Why not use this money to develop a new game? Or give the employees a bonus? It hurts so much!
After the League of Legends event started, it quickly accumulated more than 700 million viewers as the championship finals approached.
The result was the advertising benefits brought by the increased traffic, coupled with the subsequent surge in donations from players...
Mingyan suddenly found himself with nearly a million more inexplicably?!
Clearly stated: “???”
This is such a headache.
Chief Designer Ming is about to go crazy.
How could something like wanting to give money but being unable to do so happen?
He felt very bad about receiving donations from players because he "seemed to be short of money".
In the end, Mingyan had no choice but to resort to despicable underhanded tactics.
—He secretly added cash prizes to the prize pool for the reward event!
He also negotiated with several external sponsors, bought their vouchers, and gave them all away to the lottery players for free.
In addition, Bluestar has recently been in talks with several toy manufacturers, preparing to produce a batch of League of Legends game merchandise as a trial run.
The first batch of merchandise will not be sold to the public; instead, it can be given to players as a special reward.
...
So, after all that, Mingyan finally managed to return the million-plus yuan to the player.
Then, Blue Star's fans were almost in tears.
How can such an amazing studio exist in the world...?
[The cult leader is clearly a smart person, so how come he can't learn how to swindle money?! Ugh, I just want to scream to the heavens!]
The more I think about it, the more I realize how honest Lan Xing is. I heard the leader still lives in a studio apartment; I feel so sorry for him.
[I can't even give away the money I have in my hand; my wallet is crying out in pain!]
Later, having exhausted all other options, many players decided to give back to Earth through the game.
Some people chose to recommend the game to those around them;
Some even organized their in-game friends to give full-star reviews to several games under Bluestar – even the rating of the new pay-to-win game "Card Alliance" was forcibly raised by more than 1.5 points in a few weeks, almost reaching the level of a masterpiece with a score of 9.5.
Another tycoon went even further, spending a huge sum of money to buy large offline advertising banners, the kind that have the Blue Star logo directly hung on the exterior walls of local landmark buildings.
In order to stop players from continuing to donate to Mingyan's personal account, Mingyan had to contact the blog's official support and ask them to unlink his account.
In the interstellar era, this operation is very uncommon.
When the other party heard that the reason given was "I don't want to receive donations anymore," they were so shocked that their jaws almost dropped to the ground.
Finally, Mingyan also listened to the players' friendly suggestions.
He divided the remaining tens of thousands of yuan in donations into bonuses and distributed them to the employees of Blue Star Studio according to their contributions.
Yes, the employees were quite shocked as well.
Because Blue Star already receives a lot of bonuses during holidays, not to mention that each game has a fixed 20% profit that is distributed to the development team.
It was made clear that this bonus was no longer issued under any official name, so it was directly labeled as "a red envelope from the players."
Well, even a veteran like Varian Wrynn...
When he took this generous red envelope home to his wife, it still shocked her.
"Just how many fans do you guys have? They're even sending you red envelopes?!" his wife exclaimed in disbelief.
Varian scratched his beard and said, "It's still because the boss is just too amazing..."
Blue Star Studio is truly an amazing place.
The newcomers at the studio, having just completed "Card Alliance," are still basking in the joy of the project's success.
The overwhelming positive reviews from players swept over them like a tsunami.
Being submerged in water and at a loss—that's exactly what it means.
The recent graduate had never witnessed such a terrifying wave of compliments. Just browsing the comments every day made him feel like he was ascending to heaven, not to mention the bonuses and red envelopes he received.
They've only been with Blue Star Studio for less than six months; they're still on probation!
Not only did Boss Ming teach them how to design games step by step, but he also generously distributed all the bonuses that regular employees were entitled to.
He's such a wonderful boss; he moved many people to tears.
They were convinced that even if they didn't finish their job on Earth due to unforeseen circumstances, it would still be the most valuable asset in their careers.
Chapter 45 Publicity and Release
At the end of December, Bluestar Studio's first truly meaningful "game peripherals" were finally launched on the official website's online store.
Since this batch is basically at the sample level, it involves many processes, is exquisitely made, and is relatively rare.
Mingyan's games all have a related merchandise.