I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 679 - 210: Lake Liyeniya! Crab Bro and Shrimp Bro!_1

Chapter 679: Chapter 210: Lake Liyeniya! Crab Bro and Shrimp Bro!_1

Elden Ring launch day.

Late at night.

In Ke Jin’s own room.

With a precise and accurate parry, he neutralized the Furnace Knight’s offensive.

A thrust into the abdomen took away the Furnace’s last sliver of blood.

Ke Jin also let out a deep breath.

Unlike most players who are still stuck in Nimgreifu, those with faster progress might have just started exploring Liyenia.

At this moment, Ke Jin’s progress had already led him to defeat the final boss of Geelyede, the third map, and he was exploring the secrets of Eternal City.

After all, in his past life, he was a multiple-playthrough veteran of this game; redesigning a run, he knew where all the good stuff was hidden.

His desire for total exploration and collection diminished, more often it was just to relive the classics.

So Ke Jin advanced through the maps very quickly.

But having not played a Souls-like game for too long, even parrying a monster like Furnace, which was basically not difficult after getting used to it, felt somewhat unfamiliar to him.

He even failed several times.

After saving his progress, Ke Jin checked the current time.

23:59

It was about to be midnight, time for the first day’s revenue to refresh.

This mission.

After a comprehensive system assessment, the low-end revenue target was set at 5 billion.

Unlike the SW launch in the past, which mainly targeted the East Asian market and could meet its goal with a low-end target of just 1 billion (excluding SW itself).

"Elden" was truly a global simultaneous release.

Therefore, the revenue requirements also grew exponentially.

But Ke Jin had already done some calculations in his mind.

This time Brother Tong Zi had given a target in terms of sales revenue, not sales volume, which was his greatest opportunity for a turnaround!

Sales revenue is something that can be manipulated.

Each country has different pricing.

Moreover, Ke Jin had deliberately leaked some insider information, letting many players know they could purchase Elden Ring in countries where it was cheaper.

In a dozen or so poorer countries, the price was as low as just 10 dollars.

Even when converted to RMB, that’s just sixty or seventy yuan.

If the players also had some discount vouchers (like first player coupons, similar to loss-leader coupons),

they could even push the price down below 30 RMB.

A top-tier 3D masterpiece with an initial price of 30 yuan.

Can you imagine that?

Anyway, Ke Jin dared not imagine it.

He had never dreamed so beautifully in his previous life.

Even Sir E, he wouldn’t dare play this way when Elden Ring had just launched.

Otherwise, Gao would really be slamming the table and cursing.

So sometimes Ke Jin envied the players from Blue Star.

Though they missed the magnificent development of games over 20 years,

in the near future, good games would burst forth like a fountain.

And under the furious internal competition of first players, prices will become more reasonable and transparent.

He wanted to create a world without, or at least with minimized, exploitation by middlemen, allowing game developers and players to benefit maximally.

"The low-end revenue target of 5 billion, if calculated at the uniform price of 300 yuan a set in the Hua Nation region," Ke Jin mused,

"means that we need to sell 16 million sets within a month to meet this requirement."

Let alone whether 16 million sets can be sold in a month,

even if it’s possible, it’s actually impossible to reach the 5 billion mark.

Because many countries have prices far below the 300 yuan threshold.

That’s why Ke Jin thinks that Brother Tong Zi didn’t give a fixed number of sets but used sales revenue to calculate.

It gave him a loophole to exploit.

Of course, it’s possible that Brother Tong Zi, seeing him always unable to complete the tasks and getting anxious, decided to secretly help him out, even against senior management’s wishes.

"Oh? It’s out."

In the midst of Ke Jin’s thoughts,

the first-day report of "Elden" was already sent to his computer by email.

His gaze swiftly bypassed other insignificant details, and he scanned through several of the more important figures.

Sales: 1,317,541 sets

Peak online: 893,300 people

Current online: 237,900 people

Total profit: 316,864,615 yuan (RMB)

......

Seeing the numbers, Ke Jin immediately felt at ease.

First-day sales of 1.3 million sets were already dominating the competition.

Not to mention reaching the summit of Blue Star’s historical sales,

it could definitely make the top 10.

At least it vastly outperformed the neighboring Dark Domain Realm, which only sold 1 million sets in its opening week.

As for other games released at the same time, they were even less of a threat.

Straight to the top of this month’s hot games list, with a lead like a cliff.

It showed that Blue Star players really had a high acceptance of this game,

even slightly surpassing the previous life.

And looking at the sales revenue was even more gratifying.

With Ke Jin’s estimated average price of 300 yuan per set, for 1.3 million sets,

the matching revenue should be around 4 billion to meet expectations.

But the current revenue was only 3 billion.

That means his plan had worked.

During this period, many players indeed obtained other nationalities on the sly,

and acquired Elden Ring at a lower price.

Causing the revenue to be one-third less than estimated.

Good news!

Such good news only needed to hold for another 29 days!

"Then let’s increase our efforts, continue to secretly promote the low-price regional sales, and employ paid posters to guide players in various gaming communities or chat groups to buy from the low-price regions," Ke Jin calculated eagerly in his mind.

......

Under Ke Jin’s covert planning,

several paid poster organizations, paid to do the job, began to quietly infiltrate various gaming forums, communities, chats, subtly influencing players to buy cheap games from low-price regions.

Ke Jin, of course, didn’t tell them why.

Even the leaders of these paid posters didn’t know the identity of their employer.