Chapter 114: Buying a Monthly Card Can Increase Luck

“President Chen, are you really going to do this?”

Fang Chang was a bit worried when he heard Chen Mo’s words.

A monthly card for only 10 yuan? That’s way too cheap. In other games, monthly cards go for around 30 yuan, and they even have 2-yuan weekly cards and 0.1-yuan daily cards.

Forget the weekly card for now.

Just that daily card—0.1 yuan a day—that’s basically giving it away for free.

Can you really make money like this?

“Yes, this is exactly what we’re going to do—and quickly. The faster, the better. Ideally, we should have it updated by tomorrow.”

Chen Mo looked seriously at Fang Chang.

This couldn’t be delayed. Who knows when one of those whales might suddenly feel like dropping a few hundred thousand on the game again?

Seeing the serious look on President Chen’s face, Fang Chang knew this decision was final.

“President Chen, it’s actually pretty simple. We just need to take those equipment items off the shelves and implement the monthly card system. The update can basically be finished by tomorrow.”

This update wasn’t like before when new equipment required 3D modeling and other assets.

They just needed to adjust some backend code, which was relatively simple.

“That’s good.”

Chen Mo nodded with relief. This way, starting tomorrow, there wouldn’t be any whales suddenly dropping huge sums to buy gear. He could finally relax.

After strolling around the game company a couple more times and taking the chance to announce the National Day holiday break, he left Cangxue Games.

Once he saw President Chen off outside the building…

Fang Chang returned to his office and called over Wei Yan and Zhao Bowen.

Tianlong.

These two were currently responsible for the game, so of course, this round of changes would be handled by them.

After listening to the whole reform plan for Tianlong, Zhao Bowen showed a puzzled expression.

“But Tianlong’s doing pretty well right now. That 100,000-yuan equipment even has cheaper alternatives, so there’s no worry about free-to-play players feeling excluded.”

“Wouldn’t it be a waste to remove them?”

In just a few days, the 100,000-yuan gear sets alone had already generated 1.5 million yuan in revenue for the company.

He really couldn’t figure out why President Chen wanted to do this.

“I think there’s deeper reasoning behind President Chen’s decision.”

Wei Yan suddenly spoke up at the right moment.

Fang Chang and Zhao Bowen both turned to look at him, questioning him with their eyes.

Seeing this, Wei Yan continued:

“Let me ask you—what’s our current daily traffic for Tianlong?”

“Over 200,000. And it’s increasing every day. Might hit 300,000 in a few days.”

Zhao Bowen replied without hesitation.

Thanks to Tianlong’s revival, he’d been paying very close attention to the game’s data lately.

He had personally witnessed it climb from a few thousand users up to 200,000.

“Exactly. So think about it—just the 0.1-yuan daily card: if all those players buy one, that’s 20,000 yuan a day. If you add in the weekly and monthly cards, the number goes even higher.”

“This kind of model is what we in sales call ‘small profits, high volume.’”

“Our job now is to figure out how to design perks for the monthly card so that people feel it’s worth the money and are willing to buy it.”

Wei Yan explained in a clear and logical manner.

Fang Chang nodded silently—he felt Wei Yan’s reasoning made sense.

Right now, the game didn’t have a massive user base, but once traffic reaches a few million… even if each person just bought a 0.1-yuan daily card, the daily revenue would still be in the hundreds of thousands!

And that kind of income is stable, since the daily card must be purchased every day.

This meant the game would have a consistent stream of revenue every day—much more reliable than those rare whale purchases of 100,000-yuan gear.

So that’s what President Chen was planning for. He was thinking long-term.

Good thing Wei Yan was around—otherwise, Fang Chang still wouldn’t have understood President Chen’s intentions.

“I have a suggestion for how we can encourage players to buy the monthly card.”

“I’ve been logging into the game these days to observe players and listen to their feedback. What they complain about the most is that the equipment drop rate is too low—it’s really hard to farm gear.”

“We could add a bit of Luck to the monthly card. This Luck stat would slightly improve equipment drop rates.”

As Zhao Bowen spoke, he gestured with his fingers in the air.

“For example, the daily card could increase Luck by 1 point, the weekly card by 3 points, and the monthly card by 6 points. Every 1 point of Luck could boost drop rates by 0.1%.”

“The three cards’ Luck bonuses could stack, for a total of 1% increased drop rate. That 1% won’t significantly affect game balance.”

“Also, since President Chen cut all other monetization options, there’s no more ‘revive on the spot’ feature using premium currency. We can add that to the cards. Daily card: 2 revives, weekly: 7, monthly: unlimited.”

“With this setup, I believe most players would be willing to buy these cards.”

Fang Chang and Wei Yan nodded in agreement after hearing Zhao Bowen’s proposal.

“That’s a good idea. Let’s go with that. President Chen already gave the order—we must launch the updated version tomorrow.”

“Got it. This reform isn’t too hard. I’ll lead two teams and we can probably roll it out by the end of the workday.”

Zhao Bowen said confidently.

“Perfect. If we can launch it by end of day, even better. President Chen seemed quite urgent about this.”

Fang Chang reminded him.

…

That evening—

Du Zitong returned to his place, opened his computer, and logged into Tianlong.

Their guild [Hall of Heroes] had lost the guild war yesterday.

Actually, if he had just gotten a few more of those 100,000-yuan gear sets for his guildmates, they could’ve won.

So he wasn’t willing to give up—today he was ready to make a comeback.

Huh?

An update?

Du Zitong saw that the game required an update. He didn’t think too much of it and clicked ‘Update.’

But once he got in, he noticed something was off—

The 100,000-yuan gear lottery section was gone.

What the heck?

Eyes full of confusion, Du Zitong realized he hadn’t read the patch notes. So he went and opened the announcement.

After a while—

He finally understood what had happened.

Turns out the game had removed those gear purchases. The only thing left to spend money on were the newly added monthly, weekly, and daily cards. The three cards combined didn’t even cost 20 yuan.

So how was he supposed to get revenge?

Du Zitong stared blankly at the recharge screen, which now only showed the monthly card.

But then he quickly reacted—if he couldn’t buy those 100,000-yuan gear sets directly, he could just spend money to buy their cheaper alternatives from other players!

Those gear sets were still hard to get, but they had a much higher drop rate than the legendary Dragon-Slaying Set.

If he bought a few sets off the market, that should be enough for his revenge.

No problem.