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 authorities don’t pay attention to this aspect and parents regard games as a scourge, the news doesn’t 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 foreign competitions. Isn’t it crazy not to participate in a competition with such a high prize money right next to your home?
And although official news doesn't give much coverage, it can't stop the Internet from now on. 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 game live. Especially the R live broadcast, from the beginning, it relied on various young ladies and handsome guys to attract fans.
At first, it was either singing and dancing, or 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, now you don’t have a sound card, and you don’t have some basic tuning skills, and you’re definitely not going to be able to do it.
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, don’t 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. All we have to do is 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 yet been able to invest in R Live’s own shares, but major guilds have begun to move in.
The big guilds are equivalent to capital on the live broadcast platform, and those who really have money in their hands.
That's why the competition on the sailing platform was so popular this time, except for those students who were already energetic and played games all day long without such competition.
These capitals have 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, 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.
At the end of another day's competition, 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 unspeakable 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 tile games. It takes a qualitative breakthrough to break the situation.
At first, he was interested in the R live broadcast platform. For example, his job was called Haoran Studio. He is very famous in many games, because in every game he enters, he will establish his own Haoran guild.
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 people in the studio to do the live broadcast.
With this live broadcast, he found a way to break the situation, but because live broadcasts had just emerged, his guild's influence was limited. Therefore, the available power is much smaller, and there is no way 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 heavy 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.
Therefore, 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 increases, reaching millions of views at every turn. After some merchants saw business opportunities and began to come to advertise, Li Ming seemed to see the future of Haoran Guild.
"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 the so-called advertising endorsements now, the merchants are unwilling to accept more, and we will definitely feel aggrieved when the team finally wins the championship.
So it’s better to postpone it until the top thirty. Entering the top 30 competition is not as easy as now. At the beginning of the three games, each team will collide with each other and accumulate points to qualify.
This competition spans a long time and is almost scheduled until the end of the year. There are several competitions in one day that can last more than two months. At that time, advertising will come back to talk about endorsements, and there will be enough time for promotion. As a top 30 team, we also have the confidence to ask for a price. "
"Let's talk after the top 30. Have you read the latest announcement from 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 person has spent money to form teams and has won many trophies in foreign competitions. In order to poach 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 players' signing bonuses 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's only 2007, and the house price in the Pudong District, a city with a developed economy, is only over 10,000 yuan. With an annual salary of two years, you can buy a 100-square-meter house in Pudong, which is unthinkable in future generations.
Sun Yizhou himself made the team compete abroad. Even if they win the championship, they may not make half a million in a year. After all, there are all kinds of people who want to take advantage of the situation, and they also have to pay wages to the players. It would be good if he could earn 200,000 yuan a year.
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 in several players with experience in competitions, which made the current Dynasty team perform so well. .
"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 twenty. 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 20, 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 if you change hands with the team spot.
If you package the team for sale, the price can still be negotiated. After all, they are in the top seven this year. 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 because the endorsement fees are getting thicker and thicker in the hands of advertisers, it 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 1 million purchase fee is still less.
In short, flexible capital 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 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 path 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 the country.
Although we see that the sailing platform has become popular, and there are also competitive games such as CS and Warcraft, there may be people following suit. But it is definitely not as grand as the sail platform.
After all, these two games have been out for a long time. If someone had the ability to do this, they would have been made. As a result, it has not become popular for so many years, but the sailing platform has taken the lead.
And according to Rising Sun Technology's habits, as long as it occupies the first position, it will not be so easy to unseat them. "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 an ordinary understanding of this financial backer who provides food for oneself. Rising Sun Technology occupies the first place and it is not ordinary difficulty to dislodge it.
And 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, relying on the reputation of team competitions and live broadcasts, this game can really make a big bet.
"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 in the studio.
Meeting to study, in fact, he has to make a careful calculation for 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 to make the power leveling become Formal work?
"After all, team players and game power coaches are different. R Live Broadcast 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 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 perfect the contract before signing. "Li Ming didn't say he was considering it but was preparing to execute 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, 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?
