Shi Huazhe wasn't stupid. He knew that Chen Mo had a lot of tricks up his sleeves. Perhaps he would come up with something that would suddenly increase the sales. Therefore, he didn't dare underestimate the numbers, afraid that he would be slapped in the face.
As for what if he really sold a hundred thousand copies?
Shi Huazhe wouldn't believe it even if he was beaten to death. From his perspective, Flappybird's success was a complete coincidence. Chen Mo was actually quite bad at everything. How could something like a blind cat running into a dead mouse happen again and again?
12 PM.
Chen Mo's Plants vs Zombies was released on time on the official app store. The players who had been waiting for a long time all rushed in, searched, and downloaded!
Currently, there weren't many players paying attention to the PC region, so Chen Mo's main battlefield was the mobile games rankings.
The PC region also released the installer, but Chen Mo didn't expect it to get too high up on the PC rankings.
Chen Mo set the price of the game at ten RMB.
The app store had a few different prices: free, one RMB, ten RMB, twenty RMB, fifty RMB, and more than fifty RMB.
This world's official app store was mainly for domestic users, and there weren't any exchange rate issues, so there weren't prices like six RMB or six hundred and eighty RMB.
Free and one RMB were both suitable for increasing sales, but Chen Mo wasn't willing to do that, as it was too much of a loss!
Plants vs Zombies wasn't suitable for built-in advertising, and Chen Mo didn't want to ruin the experience of the players.
If he sold it at one RMB and sold two hundred thousand copies, he would only earn a hundred thousand RMB, which wasn't even enough for ten draws.
Therefore, Chen Mo chose the ten RMB price range, as it was a very reasonable price. Of course, this wasn't to say that Chen Mo had a conscience and was selling it cheaply. The main reason was that he wanted to make a small profit but quick turnover.
Plants vs Zombies was a popular game, suitable for both young and old. Even primary and secondary school students who didn't have much money, or middle aged and elderly people who didn't like to spend money on games were Chen Mo's target audience. Chen Mo's goal was to get them to buy the game without hesitation.
In the experience store, Jia Peng and the other guys also downloaded the game and gave it a five star rating.
"Manager, we've all downloaded it and gave it a five star rating," said Jia Peng.
Chen Mo said, "Alright, thank you guys. I'll give everyone a cup of milk tea today. "
"Thank you, Store Manager!" Jia Peng and the other boys were very happy.
Jia Peng said, "Senior Wen and the others will probably come in the afternoon. They have classes in the morning."
Another guy said, "That's great, let's witness the manager's game dominating the new games leaderboard."
Jia Peng said, "Of course, Plants vs Zombies is so fun, it will definitely dominate the charts! We can be considered as witnesses. "
Many people were paying attention to the statistics of Plants vs Zombies.
In the App Store, the game data was refreshed every hour, the leaderboards were refreshed every three hours, and the recommendation spots were refreshed every 24 hours.
Many players were downloading it.
Some of them were attracted by Flappybird's advertisement, some were attracted by Chen Mo's Weibo, and some just liked the theme.
However, many players were still observing. They would wait for the game to be released for an hour and see the player ratings before deciding if they wanted to buy it.
At 1 PM, the numbers for Plants vs Zombies refreshed!
Jia Peng rubbed his eyes. "Damn, the number of downloads must be in the single digits! The data was heaven-defying! Are you serious? "
Plants vs Zombies, 887 downloads an hour after release, 4 out of 10!
Although these students weren't familiar with the video game industry, they knew what downloads and ratings meant!
Adventures of the Storm Rider was already pretty good among the new games, with only 400 downloads in 24 hours. But Plants vs Zombies had 887 in an hour!
If you only looked at the downloads in 24 hours, it wasn't a normal popular game anymore, but a super popular game that only came out once every few months!
Chen Mo, on the other hand, was relatively calm. This number was better than he had expected, but it was still within his expectations.
After all, Flappybird had been guiding players here, and the other video game platforms were basically giving Chen Mo free publicity. Chen Mo's Weibo post had already been reposted over a thousand times, and the number of people who saw it was probably in the tens of thousands. These people were all potential players.
Plants vs Zombies wasn't on the leaderboards or recommendation spots yet, as it hadn't refreshed yet. Otherwise, with the numbers Plants vs Zombies had, it would definitely slaughter the new games leaderboards!
As the popularity grew, the number of downloads for Plants vs Zombies continued to rise!
At 2 PM, 1333 downloads!
3PM, 1914 downloads!
There were around five hundred downloads every hour, and it didn't look like it was going to stop anytime soon!
At this rate, even if the number of downloads decreased at night, it was very likely that Plants vs Zombies would break ten thousand downloads in 24 hours with the boost from 8 to 10 PM!
Ten thousand copies on the first day, what did that mean?
That was insane!
Moreover, the game's ratings had been hovering around 1 to 4, never dropping below 9! This meant that the players had very high ratings for the game, and it was very likely that the numbers would keep up!
Jia Peng said in shock, "Look at the new games leaderboards!"
The number one game on the mobile games leaderboards had become Plants vs Zombies!
"Wow, that's too fast! It's already at the top of the new games leaderboards on the first refresh! Is this some kind of hack? "Jia Peng couldn't believe it himself.
The new games leaderboards weren't a big leaderboard. It was normal for games like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment to reach the top of the leaderboards as soon as they were released.
However, Chen Mo didn't spend a single cent on promotion for Plants vs Zombies! Just putting it on the app store, and it reached the top of the new games leaderboards in an hour? That's too unbelievable!
On the new games leaderboards, Adventures of the Storm Rider was third, while Plants vs Zombies was first.
Adventures of the Storm Rider was on the rise after getting new recommendations, but it still couldn't compare to Plants vs Zombies.
If Adventures of the Storm Rider was a normal starting point, then Plants vs Zombies was a catapult. The number of players wasn't even on the same level, how could they compare?
The video game media was also shocked. They also realized that Plants vs Zombies had a high chance of becoming the biggest black horse of the month!
Although the actual numbers would have to wait for the next twenty-four hours, the numbers for the first three hours of Plants vs Zombies were too good, even crushing some of the bigger games!
For the video game media, the sudden appearance of Plants vs Zombies was a bit of a shock, but for Chen Mo, it was within expectations.
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