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Although this is global data, if we only look at the Chinese server, it has basically reached the level of the previous Genshin Impact.

It's only slightly worse than the Starry Sky Railway of my previous life, in terms of absolute zero.

This impressive data is largely due to Spark's expansion into overseas markets.

The market needs to be cultivated.

Now, Kuro has benefited from the Spark program, which is why he has achieved such amazing data.

If the player data is already astonishing, then what follows is even more astonishing.

According to the celebration poster of Punishing: Gray Raven.

A total of 231 million players have activated the monthly card.

In other words, about a quarter of the players in the game have activated the monthly card.

These monthly cards alone brought in 7000 million in revenue for Punishing: Gray Raven.

In addition, approximately 33 players activated their battle passes, which generated over 3000 million in revenue.

Although because of the high welfare benefits.

After spending this much money, these players will likely not spend any more money this month, except for a few scattered purchases of skins.

But that's it.

The flow rate is already frighteningly high.

Under the Spark model, this number could continue to drop towards the end of the month as new players join.

What's even more terrifying is that as long as the game quality doesn't decline...

These monthly pass holders are able to pay in the long term.

On one hand, celebratory posters were released one after another, full of joy and festivity.

On one hand, they issued a series of apology announcements, which were met with a barrage of criticism, creating quite a scene.

At this moment, both Qin Yi and Dawei suddenly remembered that sentence.

"Game quality is everything."

However, what was unexpected was that it wasn't Honkai Impact 3rd that proved this statement, but Punishing: Gray Raven.

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The third night.

miHoYo convened a large meeting of its management team.

The three giants of miHoYo have reunited.

All senior executives were present.

The atmosphere at the entire meeting was anything but silent.

That was absolutely suffocating.

Because at this point, their discussion was no longer about the game Honkai Impact 3 itself, but about the significant drop in Honkai Impact 3's revenue.

miHoYo's future direction may need to be changed.

To some extent, David was actually very clear-headed at this time.

He knew that with the success of Punishing: Gray Raven...

Even if Honkai Impact 3 survives this crisis, its future revenue will drop significantly.

Therefore, the theme of this meeting is how to resolve the current public opinion crisis.

But David's heart was no longer in this.

They've apologized, given out prizes, and stopped overseas activities.

All that's left is to wait for time to heal this scar.

What he truly cares about now.

Will this incident have a negative impact on miHoYo's future operations, and will it affect Genshin Impact?

So at the meeting, David simply recounted the current dire situation.

The meeting was then steered toward follow-up processing.

At this time, he was also one of the founders.

Luo Yu, who was mainly responsible for game planning and numerical values, raised objections.

Under normal circumstances.

The three founders of miHoYo do not interfere with each other's decision-making.

For example, David is in charge of operations.

Even now, when we are in crisis, it is David who has been in charge of handling it.

For example, Luo Yu has always been in charge of game planning, and Dawei doesn't interfere with the planning process.

This is the fundamental reason why Mihoyo is able to have water even when there are only three monks.

But at this very moment.

Luo Yu, however, had no choice but to raise a question.

Dawei just said a lot, but the core of it is to further reduce the size of the Honkai Impact 3 team and lay off some staff.

Shift your focus to Genshin Impact.

At the same time, he suggested that miHoYo enter a "dormant" state from now on, saving funds to prepare for the public beta of Genshin Impact.

Although it wasn't explained very clearly.

Clearly, this series of setbacks has caused Dawei to lose confidence in Honkai Impact 3's profitability, and he has decided to put his bets back on Genshin Impact.

Chapter 171 Debate

This puzzled Luo Yu greatly.

Compared to Cai Hao, Luo Yu doesn't have much say among the three.

Moreover, he was already preparing for a new project, namely the Starry Sky Railway, so giving up Honkai Impact 3 should not have had any impact on him.

Conversely, some of the Honkai Impact 3 staff can be reassigned to the early stages of new projects.

However, as a game planner, Luo Yu's feelings for the Honkai Impact IP are deeper than Dawei's.

So in his view, it's like a person who was perfectly fine suddenly getting sick.

Before the illness has even started to be treated, Dawei said that the person was dying and should be buried.

This is simply outrageous.

"Dawei, do you mean we're going to give up on Honkai Impact 3?"

David glanced at Luo Yu with some surprise, then shook his head.

"It's not about abandoning Honkai Impact 3, but rather reducing resource investment and no longer treating it as a core project of the company..."

In fact, the timing of Dawei's current decision is similar to the time when miHoYo made this decision in his previous life.

Even without Punishing: Gray Raven.

miHoYo itself gradually reduced resources for Honkai Impact 3 before and after Genshin Impact.

In the previous life, because Punishing: Gray Raven did not exert the necessary pressure on Honkai Impact 3, the decline of Honkai Impact 3 did not appear so obvious.

However, in this timeline, Punishing: Gray Raven's drastically reduced prices have put real pressure on Honkai Impact 3's product competitiveness.

David had assumed his decision to reduce resources would be approved quickly.

"This is too strange. Honkai Impact 3's monthly revenue is still consistently over 100 million. Why would they just give up now?"

David sighed.

"It's not that we can just give up; it's the market environment, the fierce competition..."

Before Dawei could finish speaking, Luo Yu turned around and asked another question.

"If you can't beat them, why not join them?"

David was stunned for a moment.

Luo Yu then repeated the sentence again.

"If you can't beat them, why not join them?"

"We can also use the Spark Mode. With the current quality and influence of Honkai Impact 3, can't we compete with Punishing: Gray Raven?"

"If all else fails, I'll go back to the Honkai Impact 3rd team. After all, it's not like we've reached the point of giving up, is it?"

Luo Yu's words made Dawei feel a little embarrassed.

However, they are brothers for many years, and they are just discussing the matter at hand.

So David also went through his logic again.

"I'm not saying we can't use the Spark Mode in Honkai Impact 3rd. We'll be able to use Spark Mode at some point in the future, but not now."

"On the one hand, our player base has decreased significantly compared to when the server was launched. The Punishing: Gray Raven you see has 1100 million players and several million active players to achieve its revenue target."

"Unless all active Honkai Impact 3 players subscribe to monthly cards and purchase battle passes, our revenue will not improve."

"The Spark Mode is not just about simple low prices, but also about changes to the overall game structure. These are things that we can't solve by lowering prices today."

Dawei's logic is simple: Genshin Impact is still the most important thing for miHoYo right now.

Everything else can be put aside for now.

Even if Honkai Impact 3rd's revenue drops by half, miHoYo can still keep operating.

But what if Honkai Impact 3rd fully adopts the Spark Mode?

Instead, a whole host of uncertainties will arise.

After hearing David's logic, Luo Yu disagreed.

His opinion was the opposite of David's.

The reason some players are criticizing is because there are still players who have expectations for miHoYo.

Moreover, the previous 200 draws for traffic generation were not bad.

Putting aside public opinion, Honkai Impact 3rd remains at the center of attention.

Everyone is focused on Honkai Impact 3.

If rescue is needed, now is the best time.

Putting aside everything else, even if the monthly card were synchronized with Punishing: Gray Raven, giving 3 draws per day and 90 draws per month, it would greatly alleviate the negative public opinion.

And it will boost revenue.

Therefore, Luo Yu believes that now is the best time to switch to the Spark model.

Anyway, Honkai Impact 3's revenue has decreased.

Isn't trying anything as a last resort the best option?

He felt that the reason David disagreed was because...

This is because David is quite resistant to Xinghuo's operating model.

Just as the two were having a heated discussion about this matter.

Qin Yi suddenly interrupted their conversation.

“Brother Dawei, Brother Yu, I think we have more important things to deal with right now.”

After he finished speaking, Dawei, Luo Yu, and even Cai Hao, who was still organizing his thoughts, all turned their gazes toward him.

It allowed Qin Yi to interrupt the communication between the founders.

This is certainly no small matter.