<h4>Chapter 32: Chapter 31: Explosive Release!</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>


    Shi Huazhe wasn’t stupid and knew that Chen Mo had many weird and wonderful ideas up his sleeves. It was entirely possible that Chen Mo could make something that would attract the attention of many people, driving up the sales quickly. Therefore, in order to try and keep what remained of his dignity, Shi Huazhe didn’t dare lowball his estimate.


    But, what if he really made it to a hundred thousand?


    There wasn’t an inch of Shi Huazhe that wanted to believe that. In his view, the sess of <i>ppybird</i> waspletely idental, as all of Chen Mo’s skills were utterly terrible. Surely he was not able to get lucky like that again and again in the future?


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    <i>12 PM...</i>


    <i>nts vs Zombies</i> was released into the market on time. The yers that had been waiting for it were all racing to download the game.


    PC yers were few and far between in this world, making it an unexplored territory. Therefore, Chen Mo chose to focus on the mobile yers.


    Despite having the game on the PC market as well, Chen Mo didn’t expect it to get close to the top there.


    Chen Mo set the price at 10 RMB.


    The app store had set the pricing on games, ranging from free, one RMB, ten RMB, twenty RMB, fifty RMB, or above fifty RMB.


    As the official app store in this world mainly catered to users inside China, there wasn’t a problem with currency exchange, so there was no need for 6 RMB or other odd numbers like that.


    Chen Mo could’ve made it free or just one RMB, which would make it much easier to increase the number of downloads, but he felt that he was losing out on too much by doing that.


    <i>nts vs Zombies</i> wasn’t suited for in-game ads, and Chen Mo didn’t want it to affect the experience of the yers, either.


    If he sold it at one RMB, two hundred thousand copies would only result in a hundred thousand RMB, which wasn’t even enough for him to make ten draws!


    Therefore, ten RMB was quite an approachable price. Of course, this didn’t mean Chen Mo was running a charity, he was just going for low price at high volume.


    <i>nts vs Zombies</i> was expected to be popr among all ages. Primary or high school students with not much money, or even the older generation, were part of Chen Mo’s target market. Making it cheap enough to fork out money without much hesitation was part of Chen Mo’s n.


    ——


    Jia Peng and his friends inside the experience store had already downloaded it, and gave it a five star rating.


    “Manager, we’ve downloaded the game and gave it a five star review!” said Jia Peng.


    Chen Mo said, “Thanks! I’ll give you all a free cup of milk tea for your trouble.”


    “Thanks, manager!” Jia Peng and his friends were very happy.


    Jia Peng said, “Senior Wen and the others wille over during the afternoon, as they have ss during the morning.”


    Another guy said, “That’s great, we can watch the gamepletely destroy the new games list together.”


    Jia Peng said, “Of course! It will surely dominate the leaderboards, it’s so fun! We’ll be the witnesses here!”


    ——


    Many others also had their eye on the sales of <i>nts vs Zombies</i>.


    On the official app store, the statistics for games were updated hourly, the games leaderboards were updated every three hours, and rmended spaces were updated every twenty-four hours.


    Many gamers were downloading the game.


    Some of them were brought over from the ads on <i>ppybird</i>, others came from Chen Mo’s Weibo, and some of them just liked the idea behind the game.


    However, many yers were still observing from the sidelines, waiting for the hour to pass and check the reviews before deciding if they should buy it.


    ——


    At 1 PM, the statistics for <i>nts vs Zombies</i> were finally updated!


    Jia Peng rubbed his eyes. “Wow, did they misce the decimal point and made it seem ten times more than it should be? That number’s unreal!”


    <i>nts vs Zombies</i> had received 887 downloads, with a score of 9.7/10 after an hour.


    Despite not being too familiar with the video game industry, the students knew the significance of those numbers.


    <i>Adventures of the Storm Rider</i> was considered doing quite well with four hundred downloads in twenty-four hours, but <i>nts vs Zombies</i> managed eight hundred and eight-seven in an hour!


    Just looking at the twenty-four hour downloads, this wasn’t just a popr game, but an extremely popr game, and made in only a few months at that!


    Chen Mo was quite calm. Although these numbers were better than he had thought, it was still within the realms of his consideration.


    <i>ppybird</i> would be continually driving yers to <i>nts vs Zombies</i>, and the video game media had basically promoted Chen Mo’s game for free, with more than a thousand reposts on Chen Mo’s post. As a result, the people that had seen the game might be in the hundred thousands, all of which were potential yers.


    <i>nts vs Zombies</i> wasn’t on any leaderboards or promotional ces, only because they hadn’t been updated yet. With numbers like that, nts vs Zombies would without a doubt kill the new games leaderboard.


    ——


    As the topic gained traction, the downloads of <i>nts vs Zombies</i> kept increasing.


    1,333 downloads at 2 PM.


    1,914 downloads at 3 PM.


    It seemed like the downloads were increasing by five hundred every hour, with no sign of slowing down.


    At a speed like that, including thete night slow down and the increased traffic from eight to ten PM, <i>nts vs Zombies</i> might break ten thousand in twenty-four hours!


    Ten thousand copies on the first day?


    That was crazy!


    Moreover, the ratings were ranging between 9.1 to 9.4, and never dipping below 9. This meant that the yers rated the game very highly, and would more than likely maintain this in the future.


    Jia Peng was shocked, and eximed, “Look at the new games leaderboard!”


    First ce on the new mobile games leaderboard was now <i>nts vs Zombies</i>!


    “Yeesh, isn’t that too fast? Being on the leaderboard just after one cycle, that’s insanely good!” Jia Peng couldn’t believe it either.


    The new games leaderboard wasn’t impossible to climb. Companies like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment or Zen Entertainment could easily reach the top of the leaderboard right after release by advertising and hyping up the game.


    However, Chen Mo hadn’t spent a single cent on advertising nts vs Zombies! Reaching the top of the new games leaderboards one hour after release, that was the stuff of fairy tales!


    On the new games leaderboard, <i>Adventures of the Storm Rider</i> was in third ce, while <i>nts vs Zombies</i> was at the top in first ce.


    After receiving a rmended space,<i> Adventures of the Storm Rider</i> had been gaining momentum. But it stood no chance against nts vs Zombies.


    If Adventures of the Storm Rider had a standing start, <i>nts vs Zombies</i> had a shooting start. How can youpare when the number of yers are of different magnitudes?


    The video games media was also shocked. They also thought that <i>nts vs Zombies</i> had a high chance of going viral, and bing the biggest dark horse of the month!


    Although the statistics at the twenty-four hour mark were more significant for extraption, the three hour numbers for <i>nts vs Zombies</i> were extremely good, even beating some works fromrgepanies!


    The explosiveness of <i>nts vs Zombies</i> caused some minor panic within the video game media, but this was all within Chen Mo’s calctions.


    Climbing to the top of the new games leaderboard? That wasn’t even a small goal for Chen Mo...