<h4>Chapter 10: Chapter 9 A High Opinion</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Exodus Tales <strong>Editor: </strong>Exodus Tales


    <strong><i>Tranted by Coldtaco</i></strong>


    <strong><i>Edited by Aelryinth</i></strong>


    Qiu Hengyang didn’t mind. After theughter from the audience died down, he continued, ”As for thest question, the ad space at the top of the gameover screen!


    “Many entry-level video game designers share amon shoring: not paying enough attention to the profit model,pletely disregarding it at the start of the design process.


    “For example, Hunter Ind, the game in second ce. It is a rtively mature adventure game. However, the designer hasn’t thought of the profit model, which I think is a shame.


    “It’s not that you’ll seed after silently finishing a game design. Just like directing a movie, even if you get good reviews, if the seats to your movies arepletely empty, that wouldn’t be sess!


    “If you haven’t considered the profit model, you can only put your game on the market and sell it for some standard price.


    “Let’s say that a game like Hunter Ind sells for ten RMB. So far there’s three hundred and thirty rmendations. Say that eighty percent of the three hundred and thirty are willing to pay, a pretty generous estimate, then the profit of Hunter Ind would be two thousand six hundred and forty RMB.


    “On the other hand, if ppyBird also based its profits from purchases, I can guarantee you that it’ll fail badly!


    “Obviously the designer has thought of this, making it free to pay and profiting through ads. This was an excellent move and suits the game’s special characteristics very well.


    “The total time you guys spent ying was three hundred and forty-nine hours. Lets say that on average each runsts for ten seconds, a generous estimate, and most probably don’t evenst for three seconds.


    “That works out to one hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred and ten deaths, meaning that within the hour of testing, this game has shown a hundred and twenty thousand ads!


    “Moreover, the reasoning behind the ad cement is quite explicit. As the yers who like games like ppyBird are definitely mobile gamers, and more intensive users at that, it means the yers that stay are the more patient yers!


    “Therefore, if I was the designer of another mobile game, I would consider buying this ad space. Let’s say one in every thirty people engages with the ads in ppyBird and one in every ten of those would make a purchase. Therefore, if I bought the adspace, I would’ve gotten four hundred eighteen and eight-tenths purchases.


    “If every purchase was ten RMB, the profit I get from buying the adspace is 4,188 RMB. I would be willing to invest at least three thousand RMB for the ad space... already surpassing Hunter Ind!


    “There’s another point of note! Hunter Ind uses a single-purchase model. The number of yers who like these types of games are already small in the first ce, and they certainly wouldn’t buy it a second time, meaning that the profit over time decreases.


    “As for ppyBird, because it spreads like an infectious disease, its user base could experience explosive growth. Moreover, the adspace can be changed on a fixed-time basis. I’ll buy it this month, and next month will be bought by someone else, this way the future profit is guaranteed to a certain extent.


    “Therefore, the gap in profitability of ppyBird and Hunter Ind is actually massive!


    “The above points are why I think a game like ppyBird could seed. Most importantly, the author managed tobine all the points, basically making the best decision for every single aspect. That’s what’s most surprising to me!


    “To be honest, if you gave me six megabytes of resources to make a game that has a higher profitability than ppyBird, I don’t know what else to say than... I can’t do it!


    “That’s all I have to say, emcee.”


    Qiu Hengyang turned off his mic and gestured for the emcee to move on to the next round.


    The audience was so shocked that no words came out. Maybe that was too much praise?


    Qiu Hengyang wouldn’t be able to do it to this level using 6 MB of resources? Didn’t that mean that the ability of the author in mention surpassed a B-grade video game designer? There had to be some sort of threshold for this kind of praise, right?


    However, the words of Qiu Hengyang did have evidence backing up his ims and provided plenty of insight to his analysis. Many of the audience following the thought process of Qiu Hengyang also agreed that ppyBird might seem simple, but it had a lot of minute details.


    Obviously this designer number Seven had nned all parts of it from the start. Perfect bnce between self harm, bragging rights, and ad revenue. This was a nearplete game that was also very profitable!


    As they said, professionals have a different perspective. After some analysis from Qiu Hengyang, a majority of the audience also thought that ppyBird was quite impressive.


    Chen Mo couldn’t help but look at Qiu Hengyang when he opened his bottle and took a sip of water.


    In truth, Qiu Hengyang came up with the reasoning for the adspace profitability by himself.. Obviously he hadn’t researched too deeply into the statistics of games. Evidently it wasn’t a big concern for video game designers in this era.


    ording to statistics in the previous world, ppyBird had more than fifty million downloads. The maker, Nguyen Dong, had fifty thousand USD, or three hundred thousand RMB, going into his bank ount every day, just from the adspace.


    ording to the rate of banner ads at that time, every thousand ad views would result in 0.15 US dors, or about one RMB, meaning that ppyBird would show three hundred million ads a day.


    Using the same rate of one RMB per one thousand views, the ppyBird that Chen Mo disyed a hundred and twenty thousand times, amounted to about a hundred twenty RMB.


    Even if it was a slightly more expensive pop-up ad, increasing it tenfold to twelve hundred RMB, Qiu Hengyang had obviously overestimated.


    However, Qiu Hengyang was correct about one point: the biggest advantage this game had was the potential explosive growth! This was especially so with the online leaderboard function added to further increase its growth. That was its basis of guaranteeing ie.


    Obviously, Chen Mo didn’t want to argue against Qiu Hengyang, and he didn’t even have time to celebrate. He knew that his champion position in thepetition was secured after so much praiseing from Qiu Hengyang.


    Moreover, Qiu Hengyang was able to make all that analysis within an hour of y testing, including the rough estimate for ie, which Chen Mo thought was very impressive. Compared to the other judges, it was obvious that Qiu Hengyang’s skill level blew Shi Huazhe and Lin Hai out of the water.


    -This world still had some geniuses, not all of them are mindless ves like Shi Huazhe.-


    Shi Huazhe’s expression looked unsightly. Qiu Hengyang’s analysis basically asserted that he was wrong in front of everyone, embarrassing him. How good could he feel after that?


    Among the two judges, one said that it’s garbage and worthless, the other praised it as a genius invention. Obviously, only one of them was right. In fact, most of the audience were on Qiu Hengyang’s side!