The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

The competition on the Qifan platform was in full swing, from registration to the competition was even more lively than Yang Dongxu imagined.

In fact, he doesn't need to pull Baifeng Yu Feihong and others to form a strong team. Although domestic e-sports is still in the wild era, it has sprouted after all.

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

There are not only teams, but also teams that have achieved good results. It's just because the government doesn't pay much attention to this aspect, and parents regard games as a scourge, so the news doesn't report too much on this aspect.

Now that Qifan is playing the competition with such fanfare, the prize money is enough to attract attention, and anyone who is not blind will find that the official has actually acquiesced in this matter.

You have to participate in foreign competitions at your own expense, including air tickets, board and lodging. Isn’t it crazy if you don’t participate in a competition with such a high prize money at your doorstep?

And although the official news doesn't give too many reports, it can't stop the Internet from being up now. For this competition on the Qifan platform, they directly bought 361 front page headlines and YY push advertisements.

And in addition to advertisements, the 361 video page and R Live are preparing to broadcast the game live. Especially the R live broadcast, from the beginning of the live broadcast, it relied on various girls, sisters, and handsome guys to attract fans.

At the beginning, it was not all kinds of singing and dancing, but all kinds of traditional rap skills, and now it has begun to expand to other fields, such as online shouting, or game competitions.

Especially game competitions are extremely popular. If you are singing and dancing, you don’t have a sound card, and if you don’t have a tune, you don’t have a basic pentaphonic insufficiency.

In addition, beauty is not well developed now, you are not good looking, and it is difficult to retain fans.

But the game is different, as long as your game skills are good enough, who cares how you look.

Even if your game skills are not good, you can still be a game anchor. For example, don't be a PK like legend or a competitive anchor like Qifan.

Let's go to play Fantasy Westward Journey turn-based, as long as you invest some money to increase the level of weapons and equipment, just hang up and catch ghosts, and you can speak well and chat.

Especially after some people discovered that live broadcasting is actually very profitable, it is currently the only live broadcasting website in the country. No one has been able to buy shares in R Live's own shares, but there have already been large guilds.

The Daguild is equivalent to capital on the live broadcast platform, and those who really have money in their hands.

So this time the competition on the Qifan platform is so big, except for those students who are already energetic and play games all day long without such competitions.

These capitals also noticed this area and smelled business opportunities from it. Therefore, the major guilds in the R live broadcast also began to tentatively form teams to compete.

Especially after a few games, I found that the players of my team came back to live broadcast again, and their popularity started to skyrocket when they talked about the game. They were even more positive when they smelled the money.

Another day of competition ended, Li Ming pinched his eyebrows.

tired!

He felt that building a team was more tiring than staying up late to brush legends when he first started his studio.

But tired and tired, his eyes were shining brightly. In the past few years, he has gradually felt that his studio is playing Legend, Fantasy Westward Journey, or World of Warcraft and Demon Realm.

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

This bottleneck does not mean that it can be broken through with a few more sets of computers and a few more brick games. A qualitative breakthrough is needed to break the situation.

What he first fell in love with was the R live broadcast platform. For example, his job is called Haoran Studio. He is very famous in many games, because he will set up his own Haoran guild in every game he enters.

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

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

In this live broadcast, he found a direction to break the game, but because the live broadcast has just emerged, his guild's influence is limited. Therefore, the strength that can be used is much smaller, and there is no way to completely break the situation for the time being.

Just when he was hesitating whether to increase investment and break the game first, the Qifan game competition started. He had participated in the Qifan economic competition before, and he did not hesitate at all. He gathered the best Qifan players in the studio. Several people formed the dynasty team.

This wave is no longer a tentative look at the effect, but a direct bet and a big one.

And very prescient, began to dig the domestic e-sports world, which can be regarded as the hardcore e-sports players and coaches of the ancient gods for later generations.

Therefore, the Dynasty team can be said to have the template of a professional team and have the genes to win the championship.

So after a few rounds of competition, under the command of professional players and coaches, the performance of the Dynasty team was not ordinary. Only halfway through the game, the Dynasty team has already become a star team.

The bottleneck that originally felt bound to the studio was broken through without spending a penny.

Especially as the game progresses, the number of views of each game increases, and there are millions of views at every turn. After some merchants saw the business opportunities and began to take the initiative to advertise, Li Ming seemed to see the future of Haoran Guild.

"We don't accept commercials right now, and wait until we reach the top 50, or the top 30 in the country. Now we accept so-called endorsements in advertisements. If we want more endorsements, merchants are unwilling, and if we want fewer, we will definitely feel aggrieved when the team finally wins the championship.

So delay it first, it's best to talk about it after the top 30. Entering the top 30 competition is not like going through it like it is now. In the first three games, two wins, and each team will collide with each other to accumulate points to qualify.

This competition spans a long time, almost until the end of the year, and several competitions in a day can last more than two months. At that time, the advertisement will talk about the endorsement, and there is enough time for publicity. As a top 30 team, we also have the confidence to ask for a price. "

"Then let's talk after the top 30. Have you read the latest announcement of Qifan Platform?" Sun Yizhou, who was sitting opposite Li Ming, asked.

Sun Yizhou is a 33-year-old general recruited by Li Ming for the sailing competition some time ago. They are the first group of people in China to be exposed to e-sports.

And this self-spending group has seen the team, and has won many trophies in foreign competitions. In order to recruit him, Li Ming spent a lot of money, and the annual salary directly reached 500,000.

Compared with the signing bonuses of star players who can easily be several million, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions in later generations, this half a 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 the PD area of ​​Shanghai, which is economically developed, is only in the early 10,000s. With this annual salary, you can buy a 100-square-meter house in Pudong in two years, which is unthinkable in future generations.

Sun Yizhou himself made the team go abroad to compete, even if they won the championship, they might not necessarily earn 500,000 a year. After all, all kinds of people eat horse chews, and the players have to be paid wages. It is not bad for him to earn 200,000 a year.

It is precisely because 500,000 yuan is definitely a high price, so he disbanded his team without hesitation and accepted Li Ming's recruitment, and also brought a few players with experience in major competitions, which made the Dynasty team perform so well. .

"You mean the quota for professional teams?" 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 get the professional team quota issued by Qifan platform.

This quota is not only an honor and affirmation 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 twenty. In other words, if next year's competition is even more lively than this year's, professional teams can directly stand in the top 20 and negotiate advertising fees with merchants.

At the same time, you can also wait for work to observe other teams that have entered the top 20, greatly increasing the chances of winning.

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

In other words, as long as your team can enter the top seven, even if you don't get the top three and get the bonus, you can directly earn one million if you change the team's place.

If you sell the team as a package, the price can still be negotiated. After all, this year is the top seven. It is not impossible to have this team to win the championship next year.

Leaving aside the championship bonus for winning the championship next year, just because the endorsement fee bills in the hands of advertisers are getting thicker and thicker, it is enough to make a lot of money for the people who buy the team.

If this includes the benefits that star players get from the live broadcast platform, some people even feel that the purchase fee of 1 million is not enough.

In short, capital with a flexible mind has already begun to see a complete industrial chain of incoming money through Qifan platform competitions, R live broadcast, and 361 film and television game sector.

"That's it. I heard that the big boss behind Rising Sun Technology, 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. The power is not ordinary.

And now the 361 gang is promoting it, and the R live broadcast can directly allow players to have extra income besides the competition. I feel that if we can get good results this time, then this will definitely be a good path in the future.

At the same time, looking at the posture of Fan Platform, the competition will be held at least once a year, and there is even a tendency to expand abroad.

Let's not say ten years or eight years away, at least in the next three to five years, if there is no policy ban, this game will definitely be hot. After all, this is the only one in the country.

Although Qifan platform has become popular, and there are also competitive games like CS and Warcraft, there may be some people following suit from behind. But it is definitely not as grand as Qifan Platform.

After all, these two games have come out a long time ago, if someone has the ability to do this, they would have done it earlier. As a result, it has not been popular for so many years, but Qifan platform won the first place.

According to Sunrise Technology's habit, as long as he occupies the first place, 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 business with Rising Sun Technology. Now two-thirds of the games in the studio are from Rising Sun Technology.

Therefore, it is not a general understanding of the financial owner who feeds himself. It is not an ordinary difficulty for Sunrise Technology to take the first place.

And for so many years, no one has driven Rising Sun Technology from the throne of the leader in the game industry, which also shows that Rising Sun Technology's background and connections are really awesome.

So although the Qifan game can't be played like a traditional game, but relying on the team's competition and live broadcast fame, this game can really make a big bet.

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

Although he is the major shareholder of the studio, after several years of development, in order to win over talents, the leaders of several game teams have more or less taken some shares of the studio.

In fact, he had to think about it carefully in the meeting, because he is still the majority shareholder of the studio, as long as he decides on this matter, and the current revenue of the dynasty team formed by Qifan Games is in front of him, no one else has any objection reason.

After finishing speaking, Sun Yi Zhou wanted to speak but stopped him from asking, "Don't worry, I will give you a definite answer within three days at most."

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

"Contract?" Li Ming was taken aback for a moment.

Although he is also a multi-millionaire now, and there are hundreds of people in the studio under him, he has never done a formal contract. Formal work?

"Team players and game power leveling are different after all. R Live has signed a contract with the game anchor. If we don't sign a contract, I will never feel at ease." Sun Yizhou said.

"Did something happen?"

"Someone from other teams started to get in touch with our team's players. Although the Qifan platform has a rule that players are not allowed to play during the game. But what about the end of the game? What if our results are good, and there is no contractual restriction on this player."

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

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

At that time, what opinions and appeals do the players have, and what benefits and regulations does the studio have as the owner, we will summarize and complete the contract before signing. "This Li Ming didn't say that he would consider it, but was going to execute it immediately.

At the same time, there is an unexplainable illusion that the game industry, which seems to be engaged in by bastards, is suddenly 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?