Chapter 68 (1/2)

Wen Lingwei stared at her best cards, not wanting to depart with them.

“I just thought of something. Should we spend money on this game when we are officially testing the game?”

Jia Peng grinned, “Huh? Spend money on the game? I can’t even draw good cards using the resources that were given out for free. Spending my own money would be the same as pouring it down the drain.”

Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes, “The unlucky star showing off his skills again.”

Chang Xiuya said, “Spend money? Uh, don’t think I’ll be able to keep up. Millions of RMB come and go just like that in this game. How much would we need to spend to reach this level when the game is officially released?”

Wen Lingwei shook her head, “I’m not talking about playing up to this level. Look, no matter if you spend one RMB, ten RMB or a hundred RMB, you’ll receive your respective VIP levels as well as other top-up bonuses, and you would immediately have an advantage over players who don’t spend any money.”

Chang Xiuya nodded as if she understood, “Mm, so you’re saying that we spend less, maybe around a hundred? That still feels a bit… expensive.”

Wen Lingwei said, “But if you think about it, more than half the players might never spend any money. If you spend a hundred RMB, you should be stronger than the majority of the players right? Think about the arena ranking bonuses, as well as receiving dungeon rewards earlier, among other things”

Chang Xiuya nodded, “Yeah, seems like… we would be slightly better than others.”

Wen Lingwei said, “Right? No matter what we should spend a small amount of money. This game is free to play anyways, spending ten RMB on it doesn’t seem like a huge cost anyways.”

Wen Lingwei started to investigate how much money she should spend in order to get the best value for money in terms of benefits.

Chen Mo said, “Just saying, you drawing a card for me is enough to buy an Elder Sister card.”

Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes again, “What are you trying to say? Are you still thinking about how much I charge for artwork? There’s nothing to discuss in that department!”

Chen Mo laughed.

The thing he was most worried about wasn’t the popularity of the animation, nor the amount of players, but if the players weren’t willing to fork out money.

After all, it was difficult to manipulate the willingness of the players to spend money. If the majority of players weren’t willing to fork out money to spend in game, and if there weren’t enough whales, spending money in game wouldn’t provide too much excitement either. This would cause the monthly income of the game to remain low.

However, after noticing Wen Lingwei’s reaction, Chen Mo gained confidence in the game’s ability to rake in money.

Once the majority of players get a taste of the thrill of spending money in game, they would struggle to stop themselves from spending a second time. And the players who weren’t willing to spend money would feel more inclined to spend money for the first time.

As long as there are enough of these two types of players, the profitability of the game was more or less guaranteed.

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As the release date approached, the advertisements for Guardian of the Holy Spring were being advertised more and more by Emperor Dynasty Entertainment.

The advertisements weren’t exactly everywhere, only present on a few key advertisement spaces on the Emperor Dynasty gaming platform. They also arranged for a few video game media to announce the game and wrote a few advertorials.

After all, it was only a mobile game. As Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had a rough estimate of how profitable the game could be, there was no way they would spend all their resources on advertising it, as it costs money to put the game out there.

Even the promoted spaces on the Emperor Dynasty gaming platform weren’t exactly free. If the space was given to another better game, they would be able to profit more from it, which in a way would be money lost.

Therefore, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment couldn’t put down everything and give Guardian of the Holy spring all of its resources, and would only give it some of the better ones.

However, in the eyes of the higher ups in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, a few adverts like these was enough to compete with a nobody videogame designer such as Chen Mo.