Game Designer from the Start: I Only Make Pay-to-Win Games

This is a parallel world ruled by AAA single-player games. There are no skin loot boxes, no 648-yuan top-ups, no in-game purchases of any kind, not even online games. The only thing competing fiercely is game quality.

Here, games were once the sacred temple of the Ninth Art, inviolable, until Cheng Yan came along.

“Pay 6 yuan for your first top-up and get a golden AK?”

“Draw a limited-edition character?”

“Unlock an exclusive skin with the 98-yuan battle pass?”

His peers mocked him for defiling art, while players cursed him for shamelessly squeezing money out of them.

But nobody could explain one thing: why did the people who complained the loudest spend the most?

As the whole industry rushed to imitate him, Cheng Yan sat in his office, counting banknotes with a faint smile.

“You people just don’t understand human nature!”