Chapter 48: The Game

“Ten-pull primordial stones? That’s too much—it’ll definitely cut a huge chunk out of our revenue!”

After hearing Qin Xiaoyu’s words, Chen Wei immediately regretted his earlier suggestion.

It wasn’t that he was stingy.

The main issue was that the Keli pool had only just opened, and still had huge potential in the coming days.

If we hand out a ten-pull reward right now, it would seriously impact future pool revenue.

This is a server-wide reward, meant for everyone.

If we actually give it out, we’ll probably be dethroned tomorrow and won’t stand a chance of keeping our top spot.

“Which matters more: revenue or users?”

Qin Xiaoyu didn’t answer Chen Wei’s question directly; he glanced at him and shot back.

“Do you even need to ask?”

For this question, Chen Wei answered without hesitation, “Of course it’s the users!”

Qin Xiaoyu grinned and said something that left Chen Wei stunned.

“Good answer—you’re clearly not cut out to be a designer.”

Revenue and users are both vital to any game company.

But these two are usually in direct conflict.

To make revenue look good, you have to find ways to squeeze money out of players.

The most brutal way to do this is to launch constant pay-to-win events while slashing rewards.

But this damages player sentiment, earns accusations of greed, and eventually drives away light or zero-spenders.

Qin Xiaoyu wasn’t naive enough to think he could eliminate this contradiction.

But as a game designer, his mindset differed greatly from that of a typical designer.

It wasn’t that he was morally superior or disliked money.

Rather, compared to money, the pride of seeing more people enjoy and play his game far outweighed any financial gain.

In his past life on Earth, Genshin Impact was already a massive hit with stellar revenue.

But…

Because of the design team’s incompetence, the game’s reputation plummeted, and fans even stopped admitting in public that they played it.

They feared being called names like “OP.”

For a game designer, this kind of phenomenon was, in a sense, a failure.

No matter how high the revenue, it meant nothing.

In many internal meetings, Qin Xiaoyu had nearly wanted to punch those designers dead and sacrifice them to the heavens.

Back then.

On Earth, after Keli’s pool topped all seven nations and exploded globally, players left because rewards were slashed.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t change that situation then.

Even his master, one of the game’s original creators, was powerless.

But now, in this parallel world, he had the power to change everything, so Qin Xiaoyu intended to make up for some regrets from his past life.

He wouldn’t stand idly by and let the same mistake happen again.

What would rebirth even mean then?

“You just said yourself that players are most important at this stage—so if we’re sharing joy, we can’t be stingy.”