I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 705 - 217: So Set Forth, Fading One!_3

Chapter 705: Chapter 217: So Set Forth, Fading One!_3

Elden Ring’s sales and popularity exploded after its release.

As for our own Dark Domain, it’s not even worthy of being compared to it, let alone fit to carry its shoes.

Conna had already admitted defeat when it came to winning awards.

The quality indeed couldn’t beat the competition, and there was no denying that.

But what really made him angry was this.

The number one player had made changes to Elden Ring’s sales amount.

Globally, different countries had different selling price points.

For the entire Blue Star market, this was a first.

Just take our DFgame for example.

On the DFgame platform, all games have a unified global selling price.

But the pricing is based on the consumption level of players in developed European and American regions.

During interviews, Conna’s public statements were also very pompous and flawless.

"This is precisely treating global players equally, which is very fair. I really can’t think of any other method that could respect players from all over the world more."

But what he implied was that Conna did not care about the gaming market outside of Europe and America.

Many big games don’t even offer Chinese dubbing.

Even providing Chinese subtitles is a common oversight.

If he doesn’t care about the Huaxia market, let alone players from smaller or poorer countries.

In Conna’s eyes.

These players are those who have nothing and only play pirated versions.

Even if you make it cheaper for them, they might still play pirated versions.

And even if they don’t play pirated games, setting a price based on the consumption level of a poor country, how much could that be worth?

Furthermore.

Selling a game at a 10% discount might sell ten copies.

But at full price, selling just one copy could earn as much as selling ten at a discount.

That’s why DFgame has never made any effort to reduce the fees for players in countries with lower consumption levels.

Players outside of the European and American regions can take it or leave it, and if they play, they buy at the original price.

With the lead big brother behaving like this, other gaming platforms in Europe and America naturally wouldn’t relent.

In fact, Nplay also adopted a global uniform selling price before the number one player took over.

Now the number one player has completely turned the tables!

Not only changing the selling price for Elden.

But the scale of the change is particularly large!

With the maximum coupons applied, the lowest price to get Elden is just under 5 M-dollars.

Elden of this quality, selling for 5 M-dollars?

To any player, this would seem like a dream come true, enough to wake up laughing.

More importantly.

The number one player doesn’t seem to have imposed server region locks on players from different countries.

Which means...

Players wanting to change their nationality on the Nplay platform is a piece of cake...

Any person, with just a little wiggle of their hand, can become a citizen of Argentina, become a citizen of Turki.

This move effectively shattered the existing order of the international gaming market.

Now, the backlash is slowly forming, and the voices of more players are gradually increasing.

They have started to direct their criticism towards the DFgame platform.

Many players have voiced that,

"If the top player can keep this up, then from now on the top player will be the adopted father I’ll never replace in this lifetime... No, my real dad!"

"Poor buddies agree, this is really down-to-earth. I can’t imagine in today’s market environment dominated by gaming oligarchs, there could be such a game company that, while providing players with the highest quality games, also allows players to get their hands on them at the lowest price!"

"Before this, I wouldn’t dare to dream of it, but now you know, the top player has done it! They’ve achieved what I couldn’t even dream of! The top player is too strong! Designer Ke is amazing!!"

"If Nplay platform can release more games priced for the consumer standards of impoverished nations in the future, then I’ll permanently uninstall DFgame! And do free publicity for Nplay every day! I am the top player’s most loyal dog!"

Such comments could initially be taken as players kidding around.

But by the time the secretary reported, the global outcry could no longer be ignored.

The breach had already been made.

Players had tasted the sweetness.

This was undoubtedly a very dangerous signal.

To let the top player continue like this,

Would not even take much.

In 3 years,

The current user base of DFgame platform would decrease by more than ninety percent!

This was something Hope Flute absolutely could not tolerate.

After all, compared to making games, the game platform was where Hope Flute really made its money.

That’s why, when Conna first heard the news, he cursed, "The top player is crazy!"

After hearing the news, the board of directors also quickly called to give Conna an earful.

All high-levels of Hope Flute realized the urgent severity of the situation!

And realized what kind of opponent they were facing.

That opponent, although not yet fully developed,

But damn it, they truly weren’t making money!

They were playing a deadly game!

"Directly stopping the top player from canceling the different pricing standards in various countries, that’s definitely not going to work now," Conna thought to himself quickly.

Nplay platform currently had less than 40% of shares owned by Hope Flute, and after the launch of Elden Ring, the stock market had been booming, causing some retail investors to be reluctant to sell their shares.

Preventing Hope Flute from acquiring the remaining shares, leaving them unable to make decisions.

Without the right to decide, if the top player wanted to set any price, Hope Flute could only watch helplessly.

"Then there’s only one option left..." Conna bit his teeth with difficulty.

Although he was very reluctant to admit it.

But he had to say,

This was the last desperate move.

"Pass on my words, have all the staff in the operations department work overtime recently."

"Then contact the public relations department to hire paid posters, and spend money to influence major media."

"Spare no effort in the publicity."

"This time in our PR, don’t promote any games."

"Instead, instill a core value among the players—let them understand that buying cheap games is wrong. If games are too cheap, game companies can’t survive."

"Then, set the rhythm, have paid posters pretend to be normal game-buying players, to discriminate against, insult, and so on, players who purchase games cheaply."

"In the end, we just need to achieve one result, let players consider buying games at normal prices an honor and buying cheap games a shame."

After arranging all this, Conna’s expression finally relaxed quite a bit.

A cold smile lingered at the corner of his mouth.

"I believe, with Huaxia Nation’s media’s ability to twist right and wrong, they’ll find a way, money is no problem."