Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

The sailing platform competition is in full swing. From registration to competition, it is more lively than Yang Dongxu imagined.

In fact, he does not need to recruit Bai Feng, Yu Feihong and others to form a team to build momentum. Although domestic e-sports is still in the primitive era, it has sprouted after all.

From domestic 97 King of Fighters, to Warcraft, to CS, and StarCraft and other events, although there are no decent e-sports competitions in China, it is not that there are no teams.

Not only are there teams, but there are also teams that have achieved good results. Just because the official does not pay attention to this aspect, and parents regard games as a scourge, the news does not report much on this aspect.

Now Qifan is conducting the competition with such great fanfare and the large prize money is eye-catching enough. In addition, anyone who is not blind will find that the official has acquiesced in this matter.

You have to pay for air tickets, food and accommodation at your own expense to participate in overseas competitions. Isn’t it crazy not to participate in a competition with such a high prize money right at your doorstep?

And although the official news does not give too much coverage, it cannot stop the fact that the Internet has risen. For this competition on the sailing platform, I directly bought 361 front page headlines and YY push ads.

In addition to advertisements, 361 Movies and R Live are preparing to broadcast the entire competition. Especially R Live, which has relied on various young ladies and handsome guys to attract fans from the beginning of the live broadcast.

At first, it was either various singing and dancing, or various traditional rap skills. Now it has begun to expand into other fields, such as online shouting and gaming competitions.

In particular, gaming competitions are extremely popular. If you want to sing and dance, you will not be able to sing and dance without a sound card, a tuner, and some basic tone deafness.

In addition, beauty is not developed now. If you don’t look good enough to be photographed, it will be difficult to retain fans.

But games are different. As long as your gaming skills are good enough, who cares what you look like.

Even if your gaming skills are not good, you can still be a game anchor. For example, you don’t want to be a PK anchor like Legend or a competitive anchor like Qifan.

Let's go play Fantasy Westward Journey's turn-based game. All we need to do is invest some money to increase the level of weapons and equipment, hang up and catch ghosts, etc., and be eloquent and able to chat.

Especially after some people discovered that live broadcasting is actually very profitable, as the only live broadcast website in the country, no one has been able to buy shares in R Live Broadcast itself, but major guilds have begun to move in.

The big guilds are equivalent to capital on the live broadcast platform, and those who have real money in their hands.

That's why the sailing platform competition is so popular this time, except for those students who are already energetic and play games all day without such competition.

These capitals also noticed this area and sensed business opportunities. Therefore, the major guilds in the R live broadcast also began to tentatively form teams for competitions.

Especially after a few games, they found that their team's players came back to live broadcast and talked about the game, and their popularity began to skyrocket. They smelled the money and became even more active.

Another day of competition was over, and Li Ming pinched his eyebrows.

tired!

He feels that starting a team is more tiring than staying up late to play legends when he first started his studio.

But Lei Gui Lei's eyes were shining brightly. In the past few years, he had gradually felt that his studio was playing Legend, Fantasy Westward Journey, World of Warcraft and Demon Domain.

There is an indescribable invisible constraint that makes him very uncomfortable. He knows that the development of his studio has reached a bottleneck.

This bottleneck cannot be overcome by building a few more sets of computers and adding a few more tiles to the game. It requires a qualitative breakthrough to break through.

At first, he was interested in the R live broadcast platform. For example, his job was called Haoran Studio. He was very famous in many games because he established his own Haoran guild in every game he entered.

This guild is a strong contender for the top ten or even top three guilds in the game, so Haoran Guild is very famous in the gaming industry.

So he settled in R Live Broadcast and established the Haoran Guild, and selected a few good-looking and smooth-talking people in the studio to do the live broadcast.

With this live broadcast, he found a way to break the situation, but because the live broadcast had just started, his guild's influence was limited. Therefore, the power he could draw on was much smaller, and he was unable to completely break the situation for the time being.

Just when he was hesitating whether to invest more to break the game first, the sailing game competition started in full swing. He had participated in the sailing economic competition before and did not hesitate at all. He gathered the best players in the sailing studio to play the sailing game.

Several people formed a dynasty team.

This wave is no longer about trying to see the effect, but directly placing big bets and preparing to take a big shot.

And very presciently, he began to dig out the hardcore e-sports players and coaches in the domestic e-sports world who would be regarded as ancient gods for future generations.

Therefore, it can be said that the Dynasty team has the template of a professional team and has the genes to win championships.

So after several rounds of competition, under the command of professional players and coaches, Dynasty Team's performance was extraordinary. Only halfway through the game, Dynasty Team already had the potential to become a star team.

The bottleneck that originally felt like a constraint on the studio was overcome without spending a penny.

Especially as the game progresses, the number of views for each game is increasing, reaching millions of views at a time. After some merchants saw business opportunities and began to proactively come to advertise, Li Ming seemed to see the future of Haoran Guild.

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"We won't accept advertising for now, and we will wait until we reach the top 50, or the top 30 in the country. If we accept so-called advertising endorsements now, the merchants won't want to accept more, and we will definitely feel aggrieved when the team finally wins the championship.

So let’s hold off for now, and it’s best to wait until after the top 30. When entering the top 30, it won’t be as easy as it is now. It will start with two wins out of three, and each team will collide with each other to accumulate points and qualify.

This competition spans a long time and is almost scheduled until the end of the year. Several games in one day can last more than two months. At that time, advertising will come back to talk about endorsements, and there will be enough promotion time. As a top 30 team, we also have

The confidence to ask for the price.”

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Let's talk about it after the top thirty. Have you read the latest announcement of Qifan Platform?" Sun Yizhou, who was sitting opposite Li Ming, asked.

Sun Yizhou is a general who was recruited by Li Ming some time ago specifically for the sailing competition. He is 33 years old this year. He is one of the first people in China to be exposed to e-sports.

Moreover, this guy spent his own money to form a team and won many trophies in foreign competitions. In order to recruit him, Li Ming spent a lot of money, and his annual salary was directly raised to 500,000.

Compared with the millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of star player signing bonuses in later generations, this half million seems a bit small.

But in this day and age, the asking price is not a lot at all. After all, it is only 2007, and the house price in Pudong District, the most developed economic city, is only over 10,000 yuan. With this annual salary of two years, you can buy a 100-square-meter house in Pudong.

, I would never dare to think about it in future generations.

Sun Yizhou himself caused the team to compete abroad. Even if he won the championship, he would not necessarily earn 500,000 yuan a year. After all, all kinds of people are trying to get rid of the horse and they have to pay wages to the players. He can only earn 200,000 yuan a year.

Not bad.

It was precisely because half a million was definitely a high price that he did not hesitate to disband his team and accept Li Ming's recruitment, and also brought several players with experience in competitions, which made the current Dynasty team perform so well.

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"You mean the professional team quota?" Li Ming asked.

Qifan Platform released a report on the team yesterday. The main content of the report is that after this competition, the top seven will receive professional team quotas issued by Qifan Platform.

This spot is not only an honor and recognition of the team's performance, but also a golden job.

Because when the competition is held again next year, this quota will directly enter the top 20. In other words, if next year's competition is more lively than this year, professional teams can directly stand in the top 20 and negotiate with merchants for advertising fees.

At the same time, you can also wait and see other teams that have entered the top twenty, which greatly increases the chance of winning.

In just one night, rumors spread that someone was willing to spend one million to buy a spot in a professional team.

In other words, as long as your team can enter the top seven, even if you don't get the bonus in the top three, you can directly earn one million by changing hands of the team spot.

If you package the team for sale, the price can still be negotiated. After all, we are in the top seven this year, and with this team, it is not impossible to win the championship next year.

Not to mention the championship bonus for winning the championship next year, just the fact that the endorsement fees are getting richer and thicker in the hands of advertisers, which is enough for those who buy the team to make a lot of money.

If you include the income gained by star players from the live broadcast platform, some people even feel that the purchase fee of 1 million is still less.

In short, capital with a flexible mind has begun to see a complete industry chain that generates money through Qifan platform competitions, R live broadcast, and the 361 film and television game sector.

"That's it. I heard that the big boss behind Xuri Technology Company, where Qifan Games is located, is very powerful. This can be seen from the fact that he can promote the development of domestic e-sports games. His energy is not ordinary.

And now 361 helps promote it, and R live broadcast can directly allow players to have extra income in addition to competitions. I feel that if we can get good results this time, then this will definitely be a good way in the future.

At the same time, looking at the situation of Qifan Platform, the competition must be held at least once a year, and there is even a trend of expanding abroad.

Let’s not say ten or eight years is so far away. At least in the next three to five years, if there are no policy bans from the above, this game competition will definitely be very popular. After all, this is the only one in China.

Although the Sail Platform has become popular, and there are competitive games like CS and Warcraft, there may be some people following suit, but it is definitely not as popular as the Sail Platform.

After all, these two games have been released a long time ago. If someone had the ability to do this, they would have made it long ago. As a result, they have not been popular for so many years, but they have been competed by Qifan Platform for the top spot.

And according to the habits of Xuri Technology, as long as you occupy the first position, it will not be so easy to drive them down." Sun Yizhou said.

Li Ming kept nodding. It can be said that he started his career with Xuri Technology. Now two-thirds of the tile games in the studio are from Xuri Technology.

Therefore, it is not ordinary to understand this financial backer who provides food for oneself. Rising Sun Technology occupies the first place and it is not ordinary difficult to dislodge it.

Moreover, no one has dethroned Xuri Technology from its position as the leader in the gaming industry for so many years, which also shows that Xuri Technology’s background and connections are really impressive.

Therefore, although the game Qifan cannot be as simple as traditional games, it can really make a big bet based on the reputation of team competitions and live broadcasts.

"I will hold a meeting with several other shareholders of the studio to study this." Li Ming pondered for a moment and said.

Although he is the majority shareholder of the studio, after several years of development, in order to attract talents, the leaders of several game groups have taken some shares of the studio.

Meeting to study, in fact, he has to make a careful calculation himself, because he is still the majority shareholder of the studio, so he only needs to decide on this matter, plus the current revenue of the dynasty team formed by Qifan Games is in front of him, and no one else has any objection.

reason.

After finishing speaking, Sun Yizhou hesitated and asked, "Don't worry, I will give you a definite answer within three days at most."

"I don't want to say this, I want to say whether we sign a formal contract with the team players."

"Contract?" Li Ming was stunned for a moment.

Although he is now a multi-millionaire and has hundreds of people in his studio, he has never had a formal contract. It is not just him. You see that domestic game company signing a contract with its employees so that the power leveling becomes

Formal work?

"After all, team players and game power coaches are different. R Live has signed a contract with the game anchor. If we don't sign the contract, I won't feel at ease." Sun Yizhou said.

"Did something happen?"

"People from other teams have begun to contact our team's players. Although the sailing platform has a rule that players are not allowed to play during the game due to transfers. But what about the end of the game? What if our results are very good, and this player is not bound by a contract.

....”

Sun Yizhou didn't finish his words, but Li Ming had already realized it and frowned solemnly, "This is indeed a problem."

"First of all, you need to understand the needs of our team's players. I will contact the lawyer here to see if I can come up with a formal contract text.

At that time, if the players have any opinions and demands, and what benefits and regulations the studio has as an owner, we will summarize and complete the contract before signing." Li Ming did not say that he would consider it but was ready to implement it immediately.

At the same time, there is an inexplicable illusion. It feels like the game industry, which was originally only engaged in by bastards, has suddenly become on par with regular companies.

After all, let alone game studios, there are electronics factories all over the country. How many of them sign formal contracts for their employees?