Soon, the others in the dorm raised similar questions.

"Why does this game only sell one product in the store?"

"It only allows a recharge of 30 yuan?"

"And after buying it, it only gives one extra ten-draw chance each day, which doesn't seem very useful?"

"What about the VIP system? *Q Meng San Guo* has VIP 8 already!"

Everyone looked at Ruan Guangjian.

But Ruan Guangjian himself didn't know!

He thought for a moment, "I don't know what's going on either. Maybe I should ask Boss Pei, maybe there are some special considerations, or maybe this game isn't the official version yet?"

Ruan Guangjian was very puzzled and left a message for Pei Qian through the contact information on the resource site.

"Boss Pei, I see that there's no VIP system in this game, and there's only one product in the store. Is it because the game is still in the testing phase? The official version should add them, right?"

Before long, Pei Qian replied.

"This is the official version."

Ruan Guangjian was shocked, "Then... what about the things in the store?"

Pei Qian: "Our game only sells this lifetime card, and we don't plan to launch any new products in the future."

Ruan Guangjian: "Why?!"

Pei Qian: "Why? There's no why. Our game's pricing strategy is mainly based on a one-time purchase. Players have already spent ten yuan to buy our game, how can they possibly want to open too many in-app purchases?"

"Actually, I originally didn't plan to sell this 30-yuan lifetime card, but after thinking about it, I thought maybe some players would need it, so I added it."

Ruan Guangjian was completely shocked and didn't know what to say for a long time.

Boss Pei is so kind!!

The top of the pay-to-win ladder in *Q Meng San Guo* is nearly a thousand yuan. Only whales can obtain those extremely precious and rare cards, while ordinary players often have to grind for a long time to get a purple card.

But here in *Ghost General*, almost everyone is equal. The only difference is a 30-yuan lifetime card!

In *Q Meng San Guo*, this money isn't even enough for one ten-draw!

Ruan Guangjian suddenly felt that he was judging a gentleman with a petty mind.

He thought that Pei Qian hadn't made a pay-to-win system because the game wasn't finished yet, or for some other reason.

But after asking, he realized that Pei Qian wasn't even considering making a pay-to-win system. He wanted to make a very fair card mobile game!

He wanted to let ordinary players enjoy the fun of drawing rare cards!

Ruan Guangjian's eyes welled up with tears. He even felt that charging Pei Qian 3,000 yuan for a set of original paintings was a bit too much.

He should give a discount for drawing original paintings for such an idealistic and individualistic designer!

Ruan Guangjian thought of another question and quickly asked, "Boss Pei, there's another question. I see that the game's download data is very poor. Is it because you haven't done any promotion yet?"

Pei Qian: "Promotion? Uh, no promotion."

Ruan Guangjian was stunned: "Why no promotion?!"

Why make a game but not promote it?

Good wine is also afraid of deep alleys. If you don't promote it, how will players know about your game?

Pei Qian: "Because I don't have any money. This game invested a total of 300,000, buying templates, art resources, music and sound effects, renting cloud servers... basically, it's all spent."

Ruan Guangjian almost cried with emotion.

What kind of spirit is this!

Ruan Guangjian remembered that Pei Qian could be said to be generous when he bought the original paintings!

Originally, Ruan Guangjian himself proposed 2,000 yuan for 4 original paintings, but Pei Qian felt that Ruan Guangjian had to work hard on the design and felt bad about only giving 2,000 yuan, so he forcibly increased the price to 3,000 yuan.

At that time, Ruan Guangjian thought that Tengda Network Technology Co., Ltd. was a wealthy company and didn't care about these tens of thousands of yuan.

But now it seems that's not the case at all!

Tengda doesn't have that much money at all. The research and development funding is only 300,000, and they barely managed to make a card mobile game. There is no extra funding for promotion!

After careful calculation, this was unexpected, but also reasonable.

Tengda Network Technology Co., Ltd. had only released one game before this, which was *Lonely Desert Road*. Although this game was a small hit, it only cost 1 yuan, how much could it earn?

It is easy to be stretched when investing in the research and development funding of the second game.

Even if the research and development funding is so tight, Boss Pei was unwilling to squeeze him when discussing the original paintings, but instead proposed a relatively fair price that both parties felt was reasonable...

Righteous, so righteous!

Ruan Guangjian suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Maybe if he had asked for a little less money, would Boss Pei have been able to squeeze out some publicity funds?

But Ruan Guangjian couldn't mention it, because he knew that Pei Qian's character would definitely not want the money, and after all, he was the boss of a company, and he had to save face.

Ruan Guangjian suddenly felt a lump in his throat, feeling very uncomfortable.

Such a conscientious game, without publicity funds, is about to be buried.

What a sad thing this is!

"Brothers, I think *Ghost General* needs us now."

Ruan Guangjian told his brothers in the dorm about his speculation.

Lao Huang and others were also shocked.

"Is this game really so conscientious, not planning to make money?"

"It's not that they don't plan to make money. Who opens a company to make games without planning to make money? I think Boss Pei has lofty aspirations and doesn't want to earn that black-hearted money!"

"That's right, if he didn't want to make money, Boss Pei might as well just make the game completely free. He still wants to rely on the ten-yuan buy-out fee per person, standing up and earning money!"

"It feels difficult, no matter how conscientious a game is, without early publicity, it simply can't become popular!"

"Why don't we be unpaid promoters!"

"Being unpaid promoters isn't bad, but with just a few of us... it's not very useful. If we were big Vs or popular video bloggers, then of course we could be unpaid promoters, but we don't have these resources."

Several people fell into contemplation.

Lao Huang and others were also persuaded by Ruan Guangjian, and they all felt that such a conscientious game like *Ghost General* must not be buried, otherwise it would definitely be a major loss to the domestic mobile game market!

But, after thinking about it, they didn't have any good ideas.

They couldn't just go online and post in person, constantly spamming "*Ghost General* is a good game," right? That would be too inefficient and likely be a waste of time.

Suddenly, Ruan Guangjian slapped his thigh: "I've got it! I have a group with some well-known artists and masters in it. I'll ask them to see if they can help think of a solution."

Lao Huang was stunned: "You have such a group? Why didn't I know about it earlier?"

"Hey, it's a long story."

Ruan Guangjian said as he opened his computer, "Last year, didn't I go to a concept art competition to do a part-time job? That's when I met Teacher Chen Qi. I showed him my work, and he appreciated it very much. He encouraged me to develop more in this direction and pulled me into a group."

He paused, then said, "It's just a pity that this group is full of industry大佬 (dalao - big shots), and I'm too embarrassed to speak, so I've been silently lurking until now."