Chapter 32 (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

Translated by Coldtaco

Edited by Aelryinth

Shi Huazhe wasn’t stupid and knew that Chen Mo had many weird and wonderful ideas up his sleeves. It was entirely possible that Chen Mo could make something that would attract the attention of many people, driving up the sales quickly. Therefore, in order to try and keep what remained of his dignity, Shi Huazhe didn’t dare lowball his estimate.

But, what if he really made it to a hundred thousand?

There wasn’t an inch of Shi Huazhe that wanted to believe that. In his view, the success of Flappybird was completely accidental, as all of Chen Mo’s skills were utterly terrible. Surely he was not able to get lucky like that again and again in the future?

3——

12 PM…

Plants vs Zombies was released into the market on time. The players that had been waiting for it were all racing to download the game.

PC players were few and far between in this world, making it an unexplored territory. Therefore, Chen Mo chose to focus on the mobile players.

Despite having the game on the PC market as well, Chen Mo didn’t expect it to get close to the top there.

Chen Mo set the price at 10 RMB.

The app store had set the pricing on games, ranging from free, one RMB, ten RMB, twenty RMB, fifty RMB, or above fifty RMB.

As the official app store in this world mainly catered to users inside China, there wasn’t a problem with currency exchange, so there was no need for 6 RMB or other odd numbers like that.

2Chen Mo could’ve made it free or just one RMB, which would make it much easier to increase the number of downloads, but he felt that he was losing out on too much by doing that.

Plants vs Zombies wasn’t suited for in-game ads, and Chen Mo didn’t want it to affect the experience of the players, either.

If he sold it at one RMB, two hundred thousand copies would only result in a hundred thousand RMB net, which wasn’t even enough for him to make ten draws!

Therefore, ten RMB was quite an approachable price. Of course, this didn’t mean Chen Mo was running a charity, he was just going for low price at high volume.

2Plants vs Zombies was expected to be popular among all ages. Primary or high school students with not much money, or even the older generation, were part of Chen Mo’s target market. Making it cheap enough to fork out money without much hesitation was part of Chen Mo’s plan.

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Jia Peng and his friends inside the experience store had already downloaded it, and gave it a five star rating.

“Manager, we’ve downloaded the game and gave it a five star review!” said Jia Peng.

Chen Mo said, “Thanks! I’ll give you all a free cup of milk tea for your trouble.”

3“Thanks, manager!” Jia Peng and his friends were very happy.

Jia Peng said, “Senior Wen and the others will come over during the afternoon, as they have class during the morning.”

Another guy said, “That’s great, we can watch the game completely destroy the new games list together.”

Jia Peng said, “Of course! It will surely dominate the leaderboards, it’s so fun! We’ll be the witnesses here!”

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Many others also had their eye on the sales of Plants vs Zombies.

On the official app store, the statistics for games were updated hourly, the games leaderboards were updated every three hours, and recommended spaces were updated every twenty-four hours.

Many gamers were downloading the game.

Some of them were brought over from the ads on Flappybird, others came from Chen Mo’s Weibo, and some of them just liked the idea behind the game.