Chapter 72 - Whale Specific Card (1/2)

The friendly aid feature achieved three different goals.

First, weaker players will be able to clear some levels that they can’t clear themselves with the aid of stronger accounts. This presents itself as a stronger player carrying the weaker one, and in turn the weaker player will feel as though they weren’t playing alone, making the game feel more social, and increasing the player retention of weaker players.

Second, stronger players with stronger cards achieve an advertising effect, showing everyone on their friends list how strong the card is, incentivising other players to spend money in game as well.

Third, the non-playing players will naturally flock to the stronger whales, flooding them with friend requests. This makes the stronger players feel a great sense of satisfaction, further encouraging them to spend more money.

These three points are key to the profitability and retention of I Am MT. And a simple “friendly aid” system allowed for the best possible result using the least amount of resources possible, without the need of any co-op mode, achieving the three aforementioned points.

Hyping up using the animated series, free downloads, as well as inviting friends allowed I Am MT’s user base to spread far and wide into the circles of the younger population.

And the paying players will maintain at about ten percent.

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Inside the experience store, Chen Mo was so bored that he yawned a few times.

The servers for I Am MT were rented, the customer service was outsourced as well, and the player feedback would be filtered back to the developer once in a while.

There virtually weren’t any problems with bug fixes or server maintenance in the parallel world. Although many players will have questions regarding buying credits or have criticism with the gaming experience, they were usually handled by a customer experience team. All Chen Mo had to do was gather the opinions of the players and make changes to the game accordingly where he sees fit.

Everyone else within the experience store was playing I Am MT, surrounding Wen Lingwei asking questions about strategies on team composition.

Wen Lingwei had spent around three hundred RMB, and the others have also spent some money in game, some just ten, some slightly more at thirty.

“You currently have Shaman and Cannon Lady. You should probably focus more of your resources to level up Cannon Lady, and work toward Shaman’s leader ability, then your Chain Lightnings will be really strong.”

“Yep, you have many single target casters, and could probably do crazy burst damage to take out the enemies. You could add Thief or Rogue to your team, with the five fireball priests in a row, you could probably wipe out the enemy in an instant.”

“Jia Peng… Oh, your cards are terrible, may as well make a new account.”

Wen Lingwei gave each and everyone advice.

Su Jinyu came to Chen Mo’s side and asked, “Why aren’t you playing?”

Chen Mo said, “Oh, because I don’t have any money.”

Su Jinyu was speechless, “This game doesn’t require money!”

Chen Mo said, “You wouldn’t understand, it’s free when it’s the most pricey.”

Wen Lingwei walked over, “Please stop pretending you’re poor, Mr. Stingy owner. You said it yourself that I Am MT was capable of raking in more than twenty million a month, which means you’d be getting ten million in your pocket this month!”

Chen Mo waved his hand, “That’s when the end of the month comes, and that day is not today. Besides, I don’t have much money left to spend on credits, as I’ve spent most of the money on the animations.”

Wen Lingwei said, “Oh, then when you get your paycheck, be sure to get yourself to V12, that way we have someone to rely on.”

Chen Mo said, “I have to use that money to develop better games, why would I waste it on things like these?”

Everyone was speechless.

“Do you believe the words that just came out of your mouth yourself? Obviously you just want to develop more pay to win games like these!” complained Wen Lingwei.

Chang Xiuya asked, “Manager, do you mind telling us if there are any V12s in the game?”

Su Jinyu was shocked, “No way right? V12 takes fifty thousand RMB, is it possible for someone to spend fifty thousand on the game already?”

Wen Lingwei also thought it was not possible, “Probably not, no matter whose money it is, it doesn’t come easy. I think there would be V12 players in a month or two, because of how high the ceiling of this game is.”

Chen Mo said, “Uhh, actually there’s already some.”

Su Jinyu was shocked, “Really?! Who?”

Chen Mo said, “There’s actually twenty seven V12s, which one are you after?”

Everyone was stunned.

Jia Peng muttered, “I really don’t understand the world of the rich.”