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Chapter 91 - 54: Breaking Defense Made it to Thunderbolt Trending! High-Quality Secondary Creation Adds Another Blow!_1

Chapter 91: Chapter 54: Breaking Defense Made it to Thunderbolt Trending! High-Quality Secondary Creation Adds Another Blow!_1

With Yin’s immersive gaming experience over,

overnight,

the popularity of "Wind Traveler" went through the—

—didn’t explode even a bit.

Although Yin was one of the top streamers on the Shark Platform, the audience at night is inherently smaller, and during that time, there were fans discouraged by the opening phase of "Wind Traveler".

By the mid-to-late stages, when the game’s expression reached consecutive climaxes, the heat did pick back up.

However, that was mainly nocturnal viewers, who snuck over from other streams to see what the fuss was about in this channel, and as they watched, they stayed to see it through to the end.

The ending was shocking enough, and the finality of the ending, warm enough.

So these viewers began to spontaneously recommend "Wind Traveler" to friends and family with fervor.

But as we all know,

people always have a bit of a rebellious streak.

The more you recommend, the more outrageously you hype it up,

the more likely friends are to frown upon accepting the recommendation.

Could it really be that good?

"Let me put on some tinted glasses and see what’s the deal!"

And when they scrutinize a work with such heightened expectations, the result is often the opposite of effective.

Moreover, "Wind Traveler" as a game, despite having a deeply immersive second half, couldn’t conceal the ’retreat phase’ in the first half-hour that requires a calm mind to experience.

Therefore, quite a few people who received the enthusiastic recommendation,

after watching about fifteen minutes of recorded footage, casually dismissed it.

Waiting for the friend to come back and ask, "How was it? Did you see the one I recommended?"

Most would reply vaguely, "Oh, it’s not bad."

But in reality, they hadn’t seriously delved into it.

So, Ke Jin slept until late into the afternoon (the staff had the day off)

and upon rising from his chair, rubbing his sore back, then focused his eyes to check the sales,

he discovered that "Wind Traveler" had sold only 4,000 copies by that point.

The refund rate wasn’t as shocking as last night’s 95%, but it still hovered around 70%.

"This refund rate, isn’t it a bit low? Just 70%?" Ke Jin frowned, somewhat dissatisfied.

What, the remaining 30% of players don’t have hands?

Such a prominent refund channel is on the homepage, almost enjoying a panel as large as the download banner for "Urban Skyline".

If you’ve completed the game, don’t you know to just reach out and click for a refund?

That’s annoying Baby Yu!

Ke Jin was thus worried because

the system still allotted a full seven days.

He had thought that a sales target of 100,000 wasn’t too much; perhaps give it three to five days of effort, and that should be sufficient.

Dream on, buddy! System, couldn’t you be a bit more flexible?

But the system was truly impartial!

Seven days meant seven days, not a second less.

This gave Ke Jin the impression of an ’extra reward, as if Brother Tong Zi is secretly tampering on the sly, but compulsory tasks are to be reported back to System Nebula officially.’

"If there were a leaderboard for transmigrators’ task completion rate, wouldn’t I be at the bottom this time..." Ke Jin involuntarily imagined a scene where Brother Tong Zi, with a face full of sorrow, held his forehead and said, ’You’re the worst batch of transmigrators I’ve ever led,’ which made the corner of his eye twitch slightly.

Dammit!

Refusing to be at the bottom! Starting with me!

So Ke Jin opened up his browser and started intensely searching for various reviews on "Wind Traveler".

He wanted to see which aspect could potentially ignite a meltdown and then flood out of control.

If it was just a small anthill now, he’d squash it dead!

But after an intense half-hour search,

Ke Jin was baffled.

I seem invincible...

On Thunderbolt, discussions related to "Wind Traveler" barely reached a small hundred thousand, but that was just the talk stirred by the new release from the top player.

That level of heat couldn’t even climb into the top ten hot searches.

Checking the video section next,

the most viewed was Yin’s last night’s broadcast,

but even that had less than 30,000 clicks.

At two and a half hours long, even playing at triple speed felt awkward.

And being tagged as ’story-driven’, many players were too lazy to delve in, simply swiping away upon seeing the tag.

Fragmented videos were not much better off.

Each was just interpreting the new release from the top player in their own way.

The vast majority of players hadn’t even followed the storyline of the game, so a half-hour analysis video was even less likely to get views.

As for the prank videos, they didn’t make a splash at all.

After all, "Wind Traveler" is considered a heartwarming, artistic game.

Even if Ke Jin saw a few mocking works, they would get comments from fans of the game like "Are you an idiot?" "What kind of heat are you trying to milk?" "Milking heat and you milk it wrong, thumbs up!"

As for the streamers, he did find quite a few broadcasting "Wind Traveler".

But to be honest,

the game’s adaptability to live streaming was even worse than "Skyline"!

At least "Skyline" had some hijinks, exploiting the citizens for a laugh.

But it was hard to play "Wind Traveler" in that way.

Furthermore, one of the biggest challenges with narrative games is that new viewers halfway into a live stream find it difficult to catch up with earlier content.

You simply can’t keep live streaming the second and third runs because some of the audience missed parts of it.

After going the rounds,

the recorded broadcasts had no play,

and the prank edits had no traffic.