8: 1.3 million downloads?

However, when the download link appeared, everyone was dumbfounded.

The game was only 1GB in size, even anti-virus software took up more space!

As for the graphics… it made people mistakenly think it was a product from ten years ago.

But since Lin Shufen became popular with this game, and the audience was all talking about it, these Streamers could only give it a try.

After all, in this circle, “chasing trends” was everyone’s consensus; whoever took the lead in occupying the market would have more resources.

As soon as these people started experiencing the game, they exclaimed, “Oh my god, the combat feel is truly excellent!”

“Where did the Gatling come from? This is too exhilarating!”

“Wow, the Ghost Swordsman’s class skills are absolutely awesome!”

“What? Class advancement? These four classes are designed too cool!”

...

The next day at noon, Xu Lian woke up at his desk again.

After a quick wash and breakfast, the first thing he did was log into the game management backend to check various data.

Recently, Dungeon & Fighter has become increasingly popular, and its influence continues to rise.

Even in famous game forums, posts about this game can be seen.

In view of this, Xu Lian also began to consider whether to activate the item shop to sell some items, as he was running out of money to maintain the website server.

“If the downloads break 500,000 today, I’ll open the in-app purchase function.”

Xu Lian yawned in a daze, saying lazily.

However, the data in front of him completely sobered Xu Lian:

“10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000?!”

“1.3 million downloads?!”

Such a high number of installations shocked him so much that he went to wash his face again to confirm it wasn't a hallucination.

Indeed, it wasn't a delusion; the latest statistics showed 1.4 million downloads!

“What exactly happened?!”

Xu Lian was so startled that his sleepiness vanished instantly.

The previous afternoon, there were only over 400,000 users, and overnight it had directly tripled.

Facing such an abnormal situation, even Xu Lian himself found it hard to believe it wasn’t a result of cheating.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that the player community actually had a message board, which he had neglected before, being too engrossed in the growing backend data.

He casually flipped through the comment section and found it densely packed with player feedback from the past few days:

“Leaving a special post to say that Dungeon & Fighter is bound to become a huge hit, please wait for good news!”

“I originally thought it was a terrible game recommended by shills, but I didn’t expect it to be so interesting!”

“The person upstairs is right, after downloading, I found it was only 1GB, and I almost uninstalled it. Luckily, I tried it, it’s a masterpiece!”

“Dear Designer, please, please remove the Fatigue system. I can only play for just over an hour a day, it’s not nearly enough!”

“Second the request to remove Fatigue. My Swordsman reached level 18 today, but I ran out of Fatigue. If I could keep playing, I could immediately advance to Soul Bender!”

“Friends from the Pink Wings live stream, this game is really fun. I highly recommend everyone to try it. For beginners, I recommend playing Gunner first; other classes are very difficult!”

“Upstairs, so you also followed that ball game!”

“This game is really great, it’s just that the Fatigue system is so annoying. You can only create two characters a day, and the Fatigue is simply not enough!”

Xu Lian quickly browsed the message board and found that most players had very positive reviews for Dungeon & Fighter.

Not only that, Xu Lian also noticed that many players were attracted after watching game Streamers’ live broadcasts.

He suddenly understood the reason and quickly opened the Douyu live streaming platform to check the gaming section.

Wow!

The secret to Dungeon & Fighter’s overnight explosion in popularity was found.

Now, almost more than half of the Streamers were playing this game.

Their live stream titles were also varied, all eye-catching content.

“Determined to become the strongest Swordsman in the Chinese server!”

“Dungeon & Fighter beginner’s guide, still troubled by grinding maps?”

“Gunner? The best choice for this version!”

“Mage? No one wants to play! Fast clear guide!”

There were both new Streamers just starting out and famous veteran Streamers, and even a few top-tier big names were streaming this game.

With so many big Streamers playing, their fans were naturally curious.

After all, watching a live stream is never as enjoyable as playing it yourself.

With such strong traffic support, even if it were a pay-to-win game, the download numbers would increase significantly.

Not to mention Dungeon & Fighter, which was already very popular in the previous world.

“It seems the champion of this month’s popularity chart will be mine,” Xu Lian said thoughtfully.

Each month, the Aoyou Game Platform updates a new Designer leaderboard, which ranks new games based on their popularity and reputation.

Xu Lian’s Dungeon & Fighter currently ranked third, with a very small popularity gap from the top two.

It’s worth mentioning that the monthly performance statistics were nearing their end.

Dungeon & Fighter was released only a few days ago and quickly climbed to third place.

At this rate, Xu Lian was expected to take first place before the end of this month!

Since the popularity was already high enough, and the reputation and download numbers were also very good.

It was time to start earning his first pot of gold!

However, before making money, he had one more thing to do: register an official Weibo account!

Opening a Weibo account was to facilitate sending game updates and event notifications to players.

There was no WeGame platform in this world, so to launch a mall system, a full-server shutdown for code updates was necessary.

To avoid player misunderstandings, Xu Lian needed to explain the reason for the shutdown through the Weibo account.

After filling in some information on the Weibo official website, Xu Lian successfully registered an account named “Aoyou Tianxia Game Company” and placed Dungeon & Fighter under the company’s umbrella.

Once everything was ready, he opened the game backend again and started coding.

Soon, a new notification box popped up at the top of all clients.

[Major Event: Follow the official Dungeon & Fighter account ‘Aoyou Tianxia Game Company’ and leave a message to receive 50 points of Fatigue Potion.]

[Event Period: March 29th — March 31st]

After publishing the code prompt, Xu Lian then wrote an announcement about the upcoming server maintenance.

Currently, he was handling all the coding work, with almost no rest time.

Only when the company hired other game Designers would Xu Lian be able to step back.

At this time, players who were fighting Goblins all noticed the notification at the top of the client.

Knowing that there were free benefits to be had, everyone immediately flocked to follow Weibo and leave comments.

“Getting ahead, I’m optimistic about Dungeon & Fighter, it will definitely become popular! Fire clamp Liu Ming!”

“Just joined, how do I claim Fatigue?”

“What? Only 50 points of Fatigue Potion? It’ll be used up in ten minutes. Dear Designer, please give us more!”