Chapter Eighty-Six: Cakes and Coupons
The roommate obediently went to the forum to post, while Hu Yu continued to be busy making cakes. A moment later, the post went out, and Hu Yu also refreshed the panel of the exchange. Sure enough, the few pieces of cake that were hung up were quickly bought out - Hu Yu took advantage of the situation to increase the price, and when he looked back, there were not many raisins in his backpack. There are not many raisins in the exchange, and Hu Yu has almost bought them just now. The rest are indiscriminately priced, and it won't work like this.
Hu Yu thought about it, gritted his teeth and sold his oil painting for a gold coin, and was ready to start buying raisins on a large scale. First, Hu Yu hung a few raisins on the exchange at the standard price, and then bought a few sets of speakers with the bonds he had just earned, and then began to shout on the world channel and began to buy raisins at a slightly lower price than the standard price.
There are a lot of materials dropped in the game, some useful and some difficult to use; Except for a few players who like to visit the exchange, most players deal with this kind of item that they don't know what to use and throw it directly at the store. Now after Hu Yu shouted, some people realized that this kind of thing could be sold for money, went to the exchange to investigate the price and felt that it was about the same, some people chose to trade directly with Hu Yu, and some people chose to list it on the exchange at the standard price or a slightly higher price; But in the end, it will enter Hu Yu's backpack.
Hu Yu's face bloomed with joy, the forum had already exploded, many people paid for it, and more people began to be curious about how to get this kind of cake. Those who know how to see that someone is monopolizing the supply, but no one listens to what they say; It wasn't until someone broke out a screenshot of the cake recipe that everyone knew how to get this cake. By this time, the market for cakes had almost been completely controlled by Hu Yu.
Players with cooking skills woke up from a dream and went to the exchange to find the cake recipe. However, taking advantage of this effort, most of the cake recipes on the exchange have also been bought by Hu Yu. Even if a few people bought the cake recipe or had it themselves, they couldn't buy cheap raisins after spending money to upgrade their cooking level to level three, and after a few cakes entered the market, it would not affect Hu Yu's business.
The price of the cake is getting higher and higher, people with raisins don't know how to cook, people who know how to cook don't have recipes, and people with recipes think about making a fortune, and they also follow Hu Yu to raise the price. By the next day, the price of the cake had already exceeded 20 coupons, and the gold coins were even more valuable - a large number of profits drove more people to brush the recipe and raisins, and Hu Yu also accepted it when he saw it and withdrew in time.
Most of the players' levels have also caught up. The price that has been hyped up now is very dangerous, and once the bubble is punctured, the initial investment will be lost. What's more, more and more people are engaged in the speculation of cake prices, and it is already difficult to make money.
Hu Yu withdrew, but the price of the cake was still rising. By the afternoon, the price of the cake had risen to thirty-five points. Hu Yu felt that the time was almost up, and released the last batch of goods he had hoarded - not cakes, but cake recipes.
In the early stage, the more people who can make zuò cakes, the more competitors Hu Yu will have; So he's been stocking up on recipes all the time. However, now there are a lot of people who have recipes, and it just so happens that the price of cakes has reached the highest, and there are not a few other players in this business; Hu Yu sold this batch of formulas at a high price.
A consumable that only alleviates fatigue by 30 percent is obviously not worth the price of 35 yuan. There are more and more cakes on the exchange, but fewer and fewer people are buying. Those players who were hyping panicked, some went to the forum to swipe ads, and some began to sell at a steep price. Thirty-five, twenty, fifteen, five, until the end fell about a dozen gold coins, and the price of the cake stopped. During that time, the price skyrocketed and most people were red-eyed, and it is only now that everyone has appeared, and there are more people making cakes than buying them.
And after Hu Yu made a lot of money, he had already hidden his merits and fame. Using one day's price manipulation, Hu Yu netted a few hundred gold coins and nearly 2,000 bonds. This kind of harvest is even afraid of Hu Yu himself - he is equivalent to earning 2,000 yuan in one day; The only thing he paid was 2,000 gold coins and six pieces of cake for the painting, and these were all earned back.
In addition, after making hundreds of cakes, Aria's cooking skills have also been upgraded to level 4, and the newly learned cream cake can relieve 4o% fatigue, although it can't make as much money as before, but it is also a good source of income. And Hu Yu himself didn't plan to continue to waste too much time on this. At this stage, improving strength is the most important task, as long as the money is enough to spend.
After spending 100 bonds to draw a partner ten times, plus the number of free pick-ups, Hu Yu drew an S-level elf female archer and an A-level female mage, and replaced the two brothers. Although the light armor class of the team is a little crispy, Hu Yu also has a new set of combat ideas - this is the method that Hu Yu used when he fought the goblins in the cave that day, using the mage's crystal barrier with his corrupted poisonous mist, and the area damage skills of the mage and the archer to annihilate a large number of enemies. In wild maps with large groups of monsters, leveling is called a fast. In less than two days, Hu Yu was upgraded to thirty-two, and he became the most senior player in the whole game.
As for the other bonds, Hu Yu doesn't plan to continue to use them to draw partners. The level of the partner can be increased, and it is only a matter of time before the A rank is upgraded to the S rank. Some of the rest of the money was distributed to the buddies in the dormitory - of course, it was not free, the five of them took turns to entertain guests, and Hu Yu didn't need to pay for dinner for almost a week; There are also some Hu Yu who have been sold on third-party platforms. Although it is not too much, it can be regarded as earning back the cost of the game of two hundred and nine. For the rest, I'm going to keep it for myself. Hu Yu is not a professional gamer, and Hu Yu pays more attention to his game experience than making money from this game; But it's certainly better to be able to have fun without spending money.
And in this game, Hu Yu is obviously not the only one who has achieved this kind of benefit.
Others may not have Hu Yu's market sense and unique early advantages, but when the circulation of game bonds is basically unhindered, a group of high-end players soon emerged in the game. Some of them have outstanding strength and top luck, and they can sell for hundreds of dollars if they explode a superb piece of equipment; Some have a deep heritage, unique vision, and rely on a keen sense of the market to make a fortune. Although there are some people who lose all their money, but no one relies on the game company because of this.
Is it really possible to make money playing games? At least in the case of Wind Country, it works. Excellent or even top-notch game quality, people-friendly operation methods, and all kinds of eye-catching gimmicks - "domestic independent game masterpieces", "opening up a new era of online games", "playing games to earn money", "the pinnacle of 2D scrolling games", within a week after the game was launched, the number of gamers increased geometrically, and soon reached an astonishing number.
As a game operator, Zhou Heng is not only busy, but also makes a lot of money. In the past few days, whether it is the praise rate of the game, the enthusiasm of the players, or the income brought by the game, it has far exceeded He Lei's original expectations.
In terms of player evaluations, except for some comments such as "the picture is too backward" and "the plot is not as good as Fairy Sword" due to the limitations of the game's theme, most players gave positive reviews on a one-sided basis, the forum is very popular, and the number of active players in the server is also increasing at an unscientific rate, even on Monday, the number of active players has not decreased at all.
In terms of game consumption, Zhou Heng did not set too many paid props. In addition to some non-attribute fashions, trumpets and fireworks salutes and other gadgets, there is only one useful feature such as smoking a buddy - and this is indeed the reason why most consumer players pay for it at the beginning of the game.
Although I know that I can pick up a partner for free every ten hours, it will only take more than a week to assemble a lineup at most; However, even so, some people drew S-class characters on the first day, and some people didn't have a decent partner after drawing several times. Many players are wary of some games with a wide range of fees; However, the official "Wind Country" has made it clear that it will not add other charging items, as long as you can get together enough partners, you won't have to spend a penny in the future - with this idea, more and more players will recharge money.
After all, the players who have bought the Collector's Edition are a minority, some people stop after charging one or twenty, but some people can't stop it; After charging sixty or seventy, I want to scrape together enough 100 points to change to a fixed level A-level partner; Coupled with the increasingly strict atmosphere of competition between players, three days later, the revenue of item recharge exceeded one million - more than the money from selling the collector's edition.
However, as the number of players increases, the focus of bond income has also begun to tilt towards the exchange. By the end of the first week, the number of active players had nearly doubled, yet the game's profits had only increased by 30 percent.
When deciding the direction of game operation with He Lei, Zhou Heng chose to sacrifice some revenue to ensure the game experience of players. Now, the impact of this problem is gradually becoming clear - with the initial formation of the exchange price rules, the circulation of bonds between players is becoming more and more frequent; Although the exchange will make some local tyrant players start throwing a lot of money in exchange for in-game gold and resources, some potential customers will also give up on topping up and instead use in-game resources to exchange for bonds.
These bonds in circulation can only charge 1o% of the fee each time, and they will affect the player's enthusiasm for topping-up; In comparison, the little word of mouth earned as a result is nothing. For traditional game companies, this kind of decision is simply the natural enemy of making money.
However, Zhou Heng did not consider these. As long as the player has a good time and more people come to play, it is a good thing for him. In contrast, making more money is less important. However, the existence of players like Hu Yu also made Zhou Heng have an eye on it - the gap between the rich and the poor is too large, and sometimes it will affect the game experience of some players. After making that huge amount of money, if Hu Yu had a little courage, he could completely control the supply channel of a certain necessity in the exchange; Tong guò constantly speculates and restricts the supply of goods to make huge profits for himself. This is obviously not a good thing for the average player.
In addition to this, Zhou Heng also encountered some other problems.
First of all, there are not enough servers. Although there is no problem with a few ordinary servers to cope with the computing and information processing of the game, after the game starts to operate, Zhou Heng is now completely different - his server seems to be targeted by hackers.
The software system modified by the main god will not be hacked, but some garbage from the botnet will inevitably slow down the processing of the server; For this reason, Zhou Heng specially bought a few more servers and added them, which can be regarded as a reluctance to solve this problem. Zhou Heng also tried to get the Lord God to fight back against these hackers, but with little success. This kind is obviously sent by a competitor
The second is all kinds of entertainment - after the game became popular, Zhou Heng's mobile phone was never idle. Discussing the agency of new services, requesting advertising cooperation, as well as the tax bureau, various reporters and investment companies, although most of them are not good, but they all need to deal with the past, it is always too troublesome to pick up one by one, Zhou Heng hired a secretary, who is responsible for this problem.
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