Chapter 172 The rest is owed first Now it is obvious that these people support him in making games, but not in becoming a star. If he releases any star project, let alone support, they may even join forces with his black fans to boycott him. So he didn't gain any benefits from being on the show, but instead gained hundreds of thousands of haters? Wu Mu found it funny but didn't care. He had many black fans, so what? He didn't make money from fans, so it wouldn't have much impact no matter how many black fans he had. If you think that this will stop him from being a star and starting a game, then you are wishful thinking. Making games is so tiring. It’s not as comfortable as being a celebrity and making money by doing nothing using your performance card. For example, with the game on the show, it's hard enough to make it completely by yourself. If there is no performance card, even good wine will not be appreciated if it is not well known. Even if he has finished making the game, he still has to worry about all kinds of publicity and promotion, and contacting various platforms. But with the performance card, he only needs to click his finger and all the publicity and marketing will be directly given to him, and he just needs to wait and collect the money. On the evening after the program was broadcast, Wu Mu's five performance cards showed that they had been redeemed.

The GZ platform and the organizers of the Paris Game Show paid him 18 million, and the crowdfunding page paid him the remaining 32 million. However, the amount on the crowdfunding page has not stopped and is still increasing rapidly. This can also be regarded as a hidden effect of the performance card. In addition to the redemption of the performance card itself, it also pushes up the popularity, and after the marketing goes out of the circle, it will also bring some additional benefits. This is the case with Wu Mu's farewell album. Even though the 100 million quota was redeemed, because it was very popular before and ranked at the top of the album sales list, it will still bring him some extra sales. This extra sales volume will not be very obvious if the project itself is not particularly popular. But for a game like Vampire Survivor that already has sales of tens of millions of copies, this boost in popularity is particularly obvious. Wu Mu estimated that in addition to the 50 million from the performance card, this popularity could bring him at least an additional 20 to 30 million in revenue. And it’s just a demo, but it’s already so popular. Once he finishes the game and officially releases it, it may sell even better than before. Wu Mu didn't take these new "black fans" to heart and just chatted casually with Lu Yao. Then after chatting for a while, I received news from Lin Qingyue. Lin Qingyue: "The average rating for this episode was , and the highest rating for each segment was ." Average viewership Tsk, this can be considered to have officially broken through the threshold of becoming a popular variety show. Wu Mu was not too surprised. After all, this issue was so popular that it would be a problem if it couldn't be broken. Moreover, although this matter is helpful to him and sounds good when it is said out, it can be considered as his achievement. But Lin Qingyue and Beijing TV Station reaped the biggest benefits. Although the message sent by Lin Qingyue seemed very ordinary, Wu Mu knew that the entire program team attached great importance to this matter. He learned about it from some staff members of the program team a long time ago. They created this show with the intention of making it a popular variety show.

The show was willing to spend money on this, not only inviting Lu Yao and Zhang Haoran, two popular stars, but also Zhang Lifeng, a veteran in the industry, to support the show, and Wang Xiaotian, who has a very good reputation in variety shows in recent years. Various big names are invited to be flying guests in each episode. It can be said that everyone is full of expectations. Unfortunately, after the show was aired, the response was completely disappointing. The invited guests had no chemistry, and the originally expected high degree of freedom in the program process not only failed to become a highlight, but also seemed empty and boring under the highlight of the guests who had no program effect. In the first few episodes, let alone popular variety shows, even ordinary variety shows that are just for fun could not reach the ratings. Having known each other for some time, Wu Mu could understand Lin Qingyue's personality to some extent. Although she rarely showed her true emotions on her face, Wu Mu was sure that Lin Qingyue would definitely not feel indifferent about this matter. Lin Qingyue is actually a very proud person. It would be strange for her to be happy if the program she produced only achieved such results. Coupled with some rumors in their station, Lin Qingyue is undoubtedly under a lot of pressure. The current results can be regarded as a response to these pressures. Wu Mu smiled and replied, "Congratulations, Director Lin, but I feel that I have contributed a lot to this achievement. It would be unreasonable for Director Lin not to give me some appreciation. Otherwise, just pay me back the 25 million that he owed me." He was just joking, but he didn't expect it. Lin Qingyue: "Okay, I should return it to you." Oh, are you really paying it back? Wu Mu was a little surprised. Can Lin Qingyue give this kind of money? And just when he was surprised. Lin Qingyue sent him a red envelope. Wu Mu's surprised expression instantly turned into speechlessness. He clicked the receive button and there were two hundred yuan in it. Lin Qingyue: "I'll pay you back two hundred first, and I'll keep the rest." Wu Mu had a funny look on his face. "Hey, Director Lin, you owe me 25 million. If you pay me back 200 by 200, I'm afraid you won't be able to pay me back until the day I die." Lin Qingyue: "Haha, just pay it back slowly. At least you're not defaulting on your debt, right?" Lin Qingyue was of course joking. After sending Wu Mu a smiling emoticon, she changed the subject, "The celebrity agency is over. Do you have any shows to appear on next?" Wu Mu: “Not yet.” Lin Qingyue sent a nodding emoji, "Well, after this episode, your popularity has increased a lot, so you shouldn't be short of projects." Although those with more popularity seem to have turned into black fans, people in the circle are not stupid enough to think that those people are really black fans. Most of those game players are viewers who have a very good impression of Wu Mu. Even if they do not support his programs on a regular basis, or even curse him on the surface, when something really happens, they will more or less stand on Wu Mu's side. This will undoubtedly increase Wu Mu's popularity. And not only is there no shortage of projects coming to us, but projects have already come to us. Lin Qingyue revealed to him, "Director Wang Ren contacted me and asked me about your song price and other things. I guess they are planning to hire you."

Is Wang Ren planning to invite me? That's not bad. Even though I can't get any points for composing the music, if I sing the songs myself, I won't lose money. After all, this is the first TV series by a well-known domestic director. He doesn't care about the popularity bonus of this kind of work, but he cares a lot about the improvement of system points. Wu Mu nodded. And sure enough, that afternoon, someone from Wang Ren's side contacted him. It was not the voice of the director Wang Ren, but a male voice with a hint of majesty. (End of this chapter)