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

"Even if Dungeon Fighter Online is the main game being broadcast, I will not completely give up Plants vs. Zombies."

"Forget about buying accounts, I'll stay at the top of the Plants vs. Zombies leaderboard forever!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Bao Ge was in a great mood.

It's clear that he was extremely satisfied with the game Dungeon & Fighter after watching the promotional video.

And I'm really looking forward to playing this game.

Especially the power of blood energy that Luxi unleashed after breaking the seal.

It would be fantastic to experience this in a game.

……

Since Chen Feng's Fengyun Games launched Plants vs. Zombies, pioneering a brand-new free-to-play game mode with in-app purchases.

It seems that the entire gaming market has undergone tremendous changes.

Fengyun Games invested just over ten million yuan to create a game that raked in a staggering 1 billion yuan in revenue in less than six months, a true miracle in gaming history.

The returns were a staggering nearly 100 times greater, and the game's potential has not yet been fully realized.

It's only a matter of time before they earn another eight or ten hundred million.

With profits like that, let alone in the gaming industry, it's enough to make businessmen in any industry envious.

As a result, many internet companies that originally worked in other sectors of internet technology and did not previously make games began to invest money in studying Fengyun Games' model.

Then the three major game companies also started to join in.

Although Yiyou caused significant losses to the group due to its impulsive actions earlier.

However, people still understand this trend and have not lost confidence or given up on this path because of this setback.

As for the game that created the legendary Plants vs. Zombies, it has been very popular recently.

To be honest, a profit of one billion is just an ordinary project in the eyes of those top companies.

However, for medium-sized or even medium-to-large enterprises, it's difficult for them to earn that much in a year; it's terrifying.

Not only that, Plants vs. Zombies also received a high score of 9.2 from players on the platform, which is quite an impressive score.

This game ranks among the top twenty in the entire history of gaming.

For Chen Feng, the imitation and replication by other companies had no impact on him.

As I said before, he can't possibly make a living in this industry by himself.

Even if Fengyun were already an industry leader, let alone just a newly established small company, it's impossible for them to monopolize a game market. It's simply impossible.

As long as he can consistently produce valuable and fun games, he won't have to worry about not making money in this field.

……

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, Plants vs. Zombies was, after all, a game with relatively limited gameplay.

Players eventually get tired of it, and with many companies launching "free" games, Plants vs. Zombies' traffic has declined.

From a peak of over five million monthly active users, the number has now dwindled to only around three million.

The peak average number of online players for the game from 6 PM to 11 PM also dropped from 500,000 to just over 200,000, which is a reduction of about half.

However, it's not a big problem; we can still make money.

As for Fengyun Games, Chen Feng has devoted most of his energy to developing new games.

Plants vs. Zombies has only a few staff members left to fix bugs and update the game; it's basically left to its own devices.

We still don't have enough manpower...

While money can buy you people, to be honest, the truly top-notch industry talent is all in those big companies.

Chen Feng still lacks sufficient experience; most of the employees he can recruit now have only average industry experience.

In fact, nearly half of the company's employees are recent college graduates...

Interns make up half of the staff, which is outrageous.

However, for a rapidly expanding company, this is unavoidable.

Fengyun Games has grown from just over thirty employees to over two hundred, nearly three hundred, expanding its scale almost tenfold.

……

Another month has passed.

Bao Ge's live stream.

"Brothers, Dungeon Fighter Online is now available for download. Those who want to play, hurry up and download it."

"Don't wait until the servers open to find you haven't downloaded the game yet!"

"hey-hey……"

Fans familiar with Bao Ge know that he usually goes live at night.

They only start airing this early when there's a new version of Plants vs. Zombies.

Today, Brother Bao went even further, starting his broadcast at just over 7 a.m.

Then I spent more than an hour completing the daily quests for Plants vs. Zombies, and started rubbing my hands together, excitedly waiting for Dungeon Fighter Online to launch.

[I've been waiting for almost half a year, and I can finally play it! Holy crap! I can't wait!]

[Hopefully, Dungeon Fighter Online can continue the classic success of Plants vs. Zombies and not let us down!]

Judging from the previously released promotional videos, this game seems pretty good!

This game is quite large; a 2D game that takes up over a terabyte of memory. Even Plants vs. Zombies was only 233 gigabytes. With similar graphics, this game must have a lot of content!

In terms of graphics, although both games use a 2D art style, Dungeon Fighter Online's graphics are significantly improved compared to Plants vs. Zombies, appearing much more refined.

I heard that each piece of equipment has a unique visual effect when worn, and that alone will probably take up a lot of memory.

[They really put a lot of effort into this!]

[The server will open in about half an hour. Bao Ge, have you decided which character you want to play?]

[Yeah! I've noticed something wrong with Fengyun Games; they love to keep things mysterious. It's ridiculous that they didn't release character introductions before the server opened!]

……

Since the server hasn't opened yet, Brother Bao has nothing to do.

The enthusiasm shown by the viewers in the live stream was also rare.

"If I had to choose a character, I'd definitely pick the one with the sword, he's so cool!"

"Furthermore, in the first trailer, during the Screaming Cave event, the swordsman is likely to be the core class and the main damage dealer in this game, so the game is expected to be very fun to play."

"I have Mr. Chen's contact information. I have communicated with him privately, but I haven't dared to make it public before."

"But now that the server is about to open, I'd like to share what I've learned with you."

"It's said that in this game, each character can change jobs when they reach level 18, and that's when the real game begins."

"As for what happens after the job change, I still don't know. President Chen is keeping it from me too..."