Rebirth: My dad is a coal boss

"At the same time, I plan to hold the first Blizzard Global Elite Invitational next year, inviting game elites from all over the world to participate, with a prize of 5 million US dollars. The time is in July every year, creating a feast for global game enthusiasts."

Lin Hao's words directly shocked a group of employees. You know, the prize money of WCG (World Electronic Sports Competition) is rumored to be only 350,000 US dollars this year. Now Lin Hao directly increased the prize money to 5 million US dollars, more than 10 times, and it is hosted by Blizzard.

Once this news spreads, it will cause shocks to Blizzard game fans all over the world, and even the entire game industry. In 2003, game competitions were very niche. In the eyes of parents all over the world, playing games was not doing their job properly, which would affect their studies and was not good for their physical and mental health.

Therefore, there are very few people who make a living by playing games. Unlike the future, any professional player has an annual salary of several million, and star players have an annual salary of tens of millions. Professional players in this era eat instant noodles in Internet cafes. The Internet fee is not enough, and they save money to participate in the competition.

Lin Hao's 5 million US dollars, there is no game competition in the world with such a high prize money.

"Boss, are you serious?" Mike Morhaime asked uncertainly.

"Of course it's true. I plan to hold the first competition in Shanghai, China, and I must make a name for the competition. The game projects are "Warcraft", "Diablo", "StarCraft", and some other games of the company."

The first Blizzard Global Elite Invitational in history was held in South Korea. Not to mention that the Korean country does have a very strong talent in games, and has won many championships.

"Okay, boss." Mike Morhaime is now very excited. Lin Hao not only invested 1 billion US dollars, but also held a game competition. He now really believes that Lin Hao is a fan of Blizzard games. The Blizzard is just a by-product and just to deal with reporters. Otherwise, who would be willing to invest 1 billion US dollars in the company and spend 5 million US dollars to hold a competition.

"The company should also focus on the development of peripheral derivative products. The props and characters in various games can be made into dolls, figurines, etc. We must pay attention to the development of IP." Lin Hao said to Mike Morhaime.

"I understand, boss. Because of insufficient funds, the company could only do some selectively. In the future, we will strengthen this work." Mike Morhaime said immediately.

Lin Hao still attaches great importance to Blizzard. In the next 20 years, Blizzard will be the best game company in the world, and the value it generates cannot be measured by money.

After the chat, Lin Hao even experienced "Warcraft III: Frozen Throne" which will be released in July at Blizzard. Frozen Throne can be said to be the most classic in the Warcraft series. Lin Hao was very obsessed with it in his previous life.

While playing, Lin Hao remembered another very popular game that has a certain connection with "Warcraft III: Frozen Throne", "Dota".

As a classic game mode, "Dota" is regarded as a benchmark by countless game manufacturers, and imitators have followed one after another, including "League of Legends" and other competitive online games. It is no exaggeration to say that "Dota" established the concept of "Dota-like online games".

The early world view of "Dota" was based on "Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne". It was originally a custom map of "Warcraft 3", but it unexpectedly continued the vitality of "Warcraft 3" and has a large number of fans.

However, its limitations are also very obvious: there is no official, no disconnection and reconnection without the support of third-party software, no automatic matching, no friend system, and many functions required by players are not that "Dota" does not want to provide, but it is simply impossible to achieve, and going to the battle platform will be subject to many restrictions. After all, "Dota" is a game that should be independent, but it has to parasitize on another game, which is a pity.

Lin Hao doesn't want to miss such a classic game. In fact, the popularity of "Dota" is even more popular than "World of Warcraft" to a certain extent. After more than 20 years, "Dota" still has tenacious vitality.

But it's still early now. After all, "Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne" has not been released yet, so we can wait and see.

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After spending a day at Blizzard, Lin Hao went to Haohan Capital and Facebook the next day. Benjamin is very busy now. Although the acquisition has been completed, the handover with Vidiwang has just begun. There are many things to deal with. He is also busy helping Lin Hao acquire the Lakers and other things of the company.

Facebook has already made preparations to enter North America andPreparations for Europe, there are only a few days left in June, Allen has already led a group to Europe, Lin Hao will not be able to go there until the next day, and before that he has to go to Google in San Francisco.

After dealing with Google's affairs, Lin Hao will fly directly to Europe. After finishing the affairs of the two companies, on the morning of the third day, Lin Hao got on his private plane.

In the living room on the second floor of the private plane, Lin Hao was smiling at Scarlett, who was blushing and biting her teeth. Before that, Lin Hao gave Scarlett 3 days to consider at the banquet.

Last night, Lin Hao received a call from the other party as expected, and there was this picture today.

At this moment, Scarlett was wearing a fascinating long skirt, flesh-colored silk mesh on her legs, and her big golden waves, bright red lips looked particularly tempting.

Scarlett looked at Lin Hao, feeling shy inside. During these three days, she was tormented. Although she had thought about it long ago, she was very entangled when things came to an end, and she didn't know if it was right to do so.

At first, she thought that Lin Hao was a yellow man, so she should be able to control him. However, after attending the banquet that night and watching Lin Hao chatting and laughing with big shots in the United States, she knew that she could not control Lin Hao. If she was not careful, she would be eaten up without leaving any residue.

However, looking at the overwhelming reports on the news media these days, she read them every day and kept looking for her own photos. As a result, all she saw were the appearance photos of popular Hollywood stars. There were no pictures of her. Finally, she found some information about herself in a small corner of a third-rate tabloid, but there were only a few sentences.

This made her determined to board Lin Hao's private plane today. It was her first time to take a private plane. There were reports in the media before that it was worth 370 million US dollars. At that time, she thought it was too exaggerated, but now when she entered, she found that she was sitting in the Guantian, which was really luxurious.

Lin Hao smiled and slowly walked towards Scarlett. Scarlett's heartbeat unconsciously began to accelerate as she watched Lin Hao getting closer and closer. When he arrived in front of Scarlett, Lin Hao hugged her in his arms.