[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-losing-money-to-be-a-tycoon":3,"chapter-losing-money-to-be-a-tycoon-losing-money-to-be-a-tycoon-chapter-22":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Losing Money to Be a Tycoon",{"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},1449949,1899,"Chapter 22: Boss Pei Is Too Righteous!","losing-money-to-be-a-tycoon-chapter-22",22,"\u003Cp>Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It did not take long for the other people in the dormitory to raise the same issues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why is there only a single purchasable item in the shop?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re only allowed to top up 30 yuan?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, you’re only entitled to an additional 10 draw chances per day after purchasing it? That seems useless!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about premium systems? Qute Three Kingdoms is already at eight tiers of it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone turned to look at Ruan Guangjian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he did not know what was going on as well!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pondering, he replied, “I don’t know what’s the exact situation. Perhaps I should ask Boss Pei about it. Maybe there’s some special considerations or this might not even be the final version?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian was puzzled as well as he left a message for Pei Qian through the resource website’s contact options.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss Pei, I’ve seen that there’s no premium system or other in-game purchasable items. Is it because the game is still in a testing stage? These options would be added in the final version, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, Pei Qian replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the final version.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian was shocked. “What... about in-game purchasable items?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Qian: “The permanent card is the only thing our game will be selling and we have no intention of releasing any other new products either.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian: “Why?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Qian: “Why? There’s no why! Our game’s pricing strategy is to have a single fixed price. The players would have already spent 10 yuan just to purchase our game, how could we implement even more in-game purchases?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In fact, my original plan was to not even have that 30 yuan permanent membership card! However, I decided to add it eventually based on the needs of certain groups of players.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian was thoroughly stumped and did not know what to reply for the longest time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boss Pei was so compassionate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The paywall of Qute Three Kingdoms was around 1,000 yuan and only paying whales could obtain the extremely rare cards. As for normal gamers, they had to slog for a long time before they could even get a single purple card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, everyone was almost equal in Ghost General! The only difference was a mere 30 yuan permanent membership card!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this was Qute Three Kingdoms, that amount of money would not even be enough for a single 10 draw!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian suddenly felt that he had gauged Pei Qian’s gentlemanly heart with his own mean measure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought that the reason why there was no paywall was because the game was incomplete or due to other reasons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it was only after asking that he realized – Pei Qian had not intended to create a paywall at all! he wanted to make this an extremely fair mobile card game!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted the normal players to be able to enjoy the pleasure of drawing rare cards as well!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian’s eyes were brimming with tears as he felt that he had gone overboard for charging Pei Qian 3,000 yuan per set for the original arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He should have given a discount for a creator with such ideals and character!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, another question struck Ruan Guangjian as he asked hurriedly, “Boss Pei, another thing. The game’s not getting many downloads yet. Is it because you haven’t started the marketing campaigns?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Qian: “Marketing? Fu, there’s not going to be marketing.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian was stunned. “Why not?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was the reason for creating a game to not market it?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a good restaurant fears being situated at the far end of the street – how would gamers know about this game without any marketing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pei Qian: “Because I’ve got no money! I spent a total of 300,000 on this game to purchase the template, art resources, music, sound effects and cloud rental service equipment... basically, there’s no money left.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian was moved to tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What sort of a spirit did this man possess?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian recalled how generous Pei Qian was when it came to the original arts job.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially, Ruan Guangjian had suggested a price of 2,000 yuan for a set of four. However, Pei Qian said that 2,000 yuan was too low for their hard work at designing and insisted on raising the price to 3,000 yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, Ruan Guangjian thought that Tengda Network Technology Co., Ltd. was an extremely wealthy company that did not care about that bit of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the looks of things now, that wasn’t the case!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tengda wasn’t that rich at all! The investment fund merely had a total of 300,000 to spend on the game entirely with nothing left for marketing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he thought about it, while surprised, Ruan Guangjian could understand why it happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tengda Network Technology Co., Ltd. had previously only produced a single game – The Lonely Desert Road. While it got some hype, how much could they have earned with a sales price of merely 1 yuan?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only natural that they would be cash-strapped now for their second game’s investment fund.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the tight budget, Boss Pei could not even bear to exploit them and instead offered a price which both parties would find fair and acceptable...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Righteous! This man was too righteous!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian suddenly felt miserable – perhaps, Boss Pei might have had money left for marketing if he had asked for less previously?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he knew that he must not raise this topic either; after all, Boss Pei would definitely not want the money given his character. Besides, this man was the boss of a company – he would definitely want to save some face for himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought of that had Ruan Guangjian’s heart stuffing up dismally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A game with this much conscience was about to be buried into oblivion just because there wasn’t enough money for marketing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How heart-wrenching was that?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guys, I think Ghost General needs us right now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian shared his thoughts with his friends of the dormitory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Huang and the others were equally stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This game has so much conscience! Is it not intending to earn any money at all?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No company would create a game to not earn money. In my opinion, Boss Pei is someone with such upright morals that he doesn’t want to earn money wickedly!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right. If he didn’t want to earn money, he would have set the entire game to be free! I think he’s depending on earning money through that fixed 10 yuan price!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But that sounds really difficult. No matter how much conscience the game has, it’ll be difficult for it to get popular without any marketing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How about we be the ones advertising it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We could, but there’s just so many of us... what’s the use? If we have some Big V or popular UP Masters, we might be able to get some attention to it. However, we don’t have such resources!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of them fell into deep thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Huang and the others were moved by Ruan Guangjian as well, convinced that a game as great as Ghost General must not be overlooked or it’ll be a huge loss for the domestic mobile games market!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, they could not come up with many ideas no matter how they brainstormed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s no way they could just go online and post ‘Ghost General is a good game’ repeatedly. That would be extremely inefficient and they may very well just be wasting their efforts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Ruan Guangjian slapped his thigh. “I’ve got it! I’m in a group where there are some famous hotshot artists inside. Perhaps I could go ask them to see if they could be of help?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Huang was stunned. “You’re in such a group? How did I not know of it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sigh, it’s a long story.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Guangjian turned on his computer and explained, “Remember how I was doing a part time job at a concept art competition last year? Back then, I got acquainted with Teacher Chen Qi and I showed him my art. He was appreciative of it and encouraged me to develop it along the lines further while even adding me into a group.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pausing for a moment, he continued, “It’s a pity that the group’s full of our industry’s big shots. I’m too embarrassed to say anything inside and so I’ve just been lurking around till now.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1395,"2026-06-06T01:57:24.105Z",1,"novelbin.me","73505795ad164d44b4826d921dbbf088fa990701cf8fffd8685f3873a5afdb6e","losing-money-to-be-a-tycoon-chapter-23","losing-money-to-be-a-tycoon-chapter-21",1674,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flosing-money-to-be-a-tycoon-cover.jpg"]