Pokémon's Lord of Fear

"This New Year feels no different from any other day. If I have to say something, it's that giving gifts is really tiring." Teng Shu yawned, looked at the list in his hand, and took a deep breath.

As the son of Mu Jin, Teng Shu is busiest during every festival. While others celebrate the New Year with eating and drinking, Teng Shu spends his time running around. After all, there are too many people related to the family, so he needs to give a lot of gifts.

Fortunately, for some of the people with whom the relationship was not that close, only some basic gifts needed to be sent, but for those with whom the relationship was very close, Teng Shu needed to go over there, which made Teng Shu very busy. Fortunately, after a day of running around, he had basically finished delivering all the gifts.

"Master Teng Shu, are you going home now?" The old butler looked at Teng Shu and said, he was driving. Teng Shu hesitated for a moment when he heard this. He had thought about going home before, but considering that he would be dragged away by his elder brother to exercise after returning home, Teng Shu gave up this tempting idea.

So Teng Shu turned around and went to the airport, then took a plane to find Shizuka, went shopping with her, and then they confirmed their relationship and even agreed on an engagement, but the specific time for the wedding had not been decided yet. Teng Shu planned to get married when he was no longer filming movies, after all, he and Shizuka were not very old now.

The old housekeeper at the side watched excitedly, and when Teng Shu was about to go back, his old father and elder brother came, so Teng Shu reluctantly completed the step of meeting his parents. When all the busy things calmed down, it was the second week after the New Year.

"Zoroyak, this is the script of "Batman: The Dark Knight". Take it and start preparing for the filming." Teng Shu said to Zoroak while yawning. Zoroak nodded and put the script away. Then Zoroak handed over another document, and Teng Shu took it and took a look.

This is the data from Pokémon Battle Royale.

The game Pokémon Roaming, under the development of Teng Shu, has now been put on the right track. The first major version launched during the Chinese New Year has also been a huge success. Players draw Pokémon very quickly. After all, the resources they have accumulated over such a period of time are enough to draw all the new Pokémon.

The main sales volume is still on skin.

".999 for one skin?" Teng Shu looked at the data in his hand with some shock. Although he developed "Pokémon Rumble" and was also in charge of developing the New Year version [Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain] update package, he didn't take care of other things. He didn't take care of the skins either, and completely let the planners of the game company do it themselves.

But he really didn't expect that the other party's New Year limited skin would be priced at 999.

"Yes, boss, and the profit is very high. After the new version was released, our game rushed to the top of the sales list and directly reached the number one position." Zoroark said very proudly. Teng Shu was a little suspicious, and then opened his mobile phone. Naturally, he also had this game on his mobile phone, but Teng Shu had never played it before.

After opening the update, Teng Shu saw this skin priced at 999 in the mall.

It's Gardevoir's skin.

Teng Shu took a look.

Gardevoir, the template designed by Teng Shu was based on Diao Chan. At the end of the turn, you draw a card and designate two male characters to duel during the turn.

And this skin.
Very big, very white, and very sexy.

Dynamic skin, full skill effects, and exclusive dubbing, it really doesn't seem like it's very expensive.

"Did you buy it?" Teng Shu turned off his phone. Although he designed this game, Teng Shu didn't play it. After all, he had played it for a long time. When he was in high school, he played cards with his classmates every day during lunch break and was confiscated several times.

"I bought it. It's so beautiful that I must buy a lot of it!" Zoroark said as a matter of course. Teng Shu understood. So that's what was going on.

But a 999 is not enough to make it to the top of the sales list, right?
Teng Shu picked up the financial report and took a look at it, only then did he discover the trick behind it.

Buying a set gives you a skin. Although it is very beautiful, the more you buy, the more you get. Two sets have exclusive limited titles, which are said to never return. Buying three sets gives you an entrance special effect. Buying four sets gives you an official acrylic plaque. Five sets are clothes. Six sets are the fan held by Gardevoir in the skin. The most expensive is one hundred sets, which gives you an official customized figure.

According to the information on the official website, the figures that come with the 100 sets are limited in number, with only 10,000 in total, and they have now been sold out.

Officials also closed the sale of one hundred units.

Teng Shu's mouth twitched. One set was 999, so sets would be almost ? Would anyone really buy so many? But thinking about the head-stomping games in his previous life, Teng Shu felt relieved again.

In his previous life, Teng Shu had seen some crude and heavily imitated mini-games that mainly featured idle play and power expansion. They were very simple pay-to-win games. The more money you spent, the stronger you would be. At that time, Teng Shu didn't understand why this game could be so popular. After all, such games had poor production and poor graphics, and required heavy spending to roll servers.

But later I found out that there are people who really spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars on these games, and some heavy-paying games cost tens of millions of dollars. It can only be said that the world is big, the population is large, and there are all kinds of people. Some people play games and spend their annual income on them, but for them, it is just a boring expense, not as much as what they would spend on a meal.

The target customers of these small games have never been micro-paying players, but they are hoping for the emergence of a big boss who can maintain the server. Once that happens, other ordinary players are just toys for the big boss.

"Do you want to make one?" Teng Shu was a little tempted. There was a reason why these head-stomping games could make a lot of money, and they were very convenient and simple to make. All he had to do was design the krypton gold value and make the krypton gold players happy.

However, Teng Shu could not make this game by himself. He planned to invest some money, find someone to set up a company, and then put his name on it. Then he could make a lot of money without showing up. Isn't that wonderful? Thinking of this, the protagonist decided to give it a try. Anyway, what he had to do was to buy traffic. Crazy traffic. The more advertising he invested, the more people would play. As for what game to release, Teng Shu had already thought about it.

If successful, it would become a source of funding for other affordable hospitals. If failed, the loss would only be a small amount of money, and Teng Shu didn't care.

Teng Shu continued to devote himself to his own filming work, and Ghost Pictures also began to advance the filming of other films. Suddenly, everyone reluctantly stepped out of their leisure time during the holidays and started to get busy.

At the same time, the head-stomping mini-game thrown by Teng Shu also entered the development stage. However, because the creativity provided by Teng Shu was very comprehensive, the production of this game progressed very quickly and was completed in just one month.

What followed was an overwhelming rush to buy shares.

"Hmm? You want me to review the recently released game 'Escape from the Underground?'" On the Never-Deteriorating Video website, a man was broadcasting live. He looked at the various comments passing through the live broadcast room and smiled.

"I've also seen the advertisement for this game you mentioned, 'Escape from Underground'. I have to say that this company might want to imitate the success of 'Pokémon Roam'. After all, the reason why 'Pokémon Roam' was successful is because of the overwhelming purchase of traffic, but sometimes not all games can be so successful." The old lady named Young Eggplant said with a smile.

He was just playing cards.

I have to say that the game Pokémon Rumble is really addictive, even to some extent. If you don't play a few games a day, you will feel uncomfortable. The young eggplant didn't want to leave at first. After all, ever since he bought Gardevoir's skin, he has to look at it every day, and he even looks at Gardevoir's figure before going to bed.

But there was no way, after all, the audience were the ones who provided him with food and clothing, so the young eggplant still opened the game.

"Well, this game is not very big, and the gameplay is very simple. You just keep using a pickaxe to mine. Each mining requires physical strength, and mining randomly gives out some equipment. Why are there equipment in the mine?" The young eggplant was a little confused, but the game was downloaded. [I see that this game was made by a newly established company, and it is said that it took only one month to make]

[What kind of game can be made in a month? 】

[One month? A mini game?]

[Don’t mention it. I just downloaded it. Although it has only been open for three hours, this server has already opened twelve people, an average of four people per hour.]

[Every one of them is full, could it be another Pokémon Brawl? ]

The audience in the live broadcast room were also talking about it. They had been checking their phones recently and saw advertisements for this game dozens of times a day, which was overwhelming.

"Okay, we've entered the game, and the first thing we do is choose a Pokémon?" The young tomato looked at these Pokémon with strange drawings, picked one at random, and started mining.

The interface is very ordinary at the beginning, but as the level increases, red dots appear.

"Wow, the first recharge is here. Let me see, six yuan for the first recharge? That's not high. After the purchase, the mining ability will be improved so much?" Although the young eggplant noticed something wrong, he continued to play because of the high popularity.

As an old player, the bad gaming radar in the young eggplant has started to sound the alarm.

"Okay, I bought it. Ah? An 18-yuan gift package?" The young Eggplant looked at the gift package that popped up, his mouth twitched, but he still bought it, and then a -yuan gift package popped up.

[Wow, wow, I'm going to say wow, the first charge gift pack costs forty-four]

[I don’t even dare to think about how much money it will cost later]

[I know, I saw it, the gift packs at the back cost 648 each]

[Don't mention it. I also saw that the highest recharge option is 9999. What kind of person would spend 9999 to play this game? ]

"Friends, I've already seen that this is just a piece of shit, a pure pay-to-win server-rolling game, it's boring. You can watch me play it, but don't rush in." The young eggplant had already thought about quitting, but for the sake of the show's results he continued to livestream the game.

As a result, when the arena was unlocked, the young eggplant was also shocked.

"What? If I lose, I will be enslaved by the other party? I can only escape unless I defeat him or use the escape function that comes once a day?"

"What? You'll be caught even if you run away. If you want to run away again, you have to spend money?"

"What? I need to pay 1% of my mining income to my superiors every day?"

Young Eggplant was shocked. He had never seen such an outrageous game before. The punishment for losing was so severe? Although the words sounded nice, and he just became an employee of someone else's work group, but from the animation and tone of voice, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was being captured and made a slave.

Moreover, one needs to present tributes with utmost reverence every day. Although it is just a written description, it still makes people feel outrageous.

[Hahahaha, this is so funny, the young tomato is enslaved]

[There's a difference of one million combat power. Is the opponent a shill? 】

[Don't talk nonsense, it's a rich host, the other party is also live streaming, specifically targeting the host to catch]

[So interesting? Please show me the way! ]

Looking at the barrage, the young eggplant, who had not cared at first, turned green in the face. He had originally planned to quit, but in the current situation, if he quit, his account would continue to be enslaved by the other party until the other party gave up.

Otherwise, he would be someone else's slave every time he went online. How could he put his face on that?

Moreover, someone in the barrage has already asked Young Eggplant to fight back. If he cancels his account, won’t he lose even more miserably?

The young tomato had an ugly look on his face. He was being framed, but there was nothing he could do. If he didn't get rid of this disgusting mechanism, he would have to do this. In order not to lose face, he had no choice but to spend money.

"trash game!"

"Is the income so high?" Teng Shu had just finished filming "Into the Dark". He was a little shocked when he saw the income report of Escape from Underground sent by his agent. It was profitable now, and the profit margin was very high. Half a hospital was built in one go.

"Sure enough, there is a reason why small games can survive." Teng Shu shook his head. The high profit margin of games is also due to low costs. The biggest cost is the cost of renting a server.

However, the reputation of this game is bad, but Teng Shu doesn't care. What does the bad reputation have to do with him? This game is originally used to make money. When the time comes, the servers will be rolled out, and when they are almost merged, they will continue to force players to spend money, and finally when they can't survive, they will just shut down the servers and run away.

This is what these garbage mini-games do.

"Tsk tsk, with such efficiency in making money, no wonder the mini-games in the previous life were so profitable." Teng Shu shook his head. These people had spent a lot of money, millions of dollars. Teng Shu directly asked the company to arrange exclusive customer service to solve game problems attentively.

You can also give your server a name.

Anyway, Teng Shu used all the methods that could be used to cheat people into spending money, and the results were outstanding.

It's just that there are some conscienceless things. (End of this chapter)