Chapter 33: Sales Slump.

Mu Yunfan suppressed the urge to curse and walked out the door, venting, "What a piece of crap!
This guy thinks too little of people!
If it weren't for the sake of making things difficult for your senior brother, I would have thrown the contract in his face right then and there."
“消消气,不行我们换下一家。”被人鄙视,牧云晓心里也好受不了多少。
可人家说的也并非全无道理,几个大学生随手弄出来的游戏能值多少钱?
Mu Yunxiao was also uncertain.
Over the next two days, Mu Yunfan scheduled interviews with several other companies. The offered salaries were higher than what Cao Jingshan had offered, but still fell short of Mu Yunfan's expectations.
To know that according to the system's prompts, this seemingly ordinary game has become popular worldwide in another world, with sales exceeding 1.9 million in just nine months and earning a profit of 20 million US dollars.
After entering the Chinese market, it achieved over 100 million yuan in revenue in the first month.
Even if it is transplanted to a parallel time and space and encounters obstacles, it is impossible not to recover the cost of 500,000 yuan.
这点,牧云凡还是有信心的。
所以,多番考虑之下,牧云凡决定跟发行商合作,采用第三方发行的方法。
The selected publisher is PCGame, the largest PC game distributor in China with its headquarters in Kyoto, which typically adopts a 30/70 revenue sharing model.
2月17日,经历过多番周折之后,定价60元的《星露谷物语》悄然无息的上线了。
正常的上线程序是在产品完成70%之后,进行产品立项、发行立项、产品打磨、市场预热、渠道测试、首发上线和长线运营几个步骤。
As an outsider, Mu Yunfan had no experience in the matter and only went through the steps of product development and initial release.
The outcome can be easily imagined.
Three days had passed, and the sales of "Stardew Valley" were only 5.
Left Xingyu, Qiuhe, Mu Yunxiao, Lu Yunxi, and Tang Ruoxi each made a purchase.
This pitiful sales volume can only be described as tragic.
In contrast, Longteng Technology spent a year developing the simulation management game "Farmer's Village".
上线仅仅3天,销量便突破了10万,在pcgame拥有78%的推荐指数,逗游网的游戏评分也达到了7.1,总体来说还算不错。
In the WeChat group:
Tang Ruoxi: "It's so quiet here..."
Mu Yunxiao: "..."
Zuo Xingyu: "..."
Qiu He: "..."
Lu Yunxi: "Stay calm."
Left Xingyu: "I didn't have the mood for work today, I've been refreshing the statistics page on pcgame."
Qiu He: "Same as above."
Mu Yunxiao: "Same as above."
Tang Ruoxi: "Same as above."
Ru Yixi: "I thought there would be 100,000 sales after refreshing, but unfortunately... there weren't..."
Zuo Xingyu: "If only we had sold it to Xingrui Technology for 3 million earlier."
Qiu He: "Yun Xiao, what were you thinking back then? You wouldn't even sell it for 3 million?"
Mu Yunxiao: "I regret not choosing it back then..."
Tang Ruoxi: "It's only been three days, there might still be a chance for a comeback."
Zuo Xingyu: "Do you believe that yourself?"
Qiu He: "I actually want to believe it..."
Luyi Creek: "I believe."
Mu Yunxiao: "...you're an exception."
Mu Yunfan: "Don't worry, be patient."
Zuo Xingyu: "..."
Qiu He: "..."
Tang Ruoxi, who left the chat group, chatted with Luyi Creek: "Are you not going to secretly help him?"
路芸溪回:“他做事情向来有自己的计划,我要是偷偷帮忙很容易帮倒忙。”
唐若曦对着屏幕翻了个白眼道:“什么倒忙能比现在的0销量更惨?”
Ru Yuxi said, "I believe this is only temporary. This game will soon be a hit."
Tang Ruoxi said, "Do you trust him too much?"
Ru Yuxi replied, "His ability doesn't allow me to distrust him."
唐若曦:“这……好吧,你赢了。”
几年的相处下来,路芸溪对牧云凡还是相当了解,现在的0销量确实是在他的意料之中。
不,应该是计划之中。
一星期很快过去了,《农夫山庄》的销量成功突破了50万。
龙腾科技经过决议,再次砸下了500万作为后期宣传之用。
For a moment, "Farmers' Mountain Village" caused a sensation in the entire gaming circle.
At this time, a well-known game blogger, Youyan Jun, released a game review video called "The Village in the Corner".
Click on the video and the screen starts playing.
"Attention, attention, he's coming, he's coming.
He's coming with beautiful rainbow clouds...
Hello everyone, I'm the super cute oil salt fungus that everyone loves and flowers bloom for!
Ai, ai, ai, it's you, I'm talking to!
Stop throwing bricks, it's not civilized. (Throws brick effect)
Ok, let's get to the point.
Recently, many netizens have left messages asking Oil Salt Bacteria to do a review of "Farmer's Mountain Villa", and Oil Salt Bacteria does plan to take some time to do a related review.
Unfortunately, a week has passed and I haven't found the time for it.
This is not the fault of Oil Salt Bacteria, mainly because I was enchanted by another similar game, "Stardew Valley".
这款游戏和《农夫山庄》都属于模拟经营类游戏,再三思考之后,油盐菌决定二合一,做一个对比测评。
我们分别打开《农夫山庄》和《星露谷物语》。
放眼望去,《农夫山庄》的画面感极佳,而《星露谷物语》呢?简直是对油盐菌审美的挑衅。
作为有审美洁癖的油盐菌,为了测评的真实性,强忍着退出的欲望继续点了进去。
简单玩一下,《农夫山庄》的开场还是比较传统的,不过画风清奇,代入感十足……
谈完《农夫山庄》,咱们再聊聊《星露谷物语》。
As mentioned above, I was initially resistant when I first encountered Stardew Valley.
The pixelated art style is fairly commonplace.
However, once I started playing, the addictive nature of this game became apparent.
轻快的bgm,生动的画风,简洁的操作,开垦,耕种,钓鱼,让人欲罢不能。
玩法更是百变多样,自由度十足。
游戏开头玩起来挺累的,因为前期工具效率低。
Every day is spent on farming, watering, chopping trees, picking wild fruits, digging through trash cans, and exhausting physical strength.
Regularly being escorted home by NPCs at night and extorted for money.
However, when you first start playing, you don't really feel tired because building your own house from scratch gives a great sense of accomplishment.
There are various festival activities throughout the four seasons, and they are full of seasonal characteristics.
The background music is also very beautiful, combined with different scenery, you will find that this mosaic game world is extremely gorgeous.
Comparing the two, although "Farmhouse Mountain Village" has a better art style, the game's core gameplay still continues the traditional style without substantial changes.
On the other hand, "Stardew Valley" is different. It divides the game into several parts including fighting, farming, fishing, mining, and land reclamation.
Players need to make reasonable use of their daily energy to complete daily tasks, and the world outside their farm is even richer.
Next, we will enter Oil Salt Bacterium's personal recommendation section.
《农夫山庄》推荐指数3颗星,画风上虽然极佳,可游戏内容过于传统,没有多大进步。
《星露谷物语》推荐指数5颗星,推荐理由谁玩谁上瘾。
不多说了,油盐菌开了个新档,要去继续研究新玩法了。”
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