Chapter 72: How Did It Jump to Fifth on the Best-Seller List?
Chang Xiuya urged, "It’s fine, just something relatively strong among the common cards will do."
Chen Mo said, "Alright, then try this lineup. Ai Mu Ti, Sha Man, Xue Xiao Jian, Ye De Xin Zhi Zhu, Shen Gun De. This set is called the Crow Squad Formation."
Chang Xiuya said, "Uh, Ye De Xin Zhi Zhu requires quite a bit of top-up..."
Chen Mo replied, "Uh, then how about playing the Five Little Strong lineup: Tong Niu, Mu Si, Nv Zei, Da Ma, Wu Huo Qiu Jiao Zhu. These are easier to obtain."
Chang Xiuya even wrote it down, planning to collect these cards next.
In fact, for the entire numerical system, Chen Mo had rebuilt it himself, so it wasn’t exactly the same as in his previous life. The strengths and weaknesses of the formations also differed from before.
However, Chen Mo still retained several classic formations and adjusted their combat power based on acquisition difficulty.
Wen Lingwei asked, "Is there really a formation that can break the Ultimate Expert combo? When I tested it before, I played that combo and felt it was invincible, right?"
Chen Mo said, "Well, I won’t tell you, otherwise the big spenders will stop topping up if they get beaten."
Wen Lingwei said, "Just give me a hint! How about this: give me a hint, and I’ll go top up to buy a Da Da Jie, okay!"
Su Jinyu said, "I feel like two thousand yuan probably isn’t enough to bribe the store manager..."
Chen Mo said with righteous indignation, "Of course, two thousand yuan is nowhere near enough to bribe me. I definitely won’t tell you to use Luo Yan and Hui Zhang with that physical instant-kill tactic!"
Everyone: "..."
Store manager, your integrity is really cheap!
Wen Lingwei stood up: "Alright, I’ll go try it out right now!"
Chen Mo couldn’t help but smirk. In fact, the tactic he mentioned could work. The physical instant-kill tactic could indeed beat the Ultimate Expert formation, but that depended on how high your cards were leveled!
The Luo Yan plus Hui Zhang tactic was actually the Shi Yi Yuan Shou formation, which included Luo Yan, Hui Zhang, Bi Yue, and Dong.
However, there was one thing Chen Mo didn’t mention: to beat the whale team with this formation, you needed two top-tier Luo Yan cards.
Place two top-tier Luo Yan in a vertical line. These two thieves’ skills were single-target bleed, which greatly increased the damage the target took from warriors. Paired with Hui Zhang’s whirlwind slash and Dong’s reduced healing, they directly dealt massive damage to the enemy’s Da Da Jie, instantly killing one in the first round to create a five-versus-four situation.
Moreover, playing this formation required just as much money spent on development. Otherwise, with just the formation and no combat power, you’d still end up getting crushed by the whales.
Chen Mo believed Wen Lingwei would definitely develop this tactic smoothly. Mm.
...
In the days leading up to the end of the month, Qiu Bin had been closely monitoring the reviews for Wo Jiao MT.
By now, Wo Jiao MT’s rating had dropped to 7.1, with a noticeable increase in one-star negative reviews.
"Trash game, wasting my money!"
"I’ve never drawn a good card! Never!!"
"If you don’t top up, you can’t beat anyone! Liar, where’s the so-called free game?!"
"Flipped from fan to hater!"
"How can you develop a game like this? Don’t you feel any guilt?!"
Qiu Bin scrolled through these one-star reviews, a bit puzzled.
What’s going on? It felt like these people had all spent a lot of money on this game? And they seemed pretty dissatisfied?
Wasn’t it a free game? And it gave away so much currency every day, so why would they need to top up?
Qiu Bin was confused.
Suddenly, his assistant burst in from outside: "Not good! Not good! Check the best-seller list!"
Qiu Bin was startled: "What’s wrong with the best-seller list?"
He pulled out his phone and looked at the mobile game best-seller list on the official app store. He was instantly stunned.
The fifth place on the official app store’s mobile game best-seller list was clearly Wo Jiao MT!
Qiu Bin rubbed his eyes. No mistake, it was Wo Jiao MT!
This was utterly inexplicable!
"Impossible! Something must be wrong! How could it break into the top ten of the best-seller list in just one month? That makes no sense!" Qiu Bin muttered to himself in disbelief.
Earlier, Qiu Bin hadn’t paid any attention to the official app store’s mobile game best-seller list, because in his view, neither Sheng Quan Shou Wei Zhe nor Wo Jiao MT could ever make it into this list of only the top ten.
The official app store’s best-seller list was notoriously hard to manipulate. The ones in the top ten were all phenomenal blockbusters, each a classic evergreen, with monthly sales easily breaking a million—monsters!
Sheng Quan Shou Wei Zhe did make decent money, but most of it came from the Di Chao game platform, not the official platform. So on the official app store’s mobile game best-seller list, Sheng Quan Shou Wei Zhe didn’t even rank.
Qiu Bin had never considered that Wo Jiao MT had any chance of making the best-seller list, so he hadn’t been paying attention to it.
But now, Wo Jiao MT had not only made the list but had also jumped straight to fifth place!
Qiu Bin looked at the fourth and sixth games on the list. They were two classic mobile games from Chan Yi Hu Yu, each priced at 10 yuan, with monthly sales stable at around ten thousand copies.
That meant Wo Jiao MT’s first-month revenue was approaching twenty million!
Qiu Bin still found it hard to believe, but it was clearly the truth. The official app platform couldn’t be manipulated, and sales couldn’t be faked. He didn’t think Chen Mo had the power to drag the officials into faking it.
So the only explanation was that Wo Jiao MT’s monthly revenue had indeed reached twenty million!
"How? Why?"
Qiu Bin stared at Wo Jiao MT’s 7.1 rating on the best-seller list, momentarily speechless.
...
It wasn’t just Qiu Bin who was shocked. Everyone in the industry, game media, and casual observers who had been following Wo Jiao MT were all stunned.
From the moment Wo Jiao MT appeared on the best-seller list, it had been skyrocketing like a rocket, eventually reaching fifth place by the end of the month, just as the bet was about to conclude, and quickly securing that spot!
There was no need for Chen Mo to announce the specific numbers. Most people could roughly estimate Wo Jiao MT’s monthly revenue based on the income of other games on the list.
Twenty million!
And what was baffling was that Wo Jiao MT’s rating had been hovering between 7.1 and 7.3, even dropping below 7 at its worst.
In contrast, the other top ten mobile games on the best-seller list all had ratings above 8.5, with a few monsters scoring above 9.2!
A rating of 7 was already considered a poor game, yet Wo Jiao MT had managed to stabilize in the top five of the best-seller list, with downloads still climbing!
Many designers and game media professionals found it bizarre. They had never seen a game that earned money while being criticized like this!
After seeing Sheng Quan Shou Wei Zhe’s performance, many had assumed the outcome was decided. They didn’t believe Chen Mo could create another game with double the monthly revenue of Zhi Wu Da Zhan Jiang Shi.
Later, when Chen Mo went into animation, even fewer people had faith.
Then Wo Jiao MT burst into the top five of the best-seller list, and everyone was dumbfounded.
What’s going on?
What happened?
Did I lose my memory? Did I miss something?
A game that seemed doomed to fail suddenly turned things around and even stomped on Sheng Quan Shou Wei Zhe, beating it into the ground?
This is unscientific!!