know this [Ye Zhou]

In the later commentary on the development history of the Glory Professional League, the first two seasons were called the period of groping in the dark, and the dawn has not yet been seen.Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the Glory League is no exception.During those two years, the attendance rate of the live games and the ratings of the live TV broadcast were pretty good. After all, there were a lot of Glory players, and there were not a few who were willing to spend a movie ticket on weekends to pay their respects to the God in their hearts and feel the atmosphere of the scene. The game also has the refreshing feeling of watching an action blockbuster, which is a good entertainment.But apart from ticket revenue and broadcast revenue, other aspects are much inferior, and in terms of advertising revenue, it is almost blank.

The root cause of this phenomenon is that electronic games have not been widely accepted by the public. It is difficult for electronic games, which were once called "electronic drugs" and caused a series of negative incidents, to have the same mass base as sports competitions. .In addition, generally speaking, if a relatively niche thing wants to successfully enter the public eye, it is undoubtedly a shortcut to establish a positive and healthy image spokesperson to promote it, but the Glory League has failed even more in this regard.

In these two seasons, Team Excellent Era won the championship consecutively with an unstoppable momentum. Huangfeng and Tyranny each won the runner-up once, and the top three in the regular season were also taken by these three teams.The core of the three teams, Ye Qiu, Guo Mingyu and Han Wenqing naturally became the most famous Glory players.Among the three, Han Wenqing's image affinity is too low, while Guo Mingyu is easy-going, but his age is considered advanced by the standards of e-sports players, and he retired after the second season.

And Ye Qiu, who stands at the pinnacle of Glory from online games to league matches—he even won the title of "God of Fighting" after setting an astonishing record of 8.26 points per game in the regular season in the second season—should be the most suitable spokesperson for Glory , but he completely refuses to appear in public, even regular interviews, let alone participate in promotional activities.

The turning point of the Glory Professional League came in the third season.After the first two seasons of exploration, in this year, the league reached a standard lineup of 20 teams, which has been used since then, and a relatively complete system of competition rules has been initially established.

And the most critical action comes from online games.On the fifth anniversary, in addition to opening the fifth district and increasing the level cap to level 60, Glory officials also released a public map called God's Domain.The size of the map is comparable to the sum of the five common areas of the world. There are more difficult dungeons, more powerful equipment, more precious materials, and a more free atmosphere.The Domain of the Gods does not sell account cards separately, and the full-level accounts in each common area can only obtain access qualifications after passing the skill challenge.

Prior to this, each district of Honor was independent of each other, and account cards could not be used across districts.For example, Zhou Zekai whose account card belongs to the second district would never have the chance to meet with One Autumn Leaf in the first district.Now, masters from all districts will gather in the realm of the gods, with the possibility of communication and fighting.

Afterwards, it proved that the establishment of the God's Domain was probably the most successful move in the history of the Glory online game development. It made the online game masters stand out from the ordinary areas, and indirectly created the prosperity of the golden generation of the Glory League.

On December 12rd, the much-anticipated God's Domain officially opened.At the same time, the official forum opened up a God's Domain section, which broadcasts the list of players who have obtained the admission qualification in real time.In the first week, this list included the characters of all active professional players, and some non-professional characters were also revealed to belong to the training camps of various teams.There are very few folk masters who can enter the list.The difficulty of the qualification challenge is high, which can be seen.

Zhou Zekai is also a member of the challenge team.At this time, he has already entered the first year of high school, but the companions who play Glory together are still those junior high school classmates.For him, once everything becomes a habit, it is difficult to change it.Since he started playing Glory, he spent most of his time playing dungeons with this classmate group, and PK was basically in the group.In teamwork, Zhou Zekai never liked to steal the limelight, but he did a lot of homework to fill in vacancies, so he never had a clear understanding of his own ability level.

Zhou Zekai's progress far surpassed the rest of the team in the task challenge link of the God's Domain.The winning rate of the PK link in the arena is also very high. Although in the early stage due to lack of PK experience, he occasionally capsized and interrupted his winning streak and needed to start from scratch, but when he completed all the tasks and reached the requirements for PK winning rate and winning streak It is the earliest one, and belongs to a quite early batch in the entire online game circle.Only then did he realize for the first time that he was already so strong.

After entering the realm of the gods, Zhou Zekai received many group invitations.Looking at the progress of the students, it is too early to rendezvous by eye.He didn't choose carefully, and directly joined the first team that sent out the invitation.

This is the first time he has teamed up with strangers to play dungeons.Soon Zhou Zekai found out that he was lucky. It is said that the temporary group generally needs time to adjust, but obviously the players in this group other than him are a team with tacit cooperation.When halfway through the progress, Zhou Zekai almost achieved a seamless connection.The head of the regiment commanded him in detail at first, but later he didn't bother, and praised his technical level and overall awareness several times.

Coming out of the dungeon, the group leader expressed to Zhou Zekai his desire to form a permanent group. Zhou Zekai replied: "There is a group." The phenomenon of other teams is very common in the current God's Domain.He didn't force it either, instead he made an appointment to follow the group until Zhou Zekai and his companions reunited.

The group leader asked him his age again, and Zhou Zekai replied: "16." This time the group leader was taken aback, and sighed: "You are so young, then your level is too top-notch among your peers." Asked where Zhou Zekai was from, Zhou Zekai answered City S truthfully.

For the next week, Zhou Zekai will be following the dungeon of this group. The team members are not completely fixed, and there are often minor changes. Zhou Zekai doesn’t care too much about it, and it’s fun to play with players of different professions and levels. experience.The people in the regiment are also used to getting along with this kid. He is taciturn and not good at communicating, but he has quite outstanding personal abilities and an even more outstanding overall situation view. He will always appear in time where he is most needed and shoot the deadliest bullets .

On Christmas day, after finishing the Christmas activities, the group leader knocked Zhou Zekai privately again: "You are from S city, do you usually watch Samsara's games?"

Zhou Zekai replied: "Yes." For more than two years, the game that he and his friends must watch every week, besides Excellent Era, is Samsara, and most of them are fans.

The head of the team said: "I am the training camp director of Team Samsara. The team is all members of the training camp. I am very optimistic about you and reported to the club. The team's regular players also put on vests and came to play with you. They all thought you Very good. Now, on behalf of the Samsara Club, I will officially invite you to try out. You are not yet an adult, so you can receive guidance in the training camp first. When you reach the age of 18, you will sign a formal contract."

Zhou Zekai was very surprised.For him, whether it is the Glory League or the Samsara team, they are all separated by a very long distance and out of reach.He didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to get in touch with them so soon.

He didn't think for long before typing the word "OK" on the keyboard.