Chapter 1 April Fool's Day

April 1st, April Fool's Day.

*Game Producer* was officially launched and sold for 28 yuan!

Tengda now has a reputation, and this time it has specially found some video up hosts to promote it. It has become impossible for this game to be launched secretly without attracting the attention of players.

Pei Qian also struggled for a long time with the pricing.

If the price is too low, *Ghost General* is a lesson from the past.

If the price is too high, *Fortress at Sea* is another lesson from the past.

What should I do!

It's a dilemma.

Pei Qian thought about it and decided that it would be better to set the price a little lower.

Because the characteristic of the game *Game Producer* is: players can "cloud clear" it!

As long as the video creators record the entire process of the game, cloud players can fully experience it directly on the video website, and the impulse to buy it will not be very strong.

In other words, the main group of people who buy this game should be some more hardcore players.

For example, many video up hosts, streamers, and players who are particularly enthusiastic about domestic stand-alone games.

This group of people is not so sensitive to the price of the game. There is not much difference between pricing a game at 30 or 90. As long as they want to play it, they will definitely buy it.

But for cloud players who are used to getting things for free, even the lowest price is not lower than free.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, the price of 28 yuan is already the lowest price allowed by the system.

When the target player group is relatively fixed, the lower the price, the less you earn!

This pricing caused concern among some people in the company, who were afraid that the cost would not be recovered, but Pei Qian overruled all objections and finalized the price.

Pei Qian hopes that the keywords for this game are: huge investment, cool scenes, extremely high popularity, and dismal sales!

So far, the main investment in the game *Game Producer* has been in art, with approximately more than 2 million yuan invested. Adding up other investments, it's about 3 million yuan.

Ruan Guangjian did give some discounts, but he is only responsible for the original concept design of the game. The specific original paintings, scenes, models, etc., still cost extra money.

Considering all kinds of other miscellaneous investments, this game has to sell about 300,000 copies to make a profit!

Pei Qian still has a little confidence in the goal of not selling 300,000 copies.

It is acceptable that a small group of players are masochists, but there can't be 300,000 masochists, right?

...

At the same time as the game was released, Qiao Liang also updated the video.

After the update was completed, Qiao Liang directly closed the Sweet Potato website background, turned off the fan group chat messages, and turned the phone to silent.

Self-isolation mode, all in one go!

Then, he sent the video address to Lü Mingliang as soon as possible.

Not long after, the money was transferred.

With the money in his account, Qiao Liang breathed a sigh of relief.

Perfect!

He directly went into ostrich mode, ignoring the flood behind him. Anyway, he got the money, so he would play for two months first!

No matter how much he is scolded, after two months, the storm will pass, and he will pretend that nothing happened. Teacher Qiao is a good man again.

...

Not long after Qiao Liang released the video, his fans received a notification.

Within a short period of ten minutes, the fans' moods fluctuated greatly and suffered tons of damage!

Seeing that Teacher Qiao had updated the video, the first reaction was happiness.

But upon closer inspection, it was a "New Game Recommendation of the Month," and their enthusiasm cooled down by half in an instant, because they knew very well that this was a regular advertisement, and the video would not be very interesting.

Some fans who had nothing to do clicked in.

Then, their values were shattered into渣渣!

All the images in the entire video were from a certain game. The graphics were quite exquisite, and there was nothing to be picky about.

The key is that the content of the dubbing can only be described in four words: unbearable!

"Hello, dear fathers, I am still your familiar game father, Teacher Qiao."

"Before starting this episode, please allow me to calm my excited mood first, *siliu siliu siliu*... ah~"

"Everyone can see this game now, did you see its manufacturer? Tengda!"

"Tengda Games' latest developed game, now I'm going to show you the graphics of this game..."

"Sorry everyone, I'm a little incoherent... Wow, ladies and gentlemen, the very first time..."

"I haven't had this feeling for many years. I was so looking forward to a game. At 3:11 a.m., the Tengda R&D team sent me the video data of this game online."

"Its name is *Game Producer*, g~A~m~e, game, gamedesigner!"

"Awesome!"

...

Many of Teacher Qiao's fans were dumbfounded, their mouths almost open in an "o" shape throughout the entire video.

The video was not long, only about ten minutes.

But the style of this video can be said to be incompatible with Teacher Qiao's previous videos, and it doesn't seem like it was made by the same person at all!

The previous "New Game Recommendation of the Month" were all commercial videos, but Teacher Qiao did his best.

He made corresponding introduction plans based on the characteristics of each game;

He spoke clearly and fluently in the video;

Although it was for commercial purposes, he avoided the important and dwelled on the trivial, only praising the advantages and glossing over the disadvantages, but the video was still full of content and interesting.

But what the hell was this video?

It was inexplicably mixed with Chinese and English, and it also added many annoying tones.

He only cared about kneeling and licking this game, and didn't mention the shortcomings at all. Moreover, he only said empty words, as if he couldn't find any advantages, so he was forcibly praising it like this.

The most important thing is that there was no substance in this video, it was all fluff, and it was a waste of time!

In addition to making people feel nauseous, it had no meaning.

Many fans could not accept this cruel fact after watching the entire video.

"Teacher Qiao, if you've been kidnapped, blink your eyes! Oh, you didn't show your face, then it's okay."

"What is this thing? It's okay to advertise, but can you make it so ugly??"

"Unsubscribe, unsubscribe!"

"Simps get no house!"

"I shouldn't have clicked in when I saw it was 'New Game Recommendation of the Month'..."

"What do you mean? Is this an April Fool's joke? Well, today is April 1st, it must be!"

"I can't even tell from the tone whether this is a parody or serious..."

"When you can't tell whether it's a parody or retardation, treat it as retardation!"

"I counted, you said more than thirty 'wows' in a video of more than ten minutes. I'm really idle, and you're really licking!"

"Wow, awesome, this is my exclusive moment!"

"It's hard to imagine how much money Teacher Qiao, who has read countless games, received to make such a commercial video..."

"I doubt, can you really get money for advertising like this? Wouldn't licking so much cause the disgust of the gold master?"

"The key... this advertisement is for Tengda! From *Lonely Desert Road* to the current *Game Producer*... I'm dumbfounded. What happened between Tengda and Teacher Qiao..."

"The up host who complains about the game was knocked down by the evil game company with money? I can't help but want to imagine it!"

"Tengda seems to have released a new game today, called *Game Producer*. The possibility of Teacher Qiao advertising is as high as 99.99%!"

"Is it really Tengda's game? Is it the company that made *Ghost General* and *Fortress at Sea*? This... is their publicity strategy so low, or did Teacher Qiao take the initiative to lick it??"

"After watching this video, I was determined not to touch this garbage game, but I found that it was indeed Tengda's game, and I wanted to play it a little bit. What should I do?"

"Don't go! Why are you so unwilling to think about it when you know it's shit!"

"On the contrary, I really want to see what kind of game it is that can make my son lick it like this!"