Chapter 95 - Gathering of scammy games! (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

It didn’t take long before games took notice of Lifeline on Thunderbolt Platform and discussion to start.

“Interactive fiction? My goodness, I thought Chen Mo fell into the abyss of pay to win games and was a lost cause. I didn’t expect him to release a standalone game.”

“A scammy game, then a tabletop game, then an interactive fiction. This amount of tossing and turning is impressive!”

“My god, Thunderbolt Tabletop had only been out for a week. This guy is printing out these games!”

“One RMB is quite cheap, buy first talk later…”

“Clearance sale! It’s the genuine stuff! There’s no need to ask for the price, everything here is one RMB! It’s just one RMB, you wouldn’t even feel scammed at that amount. If you can’t even spare one RMB you wouldn’t be able to buy anything, you’re just poor!”

“My goodness, I almost thought you were a sales person hired by Chen Mo, previous OP.”

“Has anyone tried it? Is it good?”

“I tried it and it seems quite interesting! I’m not going to spoil the story, but I’m really into the game right now.”

“Anyone else look up 150 rads like I did?”

“The story is amazing, did Chen Mo write that? I only just found out that he was this good as writing, I’m impressed.”

“Are you guys serious? Could you be that into an interactive fiction? Have you guys not seen a real game? Whatever, I’m done with you guys I’m off to chat with Taylor.”

“Help, has anyone gotten the perfect ending?

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It didn’t take long before the downloads for Lifeline to explode.

As the popularity of Thunderbolt continued to increase, there were millions of users everyday, and each and everyone of them would see Lifeline.

And the ratings of Lifeline were quite high, maintaining around 4.5 stars, which also drew players to get the game.

Moreover, at just one RMB, Lifeline was a steal.

Many players shared the game to their friends and on Weibo. 150 rads even became a trending topic on search engines.

Soon, the number of sales of Lifeline for the first twenty four hours was released, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-four!

This was double the amount of sales Plants vs Zombies achieved, but it was slightly lower than Guardian of the Holy Spring.

Of course, this also had to do with the lower price as the game was a tenth of the price. In terms of revenue, Lifeline might only bring in thirty to forty thousand, a ways away from Plants vs Zombies.

Moreover, the difference in revenue will be even bigger down the line as it had a niche audience.

However, it didn’t matter as Chen Mo intended to use it as a test for how well Thunderbolt Gaming Platform did as a distribution platform. And from the looks of it, Thunderbolt Gaming Platform had similar effects to that of a middle of the road advertising space on the official app store.

This wasn’t a bad result to be able to compete with strong foes in an environment like this. It could even be called a miracle for being able to gather this many players in a week.

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