This way, when players come to download the game, they can immediately see the text written by Eric Bennett, creating an excellent deterrent effect!

Thinking of this, Eric Bennett immediately opened the backend and began to edit the game description.

"Apologies to everyone!"

"Sorry, this really is a terrible, absolutely terrible, trashy game!"

"Utterly boring, not worth playing at all!"

"Seriously, don't play it! If you've bought it, please hurry up and get a refund, thank you!"

Eric Bennett finished editing the description and waited in silence.

But after an hour passed, there was absolutely no sign of the game's hourly download rate dropping!

Not only that, there were even some new comments.

"Huh, the game description changed?"

"What happened to the developer, did something trigger him?"

"For the sake of your apology, I'll forgive you. But it's not even worth refunding one yuan, the process is too much trouble, I'll just treat it as buying the developer an ice cream."

"This designer cracks me up, do you think we don't know this is a trash game? It's exactly because it's so trashy that we play it!"

"Feels like the developer of this game is really self-aware. Since you're so honest, here's a five-yuan tip."

"I gave this game as a gift to a friend!"

Looking at these replies, Eric Bennett almost burst into tears.

What on earth do I have to write in the description for you guys to actually refund?

Now Eric Bennett realized that setting the game's price at one yuan before was a huge mistake, because the price is so cheap that most people can't even be bothered to go through the refund process after buying it!

But the key is, Eric Bennett didn't dare set it too high either, because this is just an indie game—if he set it at over a hundred yuan, not only would it be hard to get through ESRO's review, but more importantly, the system would definitely warn him!

Eric Bennett was in despair. Watching the game's popularity stay sky-high, he felt like he couldn't take it anymore.

……

Monday.

"Eric, did you skip class again this morning?"

Brian Carter had already packed up his things. Seeing Eric Bennett lying on the bed, clearly awake but staring at the ceiling like a salted fish contemplating life, he asked with some confusion.

Eric Bennett waved his hand, not even having the energy to speak.

"Impressive."

Brian Carter left with his textbooks.

After all, it's only freshman year. Most students don't start skipping class and sleeping until noon until sophomore or junior year.

But Eric Bennett had come from ten years in the future, so he knew that even if he skipped these classes, it didn't really matter.

After all, he wasn't majoring in medicine or law—those majors where skipping class means you'll fail so hard you'll question your life. As a regular liberal arts major, even if you never go to class, you can still pass by cramming at the end.

Besides, Eric Bennett was in no mood to go to class right now...

Every day, he opened the game editor backend and refreshed it, and seeing the ever-soaring numbers always made him reflect on life a little more.

After lying in bed like a corpse for a full half hour, Eric Bennett finally mustered up the courage to call the system.

After the Sunday settlement, the platform's revenue share should have been transferred to the company account early this morning.

Now, the system funds inside the system should have refreshed as well.

With the feeling of facing execution after autumn, Eric Bennett looked at the number on the system's light screen.

[Wealth Conversion System]

[Host: Eric Bennett]

[Profit conversion ratio 100:1, loss conversion ratio 1:1]

[Next settlement time: 7 days later]

[System funds: 51,394.5 (↑1,394.5)]

[Personal assets: 367]

"Oh..."

Eric Bennett closed the system interface, feeling like he was about to die.

I can't take it anymore, I really can't take it anymore!

Actually, Eric Bennett was somewhat mentally prepared for this number, since he could roughly estimate the earnings from the game's cumulative downloads.

Ever since Mr. Clark's video came out, the game's daily downloads had been skyrocketing.

Mr. Clark's video was crazily reposted by many marketing accounts, and plenty of people were riding the hype of "Lonely Desert Highway," even sparking a wave of copycat video creators.

Once the hype started and the trend of sharing took off, it was hard to stop.

Eric Bennett watched helplessly as the game's daily downloads soared from dozens to hundreds, then thousands, and then several thousand.

And the surge in downloads led to even better recommendations for the game on the platform: indie game recommendations, simulation driving game recommendations, racing game recommendations, and so on—it got featured in all of them.

Every time Eric Bennett opened the system backend, he would get a system message.

"Congratulations! Your game 'Lonely Desert Highway' has received an XXX recommendation. Please try not to update the version during this period to avoid unknown bugs affecting the game experience..."

Now, when Eric Bennett saw this message, he was completely numb.

Nothing is more heartbreaking than a dead heart!

There's still a week left, and now the system funds have already exceeded fifty thousand yuan. That means when settlement comes, all this money will be converted to Eric Bennett's personal assets at a 100:1 ratio.

So for 1,000 yuan, he can convert... 10 yuan?

Looking at the number above, Eric Bennett felt like crying but had no tears.