Huang Xingwu knew he was probably going to get rich, but he never imagined he'd strike it this rich.
Due to network restrictions, the backend of the oo mobile game center didn't have real-time data synchronization. Instead, it refreshed data once every night after 1 AM, allowing developers to see their game's sales data from the previous day.
Initially, Huang Xingwu didn't dare to look at his backend data. It wasn't until the third day that he could no longer suppress his curiosity. He logged into the oo mobile game center backend and saw his game's data.
Then, Huang Xingwu was stunned. The player download count was 2.68 million, and the total player game time was 5.54 million hours. Although another crucial piece of data, player payment data, was zero, it no longer mattered. Huang Xingwu was already numb from the rewards of the incentive plan.
According to the incentive plan rules, players would receive a one-dollar reward for every 100 hours of total game time. With the current total game time reaching 5.54 million hours, this translated to a reward of $55,400, equivalent to over 400,000 RMB in income. Such an astonishing income made Huang Xingwu tremble with excitement.
He had originally planned to make back his 2,000 RMB investment and be grateful. Who would have thought it would turn into a terrifying income of over 400,000 RMB?
And this was just for three days. If the data remained the same for a month, wouldn't he earn a staggering 4 million RMB in revenue share in a month?
In a year, wouldn't he become a millionaire with an annual income exceeding 100 million RMB?
And this was just from one game?
Huang Xingwu was incredibly excited and wished for the month to pass quickly. It wasn't that he wanted to know how much he would earn in a month, but rather because the settlement and actual receipt of the money would only happen after that month.
Over the next few days, Huang Xingwu's heart experienced tremendous and rapid changes.
Ten days later, the download count had exceeded 13.56 million, and the growth rate was still increasing. More importantly, the total game time had also increased to 35.21 million hours, which equated to $350,000, or about 2.8 million RMB in income.
The most crucial point was that this data was still growing. Based on this trend, wouldn't a total income exceeding ten million RMB in a month be a natural progression?
Huang Xingwu desperately wanted to know what had happened to make his game so popular, but he couldn't figure it out.
Because domestic media hadn't paid attention to the game's popularity, he couldn't find any information from domestic print or television media.
As for online news... due to the firewall, domestic users couldn't directly access discussions about the Lianliankan game on foreign websites.
Added to this, his boss had been frantically scheduling him for more classes. The number of classes he had to teach had increased from two to a full five, leaving Huang Xingwu no time to slack off during the day. All his time was dedicated to teaching.
He only had opportunities to check the situation at the internet cafe after work. This was also why Huang Xingwu waited three days to see the data; he was reluctant to spend money on internet fees.
Only after realizing he might get rich did he start to check his backend data for about an hour at the internet cafe each day, calculating how much money he could earn.
However, this greatly angered his wife. Huang Xingwu had been coming home late every day and had become somewhat indifferent to the family, which she suspected was a sign of an affair.
So, upon returning home, Huang Xingwu had to face his wife's furious arguments and all-night tantrums. This made him both love and fear the internet cafe, and in the following days, he simply stopped going.
Therefore, even though the numbers kept growing, Huang Xingwu remained clueless. Until one day, he found a luxury car waiting at his doorstep and people gathered at the entrance of his apartment building.
"Brother, what's going on?" Huang Xingwu walked over, asking curiously.
"Waiting for someone!" The person took a drag from his cigarette and said impatiently, "I've been waiting here all afternoon."
"Who is it, that they're so imposing that you have to wait all afternoon in a luxury car? This person is really impolite!" Huang Xingwu chimed in with sympathy.
"Someone named Huang Xingwu. Brother, do you know this person? We don't even know what he looks like."
"Huang Xingwu? That name sounds just like mine!" Huang Xingwu said with a chuckle. Then, both of them froze for a moment, looking at each other foolishly. Huang Xingwu looked at the person nervously and said, "What do you want? I have surveillance here, and the police station is next door. My brother-in-law works there!"
"Mr. Huang, please don't misunderstand. We are looking for you for a good reason. We are staff from the oo mobile game center!" the person quickly replied.
"Oh, is that so!" Huang Xingwu breathed a sigh of relief and felt a bit curious. Why were the oo mobile game center staff coming to find him? Were they here to give him a bonus?
As Huang Xingwu pondered this, he enthusiastically invited them to his home. To his surprise, they instead took him to a nearby teahouse, saying they had important matters to discuss.
"Why did you come to my building to wait for me?" Huang Xingwu asked curiously after they sat down.
"We couldn't reach you at all!" Upon mentioning this, the oo mobile game center staff looked dejected. "We sent you an email three days ago, but you never replied. When we called the number you left, it said the number had been disconnected. We finally had to come to the address you provided!"
"You've worked hard! You've worked hard!" Huang Xingwu quickly explained that he hadn't replied to the email because he hadn't been online for three days.
As for the disconnected phone number, it was the old landline at his home, which had since been disconnected. In fact, Huang Xingwu had done this intentionally, leaving a non-working number to avoid potential scammers. Who knew it would backfire.
"So, what do you want with me?" Huang Xingwu asked back.
"It's like this, the market feedback for your Lianliankan game has been very good. So, we hope to introduce Lianliankan to the PC oo game center for promotion and marketing. We would like to sign a supplementary agreement with you," a staff member said.
"No problem!" Huang Xingwu agreed without hesitation.
"Uh..." The staff member was taken aback. He had prepared for all sorts of negotiations with Huang Xingwu, but he never expected the man to agree so readily.
"Is this guy an idiot? He has no idea how much this contract is worth!" the staff member muttered to himself. In his opinion, Huang Xingwu was just an ordinary middle-aged man who didn't understand commercial value, which was why he agreed to such a valuable agreement with one word.
However, from Huang Xingwu's perspective, the situation was different. Firstly, Huang Xingwu didn't know the extent to which these games had become popular, only that they were likely very popular.
Secondly, and most importantly, Huang Xingwu hadn't received the money yet!
Huang Xingwu currently had at least several million RMB in revenue from mobile games. He worried that if he didn't agree to the other party's request now, they might play dirty when paying him his reward share, and he would be powerless to deal with it. He was just an ordinary small tutor, not even a public school teacher, but a tutor at a private tutoring institution – a definite disadvantaged group, completely lacking the ability to deal with large corporations like Jiangnan Group!
Moreover, the oo mobile game center had promised rewards based on rankings, with a maximum reward of $100,000. His current performance should at least put him in the top 10. If he refused the agreement, he would definitely lose this bonus, so he had to agree!
Therefore, Huang Xingwu agreed immediately. Regardless of anything else, it was safer to secure the millions of RMB from the mobile games first!
Furthermore, Huang Xingwu didn't believe that Jiangnan Group would take the adaptation rights without giving him any benefits. Once it was on the PC platform, there would likely be a significant incentive plan, allowing him to earn more. This was undoubtedly a very profitable deal.
Indeed, when Huang Xingwu saw the specific contract, a satisfied smile appeared on his face. Firstly, the other party would pay a copyright transfer fee of 500,000 RMB. In addition, the oo game center also mentioned a revenue-sharing plan, where 70% of the entire platform's revenue would be distributed to Huang Xingwu.
This proportion was even higher than the oo mobile game center's own share, so Huang Xingwu was naturally very pleased.
However, after examining the contract for a while, Huang Xingwu couldn't find any mention of the incentive plan, so he asked with some concern, "Are there no incentive plans for the PC version?"
"No!" The staff member shook his head and stated plainly, "The incentive plan is only for the mobile version, and the plan will only last until the end of this year. We will not launch a corresponding incentive plan next year."
"I see!" Huang Xingwu felt a bit disheartened. His game was free. Without the incentive plan, wouldn't his game have no revenue on the PC platform?
"However," the staff member said with a smile, "we suggest that once your game is introduced to the PC platform, you should add internal payment options. We believe that Lianliankan has many opportunities for monetization, such as special maps, special outfits, special images, special modes, special skins, and so on. These can all be paid features. Your future income on the PC platform will not be less than that from the mobile version!"