In the past two years, the game "eat chicken" of "pubg: battle grounds" was popular all over the domestic network, and "eat chicken tonight" has also become a popular word. However, after a long time of negative optimization, network speed, plug-in and other problems, the number of players continued to decline, and even fell lonely for a time.
In the middle of January this year, the game of Jedi survival, which charges 98 yuan, has really become a free game. All players around the world can "eat chicken" for free, which has brought rebirth to the game.
Recently, krafton (blue hole), the developer of Jedi survival, released the latest revenue report. The report shows that after the game is free, the sales on PC increased by 61% year-on-year, reaching US $82.3 million (about 560 million yuan) in the first quarter.
The sales of mainframe version increased by 124% over the previous quarter and 274% year-on-year Compared with the fourth quarter of 2021, the average number of monthly active users of the game has also "nearly tripled".
It can be said that the free strategy is very wise and timely saved the embarrassing situation of the gradual desolation of Jedi survival. Moreover, the free mode of the game is the match, and the qualifying still needs to be charged.
This also created a strange phenomenon, because it is free, players can open and hang freely, and "all kinds of gods" fly all over the sky in the matching match, but there are few plug-ins in the qualifying match.
Therefore, for players, if they can't stand plug-ins and want to play qualifying, they will turn into paying users sooner or later To sum up, Jedi survival seems to be free, but it doesn't seem to be