Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Lyon ended his vacation and returned to the team's training base.

As a heroic professional player who once fought against the Devil Team, and the first generation gaming influencer on YouTube, he has already achieved financial freedom, and he is not even an adult yet.

After earning enough money to allow him to do nothing for the rest of his life, Lyon did not choose to lie down and continue doing his original job.

Play professionally and become an internet celebrity.

It’s just that it’s no longer out of economic need, but out of a sense of honor and accomplishment.

Reach the state where going to work is for the sake of working itself.

However, recently, his career has been facing a difficult situation.

First of all, it is because of the hand injury. Even after treatment, it does not affect daily life, but it affects the operating level.

He could clearly feel the feeling of powerlessness at moments that required delicate micromanagement, even though he had already thought of it, his hands' movements could not keep up with the precision.

Therefore, his position in the club has changed from an absolute main force to a substitute, and he has begun to develop in the direction of coach and analyst.

Since Felin's gaming competition was promoted by the Drogo Group from the beginning and was not organized spontaneously by enthusiasts, it quickly moved away from the grassroots stage.

Positions such as coach, analyst, nutritionist, and even psychoanalyst are all available.

Another dilemma is his career as a video maker.

As a professional Red Alert player, this game has always been the main content of his videos.

According to the teacher at the Internet content creation sharing session I attended before, he is a vertical field creator.

The advantage is that its positioning is very accurate, which helps the website distribute traffic, and the audience stickiness is very high.

The downside is that the amount of attention he can get is highly dependent on the development of the field itself.

At present, it seems that the development of Red Alert is not very good.

The attention to the event is declining, and as a result, the traffic of entertainment-oriented videos has also decreased.

The most amazing thing is that there is actually a big generation gap between players of Red Alert and players of the expansion pack Yuri’s Revenge.

This resulted in the number of players, which was already declining, being further diverted.

As the biggest internet celebrity in the Red Alert zone, Lyon’s video playback volume has not declined so far, but his number of fans has stagnated for a long time with almost no growth.

It dealt a severe blow to his sense of accomplishment.

Lyon has also tried to transform and record some stand-alone game content.

However, I felt that there was no show effect when I played it myself, and the audience didn't buy it, and the feedback from several attempts was very poor.

Feeling depressed, he gave himself two weeks off and took a sightseeing trip to hell.

The experience was pretty good. Apart from being a bit dry and windy, the natural scenery was really stunning.

The various magnificent mountain peaks and rift valleys are sights rarely seen on the continent of Felin.

Unfortunately, happy times are always short.

After returning from traveling, I have to face the dilemma of my career again.

"Children, your father is back!"

Standing at the door of the base training room, Leon shouted.

Professional players live in dormitories, and as we all know, boys living in a dorm will always develop a conjugated father-son relationship.

"I brought you souvenirs from hell..."

Before he finished speaking, Leon's voice gradually faded away.

There was no one in the training room.

what's the situation?
Lyon looked at the clock on the wall. It was three o'clock in the afternoon. Normally, this was the time to get up, wash up, and eat. It was just the right time for the first round of training matches.

Abiding by the agreed training match time is basic courtesy among professional teams, so before the match begins, everyone will be ready in the training room.

There shouldn't be anyone...

An absurd idea suddenly popped up in Lyon's mind. Could it be that he took a two-week vacation and the club went bankrupt before he could get out of the trough of his career?

That's impossible. When I came back, the receptionist on the first floor greeted me.

That is reviewing.

The only possibility Lyon could think of was that everyone was dragged to the conference room for a review and summary meeting.

After dropping the souvenirs he brought back in the training room, he headed towards the meeting room.

The good news was that his old teammates were all in the conference room, but they were not reviewing the game. Instead, they were watching an unfamiliar game, and the person in charge of the explanation was the club's head, Ms. Grace.

"Oh, it's just right that you're back, Leon. We are discussing adding new projects to our team." Grace said.

Leon nodded and found an empty seat in the room and sat down.

He had heard that the team was going to participate in other gaming competitions, but there had been no suitable games. The popularity of the Red Alert professional competition had begun to decline, and other games were not as good as Red Alert.

Grace continued, "Let me briefly repeat what we just talked about. The Drogo Group has developed a new competitive game called Guardian of the Ruins. A huge amount of resources will be invested in it. I participated in the first trial of this game, and I can guarantee that this is definitely a game with huge potential."

As he spoke, he quickly took Leon through the introduction to guarding the ruins.

Lyon didn't take it too seriously at first. After all, he had just finished his vacation and was still quite relaxed.

But as I listened, I realized how special this game was.

Transforming into a legendary hero from history to join the battle is a big gimmick regardless of other things.

It is also a five-on-five team competition game.

Lyon is well aware that for the audience, team competition is more interesting to watch than individual competition.

Even though Red Alert is an official competition that only features one-on-one games, the team round-robin competitions receive much more attention than single-player matches.

Of course, part of the reason may be that Toto has been the final champion of several consecutive singles competitions.

For a competition, if the suspense is lost too early, the excitement will definitely be greatly reduced.

This game is much more team-oriented than the Round Robin game. All heroes compete on the same field, which really tests collective tactics and coordination.

It also places higher demands on the team's operations.

In the Red Alert rotation system, a team is allowed to have one or two weaknesses. Even if they cannot win, it is good to be able to consume the opponent's physical strength.

Not in the Guard Ruins.

Lyon was very sure that if he played this game with two weaknesses, there would be no doubt that as long as the opponent was not a fool, he would focus on the weaknesses and make breakthroughs.

The shortcoming of this game has been exposed, and it should be difficult to turn the situation around by relying on the main general to defeat several enemies at once like in Red Alert.

Perhaps this is his chance to transform, Leon thought. As for the specific feelings when guarding the ruins, Grace did not elaborate. No matter how good it sounds, it is better to experience it in person.

"Therefore, our Twin Towers Sons team must form a professional team to guard the ruins."

Grace briefly recounted everything that Leon had missed and needed to know.

"On the one hand, we are optimistic that this game will become the most popular game in the future. On the other hand, the Drogo Group has prepared a very complete competition system for this game."

"The competition system?" asked the other players on the team. "Is it different from the Red Alert competition?"

"Yes, the competition to defend the ruins will be held in the form of a league."

"League system?"

The contestants present had never heard of this word, and could not directly determine what it was from the phrase structure.

Professional players are mostly young internet addicts, and their high gaming skills are contrasted with their rather embarrassing cultural level.

Grace introduced: "The league is an ongoing, multi-round series of competitions, one season per year. The season includes regional competitions and world competitions. The competition will last for several months. All teams in a region will decide the winner and become the regional champion. The top teams in each region can participate in the final world competition."

The contestants roughly understood it.

Currently, almost all game competitions are completed in a very short time.

The more professional ones will start from the group stage, and a considerable number of them will use a single elimination system from the beginning. If they want to stand out, in addition to strength, they also need a lot of luck.

This kind of game will take at least a week to complete.

Not to mention a season every year, there isn't even one that lasts a month.

Each competition also has its own preliminaries, which leads to a rather chaotic schedule. The main competitions can barely ensure that they do not interfere with each other, but collisions in the preliminaries are common.

Therefore, it often happens that I am extremely busy for a certain two months, playing several competitions every day, and then suddenly one day I become free again and I won’t be able to play a serious competition for a long time.

There have even been cases where the game was updated while we were playing events that had not been reported to the Drogo Group.

"It sounds like this league system doesn't have any special benefits other than making the schedule more convenient?" Someone in the conference room muttered quietly, "I don't see it anyway."

Grace smiled and said, "Another great benefit of the league is that all clubs participating in the league are not just actors on the stage, but also one of the creators of the entire play and can get dividends from the performance.

"All advertising and broadcasting fees earned by the regional leagues will be distributed to the clubs in the league, and the teams that make it to the final world championship will also receive a new share, a share of the revenue from the limited-time merchandise sold at the world championship, which will be shared by all the teams that make it to the final world championship.

"For team operators, the source of income is more stable than other competitions. Unlike Red Alert, where you can't even eat if you don't perform well, this is at least a guarantee. At the same time, it is also good for you players."

"What's the benefit?" someone asked.

He didn't hear any special benefits for them.

"Everyone's average salary will be higher," Lyon replied before Grace could explain, "Because the club's income is stable, the players' salaries will not have to rely on tournament prize money, so everyone's guaranteed salary will also increase a lot."

As soon as Leon finished speaking, the player who had just questioned the benefits of the league system immediately said excitedly: "I support the league!"

No wonder he was so excited. This was definitely great news for today's professional players.

Taking the Red Alert competition as an example, the average annual income of Red Alert professional players is eight or nine hundred gold coins.

This is a figure that far exceeds that of ordinary jobs. That is why many people envy the job of professional players, who can "easily" earn in one year the same amount that they have worked hard for ten years to make.

However, the fact is that the average annual income is indeed tempting, but the median annual income is less than forty gold coins.

From the huge gap between the mean and the median, it is not difficult to see that all the money went to the top players, such as Lyon.

Sometimes it is difficult for the bottom players to even get food.

On the surface, this makes sense. Players with high skills should make big money, and those who are capable should get more.

But this also leads to a hidden danger, that is, except for a very small number of gifted players, the vast majority of people have to accumulate experience bit by bit from the bottom.

This kind of distribution method will lead to the gradual loss of ecological niches for bottom-level players. Many players who have the ability to become above-average players simply leave the industry because the poor days are too hard to endure.

This ultimately leads to fewer and fewer new players.

Red Alert has already begun to see this trend.

After more than two years of launch, the number of newcomers has been decreasing.

The league system raises the base salary, and although the gap between top players and bottom players is still huge, it at least allows them to get by.

Grace made a final summary after almost finishing what needed to be said in this meeting.

"In short, our most important goal right now is to earn a spot in the Guardian of the Ruins League. The earliest qualifying tournament will begin in a month, after the game's beta test is over. It will be the Sutton National Invitational Tournament. The top six teams will get the first batch of seats in the Sutton Regional League.

"I have secured 20 internal beta test spots for you. The gaming equipment will also be delivered tonight. You are all excellent players who have achieved great success in other games. I believe that a large part of gaming talent is interoperable, so I hope you can actively try to guard the ruins and reach a high level as soon as possible..."

The meeting ended after Grace said some encouraging words.

Coming out of the conference room, the young people were all very excited, as if they had already got the chance to play the profession of guarding the ruins.

"Leon!" someone called from behind. He turned around and saw that it was Zhan Wang, who was also a professional Red Alert player.

"Is there a problem?"

"Do you want to participate in the competition to guard the ruins?" asked the War King.

"Of course," Leon answered without hesitation, "I will definitely participate, what's the matter?"

"Ha, I thought you wouldn't participate. You're not short of money anyway."

"It has nothing to do with the money, I just want to play bigger games."

"I don't have such high ideals as you. I just want to make money. Since you want to fight, then I will fight too. I hope you will continue to lead me to victory." The War King's professional career started by clinging to Lyon. He has become path-dependent.

He whispered, "I'm telling you, I've collected a lot of information about guarding the ruins recently. I'll share it with you. Let's win at the starting line..."

……

That night, Leon received his virtual mask. As the face of the Sons of the Twin Towers, he was the first to receive it.

Can't wait to put it on my head, start it up, and enter the game.

Perhaps it was due to my talent, but the first time I entered the consciousness space, it took me less than two minutes to adapt to the operations and movements there.

Leon was pleasantly surprised to find that the biggest benefit of this game for him was that it did not waste his hands.

After completing the tutorial, I excitedly started the first game.

Looking at more than twenty heroes with different images, I don’t know their specific functions.

"With what?"

Eh!
Leon fell in love with a very handsome character at first sight.

Water element.

He locked onto it without hesitation... (End of this chapter)