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Chapter 363 - 133: Three Million Monthly Active Users Astonish Ke Jin! Seriously, Where Did All These Players Come From?_3

Chapter 363: Chapter 133: Three Million Monthly Active Users Astonish Ke Jin! Seriously, Where Did All These Players Come From?_3

But in Ke Jin’s eyes, these were all just minor skirmishes and not worth fretting over.

A mere daily active user count of over 50,000, with daily game revenue of just a few hundred thousand.

It was still far from the 50 million milestone!

How could this be turned around?

Then, over the next ten days.

Just freaking ten days!

It was as if Eternity had popped a blue pill, standing tall and firm! It almost monopolized the Korean game charts.

It skyrocketed to a daily active user count of 500,000!

What baffled Ke Jin even more was.

500,000 daily active users is one thing.

million Korean players, well, one could scrape that many together with some effort.

But could somebody please explain to me.

What the heck is this 3 million monthly active users shown in the system backend???

To this day, Eternal Ring was also approaching its full-month milestone.

Ke Jin, looking at that real-time statistic of monthly active users on the backend, saw a 3 followed by a string of zeros, with a particularly complex expression on his face.

Damn it, Korea’s year-end statistics last year totaled 2.13 million players.

million monthly active users?

Are you all haunted in Korea?

As the saying goes, children are either up to no good or eerily quiet when they’re being too still.

Ke Jin found that recently, for a while, the domestic gaming circles seemed unusually quiet!

Even the number of players who are always clamoring for new game releases had dwindled.

It was as if overnight, everyone had lost their interest in playing games.

Ke Jin browsed through various live streaming platforms but didn’t find anything out of the ordinary.

The streamers continued their orderly broadcasts of a variety of domestic games, strictly adhering to the rules of the live streaming platforms.

He checked out Bilibili.

The related popularity of Eternal Ring wasn’t particularly high either.

"This isn’t right, is it?" Ke Jin then visited the NAA forum.

Instantly, he discovered where the problem lay!

In this week’s trending posts!

Of course, it was not the number one trending post.

It was the 20th post, about to fall off the hot list.

The post was titled as follows.

[Worried about not being able to play the popular foreign online game Eternal Ring? Click on this post and that’s all you need! Babysitter-level tutorial to teach you how to bypass the firewall and how to recharge! Enjoy Eternal Ring all day without hindrance, so your craving for Waving Swords won’t flare up!]

"Hiss..." Ke Jin twitched slightly as if something dawned on him.

He hurriedly clicked on the post.

Finally, he found the answer in this post!

The disorderly development of gaming capital on Blue Star, with gacha games dominating the industry, was no longer fresh news.

But once capital gains control of an industry, it inevitably evolves towards its ultimate form—monopoly.

And it’s not just about monopolizing and suppressing competitors within the country.

Externally, every major industry also does its utmost to fend off foreign capital from snatching a slice of the market pie.

When it comes to hate for monopolies, the diamond industry has to be at the top of the list, not only domestically and internationally, but they even monopolize themselves.

By strictly controlling the annual diamond production, they forcefully create the notion of scarcity value.

In the gaming circle, this trend has not ceased.

The domestic big three on Blue Star are the best example.

Although they restrain each other to some extent, when faced with foreign game capital trying to enter the market, they all cooperate tacitly.

In the end, either restrict the foreign games from entering the country or outright buy/license them, securing the game rights and using it for themselves.

Otherwise, no deal! Everyone else can just get lost!

From what Ke Jin understood.

There was something like the Steam platform on Blue Star as well.

Only it was much more ruthless than the one on Earth.

The Steam platform couldn’t even enter Huaxia Nation!

Unless you use a VPN.

But what’s more complicated than Earth is that the payment option requires binding a foreign bank.

This step causes countless players to hesitate in the face of games they wish to play.

And even though some freemium online games can be played without any payment,

because foreign game companies cannot establish servers within the country,

everyone still needs to use an external IP address.

This phenomenon is not unique to Huaxia Nation.

It is commonplace in other countries as well.

Look at this bunch of poor players.

In order to play a game they’re passionate about,

a bunch of players who originally only knew how to play games had to become experienced computer tech geeks.

These days, if you don’t have a couple of VPNs at hand, you’d feel embarrassed to greet people when you go out!

And now,

Eternal Ring, which had become popular in Korea, had also been quietly introduced to the mainland by some Huaxia Nation students studying in Korea.

Korea had popular online games before, but other games’ elements were not quite in line with Huaxia Nation players’ tastes, so those games didn’t explode in popularity domestically.

But what kind of game was Eternal Ring?

It could almost be said to have been tailor-made for Huaxia Nation players with its martial arts theme!

’You know me, I don’t like to support foreign games, but it’s martial arts! I’ve got to try it out’, such thoughts quietly spread among Huaxia Nation players.

Do you not crave to savour the authentic elements of our martial arts?

Do you not want the grand guidance of martial arts veterans?

Come on! Let me see if your martial arts have developed properly!

Let our Huaxia Nation players help you get rid of that pickled kimchi smell!

Then they played.

The Huaxia Nation players who snuck in were dumbfounded.

Fuck!!

What the hell???

This close-quarters combat?

This elegance of flying above eaves and walking on walls?

This vast array of Skills from different schools of martial arts?

And that irresistible act of Waving Swords.

Damnit! The essence of your martial arts is just too authentic, isn’t it??

We, who have diligently revisited the classic works of martial arts masters like Jin Yong and Gu Long, can’t even find the slightest fault in this game?