The Platinum Hall of Fame is not a real building, but a figurative designation of honor in the gaming world.
When games enter the hall of fame, it's like a great man entering the Temple of Confucius.
Almost all games selected for the Platinum Hall of Fame are masterpieces that received perfect scores from the Allied Review, and their reputation among players is impeccable, enjoying a status that is almost universally supported.
Moreover, as time goes by, other games may gradually lose popularity and become unprofitable; but the works in the Platinum Hall of Fame have already ascended to the throne and will only become "classics".
Whether it's a remake or a sequel, it will enjoy immense popularity.
The immediate benefits are also obvious.
The day A-League released its evaluation, it was exactly one week after the Blue Star Carnival ended.
The heads of several game publishing platforms rushed to send messages to Blue Star.
They all raised the rating of "Blue Star Apocalypse" to the highest level and contacted Blue Star Studio to renew the contract with a higher level, wanting to provide a recommendation spot throughout the entire Chaoyang Alliance network.
It's important to understand that the Chaoyang Alliance spans two cantilever arms and boasts tens of thousands of star systems. Just disseminating information across the entire network would be an incredibly costly undertaking.
The cost of promoting a product across the entire internet is staggeringly high.
Any established platform that takes the lead in using the phrase "recommended across the entire network" without any negotiation... it's practically saying, "Dad, you're going to be a hit! I want to ride the wave too, QUQ Can I get a piece of the action too?"
What's even more humiliating is that many platforms have proactively reduced their contract revenue share by one percentage point.
—It's gone down!
In this era where distribution channels are king, the fact that Blue Star Studio is willing to offer discounts can only mean that they hold absolute control.
Sorry, games are fun, so you can do whatever you want.
In early June, Jialian's evaluation was officially displayed on Jialian's official website for a full week.
Meanwhile, on the homepages of various platforms such as IPP and Atlas, corresponding recommendation slots were also launched, with advertisements that were largely the same, basically requiring only a sentence like "A League's acclaimed masterpiece" to suffice.
No gamer can resist a masterpiece that scores a perfect 1/2!
Just like they say: blindly follow Daddy Jia's guidance! 8 points or higher is worth experiencing! 9 points or higher is a must-play! 9.5 points, play it even if you die! A perfect masterpiece, play it to death as long as you don't die!
Originally, given the relatively remote location of the Sixth Star Province, Blue Star Studio's influence was only slowly radiating outwards.
However, with high-cost online recommendations and the prestigious brand of Jialian, the situation is completely different.
The most direct data: The total sales of "Blue Star Apocalypse" in the first week of its release in the Sixth Star Province was 20.7 billion.
In the first week after the omnichannel recommendation was launched, weekly sales exceeded 90 billion.
They're not even in the same league!
For the first time, Blue Star Studio has truly achieved "interstellar popularity" overnight!
After a rough tax deduction, approximately 50 billion yuan began to flow back to Earth.
Even the local banks that partnered with Blue Star Studio rarely saw such a large amount of cash flow. The head office immediately ordered an emergency overtime shift, and a large group of top accountants worked overnight to create an independent file for Blue Star Studio.
Overnight, Lanxing's credit rating was directly upgraded to the highest level by multiple banks, a level that allows him to get loans in the tens of billions of yuan.
Because its cash flow metrics are so incredible, reaching a perfect score, which means its profitability is simply outrageous!
The entire development of "Blue Star Apocalypse" took more than a year. It uses the Frostfire Engine 4, which was just released in StarCraft last year, and the licensing fee exceeded 100 million.
In addition to the operational costs of Blue Star Studio, developer salaries and bonuses, and the cost of purchasing servers and workstations, etc...
All things considered, the total cost is less than one billion.
Its profit margin, however, reached an astonishing 200%.
This is the ultimate profit margin in the VR gaming industry, and this is the allure of a perfect masterpiece or a platinum-level title.
This is also the best response from the entire market to the sincere work of conscientious game developers.
Even the most popular fantasy games cannot achieve such a high profit margin because the latter's costs are simply too high; it is a standard high-risk, high-return investment.
After the first batch of funds returned, Blue Star Studio's cash reserves were directly boosted to the level of tens of billions.
Earth has never been this rich!
It was just a game, yet it propelled it into the top 100 of local businesses—even rivaling some local mining companies.
Even by interstellar standards, this is not a small company, not to mention its even greater influence online.
With the release of Blue Star Studio's official account, the number of registered users has officially surpassed the 8 billion mark.
This is because the official website of Blue Star does not currently support real-time connections from people in other star provinces—they have not yet established a faster-than-light communication server, so they cannot do this.
In other words, Blue Star alone has eight billion fans in the sixth star province.
The official forum has already had to implement a fifth level of traffic diversion, but the massive traffic is still causing every sub-forum to be flooded with messages.
[Congratulations to "Blue Star Apocalypse" for receiving a perfect score of 10.0 from the Jia League Association! (Congratulations to the Jia League Association!)]
[A Blue Star production is guaranteed to be top-notch. This is a professionally curated building for fans to admire – come on, little stars! You'll find everything you could want at the end!]
Let's all talk about the games we've played on Earth over the years. When I first followed this account, the leader only had 6,000 followers.
[I'm from the same school as the cult leader!! The dorms in the game design department were shaking like an earthquake today!]
The marketing department of Blue Star was caught off guard by the overwhelming enthusiasm of the players, but they quickly prepared countermeasures.