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He Lianxi called up a real photo from the computer, pointed at it and asked, "What do you think this is?"

Su Che looked at it, and said: "Crossing the Line of Fire, Hundred Cities League"

Suddenly realized.

"Cross Fire is online!" But he immediately frowned again, "No, why did Tencent start promoting the Hundred Cities League so early? Isn't the game still in the closed beta without deleting files?"

As he was talking, suddenly, he remembered the topic he had talked with Xiao Ma when the competition was held in Tsinghua University.

So he smiled softly: "I see, it's not a big problem."

"Isn't that a big problem?" He Lianxi said angrily, "When the promotion of our Dota competition started, Tencent started promoting their Hundred Cities League.

Doesn't this make it clear that they are against us?

We are not Shanda, and now we hardly have the capital to compete with Tencent! "

After finishing speaking, she slapped the table: "No, we have to find a way. Now there are voices on the Internet saying that cf is plagiarizing cs. As long as we follow this topic and attack cf, it will quickly Lose word of mouth so no one will play it anymore."

Su Che looked at He Lianxi inexplicably, and when she finished speaking, she asked seriously, "Are you serious?"

There was a strange look in He Lianxi's eyes.

Su Che said: "If you really do this, you will be in the way of Tencent. Now Tencent is eager for someone to compare Cross Fire with CS.

How hot is cs?How big is the player base?Once this game is linked to cs, it will quickly get a lot of traffic from cs players.

And among these traffic, how many real players will be directly transformed into cf?

This is a game, not a star.As long as the game itself has no illegal elements, no matter how bad its reputation is, it will not affect its number of players. "

Then, Su Che still had some words that he didn't explain directly.

The online game industry is also dominated by winners and losers. When CrossFire first came out, there was a fierce friction with CS players.Even some passers-by who don't play cs but know cs, they all stand in line with cs.

Because among people's mainstream values, plagiarism is wrong.So at the beginning, the popularity of CF was almost non-existent.

But then what?

It's 08 now.

What about 18 years?How many people still remember the game CS?

It is also earning 1000 million. Tencent may earn one yuan from each of 1000 million people.NetEase, on the other hand, may earn 100 million from ten people.

Relatively speaking, Tencent is taking a more civilian route. As long as you spend less money, you can obviously feel the improvement of your game characters.

However, NetEase's high-end route only charges a little money, and it is almost impossible to feel the improvement in the game.

This kind of differentiation became more and more obvious in the later era when mobile games became popular.

With the passage of time, the Jingcheng Netcom server that crossed the line of fire was officially opened on March 3 of that year, and this game was officially launched in China.

The next month, that is, April 4, the icon of Crossfire can already be lit in Penguin.

And three days later, on April 4, the game officially started the closed beta without deleting files. On this day, the game really appeared in the eyes of netizens.

CrossFire, which was just launched, did not quickly spread across the country easily, which is also within Tencent's expectations.

So Tencent made such a move

"We're in trouble."

As soon as Su Che walked into the meeting room of Qingcheng E-sports office building, he heard He Lianxi's voice.

Su Che didn't reply, but walked to the seat obediently, watched He Lianxi manipulate the computer screen, and listened obediently.

He Lianxi called up a real photo from the computer, pointed at it and asked, "What do you think this is?"

Su Che looked at it, and said: "Crossing the Line of Fire, Hundred Cities League"

Suddenly realized.

"Cross Fire is online!" But he immediately frowned again, "No, why did Tencent start promoting the Hundred Cities League so early? Isn't the game still in the closed beta without deleting files?"

As he was talking, suddenly, he remembered the topic he had talked with Xiao Ma when the competition was held in Tsinghua University.

So he smiled softly: "I see, it's not a big problem."

"Isn't that a big problem?" He Lianxi said angrily, "When the promotion of our Dota competition started, Tencent started promoting their Hundred Cities League.

Doesn't this make it clear that they are against us?

We are not Shanda, and now we hardly have the capital to compete with Tencent! "

After finishing speaking, she slapped the table: "No, we have to find a way. Now there are voices on the Internet saying that cf is plagiarizing cs. As long as we follow this topic and attack cf, it will quickly Lose word of mouth so no one will play it anymore."

Su Che looked at He Lianxi inexplicably, and when she finished speaking, she asked seriously, "Are you serious?"

There was a strange look in He Lianxi's eyes.

Su Che said: "If you really do this, you will be in the way of Tencent. Now Tencent is eager for someone to compare Cross Fire with CS.

How hot is cs?How big is the player base?Once this game is linked to cs, it will quickly get a lot of traffic from cs players.

And among these traffic, how many real players will be directly transformed into cf?

This is a game, not a star.As long as the game itself has no illegal elements, no matter how bad its reputation is, it will not affect its number of players. "

Then, Su Che still had some words that he didn't explain directly.

The online game industry is also dominated by winners and losers. When CrossFire first came out, there was a fierce friction with CS players.Even some passers-by who don't play cs but know cs, they all stand in line with cs.

Chapter 4 What should come is still here

It's time to come.

From the internal test of crossing the line of fire without deleting files, Tencent has started the game with Qingcheng E-sports.

The competition between the two competitions is whose competition is more authoritative.

In the early days of the birth of League of Legends, people still focused on wcg, ipl and other competitions, and no one really cared about League of Legends' own s-series games.

Until we returned to China, Tencent discovered the potential of e-sports in time, so it intervened in it. Through operation, it finally pushed the League of Legends s series to the altar, becoming an annual event in the e-sports world.

It is precisely because of the successful operation of the League of Legends s series that it completely overthrew the domination of wcg in e-sports competitions.

Compared to this kind of competition similar to the e-sports Olympics, people would rather see a game have its own competition.So in the next ten years, various games' own s-series games sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Most of these games reproduced the operation mode of the League of Legends S series, and successfully separated their own games from WCG and became an independent entity.

And wcg was completely lonely at this time.

If WCG is the Olympics of e-sports, then the game's own S-series is equivalent to the football World Cup every four years.

Compared with the Olympic Games, they only want to have fun and rush to count the medals.The World Cup is what people are really looking forward to, the most exciting game.The same competition also includes the NBA in the United States. People pay more attention to the NBA than to Olympic basketball.

But at the same time, it also brought certain disadvantages, that is, without a review mechanism such as wcg, which is barely qualified, each game company has no limit, so no matter what game, as long as it can be connected to the Internet, it will be slightly competitive Yes, dare to hold your own professional league.

Where there are professional leagues, there are professional players, and then these players will receive various advertising endorsements, and game companies and advertising companies will frantically cut leeks.

Especially in the later mobile game era, when the professional league started, the audience sat in the auditorium with enthusiasm, waiting for the players to sit in front of the computer and show the operation of killing the Quartet.

What the audience saw was a funny scene of everyone playing games with their mobile phones, who looked no different from ordinary people with their heads bowed.

Can such a game really be regarded as a professional e-sports league?

Su Che's attitude towards this is not negative, but skeptical, at least he doesn't approve of it.

But he also knows that it doesn't matter whether he recognizes it or not, what matters is the era and the market.Where there is demand, there is a market, and when people watch it, competitions will be born.

To put it more cruelly, if there are leeks, there will be sickles.

The reason why the professional league of the League of Legends game is very successful is that Tencent has experience in addition to its huge player base.

The way for Tencent to gain experience is this online game called Cross Fire.

Hundred cities league, college league.

Unlike wbsp; many viewers, even the masters who play well can't find a way to sign up.Every year, I can only passively see certain people appearing on the field.

So many people will start to question why they can't go to the competition?

The candidates for the competition seemed to be officially selected, and the audience could only be forced to watch.

This feeling is the same as the real Olympic Games. You must first be a member of the national team before you can appear in the Olympic Games.It's not that as long as you have good skills, you can compete with the players of the national team for qualification.

In fact, wcg is not in this mode, he also has a registration channel.

It's just that the proud wcg didn't do a good job of publicizing its own registration channels, and didn't even invest in any cost to operate it. This caused many viewers to find no channels at all, and some of them were fake and cheated a lot of money. .

Perhaps in South Korea, where the e-sports industry is already mature, they have a complete selection channel, but for players outside of South Korea, everything is not so friendly.

The emergence of Crossfire directly broke this embarrassing phenomenon.

The Hundred Cities League and the College League allow the game to directly reach the most basic Internet cafe player group, college student player group.Let everyone have the opportunity to participate in the Internet cafe, and there is no need for any fees. As long as you can play games and have a dream, you are willing to give it a try.

Even the first national e-sports professional competition held by Su Che did not give people such a strong sense of participation.Although that competition was also selected from the base players, it paid more attention to the finals. What Su Che wanted people to see was only Tsinghua University as the host.

Tsinghua University is the sponsor, and Tsinghua University is the venue for the competition. That's enough.

His purpose at the time was more focused on whitewashing e-sports, so as to pave the way for him to hold other competitions in the future.

For example, the current dpl just didn't expect Crossfire to come out so early.And with the momentum of thunder, it swept all major Internet cafes across the country, and its publicity was completely comparable to that of dpl.

The popularity of the two competitions soared rapidly, and many Internet-addicted teenagers transformed into real e-sports dreamers.

He Lianxi once suggested that all Internet cafes under Qingcheng E-sports should refuse to enter through the line of fire.But Su Che rejected the proposal.

This is undoubtedly an overreaching move.

Tencent Penguin now has [-] million users. Excluding the case of one person owning multiple Penguin accounts, it is calculated as [-] million users.

Assuming that an average Internet cafe can accommodate 200 customers, [-] million Internet cafes are required to accommodate [-] million users.Now, there are less than a thousand branches of Qingcheng Esports.

Compared with the number of Tencent users across the country, such a small number of branches is simply insignificant.

Although CrossFire is not as popular as it was later, Tencent is behind it.Even if it is only in the internal testing stage, the number of users has reached a terrible number in less than a month.

This number continues to soar.

If Qingcheng Esports rejects Crossfire, it includes refusing to promote the crossfire competition.In the short term, some negligible effects may be achieved.

And this effect is limited to Xicheng.

But if we look at it from a long-term perspective, it will definitely be all the Internet cafes under Qingcheng E-sports that will be eliminated.

As long as the Internet cafe market in a city is not monopolized by Allure Esports, then Allure Esports will be eliminated in the end.Not allowed to play games, that's a big deal.

And even in Xicheng, it may not be [-]% safe.The market is competitive, even if it is a star enterprise in the city, once there is a situation that goes against the market, a large number of other Internet cafes will immediately pop up and eat up all the markets of Qingcheng E-sports.

The simplest example is that in the future, Internet cafes will not only reject League of Legends, but even Internet cafes without the privilege of League of Legends will lose a lot of business.

This means that Internet cafes must not only cooperate with Tencent's various promotions to allow Tencent to play games, but also give Tencent money in turn to buy privileged Internet cafes.

After all, games are the foundation of the Internet cafe's operation. Once the Internet cafe goes against the game, it will definitely not end well.

Therefore, Qingcheng Esports did not take any negative actions in the matter of crossing the line of fire to promote the competition.Like other major Internet cafes, the two competitions were promoted and registered at the same time.

Even the dates of the games nearly collided.

But what should come is still coming, and it is not about this matter.

In 2008, the fifth month, No.12 days.

A day of mourning for the whole nation.

As if to vent something, even in the north, which is so far away from Xiangchuan Province, it has been raining for a long time.

This kind of rain is rare in the north, just like the sturdy folk customs here, the rain that falls is also showers and thunderstorms.

But today's rain is like God's low sobbing, as if we can hear the sobbing from the sky.

From the day of rebirth, Su Che has always remembered such a day in his heart.But there was nothing he could do, nothing to do.

He couldn't go to the TV and tell people all over the country that there would be a disaster in that place and he had to leave early.

Even if it is said, it will probably be regarded as a neuropathy.

What's more, it's a whole city, where people's homes are, and where their roots are.No matter how sad they are, what people think about is rebuilding their homes, not changing places to live.

Let alone before the disaster.

Even before the disaster, so what if people believed it?Leave your home, wait quietly, and then come back to meet the ruins?

This is simply not realistic.