While the Leaping Nuclear Guild was recruiting new members, Jiang Qiao returned to the Astrology Tower and began to do some of the things that a planner should do.
The first is the statistics of the number of players. At present, the upper limit of Holy Spirit players is 120,000, and the number of online players is 100,000, with an average daily active number of 100,000.
This is a mediocre number compared to some major mobile game and online game companies, but for Jiang Qiao, it is enough to treat Hai Lan to a big meal.
However... Jiang Qiao is now facing a... very big crisis, a crisis far bigger than the attack by the law thieves, that is... Jiang Qiao is going bankrupt.
"As the God of Creation, why do I need money?" Hai Lan was chewing a Big Mac next to Jiang Qiao. Now Jiang Qiao was not looking at the system book, but his bills in reality.
"As the God of Creation, what do you eat?"
Jiang Qiao pulled Hai Lan's cheek with his hands until Hai Lan kept shouting in pain, then he let go.
Jiang Qiao still underestimated Hai Lan, Queen May and the Five Knights' appetite. Just ordering takeout for them would cost Jiang Qiao nearly three thousand yuan a day.
Although there is a wolf knight who is frugal and has started to use some ingredients from Brand Island to cook, the ingredients on Brand Island are still very, very, very scarce!
Even in the richest guild stronghold, Cola Mania, there are now a total of 17 NPCs in their stronghold, and the fruits and vegetables grown in the pastures and farmlands in the stronghold are barely enough to fill their stomachs.
Especially the two Dragon Speaker sisters' appetites have increased recently. The elder sister can eat the food for two people a day, and the younger sister can eat the food for three people a day. Jiang Qiao suspects that this group of law thieves has also copied Hai Lan's appetite.
The situation in most other guild strongholds is like this, and the Abyss Temple is even worse. Hailan is unable to restore the various crops and livestock in the Abyss Temple, so now the food that the Abyss Temple feeds its NPCs has to be purchased from other guilds.
In short, Jiangqiao is now facing the crisis of bankruptcy, and food is also in short supply in various strongholds on Brand Island.
"Can't you modify some data in the Tiangong? Just add a few more zeros to the amount in your deposit." Hai Lan was chewing on a hamburger while giving Jiang Qiao some bad advice as if nothing had happened.
"Then I will have tea and chat with you in prison the next day!" Jiang Qiao looked at the balance in his bank card. The original deposit of 100,000 was taken by Hai Lan, Queen May and the five knights, leaving only 10,000.
There is still a full half month before the next payment for royalties is received.
The suggestion made by Hai Lan, this little genius, is a bad idea that can only be proposed by someone who knows nothing about the financial system in real society. Maybe it's okay for Jiang Qiao to add a few more zeros to his bank card the first time, but what about the second time and the third time
It will definitely be noticed by others, and the chain reaction of the collapse of the financial credit system may affect the Holy Spirit.
"Then how about opening a pay-to-win system!" Hai Lan's cheeks were puffy now, so she spoke with a lisp. "Players in the forum are all shouting things like 'Please let me spend money!' 'Shut up! And take my money!' 'Holy Spirit is such a shameless game that I feel guilty' and so on."
"That's not right..." Hai Lan's IQ finally came up after she finished the whole burger. She thought for a while and felt that it wouldn't work. "If I let Jiang Qiao use your bank...card, I think it should be this thing, to collect the krypton gold money from the players, it will be directly exposed, right?"
"Finally I was smart for once. Anyway, the topic now has changed from how I earn your monthly food expenses to... how to make the Holy Spirit game profitable!" Jiang Qiao looked outside the Astrology Tower, and the prosperous scenery on the streets of Lionheart City came into his sight.
"I don't quite understand, but there are many players who are willing to spend real money to buy small props in Holy Spirit, right?" Hai Lan asked.
"The key issue is not this. At Hailan, we are game makers and game planners, but not a game company! This is very important," said Jiang Qiao.
"Please explain it in a simpler way! I don't understand!" Hai Lan frowned and thought for a long time, and finally said to Jiang Qiao.
"Let me put it this way. Game companies make games to make money and grow the company. We make games to resist foreign enemies invading the Holy Spirit's original world and help you retrieve the fragments of the Godhead, right?" Jiang Qiao said.
"And devouring other worlds! But I still don't understand what you're talking about."
After saying this, Hela held a cup of Coke and started drinking it.
"What I mean is that I want to give back to the players, the Holy Spirit heroes who are fighting on the front line for us, the money I earn from the game in the form of a piece of clothing in a store, a free meal or some small gifts in the real world."
Jiang Qiao said something that a game company planner would never say, and would get fired if he said it.
"I feel like... you're going to come up with some 'terrible' gameplay again." Hai Lan could only use the word terrible to describe Jiang Qiao's ideas every time he communicated about a new version. Whether it was the Battle of the Godhead or the current Brand Island 2.5 version, Jiang Qiao's various ideas were simply genius.
"Put it this way."
Jiang Qiao opened the Tiangong map widget, which displayed a map of Jiangcheng Pedestrian Street.
"We set up a BOSS here, or enemies invade this place. After players defeat this enemy or BOSS, they can have a free meal in this store next to the battlefield." Jiang Qiao said, pointing to an McDonald's fried chicken shop next to Jiangcheng Pedestrian Street.
"But what about the money for the players' meal? Should we pay for it?" Hai Lan had some social common sense. At least she knew that people had to pay for eating here.
"We will pay, or all the players will pay, and... the store itself may also pay." Jiang Qiao said.
"I'll listen to your explanation." Hai Lan gave up thinking about what Jiang Qiao's plan was.
"I will set up a fund in the Holy Spirit. All profits earned by the Holy Spirit in the real world will be included in this fund. As for the way to make money, there are two ways." Jiang Qiao raised his hand and raised a finger and said, "First, if we set this store as a small copy with many treasures buried, what do you think the players of the Holy Spirit will do?"
"I know that. Tear down this store." Hai Lan said.
"This store may be demolished in the game, but in reality we will stay in it for a while, so the store's customer flow will increase!" Jiang Qiao said.
"Then?"
"Then ask them for advertising money. Although I haven't figured out how to ask for it yet, after the AR gameplay of the other world is opened, the popularity of the Holy Spirit will increase, and those merchants will definitely not ignore it. They want their stores to become small dungeons that refresh powerful bosses, or have powerful treasures, and buy some packages from their stores to get mounts or costumes in the game. Another prerequisite is that you give us money." Jiang Qiao raised his second finger after saying this. "The second is krypton gold."
"I will launch some costumes and mounts without attributes, as well as potions that can change the player's appearance. In short, they are small things that will not affect the balance of the game. All the money players spend will be put into the Holy Spirit Fund, and then given back to the players in some form." Jiang Qiao said.
"What's in it for us?" Hai Lan was still concerned about the fact that Jiang Qiao didn't have enough money for food recently.
"We are also players. The money earned by one person using Holy Spirit may be traced, but the money earned by all Holy Spirit players using the game Holy Spirit will be traced." Jiang Qiao gave a thumbs up and said, "Also, I am planning to launch the guild territory gameplay in the inner world. This has already taken shape on Brand Island. In short... the specific gameplay construction still depends on when the inner world is open."
The specific opening time of the other world will have to wait until the players complete the main quest on Brand Island.
At this stage, the Coke Fanatic Guild is the fastest in completing the main quest. They have already collected 90% of the portal energy. It is estimated that if they kill one more island lord, they will be able to collect all the portal energy.
Brand Island itself is also a part of the inner world... Jiang Qiao has decided to stuff this island into the inner world and turn it into a floating island in the inner world, um... Brand Island without the crystal disease.
However, there are still many unresolved conflicts on Brand Island, including the whereabouts of the remaining consciousness of Deng Xis, a group of God's chosen ones who are eyeing him covetously, the survival of the two island masters and... the food shortage on the island.
When Jiang Qiao was preparing to solve these problems next...Furlia Unit-01 suddenly walked out of the portal and came in front of Jiang Qiao.
The Freya in the CG of "Crossing" is Jiang Qiao's Freya... In the future, she will become an NPC with the responsibility of guiding the way on Brand Island, but now she is still helping Jiang Qiao observe the situation of the 60,000 new Freyas that suddenly appeared.
"Holy Spirit, Freya No. 60,000 is thinking abnormally... I think she is in some trouble." She said.
"Trouble? Bring up the spatial image of the cathedral where Freya is."
Jiang Qiao really couldn't imagine what kind of troubles Freya would encounter when getting along with the Holy Spirit. After all, Jiang Qiao had already harmonized the interaction between the players and Freya so well.
(End of this chapter)