I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 112 - 62: Blue Star has also established an Ark Jade Foot Bar? Ke Jin was elected as the bulletin board Master! _1

Chapter 112: Chapter 62: Blue Star has also established an Ark Jade Foot Bar? Ke Jin was elected as the bulletin board Master! _1

The cursor was moving faster than before.

From 33rd place, it climbed up.

Past 20th place.

Nothing.

15th place.

Still nothing.

Until it reached 10th place.

Yu Xiao had begun to break into a sweat.

The other executives also felt the atmosphere in the meeting room growing tense, and didn’t dare to make a sound.

The new game in 9th place had daily revenue breaking the one million mark.

Following this trend, it was at least a hit title at launch, and with a strong promotional push, it could reach the level of a classic.

8th place, revenue, 1.09 million.

Still not Arknights.

7th place, revenue, 1.18 million.

A close fight, but not it, not that game.

6th place.

5th place.

4th place.

The cursor kept climbing.

Under everyone’s gaze, it passed 3rd, flipped over 2nd.

And finally, settled on first place.

1, Far Friend Entertainment, first-day revenue: 2,034,777.56 Yuan, new game title "Journey to the West: Expedition to the East".

...

"Not there???" Yu Xiao widened his eyes in disbelief as other executives in the meeting room also expressed their astonishment.

What’s the situation?

Looking through the list, the top player’s shadow was nowhere to be found.

If memory serves.

Not long ago, that company had just upgraded from a D-level to a B-level in a single leap.

"Could we have missed it?"

"Go back and check again," Yu Xiao ordered.

Director Lin quickly flipped through the channels with the remote control again.

This time, everyone watched even more carefully.

Nothing!

Still nothing!

Arknights wasn’t on the rankings at all!

"Could it be that this guy didn’t release the game yesterday? Could he have heard some rumors and known that we were targeting him, so he decided to avoid the spotlight?" someone joked, trying to lighten the mood.

"It’s possible, after all, the combined pressure from several top B Factories would be quite overwhelming; the smarter ones would know to lay low for a while."

Contrary to the optimism of his own executives,

Yu Xiao’s frown deepened.

This kid, he’s not the type to be afraid of trouble.

At least before being beaten, he wouldn’t be scared.

If he were really scared, he wouldn’t have priced his previous games so haphazardly.

"Holy shit!!!" Suddenly, Yu Xiao thought of an even more terrifying possibility and couldn’t help but exclaim aloud.

"Switch to the S~SSS zone, now!!!"

Although Director Lin didn’t understand Yu Xiao’s intention, he still swiftly switched the screens.

They had just looked at the top ten.

"Scroll down!"

"Keep scrolling!"

"Scroll... oof..." Along with Yu Xiao’s abruptly halted voice, a collective intake of breath resonated through the room.

Everyone in the meeting room wore expressions of disbelief.

"Holy shit!!"

"For real?"

"What the hell!"

Right there on the screen, in the earnings ranking at position 27,

the name Yu Xiao had been so concerned about stood out in four large characters.

27, Top Player, first-day revenue: 45,746,164.72 Yuan, new game title "Arknights".

...

First day, a staggering 45 million in revenue!

This terrifying figure was enough to make everyone present drop their jaws!

What does 45 million represent?

Jinhai Entertainment’s predecessor, Jinpeng Entertainment, had a hit card-gathering business game "Rushing Manager" which, at its peak month, made just under 60 million in revenue.

And now, nearly a whole year’s peak monthly earnings

almost got crushed by the release of a competitor’s new game on day one?

What happened to the price war to bring him down?

Why didn’t it work, and instead, backfired spectacularly?

If this trend continues, this could become a red-hot game capable of generating monthly profits of over half a billion, possibly even listed as a ’masterpiece’!

This outstanding achievement nearly had Yu Xiao seeing smoke.

Wait, we agreed to a little skirmish, you slap me, I kick you, then we each go home to cry to our daddies.

But with you, suddenly you’re trying to claim you’re on the same level as my daddy?

Silence!

The spacious meeting room was now perfectly quiet.

Although the Ice and Snow Festival was divided according to the size and scale of companies,

there was also an unwritten rule that if a company’s new game exploded in revenue, surpassing the peak of its division by more than double,

it would automatically be placed in the next tier for competition.

Normally, this rule served as a balancing patch,

mainly to compensate the D~C tier divisions.

For example, if a company suddenly came out with a game generating hundreds of thousands or even a million in daily revenue, it wouldn’t be fair to keep it in a division with almost no exposure.

And Top Player, well, that was a whole other story. Trying to adjust it ended up propelling it straight to the T0 division!

The failure of one’s own company was frustrating enough, but a competitor’s success was even more suffocating.

No! I can’t accept this!!

"Boss Yu... what do we do now..."

"What to do?" Yu Xiao stroked his chin and stood up decisively, slamming his hand on the table.

Just as everyone thought he was about to complain to Netcom,

Yu Xiao waved his hand grandly, "Immediately remove all ’tower defense’ elements from our own promotional materials! And cut off all collaborations with other B Factories!"

"Also, hire a batch of paid posters to hype up other B Factories’ tower defense games, to cover our retreat and divert some of the Arknights fans’ fire!"

"We need to protect ourselves!"

Director Lin: "..."

Come on, Boss Yu, you’re running off pretty fast there.

I thought you had some profound argument ready to go.

But you just sold everyone out with a backhand.