Almighty Video Game Designer

There were many different emoticon packs being shared around on Weibo and various different forums of Chen Mo’s various expressions during the stream, all with different texts.

“I think SSRs don’t exist in this game.”

“Tears of the unlucky.”

“Stop crying, you’re in the presence of the most unlucky.”

“Lucky turned unlucky.”

“I don’t know what to do if I don’t draw SSRs.”

“Draw once before sleep, all of them were Rs!”

It didn’t take long before it became the hot topic of the day on the Onmyoji forums. Chen Mo card drawing livestream also became a trending topic on Weibo.

The players were full of anger and wanted to release it all onto Chen Mo, but who knew he couldn’t draw an SSR when he was so serious about it too!

And he seemed much more angry and the average player!

Many players felt like they got their answer. There weren’t any tricks and techniques to this game, it all depends on how lucky you were, even the designer couldn’t escape this!

A majority of the hatred was quenched following the laughter.

Many of them concluded that the rates are always the same, it’s their problem that they couldn’t draw SSRs!

And just like that, the fight between the developer and players were changed into the battle between the lucky and the unlucky, and Chen Mo never got much hate for this again.

As for the Chinese mobile game market, it was still dealing with the aftermath of Onmyoji’s release.

So developers finally understood the mechanics behind I Am MT, but out came Onmyoji. What’s worse was that the two games seemed to have no similarities.

I Am MT was copping a lot of hatred while making tons of money, with a relatively low score. On the other hand, Onmyoji was still getting hate and making money, but the ratings were really high!

The designers were trying to figure out how to copy Onmyoji, but it didn’t take long for them to realise they couldn’t.

Many designers couldn’t understand how Onmyoji got popular in the first place.

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If the designers couldn’t understand, there was no way the media could figure it out.

Tianji.com’s journalist Han Lu was organising files related to Onmyoji, but was more and more confused as she looked deeper into it.

She interviewed him when I Am MT was released, but she got nothing out of it, and got played by Chen Mo instead.

Things like “Making happiness mindfully”, “Passion, sincerity, commitment”, and “All for the players” were all gags that were used by the players again and again.

And Han Lu’s article had been beaten like a dead horse again and again, there were many horrible comments driving Han Lu mad.

After Onmyoji became so popular, the Editor in Chief thought it would be a good idea to have Han Lu interview Chen Mo again.

Han Lu tried really hard to refuse, but the Editor in Chief was determined to have her do it.

“It’s fine, even if you get nothing out of him. Even if you release an article like last time, it would still bring many clicks to our website. Just try and make it as clickable as possible, alright?”

Han Lu decided on interviewing Chen Mo once again.

But this time she decided to expand her range of questions. Instead of focusing on Onmyoji, she could ask questions about Warcraft and Wulin Legend as well. Perhaps he would start making sense if it was thrown a curveball!

After preparing some statistics and material, Han Lu bore her warriors heart and drove towards Chen Mo’s experience store.

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Han Lu noticed that there were many more players than before in the experience store. It was almost at max capacity, there were even some chatting while waiting for their turn.

There were also many who weren’t here to play games. There was one who was queueing up against a statue of Kagura.

This Kagura statue was around 1.5 metres, the same height as your average loli. It looked really close to the one in the game and was highly detailed too. It even had her right hand forwards, the same pose as one of the Onmyoji posters.

There were many smaller figurines behind Kagura. They were all SSR Shikigamis, including Ootengu, Shuten Douji, Ibaraki Douji, and Aoandon, all standing behind a shelf behind Kagura.

The experience store felt quite spacious before, but it felt incredibly cramped this time around because of the addition of the statue, the shelves, and the many people queueing up.

But the players didn’t seem to mind as their focus was on their phones trying to grind resources in game.

Han Lu was curious, what were they doing?

She could only see that the players were waiting patiently in line, and when it was their turn, they would put their hands together then touch Kagura’s right hand, mumbling, “Please give me a Shuten Douji!”

Han Lu was shocked, “That’s what they are doing?”

She grabbed one of the players, asking, “Does that do anything?”

“Who knows, but I’m here anyways, of course I’m going to pray. I heard it works,” replied the player.

Han Lu was shocked, how could the players be so into this!

There were new players visiting the experience store every day ever since Onmyoji gained popularity. Chen Mo thought it wouldn’t be good if the players travelled all this way just to sit around and do nothing, which was why he ordered the statue and figurines to have something to wish to.

It actually worked quite well. Many players drew an SSR after wishing. They even tried to get other players on the forum to try it out.

This resulted in many fans from the Imperial Capital coming over, queuing up for a long time just to have a wish.

Chen Mo also sold a bunch of figurines and made a bunch of money.

It couldn’t be helped, who knew the unlucky were so desperate to have a change of fate?

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Su Jinyu brought Han Lu to the second floor.

Just like last time, Chen Mo was waiting for her in his office, and even poured her a glass of water.

Han Lu however was much more wary, she even decided to do some revision before she entered.

Chen Mo looked at her and said, “You feel a bit nervous, don’t worry, it’s just an interview.”

Han Lu was speechless, how could she be treated as the guest again! Am I interviewing you or are you interviewing me!

After regaining her composure, she smiled and said, “We meet again Mr. Chen Mo. Our previous interview resonated quite well with the fans, I hope we’ll be able to show the players more this time around.”

Chen Mo nodded, “No problem.”

“First I’d like to congratulate you for the awesome figures that Onmyoji managed to get. You could say that it’s sitting comfortably in the top spot, leaving Demon Slayers 2 miles behind. According to you, Onmyoji’s monthly income is more than three hundred million. What is your rating for a game like Onmyoji?” asked Han Lu