Explosive Results

Meanwhile, at Huangtu Game Company's villa.

The sky had gradually darkened. Ordinarily, the four of them would have finished work and left by now.

Only Wang Chuan would have remained in the villa, free to do whatever he wanted.

But not today. All of them were sitting before their computers, their eyes fixed on the screens as they refreshed them every so often.

They were staring intently at Soul Knight's data.

Well, what had happened that afternoon had left the two of them somewhat embarrassed, to the point that Huang Shanshan was still avoiding his gaze.

Wang Chuan, however, was doing fine. He was a man, after all, and had thicker skin, so his expression remained fairly natural.

He had not been constantly watching Soul Knight's data, only checking it a few times.

Most of his attention was focused on the news on the game forums.

"Manager Wang, how are our numbers now?"

"Will it flop? We won't even fail to recoup the development costs, will we?"

"I heard Penguin's downloads have already exceeded twenty thousand!"

Aside from Huang Shanshan, the other three gathered around Wang Chuan and asked anxiously.

Of course Wang Chuan knew what they were thinking.

"Alright, alright. The game is already live. Whatever results it gets are what it gets. Is there any need for you to worry this much?"

"Instead of spending your time on this, why don't you look over the plans for the follow-up update versions I gave you earlier?"

"And I can tell you clearly: I have a lot of confidence in this game!"

Wang Chuan was both amused and exasperated. He could only shoo them away decisively.

He was starting to regret letting them have so much free time. If they all had work on their hands—

They would not be acting like this~~~

Of course, that was only a thought!

After all, they meant well, had worked hard, and were all founding members.

If he ruthlessly exploited them, would he still be himself?

"Manager Wang, we know all that. How about this? Just let us take one look. We'll feel more at ease after seeing it."

"Alright~~~"

Wanting to be considerate of them, Wang Chuan opened the Pangu Editor and switched to the Backend.

It had to be said that free truly was powerful.

In such a short time, across the PC version, Mobile version, and official game platform—

The download count had actually already exceeded three hundred thousand.

And since players had already been playing for more than two hours—

Quite a few comments had appeared in the review section.

Oh, right, the game's rating was out too: 9.9!

One had to know that the perfect score was only ten!!

A 9.9 was simply outrageous!

Of course, while Wang Chuan was surprised, he understood it in his heart.

This score could not remain this high forever. It would eventually drop.

After all, no game could be loved by everyone.

Therefore, no game could ever receive a perfect score~~~

Besides, so-called perfect scores mostly came from media ratings or praise from players.

Once it was placed under an open rating system, no game could receive a perfect score!

Just like The Stanley Parable before.

When it had first launched, that game had also received a perfect ten.

But as time passed, its score kept getting lower.

9.9, 9.8, 9.7, until it finally settled at 9.6.

"Wow, wow, wow! It's actually ranked first on the new game download chart now!"

Zhao Jing widened her eyes and cried out in shock.

"Not just that! It's even on the new game sales chart too, but it's only seventeenth!!"

Liu Qiang's initially excited tone instantly turned into disappointment after he saw the ranking.

This new game sales chart was the one topped by The Parable of Illidan.

But that was unavoidable. They had Penguin backing them and their own platform!

"Alright, don't lose heart. These numbers are already very good!!"

Seeing the data, Wang Chuan sounded somewhat excited.

"Huh???"

"No way. Manager Wang, you're not lying to us, are you?"

The others were surprised, privately puzzled by the figures.

The game had only been live for seven hours, and its revenue had already reached more than two hundred thousand yuan.

Were those numbers really that good?

If not for The Parable of Illidan before this, they certainly would have been fully satisfied.

But The Parable of Illidan was ranked first, and its sales had broken twenty thousand, perhaps even more.

Doing a rough calculation, the other side had probably earned more than six hundred thousand yuan.

That was already more than three times their revenue!

And in the gaming industry, whether a game was considered successful—

Still depended on its revenue!!

After all, no matter how much players liked a game, if it could not make money, then it was meaningless.

"Hahaha, don't worry. I know what I'm doing. Come on, we're getting off work. I'll treat you all to a big meal to celebrate."

A mysterious smile appeared on Wang Chuan's face, but he did not explain further.

Just as he had said, he knew exactly what he was doing.

Because the data had already told him that Soul Knight was fine!!

In just seven hours, Soul Knight's growth data had told him everything.

What mattered was the download trend.

After the early promotion, Soul Knight had gained twenty thousand downloads in its first hour.

That figure was unremarkable, with nothing wrong with it.

But in the second hour, not only had the downloads not decreased, they had actually risen to over thirty thousand.

What came after was even more absurd. The increase actually became greater after that.

Each increase was larger than the last.

Until now, when it had reached more than three hundred thousand.

And the comments section was, surprisingly, mostly full of praise.

That proved one very important point: Soul Knight had succeeded.

Since players had to register an account on the Huangtu Game platform before logging in—

Wang Chuan could easily see that Soul Knight currently had around two hundred thousand active players.

And more than ten thousand accounts had made purchases.

Soul Knight was a casual game with light spending, so that level of payment was already very high.

In fact, Wang Chuan had estimated that as long as Soul Knight could achieve a ratio of one paying user for every thirty active users, it would be good enough.

But looking at it now, it was far more than one in thirty!

It had already reached one in twenty. It could not have been better.

Wang Chuan also roughly knew why this had happened.

This world probably had no piracy, and people had a strong awareness of supporting legitimate products. Almost everyone was willing to pay.

That was why such an astonishing ratio had appeared.