Reborn since 2005

Chapter 819: Soul Activation
"The soul is activated!"

In July, this voice became the most easily heard voice on the Xingguang short video platform.

Starlight Group spent tens of billions of dollars to create this game and allocated several hundred million dollars for its promotion.

Several celebrities were invited to endorse the characters in the game.

There are also advertisements on major platforms.

The platform where the most advertising is placed is his own short video platform.

Of course, the delivery is not free. The short video platform does not belong to him alone. He cannot use public resources for personal gain. He has to charge according to the rules.

Before it was officially launched, it had already conducted several large-scale public tests and won a good reputation.

Half a month before the launch, the advertisements were very popular, which aroused great expectations.

Starlight Gaming Company also signed contracts with some big anchors on the platform, asking them to broadcast the game live after it goes online.

Not only those game anchors were signed, but also some big anchors whose live broadcast content had nothing to do with games.

Even Gu Ru and Xiao Yuan accepted such business orders and planned to live broadcast playing this game for three or four hours every day in the next half month.

The goal is to increase the popularity of this game.

The quality of this game is still very good, and Yan Xin has absolute confidence in it.

It was a big production, based on a super-hit game he remembered from his previous life, and it was given so much publicity.

The Xingguang short video platform directly has the download link for this game, and has also produced many exquisite videos about this game.

You can see the advertisement of this game just by swiping your finger.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in publicity expenses were spent in a very short period of time, and the effect produced was very powerful.

On the day of its official launch, the number of downloads of this game reached a terrifying number.

On the same day, the person in charge of the game company excitedly called Yan Xin to report the matter:

"Boss, our game Yuanshen is a hit! It's really a hit this time! We succeeded! We are now a leading gaming company!"

The former Starlight Games company developed many popular games, but it was not really considered a top gaming company.

Among the top ten domestic games, none of them were produced by their company.

There are many popular games, but no blockbuster hits.

Every game can make money, but not every game makes a lot of money. It’s just that they develop games quickly and have many IPs. They have won by relying on quantity and have become one of the best gaming companies in the country.

However, it has no status in the gaming industry and is considered to be a shoddy, country-friendly company with a poor reputation.

"Genshin Impact" is their first truly big-budget game.

With a production cost of several hundred million yuan, it is already a truly big production in China.

That’s enough for Starlight Games to develop hundreds of games.

Having never had such experience before, the team in charge of this project was under great psychological pressure to undertake such a large project all at once.

If this doesn't go well, how much will I have to pay in compensation?

Fortunately, Yan Xin gave them great support, allowing them to develop games with all their heart and hold themselves to the highest standards in the industry without having to worry about costs.

This company has produced many games over the years and has accumulated some experience and talents.

We also poached a lot of talent from other companies.

Later, Yan Xin's personal wealth increased rapidly, which relieved a lot of pressure on the team members - even if they lost money, it would not make the boss angry to the point of being crazy, after all, the total investment was only a few billion yuan, while the boss had a net worth of hundreds of billions.

Although the pressure is not that great now, it is still an unprecedented large project for the company, so I am still quite nervous.

I have invested so much. If I fail, even if my boss is not angry, how can I save face?

On the first day of the official launch, everyone in the team was extremely nervous and under tremendous psychological pressure.

But that data made them feel completely at ease.

It worked!
They were able to determine this based on the first day's data alone.

Most people have a herd mentality. The more popular a game is, the more people are willing to play it.

The data on the first day is so hot that it will only lead more people to play.

It turns out that their point of view was not wrong.

In the following period of time, more and more people played this game, and its popularity continued to rise.

Throughout the summer vacation, the download volume of the game "Yuan Shen" has been among the top three in the game list, especially in July, when it was at the top of the list most of the time.

This is the first hit game launched by Starlight Games, which has caused a huge shock to the entire industry.

This gaming company has finally transformed from being a scum of the industry that was seen by insiders as making shoddy products to cheating people out of money to a prestigious company.

The reputation of the game in the online gaming industry has improved.

The market’s feedback is even more generous.

This summer, the revenue from this one game under Starlight Games has exceeded the total of all the other games of the company. It is no exaggeration to say that it is making a fortune every day.

The profits that this game brought to the company were so great that even Yan Xin, a super-rich man with a net worth of hundreds of billions, drooled at it.

Game companies really make money!

It’s so easy to make money in the second dimension!

Of course, inevitably, this game has also been criticized by many parents.

——That is the fate that every hit game cannot escape.

Starlight Co., Ltd. has never suffered such abuse in the past. The main reason is that the games they produced have little impact. That is, they will have a little popularity in the first one or two months after being released, and then gradually die down.

Moreover, it is not very popular and has never caused a wide impact, and its audience is relatively small.

In addition, because the quality of the game is not particularly high and has not reached the point of being addictive, it has not become the culprit that leads children astray in the eyes of parents.

But now this game of theirs is very popular. Many of the game players are primary and secondary school students, and too many people are addicted to this game.

It not only takes away those children's learning time, but also takes away their money - which is actually the parents' money.

That caused public outrage.

There was a lot of criticism online.

Starlight Games has been established for several years and now finally enjoys such treatment.

They were a little confused about being at the center of public attention, but they were more proud in their hearts - only games that had been criticized by many parents could be considered truly successful games, and now, they had finally received such an honor.

The so-called gold and silver cups are not as good as the reputation of the people.

In a sense, they have also gained such a reputation.

Yan Xin didn't care much about the insults.

There is nothing illegal in his game, and everything is within the scope permitted by law. If the law cannot punish him, then there is no problem.

As for the fact that children will become addicted and give up studying, then, if there is no game "Genshin Impact", will those children not play other games?

Even if all domestic games are killed, will they not play foreign games?
Even if we kill all the games in the world and leave them with nothing to play, will they really use the saved time to study?
In the 80s, when children didn’t like to study, they blamed it on martial arts novels. In the 90s, when children didn’t like to study, they blamed it on television.

In fact, everyone knows what the facts are.

But now it's the game's turn to take the blame.

As for the issue of recharge, you are a leek yourself, so don’t complain about being cut by others.

If we are not cut off by them, we will be cut off by other companies.

Before they did the cut, they were indeed cut off by other companies.

The vast amount of capital is like a sharp sickle, staring at the green leeks, ready to harvest at any time.

If not this sickle, there are thousands of other sickles.

If you don't want to be cut, you have to take good care of your wallet.

Everything they did was within the scope permitted by laws and regulations, and he did not feel much psychological pressure to earn the money.

But then again, if his own child wanted to play this game, he would definitely stop him.

It's not just this one game that can't be played, all the popular games can't be played.

——How harmful is it to be addicted to playing games every day?

——From a parent’s perspective, this is the case.

He thinks the appropriate age to play games is after adulthood.

It is indeed not suitable for minors to play games.

But the fact is that there are too many minors playing games, and no matter how many restrictions are imposed in the laws and regulations, they cannot stop them from playing games.

Only serious supervision by parents can help.

He must supervise his own children carefully.

He doesn't care that much about those parents who don't supervise their children and instead put the blame on the game companies.

If nothing unexpected happens, this game will allow the company to earn a living for many years.

To him, this is a hen that lays golden eggs and can generate a steady stream of cash flow for the Starlight Group.

Gu Ru was stunned by the money-making ability of this game, and was also very excited:

"This game is so profitable, I should get a lot of dividends this year, right?"

Starlight Group's main profits come from the game company.

With such a hit game released this year, the profits will be higher and the dividends will also be higher.

She still owed Yan Xin money, so she was quite concerned about it.

This summer she live-streamed playing "Genshin Impact", which also brought her a certain amount of income.

Her live broadcast room is very popular, with hundreds of thousands of people often online and many big brothers.

After broadcasting "Yuan Shen" for half a month in a row, the popularity of the live broadcast room has dropped a lot. Most of the time, there are less than 10 people online, and there are not so many tips.

However, if someone downloads the game through her live broadcast room and makes the first recharge, she can get a commission.

The live broadcast lasted for half a month, three or four hours a day, and each live broadcast had millions of viewers.

Although only a small number of people have downloaded this game, and not everyone who downloaded the game has recharged, the base is too large. With a base of tens of millions, even a small number of users who recharge is still a large number.

In just half a month, she earned commissions of tens of millions.

What she did was to sing a song for more than ten minutes at the beginning, and then play games in front of the live broadcast equipment, complain about the characters in the game, and occasionally interact with the audience.

It's easy to make money.

Her daughter Gu Xin was studying in the United States, so she brought her back during the summer vacation and lived in Yan Xin's villa in Yangcheng.

At this time, Shu Yi also brought little Mango back to China for the summer vacation and also took care of Cai Qixiang.

In the first half of the summer vacation, Yan Xin and Feng Xi were busy in Beijing. It was not until late July that they brought their two children to Guangzhou.

After the couple came with their children, this place became much more lively.

Cai Xiaomang has grown into a graceful and beautiful young girl, just like her mother.

Her academic performance there is quite good. Shu Yi attaches great importance to this and supervises her very strictly.

Shu Yi now receives a lot of stock dividends every year and is considered a wealthy woman. She lives abroad and leads an easy life with no financial pressure at all.

She would also hire a tutor for her children, and not just one.

She was quite satisfied with Cai Xiaomang's performance.

After coming here, the child can also help Gu Xin, Cai Kun and others with their homework.

Among this group of children, Little Mango is the leader.

She actually liked these brothers and sisters very much, and naturally she was liked by them.

With her around, the adults save themselves a lot of trouble.

This little girl never received love from her grandfather since she was a child. Instead, she suffered a lot of disgust. She did have some resentment towards Cai Qixiang, but more of it was fear. There was no family affection at all.

However, Cai Qixiang's attitude has changed a lot in the past two years. He left her an inheritance in his will and treated her as a granddaughter. He would smile every time he saw her.

At the beginning, she couldn't adapt and still had some aversion to this grandfather, and didn't dare to get close to him.

But as time went by, those feelings of rejection gradually disappeared, and I began to accept Cai Qixiang as my own relative from the bottom of my heart.

Sometimes, she would bring a group of children to accompany the old man.

Times like these are when the old man appears happiest.

But the old man's health is getting worse and worse.

The cancer has spread to multiple places.

Even Little Mango knew that Grandpa might not live long.

Sometimes she would feel sad when she looked at the old man’s haggard and aged face.

After the summer vacation, she followed Shu Yi back to Europe.

When she set out, she asked Shu Yi:
"Mom, do you think Grandpa can make it to the winter vacation with his current health?"

Shu Yi saw worry and some sadness in her eyes.

She was silent for a while, then she said:

"Don't worry. Medical technology is so advanced now, and your grandfather is so rich, he can live a long time."

I had some concerns in my heart:
"This child is kissing her grandfather. If she knows what I have done one day, will she hate me? Will she no longer recognize me as her mother?"

For some reason, I felt some regrets.

It seemed that I had gone a little too far at the beginning.