"Fellow Daoists, hurry and check the pinned hot post on Tianba Community. Someone discovered a quick way to rack up merits — a whopping 200 merits in just one day!"

"I saw it. I think the game’s called ’Hero, Please Stop’, right? There are quite a few foreigners in it, and each game ends quickly. Grinding for merits is really efficient!"

"The key point is that you earn a lot of merits, and the cap on obtaining merits has also increased from three times to ten times. It’s awesome!"

"What, ten times the limit?!"

"There’s no choice but to play ’Hero, Please Stop’ now. Any fellow Daoists want to team up and hammer those foreigners together..."

Heavenly Dao Merit, ten times the limit?

The messages sent in the world chat channel left Dou Peng utterly confused, as he hadn’t played ’Cultivation Fantasy’ and couldn’t make sense of the players’ jargon.

However, he caught the key term.

Merit!

This seemed to be something the players were quite concerned about, and was somehow related to a pinned post in Tianba Community?

Out of curiosity, Dou Peng opened the web version of Tianba Community and found the pinned hot post in the ’Cultivation Fantasy’ section.

[Shocking! This game allows you to earn merits ten times a day, a guide to merit acquisition in ’Hero, Please Stop’...]

The title of the post was related to ’Hero, Please Stop’, and it had a high number of replies and likes.

Dou Peng clicked on it and took a look.

The original poster provided a detailed introduction to the game ’Hero, Please Stop’, openly stating: I did get paid for this, this post is an advertorial, but everything I say is true. If you don’t believe it, give it a try!

The other players didn’t hold back either. Seeing how miraculous the poster made it sound, they immediately went to try it out.

Turns out it was true!

The poster wasn’t lying. Under the backdrop of other games allowing only three merit gains per day, ’Hero, Please Stop’ has a merit acquisition limit of as many as ten times.

Not only that.

Besides the high number of times, the merit acquisition efficiency in ’Hero, Please Stop’ is also very high — two to three times that of other games!

What does that mean?

It means that spending the same hour grinding for merits, you’d earn at most 20 points in other games, but in ’Hero, Please Stop’, you’d get 40-60 points.

Oh my goodness!

This efficiency, paired with the ten times acquisition limit, is simply a "Holy Land" for merit cultivators.

No more talking, let’s go!

What game doesn’t involve playing? Coincidentally, I’m interested in this type of martial arts game. Why not download the client and give it a go!

I’ve reached peak Foundation Establishment, about to undergo Tribulation Crossing to break through to Golden Core, ’Hero, Please Stop’ couldn’t have come at a better time!

With the help of this game, I can surely accumulate enough merits, successfully pass the Celestial Tribulation, and become a Golden Core Patriarch admired by everyone in the Immortal Spirit Realm...

In the post, the players were eagerly discussing the game ’Hero, Please Stop’.

As expected, the vast majority of merit cultivators couldn’t resist this temptation and decided on the spot to try out ’Hero, Please Stop’.

Whether it’s fun or not is secondary...

The main thing is I’m about to undergo Tribulation Crossing, or am in need of refining new Magical Treasures or Artifacts, practicing Alchemy or Talisman Making — in short, I desperately need merits.

After scrolling through the mouse wheel and reading all the players’ replies at the bottom of this post, Dou Peng couldn’t help but wonder, is this the plan Chen Ba talked about?

Does it really work?

Have those players, who kept saying they downloaded the ’Hero, Please Stop’ client for the merits, actually played it?

"President Dou, President Dou!"

Just as Dou Peng was lost in thought, doubting if this plan was reliable, the head of the operations department suddenly walked in.

With a joyful expression, he said, "Our game has gone viral. Just now, the number of client downloads suddenly surged, bringing in tens of thousands of new players!"

"But I noticed something strange, all these players downloaded the PC client..."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Dou Peng couldn’t help but gasp. He hadn’t expected such a simple and crude traffic diversion plan would actually bring tens of thousands of real players to ’Hero, Please Stop’.

As for the strange phenomenon the head noticed, that all the players came from the PC end rather than the mobile end, Dou Peng wasn’t surprised.

No kidding!

This batch of players was directed here from ’Cultivation Fantasy’, and as a PC game, most players naturally use computers.

"What’s the current situation?"

"The numbers are still rising!"

The head said with great excitement, "Judging by this trend, the game could potentially gain an additional 100,000 to 200,000 new players."

These are all real human players!

Do you understand the value of real human players? And to gain so many new players in such a short period, it’s absolutely unbelievable!

"Is this the white list you were talking about?"

Dou Peng didn’t expect that Chen Ba actually delivered on his promise, directing so many new players to ’Hero, Please Stop’.

The facts were laid before him; Dou Peng had already made up his mind. There was no need to wait for the two-day trial period to end; he had to renew now to seize this wave of potential wealth.

Just this pricing model...

Dou Peng expected it to be expensive, but not this expensive. After all, from his perspective, Tianba Studio didn’t do much, just posted a pinned thread and made a few tweaks to the game.

How could they justify charging so much?

"Forget it, hold off for now!"

Dou Peng felt that more player diversion from ’Cultivation Fantasy’ was still needed, so being more expensive was fine for now; he’d renew the white list first.

As for later on, when he’d brought in enough players, he could stop renewing and let Jiangning the vampire buzz off.

Use and discard, that is Dou Peng’s business philosophy!

Don’t call him heartless; he runs a company to make money, not charity. Who talks about sentiments in the business world?

...

Far away in Jiangning, Chen Ba was unaware that the first "Merit White List" client he brought in was already contemplating how to kick him to the curb.

But even if he knew, he probably wouldn’t mind, and might even find it amusing.

Use and discard, clever calculations indeed!

But is there any chance that if Chen Ba could divert players from ’Cultivation Fantasy’ to ’Hero, Please Stop’, he could lead them away?

Taking everyone isn’t possible, as there will always be a few players too hooked on the game to part with it.

But 90% of them are playing ’Hero, Please Stop’ just for the merits, absolute "where there’s milk, there’s a mother" attitude.

As long as Tianba Studio removes the white list and cuts off the merit source for ’Hero, Please Stop’, do you really think these players are that loyal, or that this game is that attractive?

"Is it really that real?"

"Of course!"

Chen Ba said wryly, "I don’t even know what words to use to describe ’Cultivation Fantasy’ players."

Ever since they played ’Cultivation Fantasy’, this group of people has only one concept in mind: merit!

When playing FPS games, when others hear about cheats, they get dismayed, while ’Cultivation Fantasy’ players’ eyes sparkle as they charge in to fight the cheaters.

What kind of spirit is this?

Chen Ba thought that maybe ’Cultivation Fantasy’ isn’t that fun, nor can it cause players to get addicted, but it undoubtedly has a sort of brainwashing power.

This power results in players of ’Cultivation Fantasy’ having a different perspective when playing other games.

Commonly known as a strange thinking pattern!

Others think about how to become stronger and have more fun, while all they think about is merits—how to maximize them?

For these players with strange thinking patterns, captivated by merits, ’Hero, Please Stop’ is just somewhat interesting at most.

But if asked to choose between merits and ’Hero, Please Stop’, it’s obvious they’d choose merits.

Don’t ask why; it’s addictive!

Contemporary young people, when idle, might tap electronic wooden fish. Is it interesting?

Nope!

But the words "merit" are undeniably appealing, and the process of accumulating merits is indeed "accumulating virtue and doing good."

As a result, whether you believe it or not, in the eyes of ’Cultivation Fantasy’ players, the merits they accumulate in the game are equivalent to the merits they amass in reality!