The most important of these is the IPP platform.
Given the reach of the IPP platform, this time it wasn't just casual Minecraft fans driving the traffic; instead, hundreds of millions of users from the Sixth Star Province on IPP flocked in.
How terrible is it?
It's like turning a small tap into Niagara Falls, where the water plunges down three thousand feet, as if the Milky Way were falling from the ninth heaven.
IPP only provided a "New Releases Every Week" section recommendation in the middle to the end, requiring two page jumps, yet it still brought in over four billion unique visitors.
In other words, within about ten days, more than four billion people saw the words "Minecraft" and the game's main page.
Mingyan spent the whole day squatting at home scrolling through data, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses.
Faced with massive amounts of data that are too much to look at, most people don't even have a concept of what it is.
Four billion is half the total population of Earth at its peak, a number that could completely deplete the planet's resources in a few hundred years.
The number of downloads and trials quickly reached one billion, of which about 30% chose to pay.
Perhaps it's because these interstellar people from the Chaoyang Alliance have been playing incredibly realistic "games" for years that they're not particularly fond of the seemingly cute art style.
These players glanced at the screenshots and skipped over them without playing—because there were at least tens of millions of other games waiting for them on the IPP platform.
Even so, the players who remained still contributed a gold mine to the game developers.
— 720 million.
This is the final figure that appeared on Blue Star Studio's books.
Player comments are so numerous they're overwhelming. Mingyan glanced at the "999999+" comment section and felt dizzy.
These players' social media content will soon attract new traffic, bringing more customers to Minecraft, and then starting the next virtuous cycle.
Mingyan's account, "Micro Work," is completely overflowing with messages!
Startled, he quickly activated the intelligent filtering system to completely block the low-quality comments and reposts; otherwise, his pitiful little terminal, which he had bought for a few thousand dollars, would have burned out.
Among these comments, there are pure gamers praising the architect in a thousand and eighty ways;
Small platforms whose names I've never even heard of are seeking cooperation;
Mysterious people claiming to be Mingyan's relatives/alumni/childhood friends, etc., try to establish a relationship with him;
Several local television stations even wanted to interview Mingyan…
The title is: A genius recent graduate? A rising star in the game architecture industry? A miracle supported by a billion players!
Clearly stated: "..."
This is outrageous. It's said that interstellar people of Western descent generally speak with great enthusiasm and exaggeration, which is truly overwhelming.
Mingyan was deeply moved, and then declined their offer.
A recent graduate created a wildly popular product that swept across the entire province, earning him a fortune that most people could never see in a lifetime. What should he do next?
Mingyan flipped through his schedule.
The first thing: If the 720 million yuan in cash on hand is donated to the Blue Star Research Institute for charitable purposes, it can be done through tax-free channels.
The remaining 1% is my bonus. After deducting personal income tax, there will be about five million left, which will be in my personal account before the 10th of next month.
The second thing is that the outline for the next game has been completed, and it is necessary to start looking for an artist to assist with the initial production.
Minecraft can be described as pixel-style, and he could still manage to draw some textures using his high school art skills.
However, for this new game, graphics, music and sound effects, and interface interaction are all crucial factors, and it's not something that can be done casually by one person.
Hmm, wait a minute, maybe he can step in first in terms of music.
Ming Yan still remembers many famous masterpieces, both at home and abroad. Although it's impossible for him to memorize the entire score, he can remember the chorus and outsource the rest to some music studios to complete it.
Anyway... he's rich now! Rich! Rich!
The third thing is that tomorrow's date was circled on the calendar.
Time flies, and Mingyan has been busy writing the design proposal for the new game recently.
Unexpectedly, it has come to the point where the whole class will have a final farewell dinner together.
☆ Noble People
The next morning, Mingyan first went to a government department.
He wants to donate several hundred million yuan.
However, the law stipulates that such a large sum of money must first be reviewed by the government, possibly to prevent money laundering or similar activities.
The process wasn't difficult; it only took ten minutes to fill out the form and submit the documents.
The yawning clerk at the counter took the form, glanced at it, and stared intently at the amount. After a long while, he looked at Mingyan with a strange expression and asked, "Sir, do you have proof of your bank account?"
Mingyan handed over the asset certificate that he had printed out earlier.
The young man took the very light and thin piece of paper with both hands, then took a deep breath, his face flushed with excitement, and ran to the back room.
A moment later, a blonde, blue-eyed, busty beauty emerged instead.
The beautiful woman was wearing a very professional uniform, but the button on her chest accidentally popped open, revealing her white, soft breasts and a deep cleavage.