he would be warned by the system.

It was then that Pei Qian truly understood the meaning of the statement…

At times, a man may have no choice at all!

…

Standing alone at the rooftop of the dormitory, Pei Qian was filled with emotions.

He did not want to daze around the dormitory because it was almost time for settlement and he was afraid Ma Yang may end up hearing his sobs.

The screen of the system appeared in front of Pei Qian and once again, it was time for the Wealth Conversion System’s settlement.

Looking at those figures, Pei Qian felt a little suicidal.

He had not imagined that card games would be so profitable!

Amongst the 500,000 a portion of it was the ongoing income from The Lonely Desert Road. After all, that game was still operating and the accumulated income from its 1 yuan price was rather impressive still.

However, it was still only a small portion.

Most of the income came from Ghost General!

Pei Qian made a rough calculation using his rudimentary mathematical skills.

Within a week, Ghost General’s net profit was around 500,000 – that meant that the gross was around 1,000,000.

Come the following week, the income would only surge higher as gamers continued gushing in while the game’s popularity climbed even further.

Even if the game would not earn much in the future since there wasn’t any paywalls within it, it was a huge market that they were dealing with and it would take around three months at least for the game’s popularity to die off!

Based on the figures, it was extremely likely for the game’s month gross to hit above 5,000,000!

Even though that was a normal figure for a mobile game, it would still be a rather handsome profit for a small company with less than 30 employees.

However, it was different for Pei Qian – he was the only one working on the game from the very beginning!

Ma Yang was only drawing a 3,000 monthly salary and had only helped with the requirement form. Pei Qian was the one who had purchased all the templates and art resources which merely added up to 300,000.