Soaring Like Flowing Water!

Xu Meng guessed that this number was likely inflated.

It was just that the scale of the Frost Snow Project had indeed caused quite a stir in the ACG game circle, accurately attracting the target audience.

Therefore, many of the players who logged into the game as soon as the server opened were very attracted to the remade characters.

To put it more elegantly: the proportion of potential character lovers was extremely high.

Of course, the players weren't so elegant in their wording: "[It's not me spending, it's my little brother!]" "[Sorry, my wallet, the little head is controlling the big head!]" "[Which character looks good? Don't ask us, ask your little brother!]"...

Similar posts were everywhere in Dream Ferry.

At this time, players' willingness to pay was stronger than ordinary players, which was not difficult to understand.

As time went on, more and more ordinary players and casual onlookers flooded into the game, diluting the proportion of these true love/impulsive players, and the payment rate should drop.

But that was a matter for later.

At this moment, even old players who were extremely rare and had all the characters were mostly hooked by the interaction scenes between Tong Que and He Yin, and spent money to get them with tears in their eyes.

--Given the richness of these two interaction scenes, selling them for 128 Diamonds was really just making friends.

Under the personal demonstration of streamers like Qi Huahua, countless players understood the delicate movements, rich expressions, and tantalizing voice acting of the characters in the interaction scenes.

Faced with these two interaction scenes, I don't know how many free-to-play players broke their vows.

Monthly card players were not much better off.

Although each time you buy a monthly card, in addition to the Raw Ore given for daily login, you also get 300 Diamonds, the Frost Snow Project has only been in open beta for 4 months.

That is to say, monthly card players have a maximum of 1200 Diamonds in their hands.

And the interaction scenes of Tong Que and He Yin both sell for 1280 Diamonds.

Just 80 short.

So, you want a highly playable, lewd interaction scene?

No problem, recharge/renew your card.

The result was that Xu Meng saw in the background: more than 60% of the players who had previously purchased a monthly card but had stopped, had renewed their monthly card.

And these were old players with complete character collections—their proportion of all players was very small.

More were new players with empty collections, followed by old players with incomplete collections.

New players, needless to say.

In order to get the Five-Star Tong Que, they were working hard to grind progress and save Liquid Gold.

But how easy is it to get seventy or eighty pulls worth of resources from scratch?

Even with Xu Meng's request, the Frost Snow Project had increased the game's benefits and event rewards, and the gacha mechanism had also been optimized.

But a banner in the Frost Snow Project lasts for a month, and it's a bit much for a new player to want to graduate in a day.

If this time is extended to a week, the difficulty will be reduced a lot.

But if you urgently want it, or don't have the patience to save up slowly...

Then you can only spend money.

With the current popularity of the Frost Snow Project, such new players are everywhere!

As for old players with incomplete collections—

Under Xu Meng's design, after the gacha mechanism was optimized, old players already had resources on hand, plus the benefits given at the start of the server, pulling an up character was a sure thing.

Even because Tong Que had already been up once, many old players already had her.

But...

The new Five-Star characters are not just Tong Que, there is also He Yin, whose popularity and lewdness are not inferior to Tong Que!

But where is He Yin?

The answer is the Regular Pool—also known as the permanent pool.

Including He Yin, there are a total of 5 Five-Star characters and 5 Five-Star weapons in this pool, and the probability of being drawn is all equal.

In other words, when players spend seventy or eighty pulls in the Regular Pool and finally see a golden light, there's only a one-in-ten chance that this golden light is He Yin.

And there's no pity system for her!

--Yes, this is another hallmark of second-dimension mobile games.

For those with bad luck, no pity system ≈ a bottomless pit.

If your luck is terrible, you could pull four or five hundred times and get five Five-Star characters, none of whom are He Yin...

It's entirely possible.

Xu Meng originally planned to add a 300-pull recharge bar, allowing players to exchange for a fixed character every 300 pulls.

But after considering the company's financial situation, he hesitated for a moment and reluctantly delayed this change until the next version.

So in the current version, rational players will abandon the Regular Pool and wait to get He Yin by chance in the up banner someday.

But those who aren't rational...

Are already hooked! ...

When a second-dimension mobile game launches, there's a reserved event that's widely enjoyed by players but exclusive to whales—

Maxing out the gacha pool.

The specific content of the event is: preparing tens or even hundreds of thousands in advance, converting it all into in-game currency, and then pulling all the characters and equipment in the gacha pool in one go! This kind of event is extremely costly, so even whale players don't do it every time a game launches.

When Frost Snow Project first went into public beta, no streamer was willing to do it.

But now, after Xu Meng made sweeping changes and led his employees on a month-long sprint down the path of lewdness, the characters' appeal and the game's popularity have both taken a leap, and he's finally enjoying this kind of treatment.

This is a unique form of recognition from whale streamers.

It's just that this whale is a little tilted right now—

"Olga!!"

"It's you again!!"

"You're already maxed out for me!!!"

In the livestream room of [Huan Yue], a well-known whale in the second-dimension mobile game community, was filled with the schadenfreude laughter of his viewers.

As a classic setting in second-dimension mobile games, Frost Snow Project naturally has the feature of unlocking stronger combat power by repeatedly drawing 5-star characters.

But in this update, Xu Meng also made optimizations—

Players can obtain two breakthrough items each month through monthly events to break through the Five-Star characters they have already obtained.

This way, players no longer need to draw six identical characters, but instead draw one to unlock the illustration and then slowly break through with items.

This change can greatly reduce the pressure on players to pull cards.

Of course, if you don't lack money, it's not impossible to draw them all directly.

Huan Yue is now drawing them all in one go.

Not only has he drawn them all, but he's also got an extra one.

This extra one is a pure waste of money, equivalent to throwing money into the water.

Huan Yue doesn't lack money, so drawing one extra isn't a big deal.

But the problem is:

He's seen the golden light of Five-Star characters 21 times so far, including 7 weapons and 14 characters.

But He Yin has only appeared once! Huan Yue screamed for a while, putting on a good show.

Only after satisfying the expectations of his viewers did he finally calm down and begin to analyze for them: "Although my luck is a bit bad, to be fair, Zhu Meng's pool is quite generous."

"I roughly calculated the expected value, and it takes about 55 pulls on average to get a golden light, which is higher than the expected value of the four-dimensional pool."

"Of course, I've only spent less than 50,000 Diamonds, so it's a bit early to draw conclusions."

"Anyway, let's continue and finish spending these 200,000 Diamonds first."

After saying that, Huan Yue once again began to ruthlessly draw cards...

For the time being, she was the only streamer performing the "whale through the gacha pool," but there were streamers drawing cards on live broadcast everywhere.

Xu Meng browsed through the live streams on various platforms and saw many big streamers drawing cards.

Not all of them were drawing for themselves; many were drawing on behalf of their fans and viewers.

In those popular live broadcast rooms, even drawing on behalf of others required queuing.

The queues were so long that it was impossible to finish drawing for everyone in a short time.

Just looking at this lively scene, it wasn't hard to imagine that Zhu Meng had made a huge profit this time.

At first, only Xu Meng and the operations department could see the soaring data—not just the revenue data, but also the number of client downloads, player registrations, and Dream Ferry user registrations, all of which had multiplied several times in a single day! The number of real-time online players broke historical records in one fell swoop, with the peak once reaching 3.8 million! Even after the players who had joined in the fun gradually dispersed and the number of real-time online players decreased significantly, it still remained above 3 million.

It was still far from being the top of the gacha games, and being the top mobile game was even more out of the question.

—Mobile games aside for the moment, the absolute gacha game overlord Abyss of Gods has more than 60 million monthly active players worldwide.

The second and third place games, which fluctuate more, are Warring Kingdoms and Divine Bird, with roughly 16 million and 12 million monthly active players, respectively.

But at this moment, Frost Snow Project could already see the shadow of third place! After all, today was only the first day of June, and it wasn't even evening yet.

In other words, there was still a lot of room for Frost Snow Project's popularity to increase!

Not to mention, Xu Meng still had a trump card up his sleeve that he hadn't played yet!

With some good marketing, it might not be impossible to surpass Divine Bird and give Konjac Games a surprise!