Tower of Fantasy Revenue Stat SNAFU: Data YouTuber Apologized for Being 'Wrong' — Turns Out He Was Right All Along, Entire Community Gets Clowned

A wild community war over "revenue data cutoff dates" has ended in the most NGA way possible — with literally everyone looking like a clown. Perfect World's VP and Board Secretary stepped in personally to settle the debate, and the conclusion? Every single side was wrong in the most spectacular fashion.

The drama started when Perfect World dropped their latest financial report. Armchair analysts on NGA's gossip board (瓜版) immediately dug up revenue estimates from popular third-party data tracker "Er Guan" (二观) — a well-known YouTuber who estimates gacha game earnings. Er Guan claimed his revenue stats covered data through March 2024, but the skeptics insisted that A-share (Chinese stock market) annual reports only cover the calendar year, meaning the data should only go through end of 2023.

Caving under pressure from the relentless mob, Er Guan made a decision he'd regret: he publicly apologized and "corrected" his data to reflect end-of-2023 numbers. The skeptics were popping champagne — the self-proclaimed data authority had admitted he was wrong.

But then the plot twist nobody expected. Perfect World's VP personally confirmed that the revenue figures in the financial report actually DID include Q1 2024 data, following a US stock market trend of reporting quarterly revenue in annual reports. Er Guan's original numbers were correct all along. He apologized for being right.

As one user on floor 14 eloquently summarized: "Er Guan started with fiscal year calculations, the gossip board experts insisted A-shares use calendar year, Er Guan caved and switched to calendar year — then Perfect World officially confirmed it WAS fiscal year. Everyone's a clown. Er Guan claims to be an authority but couldn't stick to his guns when it mattered. The gossip experts were wrong from the start. The real conclusion? This was never about Tower of Fantasy's revenue — it was just ammo in the perpetual Er Guan culture war."

Another sharp-tongued commenter on floor 9 added: "Er Guan is still the most reliable third-party revenue estimator out there, but that's all he is — he's not some oracle. Without first-party data, estimates are just estimates. He stacks so many disclaimers in his videos, yet forgot his own limitations and started acting like he was infallible."

Floor 19 raised an even more interesting point — Perfect World intentionally used the vague term "至今" ("to date") in their financial report to pad the numbers and push Tower of Fantasy's cumulative revenue past the symbolic 4 billion RMB mark for a nicer-looking graph. "Why else would a financial report use deliberately ambiguous wording like 'to date'? That's not even standard reporting language."

The cascading reversals had floor 15 crying: "Time for the reversal purge — wait, I think I'm one of the ones getting purged too. Can we get another reversal? I want to keep watching this show." Classic NGA moment: never pick a side too early, because the next boomerang (回旋镖) might hit you right in the face.

P.S. Floor 12's advice to everyone: "Study your moral character harder" — this is a classic NGA meme from Genshin Impact's character Neuvillette (那维莱ter), basically meaning "do your homework before you start talking trash." Looks like everyone in this thread needed that lesson.