I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 95 - 55: Wind Traveler Sales Break Through 100,000! Mr. Ke, with a Shattered Dao Heart, Transforms into a Demon!_2

Chapter 95: Chapter 55: Wind Traveler Sales Break Through 100,000! Mr. Ke, with a Shattered Dao Heart, Transforms into a Demon!_2

"Wind Traveler" didn’t generate much buzz on these two platforms.

After all, these platforms have a very eclectic mix of content, so compared to things like food, lifestyle, pets, travel, love, and celebrity gossip, gaming is just a small niche here.

Ke Jin searched high and low with no success, but eventually, he found the culprit on a website he had almost forgotten about.

The NAA forum!

As the nation’s largest gaming forum, 99% of users here discuss nothing but games.

Most gamers also like to shop for games here.

One could say that NAA is to the gaming industry what Jingxi and platforms like it are to shopping.

They don’t produce games; they are the couriers of games.

The daily active traffic here fluctuates around several million, which is quite terrifying.

Looking at the domestic scene, only the gaming three giants led by Tengjing have daily active user numbers that can surpass this forum.

On NAA.

After each game is released, the moderators create a dedicated board for it.

However, since Number One Player Company has its official website, and has created its own download platform with a small server,

Ke Jin doesn’t usually pay much attention to this forum as the platform is self-sustaining.

The last tycoon crusade originated from here.

And this time, another jerk had thrown him a lifeline in the snow.

"All the single bros over here, check this out – I actually found a girlfriend playing this game!"

On the homepage, this enticing title claimed the top spot among this week’s hot posts.

Ke Jin clicked on it to take a look.

Wow!

This is the jerk! This is the jerk!

Up until now, "Wind Traveler" had been slowly gaining fame within the gaming community, but sales were struggling to increase.

People would watch, be moved, and then.

Then they didn’t want to buy it.

Story-driven games don’t change whether you watch someone else play on a stream or buy it to play yourself.

Plus, it loses the element of freshness.

Moreover, "Wind Traveler" allowed for unconditional refunds.

You watch it once, think it’s good.

Then you download and play it yourself.

That should suffice.

Then you refund the money. How perfect is that?

If now eight or nine hundred thousand players are stick around, it implies that at least over five hundred thousand people have actually tried or seen the game.

It’s the classic case of receiving praise but not translating into sales.

And it was the outcome Ke Jin had anticipated as perfect.

But this post, which garnered a million clicks and thousands of replies,

had suddenly spiked everyone’s desire to purchase the game.

The gist of the original post by the author was.

"Wind Traveler" has been really popular lately, and after being deeply moved by the videos, the author bought the game to try it out.

Wow, it’s true as said in the videos – the drop rate is really high... no, I mean, wow, it’s true that random players appear in the second level.

So, the author and that player joined forces, overcoming various obstacles together, flying side by side through the skies and sliding over the sandy seas.

In the end, they both worked together, successfully reaching the mountain peak.

After admiring the breathtaking view, both of them lingered in front of the gap between mountains, not wanting to move on for fear that they might never again encounter this person who had shared two hours of their lives among the masses.

Walking a couple of steps forward and then stepping back again, they eventually drew hearts for each other in the snow on the small path in front of the gateway.

Throughout the storytelling, the author kept posting images, showing the journey and moments shared by the two in the game.

Every one of those beautiful scenes in the screenshots showed them accompanying each other at every step.

When the final screenshot was posted, showing both figures passing through the gap with their drawn hearts left imprinted in the snow, it brought the romantic atmosphere to an all-time high.

Many forum users following the updates replied in the thread with comments like: "Woc! My girl’s heart is fluttering!", "How can there be such a hazy, green, and pure romantic vibe? It’s too addicting!", "I’ve been a drug addict for twenty years and quit weed. When the warden asked me how I did it, I showed him your post and said, ’Get hooked on this; it hits harder!’", "Is this what I came to see? Yes, this is exactly what I came to see!"

If the post had ended there, it wouldn’t have been much different from the gameplay videos on Thunderbolt Station, as both are simply descriptions—one in images, the other in video form.

But the reason why this post exploded in popularity was.

The author had a follow-up!

He had added the other player as a friend afterward.

And after chatting a bit, he discovered she was a girl.

The two-hour journey made them both quite fond of each other, so the conversation was lively and cheerful.

As they talked further, they found out they were from the same city, and even lived just a few streets apart!

Thus, two young people unable to contain their emotions agreed to meet, despite it being 3 a.m.

Have you ever seen a city street corner at three in the morning?

Certainly, that’s irrelevant.

The main point was that they simply couldn’t hold back their deep connection any longer – it had to solidify!

So, hand in hand, they sweetly ended up at a hotel.

Now their souls resonated, as did their bodies.

In the end, the author even attached a cozy photo with his girlfriend, along with their Number One Player Company official website IDs, and the in-game screenshots as proof to show they weren’t making up a story.

In the photo, the girl looks pretty and cute, and the author appears quite handsome; they are indeed a perfect match.