[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game":3,"chapter-game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-48":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Game Development: Starting from a 2D Game",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2271109,4435,"Chapter 48: The Game","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-48",48,"\u003Cp>“Ten-pull primordial stones? That’s too much—it’ll definitely cut a huge chunk out of our revenue!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing Qin Xiaoyu’s words, Chen Wei immediately regretted his earlier suggestion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that he was stingy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main issue was that the Keli pool had only just opened, and still had huge potential in the coming days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we hand out a ten-pull reward right now, it would seriously impact future pool revenue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a server-wide reward, meant for everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we actually give it out, we’ll probably be dethroned tomorrow and won’t stand a chance of keeping our top spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Which matters more: revenue or users?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu didn’t answer Chen Wei’s question directly; he glanced at him and shot back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you even need to ask?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For this question, Chen Wei answered without hesitation, “Of course it’s the users!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu grinned and said something that left Chen Wei stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good answer—you’re clearly not cut out to be a designer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Revenue and users are both vital to any game company.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these two are usually in direct conflict.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To make revenue look good, you have to find ways to squeeze money out of players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most brutal way to do this is to launch constant pay-to-win events while slashing rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this damages player sentiment, earns accusations of greed, and eventually drives away light or zero-spenders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qin Xiaoyu wasn’t naive enough to think he could eliminate this contradiction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as a game designer, his mindset differed greatly from that of a typical designer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t that he was morally superior or disliked money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather, compared to money, the pride of seeing more people enjoy and play his game far outweighed any financial gain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his past life on Earth, Genshin Impact was already a massive hit with stellar revenue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the design team’s incompetence, the game’s reputation plummeted, and fans even stopped admitting in public that they played it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They feared being called names like “OP.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a game designer, this kind of phenomenon was, in a sense, a failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how high the revenue, it meant nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In many internal meetings, Qin Xiaoyu had nearly wanted to punch those designers dead and sacrifice them to the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Earth, after Keli’s pool topped all seven nations and exploded globally, players left because rewards were slashed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, he couldn’t change that situation then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his master, one of the game’s original creators, was powerless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn’t stand idly by and let the same mistake happen again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What would rebirth even mean then?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You just said yourself that players are most important at this stage—so if we’re sharing joy, we can’t be stingy.”\u003C\u002Fp>",474,"2026-06-19T22:23:19.067Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b6ff28f304da5adab81be521045bb08964bf7353a1a51b6aa4e2364bedfe4eae","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-49","game-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-chapter-47",89,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgame-development-starting-from-a-2d-game-cover.jpg"]