She is my childhood sweetheart, how could I not understand her?

Chapter 370 370 The Inevitable Trend

Ultimately, Qin Yu's overnight stay outside was not their business.

It's certainly a good thing for friends to be closer, but this kind of thing clearly goes beyond the scope of friendship.

At least Chen Shen has no right to interfere in this matter. Qin Yu can discuss it with her close friends, but a male friend like him should just keep quiet throughout.

This is the most basic social etiquette between friends of the opposite sex, and Xu Suiyou taught him very well in this regard.

Chen Shen's studio has a strict requirement for "afternoon naps," so after lunch, the studio quiets down. Liu Yujie goes back to his room to sleep, while Zheng Feiyang and Qin Yu take a nap on the sofa in the studio.

Chen Shen and Xu Suiyou went straight downstairs to their home to rest.

After setting his alarm for 3 o'clock, Chen Shen put his phone aside, propped up his pillow, and leaned against it.

"Aren't you going to sleep?"

"I just woke up not long ago and can't sleep. You go to sleep, I'm going to look at the data from the past few days."

He hasn't paid attention to the sales of "Vampire" for a long time, partly because the game's sales growth wasn't significant, and partly because he's simply become desensitized to it.

In the first few months, he did indeed keep an eye on the backend every day, and he would be excited for a long time every time sales exceeded 10,000.

But even the most excited person should have their limits.

Over time, he became less sensitive to sales figures, and he even stopped caring so much about the monthly payments.
"Oh, I'm going to sleep now."

"Ah."

Xu Suiyou was really sleepy. This was the first time she had gotten up so early since she had been on holiday for so many days. Even though she had taken a nap in the morning, now that she had eaten and was lying in the air-conditioned room, she couldn't stop feeling sleepy.

Before long, Chen Shen couldn't help but chuckle at the sound of the girl's long, soothing breaths beside him.

He lowered his large hand and gently stroked the girl's fair face, then removed his hand amidst the girl's dissatisfied grumbling.

Chen Shen swiped the tablet lightly, looking at the screen full of English text. He silently recited the English words in his mind while pondering their meanings.

Besides the data, he also reads comments on external websites.

The game's positive reputation is partly due to the fact that they are a development team that "listens to advice."

Listening to advice here doesn't mean they'll adopt all of their fans' suggestions; in fact, they'll only adopt a small portion.

Even so, their "heeding advice" has already made players on foreign websites cheer.

After all, some game developers are notoriously "arrogant".

This is probably related to the humility and gentleness inherent in the Chinese people.
A humble and gentle inner self, coupled with the youthful vigor unique to young people.
The combination of these two aspects makes their development team appear both "obedient" and "rebellious," which explains why they have accumulated so many foreign player fans.

However, after reading the comments for a while, Chen Shen's expression became increasingly strange.

He hurriedly flipped to the previous page, and after confirming that he had indeed opened the page for "Vampire Survivor", he was completely dumbfounded.

Why are there so many comments urging people to release new games under the comments section for "Vampire"?

Despite the urging, all the comments were unanimously positive.

I can't wait to play Slay the Spire!

This comment received over 200 likes, and keep in mind that it's only been less than a month since they announced their new work. In other words, the comment itself was written less than a month ago. Over 200 likes in a month is an incredibly high number.
Chen Shen flipped through the pages again, then slapped his forehead, finally understanding why this group of people were so excited.

He quickly put the tablet down, glanced at the time, and after thinking for a moment, decided not to get up rashly.

Simply put, he forgot to put his new game on Steam.

Steam has a wishlist feature where games can be listed on Steam before their official release, and then players who are looking forward to the new game can add them to their wishlists.

Steam will then use the number of people on this wishlist to promote the game before its release.

It's basically the standard procedure for listing on Steam, but Chen Shen and Liu Yujie really had no experience in this area.

Their first game, Vampire Survivor, was released directly, since they didn't have a fan base at the time. Even if it was released on Steam early, no one would actively put the game on their wishlist.

But the second installment is different; it has a large player base.

That's why players were so surprised that they didn't release the game on Steam first.

It's not a big problem; Liu Yujie can handle it in a bit.

After a quick browse through the internet, Chen Shen opened Bilibili and began his usual routine of watching videos.

He usually watches video games; it used to be just a hobby, but now it's a combination of hobby and work.

However, the gaming section of Bilibili has changed a lot in recent years.

He used this website around 2013, when, besides League of Legends, the other dominant game in the gaming section was Minecraft, also known as MC.

Leaving aside LoL, he watched a lot of Minecraft back then. For a while, he relied entirely on a YouTuber named Api to help him fall asleep, and oh, there was also a team called 12dora.

Over the past two years, the video section of Bilibili's gaming section has gradually evolved from being dominated by two companies to a diverse and vibrant landscape.

In addition to LoL and Minecraft, there are also gameplay videos and strategy guides for some single-player games, as well as some mobile game videos.

Even though Chen Shen isn't particularly fond of mobile games, he has to admit that mobile games will likely become mainstream for a long time to come.

This isn't some kind of visionary foresight, but rather a future that everyone can foresee after gaining some understanding of the current gaming market.

Nowadays, people receive information in increasingly convenient ways, and the pace of life has accelerated as an inevitable trend.

In this situation, few players will have the time to slowly enjoy a game.

Leaving aside others, let's talk about Chen Shen himself. Nowadays, he is busy with new works every day, which makes him rarely sit in front of the computer or TV and devote himself to a game.

He often jokes that he's "electronic impotent," but he knows better than anyone that it's not that he doesn't want to play games, but that he doesn't have enough time to play any game.

At this point, mobile phones, which can be taken out anytime and anywhere, will inevitably become the latest "game console" for gamers.

After glancing at the mobile games dominating the game charts on Bilibili, Chen Shen sighed in frustration and closed the page.

This is an inevitable trend, and he cannot change it alone.

However, it's an inevitable trend.
After opening the page again and glancing at the top ten videos and their view counts, Chen Shen silently scrolled through the interface, lost in thought.

(End of this chapter)