Chapter 157 - Early Bird Gets the Worm? (1/2)

Translator: Exodus Tales  Editor: Exodus Tales

It didn’t take long before many other card game companies found out about the news.

Chen Mo didn’t try to keep it a secret at all. It was difficult to keep it a secret anyways as there was no way from preventing the art company from leaking the news.

Once the news gets out, it wouldn’t take long for the entire mobile game community to hear about it. It wasn’t a good news to any mobile card game designer that Chen Mo was back making mobile games.

And during Chen Mo’s hiatus from mobile games, the other card game designers were having the time of their lives.

The best time of their life even.

At this point, the industry was happy to have everyone make money from mobile card games as opposed to going at each other’s neck.

This was opposed to genres like RPG as the playerbase was incredibly limited, and every company was trying to get as much of it as possible.

But it was different for card games. Since the huge mobile card game industry was still in its early stages and there wasn’t a monopoly, there was a silent agreement that they should all work together in peace.

Because card games were all so similar and no designer dared to make any big changes, which was why the companies relied on big IPs to get a slice of the player base.

You’ll make an anime one, I’ll make one based on a novel. They could all work on the same thing yet have separate playerbases.

It was fine even if they shared the same target audience as they just had to space out the release dates.

Who wouldn’t have the time of their life when they could make money by doing nothing?

This was almost an unspoken rule. It wasn’t that these companies didn’t want to monopolise the industry, it was because they couldn’t, and a game that could do that didn’t exist.

If they wanted to achieve that, they must ensure that the game was better than all the other games on the market and had an IP that covered a huge player base.

Demon Slayers might be the only one that slightly matches the last point. There wasn’t a game that truly covered both points.

But Chen Mo’s move made everything unclear.

Many video game designers were discussing this matter privately.

“Have you heard that Chen Mo is making a card game?”

“What? Is he making a sequel to I Am MT? It can’t be, the animation isn’t all that popular anymore. Are there that many die hard fans of the series?”

“No, I heard it’s a Japanese Shikigami theme. I don’t know much about it.”

“What is it, does it have an IP?”

“No!”

“Then why is he doing it?”

“Who knows! Who knows what Chen Mo is planning?”

“I feel like something is about to go down.”

“Who said it wasn’t, Chen Mo had been doing so well in the PC market, but decided to pivot back into the mobile game industry. Clearly, he’s messing with us!”

“What should we do?”

“Watch! What else can we do? Anyways, the ones at the top should be most affected, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment’s Demon Slayers 2 will cop most of the blow.”

“We’ll see what Emperor Dynasty Entertainment does.”

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Qiu Bin forwarded the news of Chen Mo making a card game to Lin Chaoxu.

It didn’t take long for Lin Chaoxu to come to a decision.

Promote Demon Slayers 2 now! Release it as fast as possible!

Lin Chaoxu wasn’t as cautious and indecisive as Qiu Bin as he knew what this meant.

This meant that once Chen Mo’s preparations were done, it could be another hugely popular game. This was horrible news to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment!

The early bird gets the worm, release Demon Slayers 2 early and get a bunch of players. Promote the game everywhere in order to get as many players as possible, and make as much money as they could before Chen Mo releases his game.