Chapter 198 - How Did it Succeed? (1/2)
The number of sales of Diablo became a hot topic among industry professionals after its release.
“Have you seen Diablo’s sales? It defies logic! How is it possible that it sold 1.87 million copies in the first month?”
“My goodness, 167 million RMB in profit in the first month? How is it possible, I thought third person games are ancient!”
“I don’t buy it either, there wasn’t anything particularly creative about the game. Moreover, it’s a single player game, yet it wasn’t even as rich in content as online games!”
“And the players are rating it highly!”
“Was it because of the quality of the game?”
“Regardless of the quality of the game, if the game wasn’t good, the reviews wouldn’t be that great. But the problem is that there were many copies, and really good reviews!”
“We have to look into it deeper, there must be something we are missing.”
Most designers were really troubled by this.
Even though CHen Mo made a record-breaking three hundred and seventy million RMB in a month using Onmyoji, the revenue on Diablo was on a completely different level.
The graphics of Onmyoji trumps over every other mobile game on the market, and there were significant changes in the gameplay too, utilizing the characteristics of a pay to win game to the fullest.
Everybody was shocked at Onmyoji’s results when compared to the many games that came before it, but they still could make sense of it by looking deeper into it.
But Diablo was different as nobody expected anything from it before it started selling. Even Chen Mo’s hardcore fans couldn’t think of any reason why the game would perform well other than a blind trust.
It was only when the sales were released that these designers released their huge mistakes, thinking that there must be something special that they didn’t notice.
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At the same time the designers were investigating Diablo’s success, there was a lot of celebration on various forums.
Many of Chen Mo’s fans were trying to get doubters to fulfil their bets.
“You said you would eat your monitor, get to it now.”
“There’s also the ones who said they would eat their USB drives, mice, and coffee mugs. Bon appetit.”
“He sold 1.87 million copies in the first month, how many copies did you guys say he would sell before? Can’t be over eight hundred thousand?”
“Sorry, but us Chen Mo fans can do whatever we want.”
“Hmm? This thread is dying. We can’t let it die. Bump.”
“Bump.”
“Bonk.”
“Boop.”
“You guys are horrible for kicking them when they are down, I’ll kick them too.”
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From various discussion forums to trending topics, everything was related to Diablo.