Xu Meng guessed that there should be a lot of moisture in this number.
It was just because the scale of Frost Snow Project had indeed caused quite a stir in the ACG Game circle, accurately attracting the target users.
Therefore, many players who logged into the game at the very first moment after the servers opened were very captivated by the reworked characters.
To put it more politely: the proportion of potential character simps was extremely high.
Of course, the players were not so polite with their wording: [It's not my wallet that's paying, it's my little brother!][I'm sorry, my wallet; the lower head has taken control of the upper head!][Which character looks good? Don't ask us, ask your little brother!]...
Similar posts were everywhere in Dreamjin.
At this time, it was not hard to understand why players had a much stronger willingness to pay than ordinary players.
As time went on and more and more ordinary players and onlookers just joining the fun flooded into the game, diluting the proportion of these true-love/impulsive players, the payment rate should drop.
But that was a matter for later.
At this moment, even veteran players with extremely rare and complete collections were mostly tickled in their hearts by the interactive scenes between Bronze Sparrow and He Yin, tearfully opening their wallets to get them.
--Given the richness of these two interactive scenes, selling them for 128 was truly making a friend.
Under the personal demonstration of anchors like Qi Huahua, countless players came to understand the character's delicate movements, rich expressions, and tickling voice acting in the interactive scenes.
Facing these two interactive scenes, who knows how many zero-spending players broke their vows.
Monthly card holders weren't much better off.
Although every time a monthly card was bought, besides the raw ore given for daily logins, 300 diamonds were also given, the public beta of Frost Snow Project had only been out for 4 months in total so far.
In other words, monthly card holders only had at most 1,200 diamonds in their hands.
Yet the interactive scenes for Bronze Sparrow and He Yin were both sold for 1,280 diamonds.
It was short by exactly 80.
So, wanted high-playability lewd interactive scenes?
No problem, top up money or renew your card.
The result was that Xu Meng saw in the backend: more than sixty percent of players who had once bought monthly cards but had already let them lapse renewed their monthly cards.
And this was among veteran players with complete collections—they accounted for a very small fraction of all players.
There were even more new players with empty collections, followed by veteran players with incomplete collections.
Needless to say about new players.
In order to get Five-Star Bronze Sparrow, they were all working hard to grind progress and save up liquid gold.
Yet how easy was it to pull out seventy or eighty draws' worth of resources from scratch?
Even at Xu Meng's request, Frost Snow Project had already raised the game welfare and event rewards by a notch, and the gacha mechanism had also been optimized.
However, a banner in Frost Snow Project lasted for a month, and wanting new players to graduate in a single day was going a bit too far.
If this time was extended to a week, the difficulty would drop a lot.
But if they desperately wanted it, or lacked the patience to slowly save up...
Then they could only spend money.
Under the current popularity of Frost Snow Project, such new players were everywhere!
As for veteran players with incomplete collections—
Under Xu Meng's design, after the gacha mechanism was optimized, veteran players already had resources on hand. Coupled with the welfare given at server opening, getting a UP character was in the bag.
Moreover, because Bronze Sparrow had already had a UP banner once before, quite a few veteran players already had her.
However...
The new Five-Star characters weren't just Bronze Sparrow; there was also He Yin, whose popularity and lewdness were by no means inferior to Bronze Sparrow!
Yet where was He Yin?
The answer was the permanent pool—commonly known as the regular pool.
Including He Yin, there were a total of 5 Five-Star characters and 5 Five-Star weapons in this pool, and the probability of being drawn was completely equal.
In other words, when players finally saw a golden light after seventy or eighty pulls in the regular pool, this golden light only had a one-tenth chance of being He Yin.
This thing didn't have a pity system!
--Right, this was also an ACG Game specialty.
To unlucky players, no pity system ≈ bottomless pit.
If their luck was bad, pulling four or five hundred times and having all 5 Five-Star characters turn out not to be He Yin...
Was entirely possible.
Xu Meng had originally planned to add a 300-draw charge bar, allowing players to exchange for a fixed character every 300 draws.
Yet thinking of the company's financial situation, after hesitating for a moment, he still reluctantly delayed this change to the next version.
Therefore, in the current version, rational players would abandon the regular pool and wait to accidentally pull He Yin on the UP banner someday.
Yet the irrational ones...
Were already losing their minds pulling by now!...
When an ACG Game launched, there was a preserved program that players loved to see but was exclusive to tycoons--
Plowing through the banner.
The specific program content was: preparing hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan in advance, converting all of it into game tokens, and then pulling all characters and all equipment in the banner in one go! This kind of program had an extremely high cost, so even tycoon players wouldn't just play like this no matter which game launched.
When Frost Snow Project had its public beta earlier, no anchor was willing to do this.
Until now, after Xu Meng made drastic changes and led the employees to gallop wildly on the lewd path for a month, achieving a leap in character charm and game popularity, they finally enjoyed this treatment.
This was unique recognition from tycoon anchors.
Only, this tycoon was currently a bit mentally broken--
"Olga!!"
"How is it you again!!"
"I've already max-broken you, you know!!!"
In the livestream room of Huan Yue, a well-known ACG Game whale, laughter from schadenfreude-watching viewers filled the air.
As a classic ACG Game setting, the mechanic of repeatedly pulling 5-star characters to unlock stronger combat power naturally existed in Frost Snow Project as well.
Yet in this update, Xu Meng had also optimized it--
Players could obtain two breakthrough items every month through monthly events to ascend the Five-Star characters they already acquired.
This way, players didn't need to pull 6 identical characters anymore, but rather pull one to unlock the collection and then slowly ascend them using items.
Such a change could greatly reduce the players' gacha pressure.
Of course, if money was no object, pulling them straight to max wasn't out of the question.
Huan Yue had maxed it out in one go right now.
Not only did he max it out, but an extra one came out as well.
This extra one was a pure free pull, roughly equivalent to throwing money into the water.
Huan Yue didn't lack money, and pulling one extra wasn't a big deal.
Yet the problem was:
Up until his current pulls, he had seen the golden light of Five-Star characters 21 times, among which were 7 weapons and 14 characters.
As for He Yin, she had only appeared once! Huan Yue wailed for quite a while, putting on a full show for the program effect.
Until he satisfied the expectations of the viewers, he finally calmed down and started analyzing for them: "Though my face is a bit dark, truth be told, Dream Builder's pool is still quite conscientious."
"I roughly calculated the expected value; on average, it takes about 55 pulls for a golden light to appear, which is higher than the expected value of Four Dimensions' pool."
"Of course, I've only spent less than 50,000 yuan, so it's still a bit early to draw conclusions."
"Anyway, let's continue and finish pulling this 200,000 first."
With that, Huan Yue once again began mercilessly pulling...
The anchor performing "plowing through the banner" was temporarily just this one, but anchors livestreaming gacha were everywhere.
Xu Meng browsed the livestreams of major platforms and saw many major anchors pulling gacha.
Not all were pulling for themselves; many were pulling on behalf of fan viewers.
In those popular livestream rooms, even proxy-pulling had to wait in line.
The length of the queue couldn't be cleared anytime soon.
Just looking at this bustling scene, it wasn't hard to imagine that Dream Builder made a killing this time.
At first, only Xu Meng and the Operations Department could see the various data taking off on the spot--not only revenue data, client downloads, player registration counts, and Dreamjin user registration counts all multiplied several-fold within a single day! The number of players online in real time broke historical records in one go, with the peak surging to the 3.8 million mark at one point! Even though the onlookers slowly dispersed later and the number of real-time online players dropped significantly, it still maintained above 3 million.
It was still far from being first in ACG Games, and being first in mobile games was completely out of the question.
--Not to mention mobile games for now, the absolute ACG Game overlord Abyss of Gods had over 60 million monthly active players globally.
The runners-up and second runners-up with relatively large fluctuations were Warring Kingdoms and Huan Yue, with monthly actives around 16 million and 12 million respectively.
Yet at this very moment, Frost Snow Project could already see the shadow of the second runner-up! After all, today was only the first day of June, and it wasn't even evening yet.
In other words, the popularity of Frost Snow Project still had huge room for improvement!
Not to mention, Xu Meng still had an ultimate skill held in his hand that he hadn't released yet!
With some good maneuvering, it wouldn't be impossible to surpass Huan Yue and deliver a surprise to Konjac Games!
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