Chapter 270 - Wails of Distributors (1/2)

Thunderbolt Gaming Platform’s facelift gained plenty of attention from the players.

The matter gained plenty of attention since Chen Mo announced that he would use Thunderbolt Gaming Platform to promote the games of their designers.

But after a long argument among fans, a twenty four hour session against Chen Mo, and Chen Mo’s long Weibo post, the matter became an extremely hot topic.

Many players who didn’t play Chen Mo’s games downloaded Thunderbolt Gaming Platform just to check out what was happening.

Right now, hate towards Thunderbolt Gaming Platform had slowly died down as everybody got it out of their system. After Chen Mo announced his intentions in an incredibly classy way, there was not much else the trolls could do to attack him, and the tides were now in Chen Mo’s favour.

And Thunderbolt Gaming Platform’s complete overhaul got the other distributors sweating.

If Thunderbolt Gaming Platform wasn’t successful, such as the games don’t sell well after posting them there with little to no attention, it would most certainly be good news for them.

But if Thunderbolt Gaming Platform did well? It would most certainly be bad news for them.

When that time comes, if the distributors wanted to continue operating, they would have to reduce their cut similar to Thunderbolt Gaming Platform, meaning their revenue would be reduced dramatically.

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The players also had their eyes on the performance of Thunderbolt Gaming Platform.

“Thunderbolt Gaming Platform got an update today, you can download the games of other designers now!”

“Really? Let me check it out!”

“There are so few games. There’s only a hundred or so of them!”

“They just started after all, they are likely to add more in the future.”

“The few recommended games are decent indie games. Seems like Chen Mo has a good eye.”

“Coincidentally, there’s a game from a designer I quite fancy, I’ll buy it here as they take a smaller cut, meaning that the designer gets more money. It’s like a way I could support them.”

“The new update is pretty good. I feel like it’s different from Emperor Dynasty Gaming Platform and Fantasy Gaming Platform, but is still quite rich in features.”

“Yeah, especially the promoted pages. There are so many different types of recommendations, even by category. They even recommend games based on what the players like. And there’s so many promotions too, providing free trials during weekends and special discounts!”

“Wishlist? Oh it’s like a shopping cart. I could wait till the games go on sale before buying. This feature is quite nice!”

“I really do feel an urge to shop all of a sudden.”

“And the various features are really well done too. Other than statistics for games, there is a strategy tab, ratings and reviews… Seems much more feature rich than other platforms.”

“Not bad! I’ve never really cared about Chinese indie games because the other platforms seem to always promote garbage games, so it’s really difficult for me to find a good indie game. Now I finally managed to find a few deceind games. I’ll buy them right now!”