Poverty alleviation variety show goes to the countryside, my talent can no longer be hidden

Chapter 498 "Stardew Valley" is online, let's farm together!
In the last half month before New Year's Eve, Zhou Hao basically lived in southern Henan.

After all, if you want to participate in the choreography of the Spring Festival Gala of Southern Henan TV, it is always unreliable to rely on phone calls, and you have to have on-site supervision to feel more at ease.

After all, Henan Southern TV has put a lot of effort and placed a lot of expectations on this year's Spring Festival Gala, and it cannot afford to be sloppy or perfunctory.

At this juncture, the rest of the work in the studio has basically been completed, and everyone has entered a rare state of leisure and slacking off, some even starting to play games during work.

Zhou Hao didn't say much about this. He was not the only one who was busy and dizzy over the past year. The entire studio had been working around the clock to keep up with him and was all overloaded.

He is a big shot and can bear it, but these ordinary people are suffering a lot.

It's a rare opportunity to have some free time, so just let them be.

But for him, there is no possibility of taking a holiday as long as the earth does not explode.

The very least, "Ghost Blows Out the Light" has to continue to be updated.

The performance of this book is extremely good now, but I dare not stop updating it and ruin my luck.

Every day after coming back from Henan Satellite TV, he would devote almost all his energy to staying up late to write.

He plans to stock up more goods now so that he can spend more time with his family and wife during the New Year.

Especially Xu Lingyue... this daughter-in-law is a glutton at heart, and it will take some time to feed her well.

As busy as he is at this moment is Naughty Cat Studio.

"Stardew Valley" has completed the review process and opened the pre-order interface.

The price of the game is still very reasonable - 29.9 yuan.

Selling a pixel game for 30 yuan may sound a bit of a rip-off, but considering that those crappy games abroad dare to sell it for three or four hundred yuan... selling this game for thirty yuan is definitely a conscience deal.

Besides, with the reputation of "Endgame" in the past, everyone is still very confident about "Stardew Valley".

On the first day of pre-order, sales exceeded 200,000 copies, shocking all the peers.

Are you kidding me? This antique-level pixel-style game can actually sell so many copies?
Confused, they even searched for related social media discussion posts to see what everyone thought of the game.

“Finally someone made a pixel-style game. Love it!”

"Indeed, playing those 3D games with explosive graphics every day is a bit boring."

"The main reason is that those games are not fun. They just pile up graphics and sound effects. They look awesome, but they are not fun to play."

"Yes, those so-called 3A games are becoming more and more like canned games. The gameplay is all the same and there is no fun at all."

"Wow, this style of painting is so exquisite. The artist of this studio is amazing."

"This picture makes me feel like I'm back in high school, playing games on a handheld game console. I miss it so much."

“This game looks pretty clean, but I don’t know how it plays.”

"From the production attitude of "Finished", this studio still has some ability and bottom line. Just because they stopped making porn, I am willing to support them."

"Yes, it's just the price of a cup of Starbucks anyway, just think of it as supporting domestic games."

After seeing these comments, my colleagues touched the few remaining hairs on their foreheads and fell into confusion.

Oh my god...when did the market trend become like this?
Everyone on the gaming forum is clamoring for ultra-high-definition graphics, but when they turn around they start to say that these pixel-style games are so good?

After all this fuss, the sincerity of spending real money is not as good as the word "feelings"?
Gan!
These naughty cats are a little weird lately!
First, it made a weird game called "The End" which sold like hotcakes and directly led to a wave of me-too trends. But then it retired and started playing this kind of retro games instead...

Each decision seemed a little far-fetched, but after they were made, they really became bestsellers, just like having a God's perspective. There must be a master in this studio!
On the second day of pre-order, the daily sales increased by 21.6!
After two days of pre-ordering, sales have almost reached the half-million mark!

Many so-called domestic masterpieces cannot achieve this sales volume even if they are sold to death!
On the third day, the single-day pre-order volume remained very stable, at 22.4!
After three days of pre-orders, sales had exceeded 600,000, attracting the attention of the entire industry.

On the fourth day, Xu Lingyue, who seemed to have nothing to do with the gaming circle, suddenly updated a picture and text post on Weibo.

The photo shows her playing "Stardew Valley". The neatly arranged farmland and the fruitful harvest scene make people's eyes shine.

The text below is very simple, just one sentence - let’s farm together.

After seeing this update, both those who play games and those who don’t are stunned.

"Sister, what's going on with you? Have you accepted a game endorsement?"

"Our Hongdou has really made it big. She can even be the spokesperson for Naughty Cat's game?"

"What the hell, you're still playing this?"

"I remembered Hongdou said she didn't like playing games that much?"

"She was talking about an online game..."

"Is this true? Is it really fun?"

Under this comment, Xu Lingyue personally responded: "As a beta player who has experienced the game for half a month, I can say responsibly that this game is indeed fun. At least I personally like it very much."

Then, this comment was pinned directly to the top.

"Mom, I've made it. Queen Xu actually replied to me!"

"Fuck, a beta test player?"

"No, sister, you're a singer. Why don't you focus on your business and play games instead? You went abroad for further studies for two years, and you came back to play games?"

"I know you're a lazy person, but you can't be so lazy, right?"

"Zhou Hao is fully responsible!"

“@周灏, come out and take care of your wife, and write a few more songs for her!”

Then Xu Lingyue replied again: "He played with me."

The comments that followed were very uniform, all of them were “…………”

This couple is simply speechless.

But no matter what, Xu Lingyue's wave of hard advertising directly made the game well-known on a large scale.

Her fans and Zhou Hao's fans from various fields began to swarm over and found the pre-order interface.

When the pre-order sales figures for that day came out, the entire domestic gaming industry was shocked.

Single-day sales: 78.4!
The cumulative pre-order sales have exceeded one million and five hundred thousand!

Outrageous. Extremely outrageous!
According to this trend, as long as the content of this game is not a disappointment, it will continue to sell well.

But how much will this game cost?
It doesn't cost much to use your toes to figure it out. Just get a few programmers to tinker with it. It may even be cheaper than some shoddy pay-to-win mobile games. After all, debugging data balance for these mobile games is still very laborious for programmers...

One week after pre-order, "Stardew Valley" was officially launched with pre-order sales reaching 246 million!

(End of this chapter)