Chapter 773: Finally Seeing Some Money Back!
After reading Chen Mo’s Weibo post, all the players were completely stunned.
This news was way too huge!
The first item was a half-price sale—every single product on the Thunder Game Platform was 50% off, including all games and value-added services.
The second item was a special gift, kept under wraps for now, with no details revealed.
Chen Mo’s half-price sale wasn’t the same as those online store tricks. Many online shops play price games, raising prices before Double Eleven and then lowering them. A lot of people buy without understanding, thinking they got a deal when they really didn’t save much. These online scams are everywhere, hard to guard against, since not everyone bothers to track prices in advance.
But game prices were clearly marked. Everyone knew *The Last of Us* sold for 1880. Half price was 940—even a kid could do the math.
If anyone tried the “raise then lower” trick, it would be exposed in a second.
In other words, Chen Mo’s half-price sale was the real deal, no water added!
And on top of that, every game on the entire Thunder Game Platform was half off, whether it was Chen Mo’s game or not.
Of course, this strategy was something Chen Mo had discussed with the other designers on the platform. Under this wave of “half-price” madness, the other designers clearly understood that losing money now meant making money later, so they all agreed without much hesitation. If everyone else went half-price and you didn’t, it would leave a bad impression on players.
So, every game on the entire Thunder Game Platform got a uniform discount: 50% off.
Not only that, but those who had already spent money got the difference refunded. If your annual spending reached a certain threshold, you even got an additional discount on top!
The highest discount was 75% off, and it wasn’t for just one item—it was 75% off everything.
Unprecedented, never seen before!
Many players logged into their Thunder Game Pass accounts and found a huge pile of tokens inexplicably added. They burst into tears on the spot.
After all these years, they were finally seeing some money back!
Some big spenders had unknowingly dropped fifty or sixty thousand on the Thunder Game Platform over the year. When they saw the extra twenty thousand-plus token points in their accounts, they were shocked. Damn, this money fell from the sky!
Even though it couldn’t be cashed out, no one cared at that point.
Why? Because it was Double Eleven!
With such a massive platform like Thunder Game, even the whales still had things they wanted to buy!
What, you say you’ve already spent fifty or sixty thousand?
Have you bought all the great games on the Thunder Game Platform?
How about *The Last of Us*, basically the shoo-in for Game of the Year?
Want to experience Drake’s demolition journey?
What about the Switch, the ultimate tool for picking up girls?
Have you bought all the rare limited skins in *League of Legends* and *King of Glory*?
Have you collected all the outfits in Nuan Nuan?
If you really have nothing left to buy, go to the real-world “Nuan Nuan Wardrobe” and grab some clothes—they’re all half off too…
Even without this batch of refunded tokens, many players would still have to spend their own money to buy games. With these tokens, it was like the games were practically free!
And plenty of people didn’t stop after using up their tokens—they wanted to top up more.
Why?
Because they were just a bit short of the threshold for the extra discount.
Lowest prices in gaming history—miss it, and you’d have to wait another year.
So, would you top up or not?
Many players were in a frenzy. Who cared about online shopping anymore? Didn’t they know where their money should go?
The commotion was so huge that within half a day, the news had spread across the country and even overseas.
Foreign players were outraged. We’re human too!
But Chen Mo’s Weibo didn’t mention whether the global servers would have the same deal.
Many foreign players were already figuring out how to sneak into the Chinese server to buy games.
Chen Mo thought it over and decided to look out for the foreign players too. It would be awkward if this caused any bad international fallout.
If Sino-American relations were ruined because of Chen Mo, he’d be letting the country down.
If failing to give discounts to US server players sparked a trade war or retaliatory tariffs, the impact would be huge.
Alright, that was thinking too far ahead.
Besides, if he was going to lose money, he should do it equally.
Chen Mo waved his hand and made it the same overseas: everything half off!
After Thunder Interactive officially announced this news, players all over the world were cheering and celebrating…
Double Eleven’s e-commerce craze wasn’t popular abroad, so domestic players had to weigh whether to spend their money on online shopping or games, but foreign players had no such dilemma…
Those innocent, simple foreign players couldn’t resist the temptation! Many immediately declared they would buy Thunder Interactive into bankruptcy!
And with the entire Thunder Game Platform at half price, this wasn’t just a “plus one” problem—even “plus ten” wouldn’t be enough…
…
Double Eleven, midnight.
As soon as the clock struck twelve, every product on the Thunder Game Platform instantly gained a new tag.
50% off!
Players’ personal accounts also got a new interface, specifically tracking their spending and current extra discount thresholds.
Players had been waiting for ages. Buy, buy, buy!
Unlike e-commerce sites, Chen Mo didn’t do limited-time flash sales. All products were unlimited in supply. Well, except for the Nuan Nuan Wardrobe.
After all, he was selling purely virtual goods…
Even though there was no limit, most players still chose to buy their long-desired items right at midnight, including various games and skins. Faced with such thrilling discounts, few players could stay rational enough to go to sleep.
While players were bleeding money and chopping off their hands, *Seaside Mansion* also received an update.
And the content of this update shocked all the players—it was massive! Far exceeding the original size of *Seaside Mansion* itself!
Earlier, Chen Mo’s Weibo had only said that besides the sale, there was a special gift coming with the *Seaside Mansion* update for all players.
At first, many players thought it might be another Nuan Nuan or something similar.
But when they started downloading, they realized—what the hell, this was no small update!
It was almost like a whole new game…
And on top of that, this update didn’t cost anything. It wasn’t a paid DLC; it was essentially free.
After a round of buying on the Thunder Game Platform, many players went to check out the *Seaside Mansion* update.
On streaming sites, many streamers were hosting Double Eleven specials, showing off unboxing stunts or blowing money on games.
Lin Xue was no exception. She not only spent all the tokens refunded to her Thunder Game Pass account but also topped up another nine thousand.
Of course, a lot of that money was for the show, but she genuinely wanted to buy things too…
“Alright, the Double Eleven spending spree ends here! Mods, anyone who eggs me on to top up again, please ban them!”
“Ahem, okay, now let’s go check out what Chen Mo’s so-called mysterious gift really is.”
Lin Xue ignored the barrage of comments urging her to keep spending and entered *Seaside Mansion*.
Every time Chen Mo gave a “little gift,” it always surprised the players, like the last time with Nuan Nuan.
But Lin Xue noticed that the room didn’t seem to have changed at all.
She was a bit puzzled. So much had been updated—where did it all go?
Then Lin Xue stepped outside the house and saw, on an empty patch of land not far away, a griffin lying there, preening the feathers on its wings.