The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 257 When Chinese Input Has Become a Business

"Dear viewers and friends in front of the TV, welcome to today's e-sports world column. I am your host Duan Xuan. Today is our first program. I am very happy to meet you on this stage. Every Saturday Locked at 1 noon, I will share with you the latest and fastest e-sports information in the world!"

"Enter the commanding heights of our e-sports first!"

"Today, Blizzard Game Company officially announced that they will have a mysterious game that will be tested in the second half of next year. You can see the true appearance of this game as soon as 04. According to the entertainment director of Blizzard in an interview with American media reporters During the interview, he said that this will be an epoch-making game, which will change the game layout of the entire world just like Warcraft 3..."

"When it comes to Warcraft 3, I have to mention that the Warcraft III National Championship is currently being held nationwide. This competition is currently being fought in Shanghai. It is reported that there are more than 3000 players in the Shanghai area. It is expected that the competition will also It will take place for three days, and the champions, runners-up and third runners-up will get tickets to the national finals."

"Because this is the last sub-station competition held this year, the competition among players is very fierce. Many classic competitions were born on the first day of the competition. In the next session, we will take you to review the first game of the day."

"At the same time, Fox TV, one of the largest TV stations in the United States, announced that it has reached a cooperation with Blizzard, and will hold and carry out national championships in the United States. At that time, you may also see fierce collisions between players in China and the United States!"

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"Next is the minority report session. On the morning of November 11th, relevant departments held a special meeting on the healthy development of the e-sports industry. Leaders of relevant departments and people from the public attended the meeting. Huang He, chairman of Jiangnan Group, said in a speech at the meeting , E-sports should be promoted and developed as a normal sport, but we must pay attention to the promotion and development, and minors who are studying in high school or below are strictly prohibited from participating in the competition.”

"Minors who have left school must obtain the consent of their parents and participate in competitions with the consent of their parents. Games and e-sports are just a kind of sports and must not affect children's learning."

"It is reported that from next year, Jiangnan Group will take the lead in carrying out such inspection activities, strictly control the review, and absolutely not allow any players who violate the regulations to participate, so there are many minors participating in the Warcraft 3 National Championship right now. effective deterrence."

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"It's amazing, you can't imagine how far the Chinese Warcraft 3 e-sports competition has reached! I can only say that it has completely killed all our American games." After returning to the hotel at 10 o'clock in the evening, Thomas still didn't have time to take a shower, so he couldn't wait to log in to the forum, and then posted.

"You blow it!"

"Are you sick? Can a country as poor as China surpass us in the competition?"

"There is no truth without a picture, it is recommended to upload a picture!"

"Landlord, all your redemption codes are sold out, so hurry up and restock quickly."

Thomas didn't expect that as soon as he posted a post, he would immediately attract a lot of people to reply, but most of them were actually urging Thomas to replenish and ship the goods quickly.

Only then did Thomas realize that the more than 100 redemption codes he had posted on eBay last night had all been sold out, among which the small redemption codes worth $100 were all sold out within an hour.

As for the redemption code for the rare version, only 10 minutes have passed, leaving no one to buy his luxury gift bag priced at $10, but there should be no fool who would buy it at this price.

So, this time, Thomas directly posted 500 various redemption codes, thinking that this time it should be able to last for about a day, and then began to manually send redemption codes to all the players who bought the redemption codes one by one. code.

But he only sent it once, and he gave up the idea because he found that because the redemption codes were all in Chinese, if he wanted to send Chinese redemption codes on the Internet, he had to use the Chinese input method to type.

This embarrasses Thomas. The redemption codes he used before were all typed by his fellow international students. Now it is his turn to type, and the result is the same as when he recorded the redemption codes before. Dilemma.

Thomas couldn't type a single Chinese character.

"Otherwise, I'll send the photos directly!" Toms had an idea, then picked up his digital camera, took a burst of snap shots at the redemption code recorded on the notebook, and then took screenshots on the computer into small ones. images, so that they can be compressed to only a few KB in size, and then these images are sent to users who have purchased the product.

This is not only convenient and quick, but also can prevent you from making typos, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

Thomas is cool, but those who bought the redemption code are miserable.

When most people see the Chinese characters on these pictures, they have a confused expression on their faces.Although they are using Chinese servers, the game experience will not be affected if Chinese servers do not understand Chinese. After all, all panels are the same as English games.

But if you don't know how to type Chinese, you can enter the redemption code, which is a must.

Fortunately, although it was night when Toms shipped, it was in China, and the sun was shining in the United States at this time, so many players who bought the redemption code began to frantically look for all the Chinese friends around them. Let them help you type.

This makes many Chinese students feel flattered. They are usually rejected by white students... No, even black students also reject them, so they can only be Chinese and Chinese. When will these Native Americans take the initiative to find They did, it was just so touching.

But later, when they learned that they were just a tool person and used to type Chinese, they still felt very complicated.

However, there are only a small number of foreigners who can find friends with Chinese students. Most of them are dazed and don't know what to do.

Some people try to ask their friends to type Chinese for themselves on the Internet, and then copy and paste it by themselves.

But it turned out that they found that the copy and paste function was prohibited on the input page of the redemption code, and they could only be input manually.

But after all, this will not trouble some ruthless people. Some players simply found a Chinese-English dictionary from the Internet, looked for Chinese in English, and found Chinese. For the Chinese Pinyin above, use the Pinyin input method to input Chinese characters.

Although this process is very long, painful and tossing, it is effective. As long as you work hard for about an hour, you can basically enter Chinese characters successfully.

When these buyers exchange successfully, the great sense of success and happiness in their hearts is unparalleled. Perhaps they have seen more people complaining about their inability to type Chinese on the forum.

So among these ruthless people, there are a few smart ruthless people. They had an idea and posted on the Internet, saying that they can look up the Chinese pinyin of Chinese characters on their behalf, and then send them the corresponding pinyin, and attach a Chinese typing tutorial. Ensure that they can learn to type Chinese within 10 minutes, and then enter the redemption code to complete.

For the price, only $10 consulting fee is enough.

As a result, the business of these posts is not bad. There are twenty or thirty orders in a day. After all, it is a redemption code bought for $100. If it cannot be used, then the $100 is completely lost. It is better to spend an extra $10. cost-effective.

Therefore, for a long time to come, these Chinese typing businesses will be very prosperous. Many players take this opportunity to make a lot of money, and many of them have also taken this opportunity to become masters of Chinese.

So they only know pinyin, they can’t read and write at all, but they are at least a student of Chinese characters. Boss Huang’s goal of having 10 billion non-Chinese Chinese students in the world is a small step forward .

Although there may only be less than 100 people, this step is indeed taken, and it is a way that Huang He himself did not think of. The measures he originally took because the English redemption code felt disgusting actually made his own A small goal is a small step forward.

Moreover, these students are not forced by exam-oriented education, but spontaneously want to learn Chinese. The difference between the two is huge.

If English is put forward in the college entrance examination, you can see that among the 100 students who learn English in China, there are still a few who will choose to continue learning English.

Closer to home, after quickly handling the delivery of the redemption code, Toms started to pay attention to his previous e-sports posts, and at this time almost all the players clamored for Toms to post pictures.

So Thomas carefully selected more than a dozen pictures, which he took on the spot, and posted them on the forum.

Although it took more than ten minutes to upload and read these pictures, all the players in the entire forum still saw these pictures taken by Toms on the spot.

Then they were stunned.

Because all of these pictures have a very wide perspective, not only is the competition stage very huge, but what is even bigger is the competition field, which is actually in an empty football field.

What's even crazier is that these football stadiums are already full of people, and on the left side of the football stadium, there is a huge projection screen on which a live broadcast of a game is being played.

There are also several pictures that Thomas took on the stands of the stadium. This is directly from the highest point of the entire competition field, and the entire scene is completely shot.

Although this gymnasium is actually not too big, and in terms of complete facilities, it can't be compared with those large-scale sports events at all, but such a venue is absolutely unprecedented, and it has never been seen in the United States.

In fact, there is no official competition held in the United States so far. They are all held privately by some players and companies. The competition venue is no more than a small club that can accommodate more than 100 people. Compared with such a huge scene in China, It's like a cloud and mud.

"Our majestic America is actually being compared to a poor China!" Many players were not calm when they saw this. They felt that their sense of national honor was deeply hurt.

(End of this chapter)