ROSGT Chapter 105: It’s All Tears When I Think About It
Volume 1
Chapter 105: It’s All Tears When I Think About It
Two minutes passed quickly after the release.
Ye Chui refreshed the game mall and his eyes lit up: "In the two minutes since Double Dragon was released, sales have exceeded five thousand! A large portion of these must be from automatic subscriptions, which immediately purchase the game upon release!"
Automatic subscriptions indicate a player's loyalty to the mall. Typically, even large neural software companies only have around three to four thousand automatic subscribers, like SB Brain Software Mall. However, Ye Chui's game mall had already reached this level of automatic subscribers!
Ye Chui waited patiently for another three minutes and refreshed the page again.
"Thirteen thousand!"
Ye Chui showed a look of surprise. Thirteen thousand in five minutes.
Although this isn't as good as the thirty thousand instant sales of Street Fighter 1, it's still an impressive result.
For Street Fighter 1, Ye Chui did extensive promotion, and many people were waiting to buy the game. However, Double Dragon had little promotion beforehand, so achieving thirteen thousand sales in five minutes was quite remarkable.
Another five minutes passed, and at the ten-minute mark, sales reached thirty thousand.
The trend was very promising.
Additionally, online discussions about Double Dragon quickly exploded.
In the brain era, the speed of information dissemination on the internet is much faster than in another world Ye Chui knew!
"This Double Dragon game is pretty interesting, it seems even more fun than Street Fighter."
"I still think Street Fighter is more exciting to play, but Double Dragon is also quite interesting."
"As expected, any game produced by Professor Cha is a masterpiece!"
"Compared to Street Fighter 1's side-scrolling fighting game, this Double Dragon is more innovative, it's really fun!"
Various discussions about Double Dragon kept emerging.
"It looks like reaching a million sales won't be a problem at all." Ye Chui completely relaxed.
At this moment, he suddenly received a communication request from an unknown number.
"Hello?" Ye Chui answered the call with some confusion.
"Mr. Ye, it's me." A sycophantic voice came from the other side. "I'm the one who discussed collaborating on the game mall with you yesterday."
Ye Chui's mind immediately conjured up the image of the sneering bespectacled man.
"What do you want?" Ye Chui remembered the man's attitude from before, so his tone was not very friendly.
"Mr. Ye, it's like this. After discussions, we four brain software companies have decided to cooperate with you. Of course, by cooperation, I mean allowing our software to be listed on your mall, which would certainly make your game mall appear more diverse." The bespectacled man said with a laugh.
He had previously represented four small and medium-sized software companies to negotiate cooperation with Ye Chui, wanting to buy Ye Chui's game mall or invest in it indirectly, but Ye Chui had flatly refused.
Afterward, the bespectacled man's attitude became even worse. He believed that Ye Chui's first game was a big hit largely due to luck.
The first game increased the value of the game mall. If Ye Chui didn't seize the opportunity to cooperate with them, the sales of Ye Chui's next game might plummet, and the mall's value would also diminish.
In fact, cooperating by allowing other software companies' software to be sold in his mall was fine.
But the bespectacled man's attitude annoyed Ye Chui, so Ye Chui smiled and said, "Sorry, I'm not interested in cooperating with other companies at the moment."
"Mr. Ye, everyone can make money together, and you won't lose out..." The bespectacled man said hurriedly.
"Maybe I won't lose out, but... I feel unhappy." Ye Chui said bluntly.
"Mr. Ye, how about we meet and talk properly?"
"I don't have time." Ye Chui refused.
"Mr. Ye, please... give me another chance. I know my attitude was bad last time, it was my fault. I'll apologize to you in person, okay..." The bespectacled man was almost in tears. He represented four software companies and couldn't afford to mess this up.
When Ye Chui refused him previously, he had secretly cursed Ye Chui, thinking he would come crying to him later...
Now, it was him who was crying.
Ye Chui didn't say anything more and ended the communication.
The main profit from the game mall still comes from game sales. Other aspects are small money, so if Ye Chui was unhappy with them, he'd rather earn less.
The communication signal sounded again, and Ye Chui directly rejected it without discussion.
The sales of Double Dragon continued to increase. Panting heavily, Fang Xi returned after running a few laps. When he learned that Double Dragon was selling like hotcakes, he immediately got excited: "No way, I'm too happy, I need to go out and run a few more laps."
Saying this, Fatty Fang Xi rushed out, shaking his fat.
Ye Chui couldn't help but think, maybe Fang Xi really could succeed in losing weight.
An hour after the release of Double Dragon, sales surpassed two hundred thousand.
Although this result wasn't as explosive as Street Fighter's, considering the promotional factors, the final sales wouldn't be much worse than Double Dragon.
With the game's success, Fang Nan was also very happy. It was now noon, and because she was worried about the game's release, everyone hadn't had lunch yet. Now that the dust had settled, she hummed a little tune while cooking in the kitchen, and the aroma kept wafting out, making everyone's mouth water.
Though Fang Nan was a bit of a tomboy, in many ways she was very virtuous.
She even matched the traditional "three obediences and four virtues" of ancient times.
Since confirming her relationship with Ye Chui, she had been very accommodating and caring in many aspects. The most obvious was— that annoying girl Qian Xiaomai warned him to abstain for a while, and Fang Nan decisively wouldn't let him touch her...
Though Fang Nan shyly promised to make it up to him once Ye Chui's legs recovered, the feeling of enduring was very frustrating!
At most, he would try to control himself by just holding hands and kissing her.
It's all tears when you think about it...
"Master Cha, what game are we going to develop next?" Robert came over and asked.
"Let me think about it." Ye Chui said thoughtfully.
Should they continue developing side-scrolling fighting games, or maybe try side-scrolling shooters like Contra or Metal Slug?
Ye Chui needed to think carefully.
Looking at Robert, Ye Chui suddenly thought of something and asked, "Robert, I need to ask you something. How good are you at hacking?"
Robert was slightly taken aback: "Master Cha, why do you ask? My hacking skills are so-so."
"I've partnered with someone to run a website, and the server's protection has some issues. Can you help with that?" Ye Chui continued.
"Server protection?" Robert patted his chest. "Don't worry, Master Cha, I'm best at that."
"Great."
Seeing Robert's confidence, Ye Chui smiled and patted Robert's shoulder: "I'll take you there in a while. The website will need your help in the future, hehe, I'll give you another red envelope then."
After the success of Street Fighter, Ye Chui gave Robert a red envelope of fifty thousand. Hearing Ye Chui say there would be another red envelope, Robert's eyes lit up.
"Master Cha, don't worry, even if it's the legendary Seven Kings of Hacking attacking the server, I can handle them."
"The Seven Kings?"
"Yes," Robert explained. "The Seven Kings of Hacking are the seven kings in the hacking world: Sea King, Human King, King of the Underworld, Dragon King, Bug King, Ant King, and finally... Heavenly King."
When mentioning the Heavenly King, Robert's expression changed slightly.
However, Ye Chui didn't notice. Hearing these grand names, although he didn't know who they were, they sounded very powerful.
And Robert's confidence clearly showed his skill.
Ye Chui was even happier: "I'll be counting on you then."
"No problem!"
Robert gave Ye Chui a thumbs-up.