101: This is exactly the result he wanted to see most.

At 8 PM, Xu Lian felt a sense of relief when he saw the various mode channels on the screen were all packed with people.

His efforts had paid off; players had finally discovered the fun of these gameplays.

While he was happy to see bio mode and challenge mode gain popularity, if only these two games saw an increase in hotness while others were ignored, it would simply be better to call the game 'BioFront'.

Therefore, to attract more people to try other modes, Xu Lian did not hesitate to offer rare equipment like the golden ak47 as a reward.

Now, the balanced popularity across all modes was the result he most wanted to see.

At this moment, as usual, Qin Feixu sent over today's financial report.

Xu Lian quickly scanned through it.

Dungeon & Fighter continued to maintain a good level of profitability.

After all, there were many places to spend money, and it was easy to overspend if one wasn't careful.

However, in the past few days, the game's revenue growth had slowed down a bit, probably related to the end of the summer vacation.

In contrast, minecraft performed exceptionally well.

Currently, over three million people had paid 500 yuan to buy the game outright.

Since it was a one-time payment, standalone game, future revenue would have to rely on promotions and other methods.

It would certainly require continued effort in promotion.

As for crossfire, which had just updated its content today, it showed extremely strong performance.

From 6 AM to 2 PM this evening alone, the game had already earned a massive profit of nearly 60 million yuan.

Despite its download numbers and online user count not differing much from Dungeon & Fighter.

The limited-time characters and new Chinese cultural elements introduced today attracted many new players who had never paid before, prompting them to recharge tens to hundreds of yuan to acquire these items.

"It seems we need to pay more attention to Dungeon & Fighter's performance going forward."

Looking at the stable but uninspired growth curve, Xu Lian said thoughtfully.

The entire company was gradually launching multiple new businesses, thus requiring a large amount of capital to support the implementation and development of various projects.

Money! That was the most urgently needed thing right now!

Considering this, Dungeon & Fighter, as the product with the strongest profitability at this stage, was undoubtedly the best choice.

In the future, more effort must be put into it.

"Perhaps we can open the Chapter 7.0 update early?"

In fact, for the earliest players, many had already reached level 60 with full gear.

Compared to the Chapter 7.0 stage, completing the accumulation of level 60 equipment was much simpler.

Because the latter introduced many complex enchantment, amplification, and emblem mechanisms.

Once an account reached the top level, acquired suitable high-level sets, strengthened them a few times, and then equipped a sky set, it could be considered officially 'graduated'.

The entire process would only cost about 30,000 RMB.

However, once this goal was achieved, there wasn't much more to spend on, and players mostly turned to cultivating a second 'alt' account, continuing to invest resources into building it up.

The value created by this group alone was not enough to support long-term development needs.

For this reason, compared to similar products, Dungeon & Fighter had the most character creation reward events, with fresh content encouraging new players to create sub-class characters almost every week.

The original intention of doing this was simple: to allow users to continuously spend RMB on virtual items in this way to enhance their strength.

It could both increase activity and boost revenue.

"Then let's do it; there's no need to delay it much longer."

After much deliberation, Xu Lian finally decided to release all Chapter 7.0 related features a few days early.

Historical data showed that Dungeon & Fighter's true peak revenue period was in the level 70 to 80 range.

A series of enticing designs, including the opening of the Otherworld map and the launch of the new Female Gunner class, were all waiting to be explored.

In particular, crafting the initial Otherworld basic gear required a large amount of time and gold; besides this, some more lucrative limited-time projects were also in the works.

No time to lose.

Although it was after working hours, there were no colleagues in the office except Xu Lian.

However, fortunately, Lin Weixin had already done the corresponding preparatory work, only requiring final fine-tuning.

Naturally, so many exciting elements could not be released all at once.

At least a year should be reserved for the player base to adapt to new rules and familiarize themselves with the environment.

If the frequency was too high, the audience would not be able to keep up.

For example, if after putting in immense effort to cultivate a fully equipped level 60 account, it was suddenly announced that a stronger version update would arrive the next day, this would obviously cause widespread dissatisfaction.

Therefore, at this stage, only information about all the plot chapters of Chapter 7.0, along with a Female Gunner character named 'Heavenly Rose', was announced.

And according to the current situation, the most popular character in the game, second only to the Male Ghost Swordsman, was also a warrior primarily focused on long-range attacks.

The number of Male Gunner players accounted for 30% of all players, which was quite considerable.

The gameplay and skill settings of the Female Gunner were not much different from the Male Gunner, and even the available classes were similar.

However, Xu Lian remembered very clearly that when the Female Gunner first launched, she became incredibly popular across the entire internet.

Within two months, the Female Gunner even surpassed the then-number-one Ghost Swordsman, becoming the most popular character!

Not only that, to celebrate the recently concluded summer vacation, Xu Lian also planned to launch the first summer-style costume, the so-called Summer Set.

The attributes of this outfit were average, but it was particularly cool to wear.

The Female Gunner was already very stylish, and with this refreshing Summer Set, she became even more captivating.

Xu Lian himself was attracted by the Female Gunner wearing the Summer Set, which led him to create his own Female Gunner character.

Xu Lian believed that combining the Female Gunner with the Summer Set would surely attract more new players to the game!

...

At 2 AM, Xu Lian organized all the code that Lin Weixin had updated earlier and spent some time completing the design of the Summer Set.

After confirming everything was correct, he posted a notification on Weibo and the Aoyou Communication platform:

"Dungeon & Fighter" 7.0 Version Update Content, and New dungeons and Character: Heavenly Rose – Female Gunner!

It had to be said, having data memory made a difference.

Things that would originally take several days to complete, Xu Lian finished in just a few hours.

[Dungeon & Fighter Server Maintenance Announcement: Maintenance update from 6 AM on December 4th to 6 AM on December 5th.]