I am a Big Player
Chapter 261 - 259. The Difference Between Dota and Kunlun (Sixth Release)_1

Chapter 261: 259. The Difference Between Dota and Kunlun (Sixth Release)_1

To be honest, Ren He was also very nervous, uncertain whether his borderline case counted as a chat or not. After all, no one had ever defined what a chat was, and the Divine Punishment System had never specified what needed to be discussed.

Moreover, there was interaction between Ren He and the models. As Ren He recited politics, the other party would interact with him by asking, "What are you talking about...?"

It wasn’t that there was no interaction at all...

Just as he reached the thirty-minute mark, the calm voice of the Divine Punishment System echoed in Ren He’s mind, "Host has completed task with a medium rating, reward: basic knowledge of violin-making craftsmanship."

Well, there was still a reward, but it was an even more useless piece of knowledge about violin-making craftsmanship than violin maintenance, and it was only basic level. This was almost the same as no reward at all.

It seemed this borderline case was indeed a close call. Had he come here secretly without the Qinghe Club, he might have faced a poor rating or even direct punishment...

Isn’t it tiresome to constantly match wits with the Will of Heaven every single day?!

Ren He walked toward the Qinghe Games booth, and the person arranging the booth inside turned to see Ren He and was immediately surprised, preparing to speak, but Ren He quickly stopped him. With media stationed at the game convention all day long, if they called out "big boss" at this time, he might make the headlines tomorrow.

The person leading the Qinghe Games team at the game convention was a veteran planner named Zhou Zheng, who had volunteered to take charge of the publicity department after its establishment, having had considerable experience in publicity before.

Yet, in Ren He’s presence, he was very modest. When it came to publicity, Ren He may have had unconventional methods, but Zhou Zheng really admired his boldness.

Using a ten million dollar prize as a publicity stunt, using a game with an annual revenue of over 400 million US dollars to pave the way for the publicity of another game, these moves were too big, so large that he had never dared to imagine them before. As someone passionate about publicity work, he even greatly admired Ren He and agreed with all his ideas.

And, as it turned out, Ren He’s ideas had all succeeded.

It had only been a few days since Zhou Zheng and Ren He last saw each other. Ren He said with a smile, "I just came to browse around, didn’t expect our Qinghe Games to be here too."

"Yes, the star product of this game convention is Dota, and Dota’s concurrent online users have reached 140,000, and the online feedback has been very good. Our user growth curve is healthier than any other game, it even... surpasses Kunlun!" said Zhou Zheng excitedly.

The growth curve mentioned here wasn’t about the number of concurrent online users, but the speed of increase. All data indicated that Dota’s user experience far surpassed that of Kunlun, which made everyone at Qinghe Games very optimistic about the game.

However, Dota’s consumption model hadn’t yet been tested at this time. Can you really make money just by selling decorative skins? Everyone was watching and waiting.

Dota had been online for nearly a week, and its item sales situation was actually far behind that of Kunlun. The sales on the first day were only a few thousand yuan, which meant that among the more than one hundred thousand players, only a few hundred had purchased decorations...

Many people were greatly surprised, the gap in earning power with Kunlun was just too big, wasn’t it?!

In fact, Ren He had already considered this point. Why had Kunlun’s item sales risen so rapidly? Because it had a very direct gaming logic: spend money to become stronger!

As long as you spend money, you could quickly become very powerful, and this was the allure of spending.

But what about Dota? Whether you spend money or not doesn’t really matter much, everyone plays the same, and spending won’t make you incredible. At most when entering the game, someone might exclaim, "Wow, a tycoon."

But how far could a tycoon really go? Currently, the most expensive decorative item available in Dota was only 48 yuan...

But why does Ren He insist on establishing Dota as the foundation of Qinghe Games? Because competitive games have always had more enduring and vigorous vitality than cash-grab online games.

Kunlun is now a game with millions of concurrent online players, but what tier are Dota and League of Legends? They are on the tens of millions level...

In the past life, the number of concurrent players in Dota 2 came close to ten million, and League of Legends directly broke through twenty million. And in this world... there is only Dota.

The number of players online at the same time is not even on the same scale, so it is very likely that Qinghe Games’ Dota would finally take shape in the domestic market after three months, and within half a year, dominate the largest market share worldwide, making 150 million US dollars a month is not a pipe dream.

Ren He had the patience to wait for a small sapling to grow into a towering tree while Kunlun continues to make money, and his life was still very long.

Zhou Zheng looked at Ren He’s relaxed demeanor without knowing why the big boss was not worried at all, but Ren He comforted him in return, "Don’t worry, Dota won’t fail. The top-notch server rooms I built were prepared for Dota."

Since the big boss was not worried, all he had to do was to focus on publicity, Zhou Zheng reported, "The CG will take another month to complete, it won’t cause any delays, right?"

"No delay, the promotion for Dota is continuous, and the CG also needs to be continuous. Moreover, you can start working with the planning department on the game’s lore, think of making it epic. Maybe in the future, we could even turn it into a blockbuster movie to make money..." Ren He mused.

In the last life, Dota always lacked a complete lore because it originated from Warcraft, and no one specifically improved this aspect. However, Ren He understood the economy of fandom in later generations. If Dota had the largest fan base in the world, and then produced a blockbuster movie like World of Warcraft, imagine how much money that would make...

We have to come up with a lore no matter what!

Zhou Zheng made a note of this matter. Regardless of whether he understood the deep meaning behind it, whatever the big boss asked him to do, he would do. That was the core belief of Qinghe Games...

However, both men were oblivious to Jiang Haoyang’s shocked gaze from a distance, watching Zhou Zheng welcome Ren He inside, and Zhou Zheng looking like a subordinate reporting to Ren He. It completely shattered Jiang Haoyang’s worldview!

He had originally just wanted to find out how despicable Ren He could be, but he didn’t expect to stumble upon such a big scoop.

Qinghe Club? Qinghe Games? Ren He? The characteristics of someone who could develop a world-class game and was also not short of money... all these traits set Jiang Haoyang’s mind racing.

If Ren He had not entered the Qinghe Games booth in such a manner, Jiang Haoyang would not have made the connection.

Had he not been specifically watching Zhou Zheng or Ren He, he would not have noticed the details in their expressions when they conversed.

It seemed that only Jiang Haoyang by chance seemed to have discovered a giant secret.

The mysterious owner of Qinghe Games, was Ren He?!

Has this world gone mad? Ren He is just a high school student, OMG!

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Adding more for Silver Alliance’s Sea Soul Robe, to be honest, I’ve been writing all day, I feel a bit off and anxious, I’ll take a break for a while.