"Wow, it sold 1 million copies!" Seeing this result, the fans of Pokemon said in a sarcastic tone.
In fact, these fans felt a little sour in their hearts. This was because they had previously clamored that "Pokemon Water: Fire" could crush five times the results. But now, it was only four times the results. They had actually lost.
However, these players didn't want to admit defeat. They all said that the first day didn't count. After all, the fan effect was very obvious, and all the fans would buy the game on the first day.
After that, the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 would drop rapidly, but Pokemon Water and Fire would continue to grow. This was because this game had too many fans, and many fans didn't get the game on the first day. But in the next few days, the sales of the game would continue to increase rapidly.
The fans of Pokemon weren't wrong in saying that. On the second and third days, the sales volume reached 2 million and 1 million respectively. The total sales volume reached a shocking 7.33 million copies in the last three days, shocking everyone in the industry once again.
However, there was something depressing about it as well. The sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 had reached 1.8 million copies after three days, and the gap between the two games was still about 4 times.
This made the fans of Pokemon feel a little threatened.
Then, something shocking happened. After experiencing the second and third crazed growth, the sales growth of Pokemon was almost zero on the fourth day. It only increased by 10,000 copies in a day.
It was the same for the next four days. There was an increase in the number of copies. Almost all of them were under 10,000 copies. This made the fans of "Pokemon" turn pale with fright. Could it be that "Pokemon Water · Fire" was going to flop?
But this didn't make sense. Although the quality of "Pokemon Water: Fire" didn't improve much, it had more than 100 new Pokemon, a brand new battle map, game mode, and so on. They were all very fun. It didn't make sense for the sales to drop like this!
In the end, the steam game's official website solved their doubts. The latest announcement on the official website stated that because the players were too enthusiastic, the 7.5 million copies of "Pokemon Water: Fire" that they had in stock had all been sold out.
Now, the company was rushing to produce the second batch. It was estimated that they would have to start work next week. Hopefully, players who had not bought Pokemon Water: Fire could wait patiently.
At this moment, the fans finally realized that the sales had stopped not because no one was buying them, but because they were already sold out. They had to wait for the second batch!
When the fans finally felt a little better, they went to check the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2. Then, their mood became very bad again.
During the few days when the sales of Pokemon Water & Fire were stagnant, the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 had reached three million copies, which was almost half of the sales of Pokemon Water & Fire.
This gave countless fans a headache, and they all thought that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 was too shameless. They took advantage of the fact that their games were out of stock to increase their sales. How shameless!
Well, let's not worry about the ridiculous logic in these words, because for fanatical fans, they don't need logic.
In the eyes of non-fanatical fans, the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 were quite good. Three million copies were enough to push the game to the top ten on the annual ranking list.
Considering that the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 was a turn-based role-playing game, the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 were already heaven-defying.
As games entered the 3D era, traditional role-playing games such as Brave Fighting Dragons were no longer popular. Even a heaven-defying game like Final Fantasy VII only sold a little more than five million copies on Sony's console and Qianshi's handheld platform, and this was after three months of sales.
Therefore, three million copies were actually quite good. As for the 120 million sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2, no one in the industry took it seriously.
However, Pokemon's fans took it seriously. Some of them posted in the forum that Da Qian must have secretly increased the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 so that it wouldn't lose too badly. Therefore, the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 wouldn't be that good.
In order to find evidence, this fan decided to go undercover in an ordinary steam shop in New York and record the sales of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2.
Based on the three million sales, the shop in a busy area like New York would have to sell at least ten copies of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 in a day. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the shop to achieve the current sales.
Seeing this post, countless netizens on the Pokemon forum urged the original poster to find out the truth. It would be best if the original poster could take pictures of the truth before revealing the truth.
The original poster accepted the order, and for the next day, the netizens on the forum waited for the original poster to post again.
However, when the original poster still didn't show up at night, the netizens on the forum couldn't take it anymore. They bombarded the original poster with all kinds of replies and private messages, questioning whether the original poster was bragging and didn't do any research. Finally, the original poster was forced to post again.
"Brothers, I didn't want to tell you, but since you forced me to do this, I can only tell you. According to my calculations, this shop sold 32 copies of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 in six hours."
"However, some of the buyers didn't want me to take pictures, so I didn't take 32 pictures. Instead, I took 14 pictures!"
Then, the original poster posted 14 pictures of the buyers holding the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 as evidence. However, the original poster didn't censor the buyers' faces and warned them with a lawyer's letter.
"Why?!" Seeing this data, the fans of Pokemon couldn't help but ask, "I asked them.
"I asked them. They said that they had been playing this game when they bought the Thousand Transformations. Although it wasn't very interesting, they bought it when they saw a new game. Also, they wanted to know if Ling Er Zhao had been revived!" The original poster replied immediately, [Forget it. Brothers, I didn't want to reply to the post because I found that the fans of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 are quite popular!]
[Especially when I saw the promotional video of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 in the shop today, I remembered that when I first bought the Thousand Machine Transformation, I finished the Legend of the Sword and Fairy after one round of Pokemon. After all, who wouldn't want to play a free game?]
[So, I remembered the plot of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy and Ling 'er Zhao's regret in the end. Therefore, I couldn't help but buy a game cartridge for myself … Okay, I'll stop here. I want to see if Ling' er Zhao has been resurrected!] The OP's replies ended there, and then the posts were all scolding the OP as a traitor, or simply saying that the OP was a spy.
However, some people felt that the influence of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy was not as bad as they thought.
On the third day after the game was released, a post like this appeared in the forum of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy on the steam gaming website.
[After one round of quick browsing, I finally saw Ling 'er Zhao. My youth is back!]
[The plot is a bit cliché, but my Ling 'er Zhao is really back!]
[Eight years later, I'm willing to call him the best Li Xiaoyao!]
[For this ending, I'll buy ten copies of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2.]
Well, I believe that everyone has seen that the plot of the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 2 has been magically changed by our Boss Jia.
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