Xiao Xiao, an indie game maker, routinely logged on to the Steam platform after work to see how much money he earned, and after the first wave of sales, his game sales had stagnated for a while, probably to the extent that he sold one or two copies a day.

In May, the contact person on the Steam platform contacted Xiao Xiao, saying that there might be a price reduction and discount event in the near future, and asked Xiao Xiao's wishes.

When signing the agency contract, for the discount, the steam platform gave two options.

The first is to completely hand over to the steam platform agent, but the platform guarantees the income of the creator, so the discount will not exceed the platform's share at most, in other words, the game is discounted by 20%, and the income obtained by the platform is not wanted, all to the creator, but the game can only be discounted by 8% at most.

The second is that the creator's income will also be reduced synchronously, and the platform will take a proportional commission, that is, if there is a five-percent discount, the income of the creator and the platform will be halved, but the discount limit of the game itself can be very low, of course, if this model is to be discounted, the steam platform must contact the creator in advance.

Although Xiao Xiao's game didn't have much money, he still chose the second one that was more secure.

In the end, he decided to give his game a 5% discount based on the sales, and today is the first day of the discount.

Click on the steam platform, and the green summer special words entered Xiao Xiao's eyes, and it was very refreshing to see it in this hot summer.

casually glanced at the discounted things, but Xiao Xiao's eyes widened, wondering if he was opening it in the wrong way.

He originally thought that this kind of discount was the same as the discount in the supermarket, which was usually some goods that were about to expire, that is, old games, and games that no one bought would be discounted, but he didn't expect that the first thing he saw was "Champion Soccer 11".

This game is a soccer game released at the end of last year, and it is a veritable masterpiece with over 10 million sales per year on consoles.

On the steam platform, "Champion Football 11", which was originally priced at 350 yuan, was discounted by six and can be bought for only 210 yuan.

"Although I bought it on SN4, it seems that the special performance of playing on the computer is a little higher?"

Thinking so, Xiao Xiao added it to the shopping cart.

As soon as he ordered one, he saw that the discount was even more exaggerated.

The RPG masterpiece of the Central Plains game "Martial Arts 3", the original price is 280 yuan, two discounts, and you can start it as long as 56 yuan, this game is the sequel to the classic RPG game "Martial Arts 2", which was released at the beginning of last year, and is quite well received in the RPG field, and it is also a work with tens of millions of sales on the console.

", fifty-six yuan, it's not the same as picking it up for nothing, buy it, buy it."

Xiao Xiao added it to the cart again.

As soon as he finished reading it, he found another good thing.

This is a collection of manufacturers of speeding games,This company has produced a lot of side-scrolling action classes,Platform jumping games,There are a total of six games in this collection package,The original price is 638 yuan,Only 223 yuan after the discount。

"It's so cheap, it's not a person if you don't buy it."

All kinds of games that Xiao Xiao couldn't think of were on sale, and most of the discounts were very attractive, originally, if these games were placed in front of Xiao Xiao at the original price, he probably wouldn't have considered them, but now that the discount is so big, he can't help but have the idea of buying them back and playing with them.

With such a cheap price, wouldn't it be a loss if you missed it!

Xiao Xiao finished buying, buying, and buying text messages one after another, at this time, he hurriedly checked the balance and found that in the more than half an hour of shopping for discounts, he bought almost a thousand games.

"I'll go, I can't stop buying this."

Xiao Xiao suddenly had the idea of chopping his hands, if he continued to buy like this, he would probably be so poor that he would eat dirt.

He didn't understand why girls like online shopping so much, and many of the things they bought back couldn't be used at all, but now Xiao Xiao understands that the focus is not on what the things are bought, but on the pleasure of "owning" by buying this behavior.

In order to prevent herself from continuing to buy games, Xiao Xiao opened QQ and wanted to see the reaction in the group.

[Fried rice with hanging stuffing]: Absolutely, the four strategy games of the contradictory game are only sold for three hundred, what is the difference between this and giving it for nothing, buy, buy, buy.

[Braised corn]: I thought it was just a casual discount, but I didn't expect so many games to be discounted, hey, I bought so many games, and I don't know if I have time to play.

[White Windmill]: Why do I spend time playing a game that I bought with my ability?

[Desert Coastline]: Think about it, a 100 game is discounted by 6%, if you buy one, the steam platform will lose 40 yuan, and if you buy two, you will lose 80 yuan, the more you buy, the more the steam platform will lose, you will earn, Xu Rui will lose so much that he eats instant noodles.

[Fat House Happy Meal]: It's too real, to be reasonable, the money I make from selling games on Steam is not enough for me to buy games.

[Puddle under the umbrella]: I only remembered after I bought it, I don't have so much time to play, I want to lie down and touch the fish every day when I go home, why can't I control this hand.

Seeing that everyone in the group seemed to be unable to help chopping their hands, Xiao Xiao suddenly had the idea that he hadn't bought enough, so he went to the store again.

After that, he picked up and downloaded a few games that he was more interested in, and then remembered that he wanted to see the profits.

Looking backstage, Xiao Xiao's eyes widened again, wondering if his opening method was wrong again.

The game, which was supposed to sell only one or two copies a day, sold 100 copies on the first day of the Summer Sale.

You must know that all of Xiao Xiao's games have not sold a thousand copies in total.

"The data is wrong?"

Xiao Xiao immediately searched for the game he sold the most, only to find that this game was included in a game collection called the Indie Game Charity Pack, which was discounted for only more than 100 yuan, including more than 20 indie games, and the steam platform promised that all the platform revenue from this game collection would be donated to poor children in the mountainous areas of the Midwest, so the sales were very high.

In addition, if the player already owns some of the games in this collection, the price of the collection will be subtracted from the corresponding part, which will be cheaper.

After all, there are more than 20 games, and the average game is only five or six yuan, and a breakfast is more than this price, and it can also be charity, and players are of course willing to pay for it.

It can be said that Xiao Xiao got this charity bag.

Although calculated and divided, his income from this 100 share of the game may only be two or three hundred, but thinking about it from another angle, his game has been bought by a hundred new players, even if most of the players may not necessarily play Xiao Xiao's game, as long as one or two people download and play it with a curious attitude, it will be a success for Xiao Xiao.

Thinking of this, Xiao Xiao suddenly felt better.