"Five million?"

Yang Dong chuckled, "No need for that much, three million is enough! In today’s online gaming market, three million daily active users is already the ceiling level."

League of Legends is currently the hottest online game, and it hasn’t changed for years!

But even League of Legends has been on a downhill trend for years, with daily active users dropping again and again, long past its former glory.

Previously, just the National Service had several million daily actives, and considering overseas, the global daily actives should have been in the tens of millions!

But after all these years, the global daily active players of League of Legends can only maintain at a few million level, and the National Service is even worse, with hardly any new players online except the old ones.

So if Marble Storm can achieve over three million daily actives, it could really boast itself as the "world’s number one online game."

"Wait a minute!"

Seemingly realizing something, Chen Ba asked curiously, "Why is the ceiling so low now? I remember last year, League of Legends MMO had four to five million daily actives, didn’t it?"

"You just said that was last year..."

"Can last year be the same as this year? Plus! The decline of daily active users in desktop games is something we’ve heard many times before."

Yang Dong said helplessly, "Our Cultivation Fantasy and Star Emperor 2 are relatively good online games, right?"

"But even so, the daily active users of these two games experience a slow decline after reaching peak periods."

Star Emperor 2 is still okay, after all, it’s a newly released game, so the online user numbers can still stabilize, not plummeting too harshly.

Cultivation Fantasy, however, has it rough.

It once pushed for a million daily actives, but now, never mind a million, even maintaining a base of five hundred thousand is credit to the efforts of the "Merit Cultivators."

We truly need to thank the Merit Cultivators.

If it wasn’t for their firm support, daily check-ins for merit, and dedication to be the first to achieve "Merit Ascension," the game’s daily actives would probably have collapsed.

"What about Mountain Village Memories?"

Chen Ba was very curious; as a game released around the same time as Cultivation Fantasy, is Mountain Village Memories affected?

"Mountain Village Memories, well..."

Yang Dong pondered, "How should I say this? If we solely talk about daily actives, it’s actually not particularly high, because the total player base isn’t that large."

"However, there’s one statistic for the game that is absolutely ranking at the forefront, and that’s daily average startup frequency..."

It’s too crazy!

The player base of Mountain Village Memories isn’t particularly large, given that it’s mainly a single-player narrative game, so the daily actives shouldn’t be expected to be strong.

Only those who are especially superstitious about the "Divination System" will log in punctually every day to check in. Most players rarely open the game after clearing the story or when they get tired of playing.

But! Here’s the point!

It is precisely this group of players superstitious about the "Divination System" that brought Mountain Village Memories to the top in daily average startup frequency in the industry.

The first thing they do when waking up is to divinate for themselves to see their fortune for the day.

After washing up and eating breakfast, preparing to go out, they divine again to see what today is suitable for.

After coming home to play games, they divine again, considering the character has been buffed in the current UP pool for forty rounds, they wonder if they can get it in the next ten rounds...

Before bed at night, they still divine, not for anything but peace of mind. If the trigram indicates bad fortune, they may not sleep well.

This is the daily life of numerous Mountain Village Memories players.

The Divination System has completely integrated into their lives, just like changing shoes when stepping out and taking off shoes inside, it has become a habit.

Why is this the case?

On one hand, the Divination System in Mountain Village Memories is indeed miraculous, since it calculates trigrams based on big data. Whether big data understands you or not, do you have a clue in your mind?

On the other hand, using this tool to forecast real-life fortunes may appear to be a "feudal superstition" practice, but actually, it’s a trend among many young people.

Yes, a trend!

Everyone knows the Divination System can only predict fortunes within the game, not real life, but that doesn’t stop everyone from using this system in real life.

Don’t ask, if you ask, it’s the cyber age, and everyone needs a "portable cheat"!

A mini program for knocking wooden fish can garner millions of downloads, and the merit accumulation in Cultivation Fantasy can captivate so many players, so why can’t cyber fortune-telling become popular?

Even though it’s quite abstract.

But this thing is more reliable than knocking wooden fish for merit or burning incense to worship.

After all, the Divination System in Mountain Village Memories, although it only calculates fortunes within the game, can have a "certain probability" of being right when used for real life forecasting.

"Ah this..."

Chen Ba mocked, "Isn’t this just like guessing the heads or tails of a coin? I say you have good luck/bad luck today; such ambiguous trigram rhetoric will always guess correctly a few times."

No matter if the fortune prediction by the Divination System is "completely random," it can stumble upon a correct prediction a few times, unrelated to mystics, purely a probability issue.

Then what’s the significance of this thing?

Seeking psychological comfort anyway, why not flip a coin? Flipping a coin has the same effect as this and is even more straightforward and convenient!

"Haha, this sort of thing is knowing it’s false, yet wishing it were true."

Yang Dong laughed and explained, "Whether the trigrams from divinations are accurate isn’t important; what’s important is that, in a fast-paced high-pressure life, players wish they were accurate, just like in the game..."

It may as well be said that precisely because the Divination System in Mountain Village Memories is so miraculous online, everyone ends up hoping it can divine their fortunes in reality.

This hope is crucial!

When Chen Ba used to stay in a rental eating instant noodles, the wallpaper on his computer was an image of [Descent of the God of Wealth].

That sort of behavior is similar to these players superstitious about divination; they all know it’s unreliable, but they hope it is reliable, they hope it genuinely works.

"By the way!"

Yang Dong casually mentioned, "WeChat launched a mini program where by binding your Tianba Game account, you can perform real-time divination on your phone..."

Really?

Hearing this, Chen Ba was initially shocked, then asked with full suspicion, "Wait, where does the result of this divination come from? It can’t be randomly generated, can it?"

"Of course not!"

Yang Dong himself uses this mini program, understands its principles, and explained to Chen Ba, "It calculates divination results by starting the game in the cloud through the bound player’s account, then transfers the trigram result to the player."

To put it simply, this mini program is just a "cloud computer."

Players outside who can’t use their PCs easily, who can’t easily start Mountain Village Memories, can login and divine their fortunes on the cloud through the mini program.

Chen Ba: "..."

Wow, who developed this mini program, really knows how to seize business opportunities!

It makes me want to use it too.

After all, anytime, anywhere, you just take out your phone to divine your fortune, and the trigram results are consistent with those from Mountain Village Memories. Who wouldn’t like such a mini program?

Cyber fortune-telling version 2.0!

Chen Ba is genuinely impressed with these people; when he heard this mini program had been used by hundreds of thousands of people, he admitted he was envious.

But envy aside, he really didn’t dare let Tianba Studio mimic this mini program and launch an "official version" to grab the market.

After all...

Mountain Village Memories has always skirted the edge of being banned. Haven’t you seen how they don’t dare pursue infringement for the peripheral products of the "Hu Xi" character?

Comparing interest, he is more concerned that if this mini program gets reported for feudal superstition, it could implicate Tianba Studio, right?

Please don’t do that!

We are doing "scientific prediction," not "mystic divination." Did you get Ba’s permission to name this mini program "Daily Divination"?