In the early days, Pingguo's app store was in an era of mixed quality and wild growth, and a well-made game could easily get recommended.
Before this, Mei Fang's "The Early Bird Flies First" had been featured on the app store twice. Before the third time, it had already exceeded 10,000 downloads.
When "The Early Bird Gets the Flow" was featured on the App Store for the third time, two major events happened to happen.
The first thing is the official launch of Pinguo 4. Compared with its enhanced version 4S, this model cannot be considered a very successful masterpiece, and the antenna gate incident also made it subject to much criticism.
But it brought Pingguo's sales to a level close to 40 million, and it was also what truly opened the door to the Chinese market, making countless Chinese people begin to become keen on the cliché of "trading a kidney for the Pingguo three-piece set."
The second thing is that the number of visits to a famous social platform website Facebook has officially surpassed that of Yahoo, becoming the second largest website in the Beacon Country, second only to Google.
The successful rise of Facebook also demonstrates the tremendous strength and development prospects of social networking sites. People's use of the Internet has evolved from a simple tool to a necessity of life.
These two things may seem unrelated, but in fact they have triggered a series of chain reactions, which ultimately led to one result -
"Flappybird", also known as "The Early Bird Gets the Notice", became an overnight sensation after being featured on the App Store for the third time, topping the free download list in North America.
The success of "Old Bird First" does not lie in how rich and interesting its gameplay is, because it itself is a gaming miracle born out of social networks.
At first, some early players downloaded the game because they had nothing to do.
At the beginning, the spread was just the roar of these players. They might feel very angry after dying again and again, or they might feel extremely excited after dying again and again and finally surpassing themselves and stepping on the historical record. In short, they would share their experiences and records and post them on Facebook, Tet, or other emerging social platforms.
Later, as the game spread in their social media circles, more and more players flocked to it.
Compared with previous works, Mei Fang paid more attention to the social touch experience when designing version 1.0. In the game, you can clone your platform friends by binding to a Facebook account, and there will be a weekly ranking list to settle the friend rankings.
Young users love to share, record, compete and review. When they see someone among their friends surpass themselves, they will desperately continue to play. Of course, for Mei Fang, it means endless advertising income;
Some people also saw that their friends on social platforms who had never played games before appeared in their game rankings. Just by being curious about the content shared by everyone, a general Internet user successfully became a part of the game.
Many people began to write review documents and columns for "Old Bird Found First" to analyze its theory of success, but some people pointed out that this kind of game is not worthy of being called a real game and is a desecration of the ninth art.
But no matter what the reputation of this game is, it has become a super hit on the App Store before it became popular in China. The number of downloads quickly soared from 10,000 to 2 million, and began to gradually top the free list of App Store platforms in various regions outside North America.
The sudden popularity does not mean that the producer himself will also gain a good reputation. In his previous life, Mei Fang had heard about the rumors and various criticisms and accusations against the producer, so he refused to accept any interviews and refused to open any private messages. However, the English messages were too long and he did not want to read them one by one.
After all, the game itself is not the type that Mei Fang himself likes. To put it bluntly, he just relies on this social game to make money quickly, get his first pot of gold, and then start making some conscientious games.
As for how much profit did the popularity of "Old Bird Flies First" bring to Mei Fang
Although he has become a designated billionaire thanks to BAK, Mei Fang does not feel much reality now.
When he opened his app store account and saw his wallet expanding at a very fast rate day by day, he truly felt the joy of making games.
Damn it, my boss must have been happily counting my hard-earned money like this!
Mei Fang's account could earn up to $10,000 a day in advertising fees, but in fact this figure was only one-fifth of the highest income of the producer in his previous life. This was also because the development cycles of the two games were three years apart, and the number of Pingguo mobile phone users was not yet explosive enough.
After accumulating in this way, by the end of June, Mei Fang's overseas account had a deposit of nearly 300,000 US dollars. Now Mei Fang is a true millionaire.
The champion of the 2010 World Cup was East Spain. Mei Fang had watched this match in his previous life. He remembered Casillas's miraculous saves, witnessed Peter Pan's two failed one-on-one chances, and Little White's fatal one-on-one shot in the last minute of overtime.
Know the outcome, know the score after 90 minutes, and know the final score.
In this generation of the World Cup, Mei Fang can bet on handicaps with higher odds.
However, he himself is a cautious person. He was worried that his behavior would gradually cause a butterfly effect on Mei Fang, so he only took out one-third of the principal to participate in the guessing through online lottery purchases. In the end, he won an income with odds of 1:12, which is a bonus of 8 million after tax.
So the wind outlet is really a very scary existence.
You put in so much effort and shed so much sweat, but you can't buy as much as I can buy a BAK.
This is actually a very hurtful thing.
Of course, there is a saying that goes, even if you get money that does not belong to you, you cannot keep it. At this point, the assets do not need to be expanded in the short term. Mei Fang should calm down and improve his abilities.
Although Mei Fang, a teenager who has just finished the second year of junior high school, has tens of millions of assets, he is still a child after all, and it is impossible for him to have the power to decide his own life.
Therefore, he must never reveal his wealth to his parents or people around him, as that is the biggest taboo of all.
Of course, Lin Youxi inevitably knew some of the circumstances now, but Mei Fang did not reveal too much information.
Youxi is an introverted person by nature, and she didn't ask much about these things, so Mei Fang was very confident in her.
So, during the summer vacation after the end of the eighth grade, Mei Fang studied hard to prepare for the entrance exam to Jiangcheng Normal University No. 1 High School, while secretly becoming a multi-millionaire without telling his two childhood sweethearts.
After expanding the bandwidth of Station C, Mei Fang began to look for some partners to maintain the website.
Although they are still young, Mei Fang and Lin Youxi are no strangers in Golang and C#. However, it is impossible to rely entirely on these two students to do the daily website operation and maintenance.
So during the summer vacation, Mei Fang found some programmers and artists among the senior members of Station C, hoping that they could help with some affairs on a part-time basis.
Station C is a website that is powered by love, and the programmers themselves are well aware of this. Therefore, these two-dimensional enthusiasts proposed that they could even work for Miss [山有林兮] (Mei Fang) for free, but Mei Fang flatly refused and even gave them a salary of a few thousand yuan a month.
Since then, rumors have been spreading that [Shan You Lin Xi] is a wealthy lady. Mei Fang even saw some comments and private messages from [Rich Woman, Hungry, Fan Fan] in advance. He has reason to suspect that this group of people might have also traveled through time.
Although there was no formal contract, these power generation members worked harder than some of the regular workers Mei Fang had come into contact with. People in the Penguin group were discussing modification plans every day, and their changes were completely in line with the expectations of Mei Fang and Lin Youxi.
As a result, Station C quickly grew stronger with the joint efforts of these early enthusiasts.
Ten years of summer and ten years of winter passed by in a flash. The spring of 2011 came. The three little ones were working hard for their goals, while their relationship with each other was still maintained very close.
Xia Yuan, who had been physically tortured for many days, has now completely returned to his former smiling self, and is even a little too active.
Active enough to not be ashamed of engaging in some overly aggressive physical contact.
But fortunately, our Mei Fang is the chosen one. He was able to escape the disaster with his rational restraint and skillful pulling ability.
Now many visions are being planned and the day to test the results is about to come.
In March, Mei Fang, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi have made full preparations. They will embark on a journey to Jiangcheng to take the college entrance examination tomorrow.
Along with their respective parents.
Many authors have passed away recently, so everyone should take care of their health!
Actually, I do have a slight cold. If it's really serious, I can take a day off from writing.
(End of this chapter)