<h4>Chapter 88: Chapter 87: Rating for Thunderbolt Tabletop</h4>


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


    The contents of Thunderbolt Tabletop were nowplete. It contained three different games, Dou Dizhu, Mahjong, and Thunderbolt Poker (Texas hold ’em)


    Thunderbolt Tabletop was on both Pc and mobile as well, and would contain all three games. However, yers could choose to install or uninstall the games they didn’t y.


    Moreover, Chen Mo had added all the existing games to the Thunderbolt Gaming tform, and after this update, the yers who wanted to continue ying nts vs Zombies or I Am MT were required to log into the Thunderbolt Gaming tform.


    Of course, Chen Mo gave out a bunch of free runes to the yers aspensation.


    Afterwards, Chen Mo contacted Xu Xiaojun, representative of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment’s advertising department regarding promoting Thunderbolt Tabletop.


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    Headquarters of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment.


    Xu Xiaojun passed the phone used for testing to Lin Chaoxu, “Mr Lin, this is the game Chen Mo wanted to advertise on our tform.”


    Lin Chaoxu grabbed the phone and scowled, “Tabletop?”


    Xu Xiaojun nodded, “Yep, if it’s alright without, we’ll start promoting it on the promotional spot on the front page at the start of next week.”


    Lin Chaoxu replied after a few moments of thinking, “No problem, go ahead. We Emperor Dynasty Entertainment can’t break our promise. You can leave the phone here for now, I want to look into the game further.”


    “Alright.” Xu Xiaojun said before leaving the office.


    Lin Chaoxu had a lot on his te, and only managed to free up some time to test out Thunderbolt Tabletop after an hour.


    Even though Chen Mo was just a C-grade videogame designer, Lin Chaoxu still felt that he was worth paying attention to after being seen as a potential threat.


    –Ten minutester.–


    Lin Chaoxu was deep in thought after experience most Thunderbolt Tabletop had to offer.


    Afterwards, Lin Chaoxu made a call, “Hello? Wu Zhao? Could you make your way to my office, I have something to discuss.”


    Wu Zhao arrived at Lin Chaoxu’s office after half an hour.


    Wu Zhao was in his thirties, dressed casually, had long hair, and looked like a carefree frencer.


    Wu Zhao was the one responsible for Emperor Dynasty Tabletop who also happened to be an A-grade videogame designer. Emperor Dynasty Tabletop had games such as poker, Mahjong, and other regional tabletop games, all of which required his final approval.


    Wu Zhao asked, “Is there something you need Mr Lin?”


    Wu Zhao was a bit nervous as Emperor Dynasty Tabletop wasn’t a particrly important subject in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. It also wasn’t very profitable, so Lin Chaoxu would rarely even get him to meet in his office.


    Lin Chaoxu handed the phone to Wu Zhao, “Try this game out, and tell me your opinions of it.


    Wu Zhao grabbed the phone, asking, “Thunderbolt Tabletop?”


    Although he didn’t understand the meaning behind this, Wu Zhao tapped the icon tounch the game.


    First was using Thunderbolt game pass to log in, and then reaching the Thunderbolt Gaming tform after logging in. The tform had six games so far, ppy Bird, nts vs Zombies, I Am MT, Happy Dou Dizhu, Happy Mahjong, and Thunderbolt Poker.


    The first three games were greyed out and required downloading to y. Thest three games were already downloaded.


    Wu Zhao tapped on Happy Dou Dizhu and started ying.


    Although entering the game required an extra step, the UI for Thunderbolt Gaming tform was clean and easy to operate. Although it was a bit of a pain, it was still eptable.


    The game had no other yers, but there were a few bots in the lowest level lobby so they could still y the game.


    Following orders, Wu Zhao yed two hands and concluded that the game was the same as his own Dou Dizhu and had no differentiating factor.


    However, Thunderbolt Tabletop had significantly improved the guidance in game, some of which Wu Zhao felt was overly simple and a waste. The more experience yers would be very familiar with the rules were also forced into the tutorial.


    Moreover, this game provided the yers with many Happy Beans, such as being able to go bankrupt three times a day, or special jobs, all of which provided the yer with the in-game currency.


    The VIP system as well as the store was more rich as well, including emojis or actions that required purchasing. The in game chat and interactions were also quite well done.


    Afterwards, Wu Zhao went onto Happy Mahjong.


    The ystyle wasrgely simr to other mahjong games, other more popr alternative ystyles such as Blood Mahjong was also added. It was simr to Happy Dou Dizhu, as Happy mahjong also had really good new yer introductions and experience. It was obviously much more polished than other tabletop games.


    Lastly, Wu Zhao opened Thunderbolt Poker.


    He was shocked that it was a type that he had never seen before.


    Wu Zhao could be considered as someone who was really into tabletop games as well as being a tabletop game video game designer. He had looked into countless tabletop games inside and outside of China, even if he hadn’t looked into it in depth, he would’ve seen it before.


    However, he had never seen anything resembling Thunderbolt Poker.


    The ystyle felt simr to Five-card stud and Golden Flower, but it was also clearly different.


    The tutorials were also really well done, and the exnation was also clearly exined every single step of the way, the different hands were also quite easy to remember.


    Wu Zhao had understood how the game works after ying for five minutes, but as there were no other yers, just bots, Wu Zhao hadn’t discovered what would make it so fun.


    Wu Zhao felt that it was just a decent tabletop game, and couldn’tpare to ssic games such as Dou Dizhu or Mahjong.


    Wu Zhao said after ying the three games, “Mr Lin, are these the tabletop games made by Thunderbolt Entertainment?”


    Lin Chaoxu replied, “Don’t worry about who did it for now, let’s talk about what you think about this.”


    Wu Zhao nodded, “Sure, I’ll quickly go over my thoughts.


    “You understand how the tabletop games industry is in China, there are many users, and it’s not that profitable. Big yers like us or Fantasy Gaming tform focused on making tabletop games because we had therge user base in mind in order to try and convert them to fans of our tform.


    “Therefore, people would usually default to making tabletop games to expand their yer base. It is not the best idea to try and turn a profit using tabletop games.


    “The intent of growing the yer base is clear from this game. Dou Dizhu and Mahjong made no changes to the rules, but the new yer guide as well as daily benefits were clearly revamped and polished. This is probably an attempt at trying to gain yers from other tabletop tforms who aren’t brand loyal.


    “For us, there are a bunch of yers who aren’t willing to spend money, they could have dozens or hundreds of beans, ying daily just to get the daily benefits and y a few games. These are probably the ones who will change tforms.


    “But I don’t think it’s anything to worry about. First, tabletop games require a set amount of users to gain momentum. The more new yers there are, the more there is to experience, the more fun the yers will have. Emperor Dynasty Tabletop currently holds the biggest yer base, so it would be difficult to make a big dent in us in the short run.


    Second, although there are quite a few of the aforementioned yers that are likely to switch tforms, it isn’t enough for us to worry about. Our loyal fans are the active users, the people who have tons of beans saved up, and are especially brand loyal and are unlikely to change tforms.


    “That’s why I think that this game isn’t a problem for us for now.”