I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 422 - 149: Mr. Ke, Sweating Buckets, Aren’t You?_3

Chapter 422: Chapter 149: Mr. Ke, Sweating Buckets, Aren’t You?_3

But if you’re going to splurge on in-game purchases, you have to start drawing from the 1-star pool. Only after obtaining a 1-star can you draw for a 2-star.

Until you reach 4-stars, all the upgrades are purely cosmetic, with no bonuses at all.

An uploader summarized the cost in a video.

Getting a five-star requires an average investment of about 20,000 yuan.

And that’s just for the ’hidden attributes’ that come with the skin’s appearance.

The real character skill attributes were enough to make Ke Jin’s head spin.

One of the pieces is called "Knight Feya."

The skill that free-to-play gamers receive is Area Slash.

It deals base attack damage to all enemies within one grid around the user, cooling down once every three turns.

But if you upgrade this skill with money, it turns into "Blade Flame."

It’s still Area Slash, but now it adds fire damage to all enemies within one grid, deducting 2 health points per turn for a duration of 5 turns.

Well, slap a fire buff on someone, and your opponent might as well wait to die.

And if you upgrade it once more:

The skill changes again.

It becomes "Scorching Slash."

The attack range doubles to two grids, and the fire shockwave extends an additional three grids forward.

What kind of concept is that?

Enemies across a 5*5 area are affected by the attack.

If you upgrade the skill to level four with money, you don’t even need to pretend anymore.

It’s just "Blaze."

It inflicts a burning effect that deducts 2 health points per turn on all enemies on the screen, lasting for 5 turns.

And it also heals all your allies by 2 health points per turn for the same duration.

What surprised Ke Jin even more was:

That the path to becoming stronger was not yet at its end.

Because the game still had an ultimate form called Soul Skill.

Once this skill is unlocked, it comes with an ultimate passive.

The effect is:

Every subsequent move by this piece will unleash a skill attack across the entire screen.

The skill is all the effects of the first 4 levels combined and multiplied by 2.

Then, what left Ke Jin feeling incredulous was:

After watching the review, he realized that this character was only of a blue rarity.

There were a bunch of hero evaluations for purple and gold rarities...

But Ke Jin didn’t dare to look anymore.

He could only say that his own thinking was too conservative.

Ke Jin knew that the world of mobile gaming was filled with tycoons who spent huge amounts of money.

But he hadn’t expected them to spend quite this much.

Such a game, in his previous life,

First brought to mind the Manning series in Ke Jin’s mind—things like Manning Go, Manning Chess, Billiards, and the like.

But those were just for a bit of fun, and not many players really poured money into them.

In this life, take "Bursting Cuteness" for example.

The promotional PV reached an astonishing 20 million views.

It even had as many as 3 million pre-registrations.

Although some of that number might be inflated.

It still shows a decent acceptance level from the players.

They even seem to think that the consumption system isn’t much of a problem.

Even if there are some complaints in the promotional PV, comparing it to the inexpensive games released by Number One Player in recent years,

They are immediately rebutted by die-hard fans of Silver Brilliance.

"Without doting on the tycoons, how can game companies make money? Do you really think game companies operate on love?"

"Actually, Silver Brilliance doesn’t earn much. You see, although a five-star appearance costs 20,000, they don’t charge for promotions, right? Don’t the employees get paid? Considering performance bonuses, rent, utilities, after everything is accounted for, the 20,000 yuan in revenue probably leaves only a couple of thousand for the game company. Is that really expensive?"

"Please, stop bringing up Number One Player. What kind of rubbish games do they have? Who even plays PC games nowadays? Mobile is the future king of market!"

"Are these polluters paid posters from Number One Player Company? How come they start discrediting the game before it’s even made?"

"Typical of these kids, all they know is Number One Player."

"Don’t accuse me of slander, I have actually played games by Number One Player before. I won’t say much, but ’Hollow Knight’ with its frustrating difficulty, can that even be called a game? I came here for fun, not to torture myself!"

"Isn’t ’Wind Traveler’ also just making money off its artwork? Drawing scenery pictures that I can’t even bear to look at? I’d rather lick the beautiful girl illustrations from my great Silver Brilliance."

"I reported ’Assassin’s Creed’ a few days ago. It’s promoting violence and bloodshed. Essentially, it’s just a killing game wrapped in a layer of skin. Players of ’Assassin’s Creed’ are going to go insane and want to murder people."

"PC gaming dogs, stay away from us. Thank you."

Having glanced through the comments section of various "Bursting Cuteness" PVs, Ke Jin could only feel a sense of disgust.

He wasn’t too emotionally affected by these players’ comments.

On Earth, there has always been a hierarchy of disdain in the gaming circle.

Console and handheld gamers look down on PC, thinking that keyboards lack soul.

PC gamers look down on mobile, seeing touchscreen cleaners as having no future.

Mobile gamers, in turn, look down on both, considering them slaves tied down to a specific location to play games, as if they’re in a prison.

Ke Jin was used to it.

Gaming platforms are merely a medium, all essentially the same.

What’s more important is whether the game’s diverse core can be conveyed to the players.

However, this conflict on Blue Star seemed more intense than Ke Jin had imagined.

If you say the attack on Number One Player was spontaneously initiated by mobile gamers,

It’s not very realistic.

Clearly, there was a push behind it, manipulating the emotions of the players.