Besides, he had his reasons for doing this.
After all, Soul Knight's mechanics made it unsuitable for heavy monetization.
If he really sold the characters and skins for at least several dozen yuan each, who would still buy them?
Wouldn't that just be courting death???
Although buying those things would give players new content, which seemed perfectly reasonable.
But it came back to the same thing: perception!!!
Sometimes, people were just that strange.
If an in-game item cost several hundred yuan, players would think it was cheap.
But if it was something else, even a new piece of content costing only a few dozen yuan would feel expensive and not worth it.
And once players felt a game wasn't worth it, things became very dangerous.
Why did so many online games and mobile games offer six-yuan, ten-yuan, and thirty-yuan first-purchase packs, along with level-five, level-ten, and level-thirty gift packs???
It wasn't because they genuinely wanted to give players benefits.
It was to make players feel that the money they spent was worth it, that they hadn't lost out.
But Soul Knight was different. It was inherently a casual game with light monetization.
Combined with its PVE gameplay, there was no competitive drive.
That directly sent players' desire to spend money plummeting from the clouds.
Of course, the main thing was that Wang Chuan had never intended to get rich off Soul Knight alone.
After all, it was just Soul Knight.
Even if he pushed every aspect of the game to the absolute limit of monetization,
the money it earned still wouldn't match a normal monetized game's revenue for a few months.
The game's ceiling determined all of that.
Take Honor of Kings from his previous life. It brought in several billion yuan a month.
What would Soul Knight have to become to compare with even one month of that??
This was no longer a matter of game operations, but of the game's inherent attributes.
The reason Honor of Kings had reached that point in his previous life, besides having a major corporation and company behind it, along with dedicated promotional strategies,
was, most importantly, that the game itself had its own distinctive strengths.
Very few people knew that Honor of Kings had originally been called Hero Battle Record.
And during that period, other studios had also developed many MOBA games to compete with it.
At the time, Hero Battle Record wasn't even the best one. Instead, it was suppressed by a game called All People Super God.
But later on, why did Hero Battle Record become wildly popular across the country after being renamed Honor of Kings,
while All People Super God, which had originally held the lead, quietly vanished instead?
Because Hero Battle Record found a new path.
It moved MOBA games onto mobile phones, where there was a much larger audience.
With the backing of capital and the game's low barrier to entry,
it was eventually renamed Honor of Kings and became a true king!!!
It could be said that if Honor of Kings had been released by another company with a certain degree of strength,
it could have become popular all the same.
Of course, while it might not have conquered the entire market, holding its own in one region wouldn't have been a problem.
So, a game's own characteristics determined its upper limit.
After all, those characteristics only catered to a particular segment of players.
"Alright, keep playing. I need to get back to work~~~"
Wang Chuan stood up and stretched, saying goodbye to the students one by one while accepting their well wishes.
Feeling the weariness in his body, Wang Chuan suddenly thought of Huang Shanshan.
Those soft little hands of hers felt so good when they gave him a massage~~~
Unfortunately, he wouldn't be seeing her for a while.
Well, not just Huang Shanshan—even Zhao Jing, Liu Qiang, and Zhou Wei were out of sight.
They had worked overtime for many days in a row, so everyone was quite exhausted.
Wang Chuan had forcibly given them several days off, telling them to rest properly before returning to work.
It had to be said, he really was a conscientious boss!!
At the time, the little secretary had even refused to leave, wanting to stand with him through thick and thin.
In the end, he had still forcibly put her on leave~~~
Yes, a little secretary really was considerate!!!
When he reached the upper floor, Wang Chuan opened the Pangu Editor and prepared to check Soul Knight's data.
In truth, Wang Chuan wasn't alone at that moment.
Many Game Producers and media workers were accompanying Wang Chuan as they checked the data.
Well, Wang Chuan just didn't know it~~~
The media were very concerned about Soul Knight's numbers.
Well, they were equally concerned about The Parable of Illidan's data. After all, they had to treat both sides fairly~~~
Since no major titles had launched recently, they had been short on any major news.
Now, Penguin Company's Tian Boxun and rising entrepreneur Wang Chuan had their games colliding head-on in a battle to determine the winner!!!
Though it wasn't exactly huge news, it was still juicy gossip~~~
If Tian Boxun won, they could praise Penguin Company and Tian Boxun while criticizing Wang Chuan and independent entrepreneurship.
And if Wang Chuan won, then the narrative would reverse!!!
Soon, the game data refreshed in the Pangu Editor.
Although both the PC version and Mobile version had launched on the official platform, their statistics were still counted separately.
Only a little over an hour had passed!!!
Downloads on the Mobile version had already exceeded ten thousand, while the PC version had only a little over eight thousand downloads.
However, neither version had any player ratings. It wasn't because the game wasn't fun, so no one was leaving reviews!!
Rather, the official game platform had deliberately established rules to prevent people from manipulating scores.
To rate or review a game, players needed to purchase it and play for two hours before they could leave a rating or comment.
By comparison, the Mobile version had far more downloads, but that was only natural.
After all, the number of people with mobile phones was already half again as high as those with computers.
And during promotion, Wang Chuan had deliberately allocated more resources toward the mobile platform.
After all, from the moment he decided to make Soul Knight, he had envisioned making the game popular on mobile first.
Moreover, in terms of content, a casual light game like Soul Knight was even better suited to a portable platform like mobile phones!!!
Compared with people on PC, who could only play at home or in the office,
people could move around, ride public transportation, relax while eating, take a walk, or even use the bathroom, and start a round of Soul Knight anytime, anywhere!!!
Players could enter anytime and quit anytime. It had Cloud save, every run offered a different experience, and each round wasn't very long.
If a game so perfectly suited to mobile didn't get many downloads, that would be truly strange!!!
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