You promised it would be a free game, but now your screen is full of in-app purchase prompts?

You should know that there are a total of 20 enhancement levels from the fourth to the fifth tier!

In other words, for the same amount of money, this dog was upgraded 20 levels higher than him?

Moreover, they are all at the highest difficulty level, as mentioned above.

The success rate of upgrading from 19 to 20 might only be 2%, or even 1%.

What the hell is this?

Not many people had noticed this ranking list before, so not many realized the seriousness of the problem.

But now that Brother Bao has shown it, the viewers in the live stream can no longer hold back.

[Holy crap! Tier 5? Has this guy activated it?]

I just checked the breeding price list, and guess what?

[Even if every upgrade from fourth to fifth tier is successful, it would still require nearly 300,000 silver coins!]

[However, starting from scratch and reaching level five, even with complete success, would require approximately 450,000 silver coins. What kind of lucky bastard is this guy?]

[If everyone's recharge limit is 100,000, then that means this guy used one million silver coins to reach level five. On average, he succeeds once every two attempts. Holy crap...]

[Little Chen who loves playing games? Do you think this might be the account of CEO Chen from Fengyun? (funny jpg)]

[Are you kidding me? Plants vs. Zombies is exploding in popularity right now. President Chen is probably busy in meetings and counting money; he doesn't have time to play games!]

There are plenty of people in the world with the surname Chen. You can't assume someone is CEO Chen just because they have a game ID!

[I also think it's unlikely. Mr. Chen is the CEO of a game company; where would he find the time to play games? He's probably already sick of them during development and testing.]

……

After all these years, no one has ever heard of a game company boss personally playing their own game.

So everyone thinks this is just a joke and nobody takes it seriously.

After recovering from his shock, Bao Ge quickly clicked the private chat button for "Xiao Chen who loves playing games" on the leaderboard.

He started sending messages in front of all the fans in the live stream.

[Bro? Are you a streamer? Or just a player?]

How much did it cost you to reach rank 5? How many silver coins did you use? Are there any cheaper ways to recharge silver coins? Or are there any other ways to obtain silver coins?

It's easy to see from what he posted that he genuinely doesn't want to believe that anyone can upgrade to the fifth tier using the same amount of silver coins.

Judging by his luck, even if he were given another million silver coins, he probably still wouldn't be able to go from Tier 4 0 to Tier 5. The upgrade system is too much of a rip-off.

Unfortunately, after waiting for quite a while, "Xiao Chen, who loves playing games," did not reply to him.

Helpless, Brother Bao could only shake his head in resignation.

"Alright brothers, let's continue playing the remaining two endless modes with rewards and see if we can break through the previous 43 waves. I feel that if we manage our strategy a bit more and study the positioning, we can hold out for just half a wave of zombies."

"There should still be a chance to make a profit using the pushcart..."

……

Magic City.

Fengyun Games Company.

Inside Chen Feng's office.

"Hiss... Huff..."

Chen Feng held a cigarette between his fingers and took a satisfying puff.

At the same time, he stared intently at the two rows of Ice Dragon Grass displaying their power on his computer screen.

After he had mastered the planting, he stopped caring about it altogether, and he didn't even bother to collect the sunlight produced by the sunflowers anymore.

He was too lazy to spend the energy to play this game in such detail.

To put it bluntly, no matter how good your skills are, the difference is only one or two waves. The strength of the zombies after that is something you can't make up for with skill alone.

This is endless mode, not regular mode; they are not the same concept.

At the same time, Chen Feng's way of playing games is different from that of most players in this world.

Because he came from another world, Chen Feng was not used to playing games with an AR headset like the people in this world.

While wearing this device could provide a more immersive experience, he still believed that games should be played with a mouse and keyboard.

If it weren't for the issue of player acceptance in this world, he wouldn't even want to spend so much money to develop the AR mode system.

Just making this thing more than doubled the development cost of his game.

The world has a high level of technology, and coupled with the fact that he already had the concept of Plants vs. Zombies in his mind, it directly saved a lot of development costs. At the same time, the production cost of this kind of game with high-quality graphics is not high.

Therefore, to recreate the Plants vs. Zombies game from his original world, it would only take around three million.

It was because of the AR system that he spent a full ten million on it.

At one point, Chen Feng felt that he was going to run out of funds.

Fortunately, they still managed to leave him a few million to hire streamers for promotion.

To be honest, before the public beta, although Chen Feng appeared confident on the surface, he was still a little apprehensive inside.

Fortunately, seeing how popular the game is now, he can finally rest assured.

He has managed to revitalize the business in this world to some extent.

Next, we'll wait for the game to run for a while, build up Fengyun Games' reputation, and then accumulate a wave of funds.

He can then start working on the second game.

Now, when it comes to choosing his second game, he's torn between Dungeon Fighter Online and League of Legends, unsure which one to choose first...

[The zombie ate your brain!!!]

Just as Chen Feng was pondering these questions, the computer screen finally displayed a message indicating that the game had ended.

Close the "Zombies Eat Brains" screen and proceed to the results screen.

Chen Feng discovered that, relying on the fifth-tier Ice Dragon Grass, he managed to reach wave 51 despite completely giving up in the later stages.

However, even if he personally takes charge and operates the game seriously, the maximum number of waves he can expect is probably no more than 53.

A number is a number.

Once numerical values ​​are added to a technically-driven game, all the so-called technical aspects become largely meaningless...

In fact, at the beginning, Chen Feng also wanted to make a Plants vs. Zombies game, which was a purely technology-driven game like the one in the original world.

But like I said, that kind of thing makes money slowly!

What could be faster than adding a pay-to-win system and directly selling stats?

There is no shortage of rich people in the world. As long as you can make them feel good and that spending money is meaningful, you can make a lot of money.

In this era, creating entertainment products that enrich the spiritual world is much more profitable than physical products.

"Hmm? So many people are sending me private messages?"

"It's probably because it just made it onto the rankings..."

After exiting the endless mode interface, Chen Feng looked at the series of small red dots in the lower left corner of his screen and shook his head helplessly.

Because he received so many private messages, the page now showed 99+ messages, so Chen Feng didn't even bother to look at them.

I directly set my social media status to "Do Not Disturb".

bang bang bang! ! !

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"Please come in."

Chen Feng casually stuck the half-smoked cigarette butt into the ashtray and closed the laptop in front of him.

At the same time, a tall, sophisticated woman dressed in business attire and high heels pushed open the office door and walked in.

Without even looking, just by hearing the sound of those high heels, Chen Feng knew it was Sister Zhao.

"Mr. Chen, the game data statistics for the first day of the open beta have been released yesterday."

After entering Chen Feng's office, Sister Zhao sat down in the chair opposite Chen Feng with practiced ease, and unfolded the folder in her hand.

She pushed up her glasses, and a pair of lips painted with bright red lipstick slowly parted:

The data for the first day of the Plants vs. Zombies open beta is as follows.

The total number of registered players is 730 million.

The total number of logged-in players is 716 million.

"The number of players who have been online for more than one hour is 628 million."

"The number of players who have been online for more than three hours is 506 million."

"Peak concurrent player count reached 398 million!"

"The number of players who have spent money on in-game purchases is 144 million."

"Total revenue on the first day reached 1758 million yuan!"

"Among them, the purchase rate for the first recharge of six yuan reached an astonishing 18%!"

"That means, on average, one in five players will choose to spend six yuan to buy a first-time recharge gift pack."

"The monthly card purchase rate also reached nine percent, meaning that on average, one in eleven players chose to buy a monthly card!"

……

The more she talked, the more excited Sister Zhao became.

Keep in mind, this is only the first day.

Those who have already spent money will most likely continue to spend money.

And those who didn't spend money on the first day will often find themselves unable to resist spending money later on.

When she saw the data, Sister Zhao could no longer contain her extreme excitement.

The man she had her eye on was indeed a genius!

Not only is he handsome, but he also has such an extraordinary mind that he was able to develop this game mode. He's even more of a genius than a genius!

Revenue exceeded ten million in just one day!

The development cost of their game was only a little over ten million.

In other words, the cost was recovered in just one day, and there was even a profit.

The profit return is faster than robbing a bank; it's outrageous.

If the data continues to stabilize, their first-month revenue might reach 500 million!

Even established game companies that spend billions to create so-called 5A masterpieces and groundbreaking products may not be able to achieve this level of revenue.

However, the "low-quality game" that her husband, Mr. Chen, made with a budget of ten million yuan easily gave her hope that she could achieve this goal!

Upon hearing this data, Chen Feng nodded in satisfaction.

It's not hard to tell from his subtle facial expressions that Chen Feng was also quite excited at this moment, but his reaction wasn't as strong.

He took another cigarette from the pack and lit it to calm himself down.

"Sister Zhao, just you wait and see! The first day's earnings will likely be the lowest of the entire first month!"

"Over the past few days, players have gradually reached the stage of creating fusion plants. From this stage onwards, many players will spend a lot of money cultivating them; it's really addictive!"

Chen Feng's lips curled up slightly, full of confidence in his statement.

A successful game is one that includes enhancement and gacha systems.

So this thing is a bottomless pit, and ordinary people simply can't endure it.

In essence, this thing is no different from gambling.

Can you expect a gambler to quit gambling? Upgrading and gacha pulls are essentially the same thing...