Chapter 80: Anniversary!

Time flowed like water, slipping away silently; a mere few days were not even worth mentioning.

In the blink of an eye.

The date had already arrived at the last day of April.

For ordinary people, this day held no special commemorative significance; the entertainment industry had no fresh scandals to explode, and that man who loved drinking milk tea still showed no movement regarding his new album.

However.

It was precisely such an utterly ordinary day.

Yet for Qin Qin Xiaoyu and the entire MHY Studio, it could be counted as a milestone anniversary.

As for the reason, naturally, no further explanation was needed.

Counting from the first day the game went online to today, exactly one full month had passed.

Over this past month, the report card delivered by the game Genshin Impact could no longer be described merely as splendid.

Cumulative game downloads exceeded twenty-five million.

What?

Only twenty-five million is too few?

Many games have hundreds of millions, or even billions of downloads, making this not worth mentioning?

Leaving aside how much inflation exists in those figures of hundreds of millions or billions, even if the data were real, it was accumulated only after years of operation.

One must remember that Genshin Impact has been online for merely one month.

Among all new games launched alongside Genshin Impact throughout the entire month of April, not a single game could hope to catch up to this figure.

Even including the first three months of this year, it would be difficult to find a single game capable of rivaling it.

If this still cannot illustrate the magnitude of its influence.

Another rather interesting phenomenon can directly reflect the situation.

In the gaming sector of the Xia Kingdom, there was previously no separate category for "two-dimensional" games; but due to the sudden emergence of Genshin Impact, this category was listed separately.

The potential and vast market of two-dimensional games made some envious game manufacturers extremely jealous.

To ride the wave of popularity, many small game manufacturers began hatching crooked schemes.

As long as their own games touched upon cartoon elements, they would externally claim their games were pan-two-dimensional titles.

Of course... theoretically speaking, strictly speaking, there was actually nothing wrong with this claim.

However, whether players would buy into it was something only they themselves knew.

Besides game download numbers, the monthly revenue flow provided an even more direct reflection of a game's popularity.

Although the last day of April had not yet passed and Qin Qin Xiaoyu himself had not yet obtained the specific revenue data.

Suddenly, a ranking list of game revenue flows in the Xia Kingdom for April exploded onto the internet.

With a monthly revenue flow of 210 million, Genshin Impact prominently occupied the twenty-third position on this list.

At first glance, the ranking did not seem particularly high.

The monthly revenue was only slightly over 200 million; compared to the top-ranked game, which boasted a monthly revenue as high as 1.7 billion, the gap was obvious at a glance.

Many onlookers outside the gaming circle might feel this ranking was nothing remarkable.

But anyone truly engaged in the game industry knew clearly just how terrifying this ranking and revenue flow truly were.

First.

Before its launch and release, Genshin Impact had undergone almost no promotion or advertising on any channel.

Let alone ordinary players; even peers within the gaming circle only learned of the game's existence through special channels a few days before reservations for Genshin Impact opened.

Previously, they had never even heard of it.