Chapter 312: Reporters and Booksellers
On December 15, the night before "clannad" was released.
"I'm back."
Ning Hai, Yu Feihang returned to the rental house, and smiled as he entered the door: "Tomorrow "Clannad" will be released, and I finally got the benefits of a formal employee! The editor-in-chief handed over the game experience report to the newly-employed newcomer. The guy was full of excitement. If he knew what I had happened last year, he would have to cry!"
My girlfriend was preparing dinner in the room and laughed loudly when she heard this.
"Congratulations, Teacher He Xi's game, you can't play without a guide."
The tragedy brought by "Fate/staynight" last year is still vivid in my mind. I started playing it directly without a guide. Yu Feihang was abused and didn't sleep well for a few days, and even in my dreams, he and his girlfriend still remember it freshly. Today, Yu Feihang felt very lucky.
"So, will you buy "Clannad" tomorrow?"
After serving the dishes to the table, my girlfriend asked while placing the dishes.
"You want to go." Yu Feihang took off his coat, sat at the table and praised his girlfriend's skills, and replied: "Although you don't need to write a report on the game experience, it is the work of Teacher He Xi after all, and the editorial department wants to do a special topic. So I have to check the game sales situation and go to Longquan Game Store tomorrow to investigate."
Ninghai is a first-tier city. There are more than a dozen Longquan game stores here, with branches in every corner of the city. Yu Feihang is expected to be very busy tomorrow.
"I will buy one by the way." Yu Feihang took the rice from his girlfriend and said with a smile: "Save it home after buying it, and we will play together after the guide comes out!"
Although he had a strong psychological shadow of He Xi's game, on the other hand, he was very obsessed with the game plots of He Xi's subordinates. As long as there was a strategy, He Xi's game was worth playing. Moreover, he was not the only one who had such an idea. After dinner, his girlfriend packed up the dishes and Yu Feihang went online to see many fellow people on the He Xi's home forum.
Those who have played "Fate/staynight" at the first time know what He Xi's game is, so with a few exceptions, other readers have made smart decisions before playing it.
However, the enthusiasm for buying "clannad" in the forum is still very high, and many popular posts are talking about what game version to buy tomorrow.
For example, this post—
The poster: "The version doesn't need to be considered at all. What I want to say is definitely the most cost-effective ban on 18, right? The price is only 10 Huaxia coins more expensive than the whole age. Teacher He Xi's pricing this time is obviously wrong!"
Second floor: "The collection package contains all-age versions of the game. Judging from this situation, Teacher He Xi is obviously biased towards all-age. As a fan of Teacher He Xi, I think we should support him to purchase all-age versions!"
Third Floor: "No, no... I think Mr. He Xi should not have seen the situation clearly. Now all kinds of text adventure games are 18-banned versions, which is like drugs. After tasting the taste of 18-banned versions, who is willing to accept the full-age version? Moreover, the gap between 10 Huaxia coins is not big. I think everyone would rather buy 18-banned versions, right?"
Fourth Floor: "Passing by, there is no love in the game, but I will still support Teacher He Xi!"
Fifth Floor: "I agree with the third floor. After playing several 18-banned text adventure games, I don't feel it anymore when I look at the all-age version... It's too dull. Without HCG and plot, can it be considered a love development?"
Although the discussion was very lively, Yu Feihang found that most readers tended to be banned from the 18-banned game version. He shook his head, which was impossible. Now the emergence of various H games has already made readers' appetites. However, as for Feihang, he has never played other people's works except He Xi's text adventure game, so he prefers all-age versions.
"Since Mr. He Xi has included the all-age version in the collection package, the script of "clannad" must be very outstanding!"
Yu Feihang left a line of words in the post. He has been following He Xi for a long time and knows that the cartoonist will not do things that are not sure. Since he dared to put the all-age "Clannad" into the expensive collection, it proves that the game "Clannad" can be popular with the public without the H plot!
"It must be true..."
With this confidence, on December 16, the day for the release of "Clannad" has arrived.
At six o'clock in the morning, Yu Feihang brought his camera and notes, and walked out of the rental house in a thick coat. In winter, the sun has not yet fully risen. The streets are covered with white fog, and the scenes in the distance are blurred.
"It's so cold." The cold wind blewed Yu Feihang, he shrank, and frowned and said to himself: "It's such a cold day, there shouldn't be many people buying games, right?"
Although he has confidence in He Xi, Yu Feihang doesn't think he will see the lively scene of comic releases in Longquan Game Store - this is obvious. Except for the release of some top games in the game industry that can attract players' enthusiasm for purchasing, other games will not have much response.
After all, games are games, and text adventure is even more of a niche in the game.
"For Clannad, it should be a big success if there are ten people buying it at this time."
Yu Feihang secretly calculated that games are different from comics. Except for collector's versions, it almost does not require rush purchases. As long as there is demand, the game store will continue to supply. Therefore, readers will not be so anxious. In addition, before dawn, if a Longquan game store can see ten people waiting, then there will be nearly two hundred people in the entire Ninghai blowing the cold wind waiting for the sale.
This number is amazing for text adventure games. With the greater crowds after dawn, Ninghai will definitely sell three to four thousand games today. It may exceed ten thousand in the next two weeks, while a city exceeds ten thousand, and dozens of big cities in China, thousands of small and medium-sized cities, all of which are estimated to exceed 30,000 to 400,000.
The text adventure game of 300,000 to 400,000 yuan has attracted much attention in terms of revenue.
However, when Yu Feihang came to the first Longquan game store, he felt that his calculation method must have been wrong - the number of people displayed in front of him was ten times more than he expected. At the entrance of this Longquan game store, there were hundreds of people waiting in line!
“10…24…57…79…98…113?”
The exact number of people queuing is 113. If you follow Yu Feihang's calculation method, the final release volume of "Clannad" will be at least four to five million copies.
Absolutely impossible - this number is equivalent to the sales of genuine stand-alone games in second- and third-tier, and the total sales of all text adventure games in the past three months have not exceeded 3.5 million. Yu Feihang felt that his calculation method had serious logical errors, but no matter what, he could be sure of one thing.
"This game recovered its cost before it was released!"
"Teacher He Xi has created another miracle!!" - In the car not far from Feihang, book dealer Lu Fei thought, smoking a cigarette.
"Master, Master, you're right. Hundreds of people were waiting here so early!" The young man in the driver's seat next to Lu Fei was named Liu Qiang, who was Lu Fei's little apprentice. Now he looked at the Longquan Game Store with excitement and said, "They all got up early to buy games? Teacher He Xi has too much influence!"
"That's it, otherwise how could I have today."
Lu Fei smiled proudly and said that his life had undergone earth-shaking changes because of He Xier.
Two years ago, Lu Fei's career was an underground worker who sold pornographic discs. He went around the pedestrian street with urban management all day long. But since He Xi debuted, he has gradually changed his career to become a book dealer, selling "Weekly Boy" and "Weekly Girl" around Longquan Middle School for half a year. Later, he became even more serious. He began to resell He Xi's works.
Just last year, Lu Fei reselled "Fate/staynight" and became rich! At that time, the game was released, and the Internet was full of criticism. Many dealers hesitated to not purchase goods, but at that time, Lu Fei gritted his teeth and bought the collector's version of "Fate/staynight" with almost all his property, becoming the person with the most purchases.
As a result, a few days later, the price of the game rose to several thousand Chinese coins. Lu Fei sold the inventory in batches, making a profit of hundreds of thousands, and the salted fish was reborn! Now He Xi launched the new game "Clannad". When Lu Fei recalled his experience last year, he was naturally excited and wanted to do it again.
"Liu Qiang. Come and queue up quickly. You must buy the "Clannad" collection pack. There are many colleagues who want to sell this time, so don't mess it up!"
Lu Fei asked his apprentice to go out and buy games.
"Okay, master, we're going to buy a few copies this time."
Liu Qiang parked the car steadily and asked while unbuttoning his seat belt.
"All..." Lu Fei raised his eyebrows and said generously: "As long as this store has it, you can buy all the collection bags. If they have requirements for the purchase quantity, you can ask those who are in line to help you buy it... give them some tips. They will be happy to help."
"What!" Liu Qiang, who was originally about to get off the car, was stunned. He looked at Lu Fei in a daze: "Master, this collection contains 200 Huaxia coins per piece. Each Longquan game store has 100. It costs 20,000 Huaxia coins to buy them all. And... Didn't you ask your master's wife and two senior brothers to buy them all in several other stores? Isn't that enough?"
If they all successfully buy the collector's version, the number will be close to 400 copies and 80,000 Chinese coins.
"Master, we don't open a game store. This collection pack is a full-age version. What if we can't sell it if we buy too much?" Liu Qiang was very worried. Everyone outside said that the text adventure game of the full-age version is not valuable. Why does this master seem to mind at all?
"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and go over to me." Lu Fei glared at Liu Qiang and said, "As a master, I will tell you another truth."
"What truth?"
Liu Qiang asked strangely.
"You remember it, this is the secret to getting rich!" Lu Fei exhaled a smoke ring and slowly spoke: "This truth is very simple-"
Chapter completed!