But, how should he dissuade these players?

Pei Qian was just an unknown figure. Even if he revealed his identity and said that he was the creator of "A Lonely Desert Road," how could this news spread quickly?

Pei Qian thought about it and decided that it would be better to directly state it on the game details page of the official game platform.

This way, when players came to download the game, they could directly see the text written by Pei Qian, producing an excellent dissuading effect!

Thinking of this, Pei Qian immediately opened the backend and began to modify the game introduction.

"Apologies to everyone!"

"Sorry, this is truly a very bad, very bad, trash game!"

"Extremely boring, not worth playing at all!"

"Seriously, don't play it! Players who have bought it, please hurry up and refund, thank you!"

Pei Qian finished modifying the introduction and waited silently.

As a result, an hour passed, and there was no sign of any decrease in the game's hourly downloads!

Not only that, but there were also some new comments.

"Oh, the game's introduction has been changed?"

"What kind of stimulation did the creator receive?"

"For the sake of your apology, I forgive you. But 1 yuan isn't worth refunding, the process is too troublesome, I'll just treat it as buying the creator an ice cream."

"This designer is hilarious, did you think we didn't know this was a trash game? We play it precisely because it's trash!"

"I feel like the creator of this game is very self-aware, I'll give a five-yuan tip for your honesty."

"I gifted this game to a friend!"

Looking at these replies, Pei Qian almost cried.

What exactly should I say in the introduction for you guys to refund?

Now Pei Qian realized that it was a huge mistake to set the game's price at 1 yuan, because this price was too cheap, and many people were too lazy to go through the refund process after buying it!

But the key was that Pei Qian didn't dare to set the price too high, because this game was just an indie game. If he set it at hundreds of yuan, not only would ESRO find it difficult to review, but the system would definitely warn him!

Pei Qian was desperate, watching the game's popularity remain high, he felt like he couldn't handle it anymore.

...

Monday.

"Brother Qian, you skipped class again this morning?"

Ma Yang had already packed his things and asked with some puzzlement, seeing Pei Qian lying on the bed, clearly awake but staring blankly at the ceiling, contemplating life like a salted fish.

Pei Qian waved his hand, not even having the strength to speak.

"Impressive."

Ma Yang left with his textbook.

After all, it was only their freshman year, and most students only started developing the habit of skipping class and sleeping until noon in their sophomore or junior years.

And Pei Qian had transmigrated from ten years later after all, knowing that it didn't matter even if he skipped these classes.

After all, he wasn't studying medicine or law, where failing to attend class for even a minute would lead to failing the course and questioning one's life. As an ordinary liberal arts major, even if he didn't go to class at all, he could still pass by cramming before the exam.

Besides, Pei Qian wasn't in the mood to go to class right now...

Every day, opening the game editor backend and refreshing the data that was constantly skyrocketing would give him more thoughts about life.

After lying on the bed for a full half hour, Pei Qian finally mustered the courage to call out to the system.

After Sunday's settlement, the game platform's revenue share should have been transferred to the company account in the early hours of this morning.

Now, the system funds within the system should also be refreshed.

With the feeling of being executed in the autumn, Pei Qian looked at the line of numbers on the system light screen.

[Wealth Conversion System]

[Host: Pei Qian]

[Surplus Conversion Ratio 100:1, Loss Conversion Ratio 1:1]

[Next Settlement Time: 7 days]

[System Funds: 51394.5 (↑1394.5)]

[Personal Assets: 367]

"Oh..."

Pei Qian closed the system interface, feeling like he was about to die.

He couldn't handle it anymore, he really couldn't handle it!

Regarding this number, Pei Qian was a little bit psychologically prepared. After all, he could roughly calculate how much money he would earn based on the cumulative downloads of the game before.

Ever since Qiao Laoshi's video was released, the game's daily downloads had been skyrocketing.

Qiao Laoshi's video was frantically reposted by many marketing accounts, and many people were also riding the wave of "A Lonely Desert Road," even triggering a wave of video creators to follow suit.

Once the popularity came and the trend of spreading formed, it would be difficult to stop.

Pei Qian watched helplessly as the game's daily downloads skyrocketed from dozens to hundreds and thousands, and then to several thousands.

And the soaring game downloads also allowed it to get better recommendations on the game platform, indie game recommendations, simulation driving game recommendations, racing game recommendations, and so on, each one.

Pei Qian always received system messages every time he opened the system backend.

"Congratulations! Your game "A Lonely Desert Road" has been recommended by xxx. During this period, please try not to update the version to avoid unknown bugs affecting the game experience..."

Now Pei Qian was completely indifferent to this paragraph.

Greater sorrow than heartbreak!

There was still a week, and now the system funds had exceeded 50,000 yuan, which meant that when the settlement came, the money earned would be converted into Pei Qian's personal property at a ratio of 100:1.

If it was 1,000 yuan, it could be converted into... 10 yuan?

Pei Qian looked at the numbers above, feeling like he wanted to cry but no tears came out.

...

...

One week later.

Dormitory.

"...Inexplicable, how did this kind of silly game become popular?"

"Please get out of my computer!"

"There are actually people on the leaderboard who have played this game for more than forty hours... are they crazy!"

Ma Yang was playing "A Lonely Desert Road" on the upper bunk. He quit the game in less than five minutes and was very puzzled as to how the game became popular.

And Pei Qian was shivering on the lower bunk.

"Hey, Brother Qian, have you played that super popular silly game recently? You know, that Desert Road thing?" Ma Yang leaned down from the upper bunk and asked.

"...No." Pei Qian was telling the truth, he really hadn't played the game much.

Because he knew very well that this game was disgusting, how could he play it himself...

Ma Yang slapped his thigh, "It's too坑人了! I don't know which heartless bastard made this game, they have a rotten heart!"

Pei Qian: "..."

I really didn't plan to let you guys play it! You guys insisted on playing it, how can you blame me?!

Pei Qian never expected that this game would also become popular on campus, and even in his own dormitory...

During this week, after the crazy reposting by many video creators and game media, "A Lonely Desert Road" became completely popular, so popular that Pei Qian began to doubt his life.

He was very fortunate that the live streaming platforms in 2009 were far from as popular as they would be ten years later. The leading YY live streaming platform only had a few hundred thousand live streaming users.

If live streaming was as popular now as it would be ten years later...

Pei Qian couldn't even imagine the consequences.