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

"I'm fucking mad!!!"

"No, no, you can't swear..."

This time, Teacher Piao couldn't hold back any longer.

He had just uttered the curse when he suddenly seemed to realize something and quickly swallowed back the profanity that was about to come out.

After seeing this pop-up, he finally realized what the problem was.

This game advertises itself as a free-to-play game, riding on the popularity of Plants vs. Zombies.

In reality, the game content itself still follows the same model as previous buy-to-play games.

Then, based on this, the free items that were originally obtained randomly in the game were turned into items that required money to obtain.

Sure enough, Teacher Piao searched the map extensively afterward.

But they found that there wasn't a single decent weapon to be found on the game map.

Aside from buildings, there were only zombies. The streets were so clean that they didn't look like the apocalypse at all; they were so tidy that you couldn't even find a mineral water bottle.

Then, once you run out of Heavenly Thunder Talismans, you have to buy more; each talisman costs five yuan.

Both the copper coin sword and the Taoist robe have a limited number of uses; once they're used up, you have to spend money to buy them again.

If you don't buy it, sorry, you'll only have your fists to fight zombies.

But given the game's premise, how could a human possibly be a match for a zombie?

They couldn't even beat ordinary zombies, let alone the various elite zombies that started appearing later on.

This means that if you don't spend money, you simply can't play this game.

Just like everyone says, it's a loser simulator...

In the end, Piao Laoshi, who originally planned to get into the game and play it seriously, couldn't wait to quit after the two-hour promotion ended.

Then the broadcast ended at lightning speed.

It seems she's gone to calm herself down.

I can't hold it in, I simply can't hold it in.

……

As time went on, more and more players realized just how much of a rip-off the game was.

In comparison, Plants vs. Zombies, produced by Fengyun, is simply an angelic existence!

It was because of the various pitfalls in this terrible game that this game, which was developed by Yiyou with an investment of 400 million yuan, was completely ruined in just one day.

The rating was driven down to 1.3 by the outraged players.

Even within that 1.3 points, there are quite a few people who have been paid to artificially inflate their scores, yet even paying to inflate scores doesn't guarantee a high score. This shows just how disappointed and angry the players are with EasyGame this time.

With an investment of 400 million yuan, it was highly anticipated by Yiyou and touted as a transformative work, intended to completely differentiate itself from the other two giants.

But now, it has become a complete joke.

After a month, YiYou's game, "Taoist vs. Zombies," ultimately garnered eleven million in revenue.

This was all thanks to the fact that in the first two days after the game was released, some wealthy players were willing to try their luck.

However, after only a few days, these wealthy players who had spare money to spend lavishly on in-game purchases enjoyed their two days of fun, but were completely disappointed with the game.

They may not care about spending a little money, but you can't treat them like idiots.

They are rich, not sick.

If you have money, what game can't you play? Go play Plants vs. Zombies in Fengyun, spend hundreds of thousands to get the full experience, and even if you don't play anymore, you can still sell the account you created for half price and there will be plenty of people who want it.

But this thing? Sorry...

Let whoever wants to play, play...

As for the comments section where the Taoist priest battled the zombies, it was filled with overwhelmingly positive reviews.

[I've never eaten shit in my life, but this time I've finally had the chance.]

I went there for an hour, and I felt nauseous for seven days afterward!

[Holy crap, bro, you actually lasted an hour?!]

To be honest, I spent over 200 yuan on it initially, and the experience was pretty good. At least at the beginning, you can have some fun if you spend a little money. But it gets more and more boring as you progress. The gameplay is too monotonous. It's a pure survival game where you have to spend money to do everything. It's such a rip-off.

[You might not believe it, but during one of Xiao Dingdang's livestreams, he didn't spend any money. He killed a zombie with his bare hands, relying entirely on his movement and kiting skills. The entire livestream went wild! With that one move, Xiao Dingdang received over 10,000 yuan in gifts!]

[Slaying zombies in this crappy game with his bare hands is practically godlike...]

Forget it, EasyGame should just stick to making the games they used to make. Don't get involved in tracks they're not familiar with; it's ridiculous...

I just checked, and because of the release of this game, Eyou's stock price has dropped by four percent...

[The stock price dropped by four percent? Holy crap, I can't hold on any longer!]

[And the chief planner who was in charge of this project has reportedly been fired by Eyou.]

To be fair, this guy is quite capable; he was in charge of several wildly popular games from EasyGame.

[Hahahaha! Let's see if President Chen is interested in recruiting this guy.]

Why recruit them? Just to keep feeding us shit?

……

Human happiness is not something that can be shared.

Some people are happy while others are sad; conversely, some people are sad while others are happy.

This project caused EasyPlay to suffer its biggest failure since its inception, shattering the reputation it had built up over the years.

This project directly caused Yiyou's stock price to plummet, resulting in losses of at least tens of billions of yuan.

This amount of money is enough to bankrupt an ordinary large provincial enterprise.

Fortunately, Yi You's family business is large and powerful, so it hasn't been seriously damaged yet.

However, this wave of losses will make them suffer for quite some time, and it will probably take them a year or two to recover.

On the contrary, the more than one hundred employees of Fengyun Games were overjoyed as if it were Chinese New Year after learning about this.

Some of these bastards even went to other people's comment sections to complain.

Chen Feng even held a special meeting because of this matter.

It was stated emphatically that no one within the company is permitted to make any statements regarding Eyou.

After all, once it's exposed that influential people like them are doing this kind of thing, it will have a huge impact on their reputation, which is very damaging to their character.

Secondly, if you fall out with Yiyou and they want to mess with you, before you've matured, it will be very troublesome, if not impossible to defend yourself.

Chen Feng had actually anticipated this outcome.

Back when everyone in the company was privately criticizing Yiyou for lacking sportsmanship and plagiarizing them, it was actually boss Chen Feng who remained the most calm.

Because he never expected EasyGame to succeed in the first place!

Even if we succeed, it will be after we've figured out the process, not now.

The result is also obvious.

It's easy to see from the "shit" they've produced that these guys don't even understand the core concepts of free-to-play games and in-app purchases. How could they possibly make a good free-to-play game?

……

Bao Ge's live stream.

"Hahaha! Guys, stop spouting nonsense in other people's comment sections!"

"EasyGame's game this time was indeed not well done, but they've made many excellent games before, so let's just consider this one an accident!"

"Alright guys, today's Plants vs. Zombies update includes a new front yard feature, and apparently, there's a new gameplay mode being added!"

"They've been making it all very mysterious, but at least we can finally see what the front yard looks like."