First Group of Fans

Although Zhou Wei had just officially joined the company this morning after passing the interview, he still hoped that [Choice of Robots] could become more popular.

After all, he knew this app was excellent, and he expected more people to know it and let it be worthy of its high quality.

In addition, it could also increase the company's popularity as the app became more famous.

Now that Zhou Wei had noticed the growth in the number of downloads, he couldn't help but speak out excitedly.

And the first group of people who he wanted to share this great news with was no one else but his new colleague, Chen Yize, and his new boss, Li Xinyi.

Looking at Chen Yize and Li Xinyi, Zhou Wei found that they both turned to look at him silently. No one spoke, and no one felt excited with him like they had already expected this to happen.

Zhou Wei felt awkward in this silent atmosphere, yet he didn't know that Chen Yize and Li Xinyi were just stunned by his sudden intrusion.

And after Chen Yize returned to his sense, he first searched for the app's data.

The data Chen Yize saw mostly came from several app stores.

They were the data that showed how many times [Choice of Robots] had been downloaded by people.

And now, if Chen Yize summed all of them together, there would be around 2,000 downloads in the past 20 minutes.

It meant that there had been around 100 downloads every minute on average.

Chen Yize had already expected it. However, when it did happen, he was still somewhat excited.

The system had only required his game to have the total number of downloads reaching 10,000 in half a month, and it had already completed one-fifth on the third day.

At this rate, Chen Yize finally saw hope after he had been desperate for so long. His eyes shone with expectation and excitement like never before.

"Haha! Finally, finally…"

Chen Yize murmured and laughed like an idiot, yet no one stopped him. In the past three days, everyone here knew how desperate he was before, even though no one knew his reason.

Li Xinyi on the side, looking at Chen Yize, who was too excited, she rolled her eyes, yet her mouth drew a beautiful smile.

After a while, Chen Yize finally calmed down, turning his head to the side and saying that sentence again.

"Thank you."

Before, Chen Yize said it without turning his head while slumping into the chair, exhausted.

This time, however, Chen Yize looked deep into Li Xinyi's eyes with a serious face, and he said it with the most sincere gratitude.

Yet, his heart still felt somewhat complicated.

Turning her head away, somewhat embarrassed, Li Xinyi gave Chen Yize the most casual reply.

"It's normal."

Without any more thought, Chen Yize's focus returned to the game.

The number of downloads of [Choice of Robots] was still growing. However, the growth rate wasn't as exaggerated as before.

Chen Yize didn't think it was a problem. After he let this first group of players finish playing [Choice of Robots], the second and third groups would come naturally after circulation.

And then, it wouldn't be a problem to complete the system's task.

Looking at the reviews one by one, Chen Yize still felt satisfied.

Most of them seemed to come after watching Su Mei's live broadcast.

And they mostly gave a good review even before they played it themselves.

[I came from Su Mei's live broadcast room. This app is undoubtedly excellent! You can choose many choices while reading this beautiful story. Highly recommended!]

[Many people said they came after watching Su Mei's live broadcast. I am one of them. And I must say that the robot in this app looked very cute. The other characters also looked interesting. Wait to see the story unfold.]

There were also some bad reviews, but they were just a minority.

Some of them had finished the story once, while some hadn't.

[It's interesting indeed. However, I died in the middle, and I needed to start from the beginning. I hope the developer can fix this problem soon. As for now, Bad Review!]

[There was only text and nothing else. No graphics, no sound effects indeed. And that's why I gave a bad review.]

[Damn it! I just reached the middle of the story, only to find out how stupid the author was. And how much the author discriminated against China while also discriminating in favor of the United States.

*Spoilers* The story described China as a complete villain. In the story, Chinese hackers used some means to obtain the robot's blueprints. Then, they produced the copy version and sold it to the United States. China's prime minister also had a parade with these robots in the United States while shamelessly regarding robots as their own. It's indeed the story that only the stupid author could write.

Overall, this app is very, very bad. Please don't download it, everyone.]

Looking at these bad reviews one by one, Chen Yize could only sigh.

He didn't expect everyone to love [Choice of Robots]. Like video games in his previous world, there were many types of games for players. Some players might choose this type, while some chose another. Overall, everyone could have their favorite, while some also had none.

And the last review Chen Yize read was quite long, but he finished reading it anyway.

For this kind of review, Chen Yize had already expected it.

It would indeed appear sooner or later. As long as someone had reached that part and loved China to a certain degree, no one could stop them from writing this kind of review.

Chen Yize wouldn't blame them. After all, now was still in the post-war period, when people's hearts had become more sensitive towards this kind of national thing. And they would allow no one to provoke them in this aspect.

And what these people said was also true, and they didn't lie in any way. So, Chen Yize couldn't hate them either.

Of course, Chen Yize still felt uncomfortable after he had read this kind of review, and the good mood he had before disappeared.

-----

It was the fifteenth day of the release and the last day of the system's time limit.

During the past few days, the popularity of [Choice of Robots] rose steadily. And this game was mainly spread by word of mouth, from one to another.

The reviews of this game also slowly became mixed, not as exaggerated as before.

Most people still gave this game a good review because it gave people a unique experience. Some also said it had a good story, many interesting characters, and even some thought-provoking and philosophical things.

These people accounted for more than 60%. Honestly, Chen Yize still felt somewhat surprised that it could be this high.

As for the rest that accounted for less than 40%, they gave [Choice of Robots] bad reviews.

Because of that part of the story, most of them finally regarded this game as garbage and gave bad reviews.

Some of them also gave a bad review because of other reasons such as dying and could only restart, no graphics, no sound effects, etc.

However, Chen Yize still didn't care about these reviews too much.

Instead, his attention shifted and focused on other things, such as the number of downloads.

The number of downloads had long passed 10,000 downloads required by the system and even had a chance to reach 15,000.

It finally led to the fact that [Choice of Robots] had reached the top 20 in the books category in just two weeks of its release. And it had even gotten a chance to be recommended by some stores.

And the reason for this was because [Choice of Robots] had caused too many controversies among people, which led them to have a battle online, trying to analyze whether this app was good or bad.

Some professionals also said online that this app would probably be the most controversial app of the year, and no other app could beat it in this aspect.

Of course, whatever the reason was, Chen Yize didn't care.

He had already completed the task, he knew that, and it was enough.

Now that Chen Yize had no task to force him, he could finally relax and lie down.

Before that, Chen Yize still asked Zhou Wei to help him transform [Choice of Robots] into a mobile phone app and a website.

Chen Yize knew this game could still be played on these two platforms in his previous life. And it made him feel that if he decided to develop it, he should do it to the end.

Or else he would feel that he hadn't finished something, just like Li Xinyi, who had taken a long time to unlock the [Tragic Hero] achievement in [Choice of Robots].

If they didn't complete it, they would only feel uncomfortable.

Oh, by the way, [Tragic Hero] was regarded by everyone who had played [Choice of Robots] as the most troublesome achievement to unlock because it required players to never unlock any achievements until the end of chapter 7, which was the end of the story.

Until now, only those perfectionists and some lucky people could unlock it, while most people might only play it a few rounds before feeling bored.

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Some people had seen the potential of [Choice of Robots] before considering how to react.

The first group was some of those app developers or Xinyi's main competitors currently.

Most of them, whether they were individuals or companies, thought they could imitate [Choice of Robots] by just following its design.

And the only problem they faced now was to find the story that could let the users make choices throughout the story, like [Choice of Robots].

However, some of them thought more. They thought they could develop an app similar to those novel-reading apps that attracted many authors to join and write some stories on their apps.

The only difference was that their app would only contain [interactive novels] when they released it, just like [Choice of Robots].

The second group was those authors, from young authors that had just chosen to join the industry to old authors that people had already regarded as great gods.

This brand-new kind of novel suddenly appeared, attracted them, and made some of them feel itchy to write the story in this new style.

And in this industry, where the competition among them was fierce, a new field suddenly appeared, so everyone had the same starting line if they wanted to enter.

Whoever wrote the story and released it first would have an advantage, and maybe they could even fly to the sky.

These authors couldn't wait and were eager to try, but they found that they couldn't write it now without someone's help, someone who could make them easier to write this kind of story, someone who had programming knowledge to a certain extent.

Of course, some authors decided to immediately find someone and make a program to release by themselves. And some of them were also approached by those app developers.

The third group was those who had already developed the novel-reading app/website.

Almost all of them had the same thought when [Choice of Robots] appeared, and that was to include this new kind of novel into their own app/website.

The only thing they needed to do was to find someone to include the program to support the authors of their own to write this kind of novel easier.

And Chen Yize now didn't realize that because people were not fools, once he showed a new idea and successfully implemented it, some people would naturally think about how to react to benefit themselves the most.

Some might choose to cooperate, while some might choose to suppress.

Some might choose to imitate, while some might choose to ignore.

People always had different thoughts when it came to a brand-new thing.