"Consumers really do have strong spending power."
After hearing Lin Shiqin's report on download numbers across various channels and the sales ratio of the modules, Wang Yi could not help but sigh.
Foreign players had long been used to paying for games. Many people felt they had gotten an incredible bargain with a game whose base version was free, and they were quite satisfied with the expansion packs as well.
Those expansion packs also included some newer and more comprehensive features added by Lin Shiqin.
There was another point as well: many foreign players had plenty of free time.
Minecraft itself was designed to target people with abundant free time!
The first video on foreign websites not uploaded by Lin Shiqin appeared that very day, even faster than in China.
The player was a Black guy who let out all kinds of strange cries throughout the entire video, making people want to dedicate Sunshine Rainbow Little White Horse to him.
Soon after, major gaming forums and gaming magazines swarmed in like sharks smelling blood.
They began publishing detailed game reviews and reports.
Wang Yi had not specifically paid anyone, because while such magazines would eagerly take money for games they could influence, they also had to consider their own reputations when faced with a game that was clearly unstoppable.
PC Gamer: "An epic game that may revolutionize gaming has been born!"
Pocket Gamer: "A very interesting game, completely beyond expectations!"
Gamasutra: "Another dark horse joins this year's gaming scene!"
The funniest part was that just as the positive reviews abroad were beginning to pile up—
The first wave of attacks and negative reviews, initially stirred up by Studying Abroad in the Beautiful Country and the others, had only just begun being copied back into China.
At this point, quite a