Chapter 24: Is This Really a Legitimate Mobile Game Company?

The number of people reserving the game continued to climb steadily as time passed.

An entire afternoon.

The happiest thing for Cai Qiu and Chen Wei was staring at the computer screen, refreshing the backend data every few minutes, then watching the numbers rise with smiles that wouldn't close their mouths.

From time to time, they would pinch each other to confirm they weren't in a dream.

Who knew how much pressure they had endured over the past year of starting their business?

A renowned 985 university, an A+ major.

Since childhood, they had been the "children of other families" that neighbors used to educate their own kids, holding them up as the model.

Originally, after graduation, they should have had respectable jobs at prestigious companies with enviable Gao Xin.

But in fact, over the past year, none of that had anything to do with them.

During the most difficult months, they were so tight on funds that even eating became a significant problem.

Classmates who graduated at the same time had long left them far behind; every day, the class group chat was filled with various good news.

One classmate had become a member of a core team at a major tech firm, another's salary had reached so-and-so, and so on.

On top of that, their families also didn't quite understand.

As a result, during last year's Lunar New Year, neither Cai Qiu nor Chen Wei dared to go home.

Once.

In the dead of night, they had doubted, wavered, and even recently, after Qin Qin Xiaoyu was injured in a car accident, they had truly considered giving up on this persistence.

But in the end, they gritted their teeth and chose to take a gamble. Now, it was clear they had bet correctly!

The unbearable past was about to pass, and the dawn of hope was slowly approaching.

Over a million reservations.

Calculated by the lowest standard in the gaming industry, thirty percent would remain as genuine players.

That would still be over three hundred thousand users!

Moreover.

This data was still climbing steadily, although the growth rate of reservations in the later stages might slow down a bit.

But Cai Qiu and Chen Wei dared to assert that the final number of game players would definitely exceed five hundred thousand.

Let alone the two of them finding this data hard to believe.

Even many well-known major game companies, with a large launch event, inherent prestige, and overwhelming advertising and promotional support, wouldn't necessarily achieve such results.

After all.

The number of games that flopped annually at major game companies was not small.

With this volume of reservations now, they didn't need much; if even one-tenth of those people stayed on to become paying users, it would be enough to make a fortune.

Perhaps.

The promise Qin Qin Xiaoyu made earlier, that everyone would receive a Cullinan as a year-end bonus, might truly not be an empty statement said casually.

"Brother Yu, let's revise the reservation reward; we've already hit the ceiling!"

Cai Qiu, gazing at the backend data, suggested with a voice full of excitement.

When Qin Qin Xiaoyu first instructed them to add reservation channels, the plan they drew up truly didn't dare to set the target too high.