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Chapter 466 0456 [Wealth is a powerful motivator]

"What, 200?"

EHOME team just won the WCG Dota World Championship in the United States, but coach Dong Can did not go with them.

Dong Can learned of his victory last night and went out for drinks to celebrate. When he woke up, he heard about the 200 million yuan bonus from "Oracle Era".

Club manager Tang Wenyi nodded: "The national champion will receive 200 million, the runner-up 100 million, and the third-place winner 50. Regional champions will each receive a 10 bonus."

Dong Can confirmed again: "Just a domestic tournament? Not the world championship?"

Tang Wenyi said, "The full name is the 'Oracle Era' National City Championship. It's an amateur competition and it hasn't even joined any professional events."

"You Ke is fucking rich!" Dong Can couldn't say anything but amazement.

Just how outrageous is this prize amount? A quick comparison will tell you.

Take the recently concluded WCG as an example. The prize money for the Warcraft III world champion was only $7000 plus a Samsung laptop and a Samsung monitor. The runner-up only received $3000 plus a Samsung monitor.

I'm dirt poor.

(The overall prize money for this year's WCG has been reduced, with the prize money for the Warcraft 3 champion being only half of last year's.)
There are also many temporary national competitions, where the prize money is often followed by parentheses containing the words "including travel expenses".

In other words, the prize money, totaling tens of thousands of RMB, actually included the contestants' travel expenses.

Dong Can, as EHOME's coach, led the team to win ten consecutive Dota championships this year.

The reason he retired last year (as a player) was that the club's salary was too low, and various benefits could not be fulfilled, so he had to work as a commentator to support his family. This year, things have improved a bit, so he returned to his old team as a coach.

The Dota World Championship coach can only take on this role because he simply can't support himself; his official profession is actually commentary...

Tang Wenyi said, "How about we form a 'Oracle Era' branch and take over next year's 200 million prize money? The club is short of money, so this can alleviate some of the financial pressure."

"But what about the League of Legends division?" Dong Can asked.

EHOME has decided to establish a League of Legends division and is currently selecting players. It is expected to be officially established next month.

This will be China's first professional League of Legends team, and they will win the first domestic League of Legends championship.

Tang Wenyi said, "There is no conflict. The gameplay of Oracle Era and League of Legends is similar. We will form a professional League of Legends team and play amateur Oracle Era matches in our spare time."

“Even if the gameplay is similar, the heroes and skills are different. Doing it this way will definitely distract you,” Dong Can said.

Tang Wenyi said, "As you know, the club has always been short of money and desperately needs that 200 million yuan bonus."

Dong Can suddenly said, "How should the prize money be divided? If the players get the lion's share, I'd also like to compete. It doesn't matter whether I become a coach or not."

Tang Wenyi: "..."

"Are you only going to give a tiny bit to the players? Damn it, I'll just form my own team then, since I'm only a part-time coach anyway!" Dong Can got angry instantly.

Because the club is capable of embezzling prize money.

A prize of 200 million yuan might be a small amount a few years from now, but it could drive esports clubs crazy.

If it weren't for the fact that "Three Kingdoms Kill" only has a national college league, EHOME Club would have even wanted to form a Three Kingdoms Kill team, purely because the prize money for the "Three Kingdoms Kill" league is very high.

The news somehow leaked out, and the next day, members of all the teams in the EHOME club came to ask manager Tang Wenyi about it.

"Old Tang, are you really going to form the Oracle Era team? How about I join?"

"Damn, you're from the CS team, what are you doing here?"

“I can practice, I have a very fast reaction time.”

"roll roll roll!"

A short while later, another one arrived.

"Manager, I want to join the Oracle Era team. CF competitions aren't interesting; I think I'm better at..."

"Stop! Go practice CF properly!"

"A prize of 200 million! Brother, please give me a chance."

"You're the boss, you're my grandpa!"

Tang Wenyi experienced the same scene and similar dialogue more than ten times in one day.

It's outrageous that a bunch of professional esports players, regardless of what they play, all came to ask to join the "Oracle Era" team.

Anyway, this game was only recently released, and everyone is starting from scratch. CF players can easily transition to this new game.

Tang Wenyi was at his wits' end and could only gather all the teams together and say, "Oracle Era has just been launched, and there are only amateur competitions at the moment. So, our team is also a temporary one. Players who play games like CF and CS, please don't bother coming. Players who are even remotely related to the game will be decided by drawing lots."

The drawing of lots was completed in about ten minutes.

The players who weren't drawn looked at each other, and one of them questioned, "When we formed the team, we were promised a reward for winning the world championship. There was no prize money the year before last, and there's still no prize money this year. When will the club fulfill its promises?"

Because of this incident, two players quit the year before last, and Dong Can also retired after that year.

Tang Wenyi said, "If we win the 200 million yuan prize next year, I will make up for the championship prize money of the past few years."

The player who won the lottery was unhappy: "If we get that 200 million, how much does the club plan to take?"

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Tang Wenyi dared not do anything reckless again and gritted his teeth and said, "Take 20%."

"That's more like it." The successful applicants cheered.

One player who didn't get a spot in the lottery angrily shouted, "I quit! Anyone who wants that 200 million yuan prize money, come quit the club with me and form our own team. Damn it, 200 million yuan is enough for us to work for decades!"

Many contestants didn't say anything, but their expressions clearly showed they were interested.

……

A few days later, news broke in the esports community.

Two players from the team that just won the WCG Dota 2 world championship have unilaterally announced their departure from the club. The reason given is that the club failed to fulfill its promises made when the team was formed. However, it is alleged that they have gathered several Warcraft 3 and StarCraft players to form their own team, aiming to win the 2 million yuan prize money.

They didn't even have a place to stay, so they went straight to an internet cafe for refuge. They secured sponsorship from the internet cafe owner by agreeing to participate in a competition with the cafe as a joint sponsor.

This news left many people completely bewildered.

However, this is just the beginning, and similar situations are occurring in other esports clubs.

Chen Guiliang set the prize money too high; money is a powerful motivator. Coincidentally, after the economic crisis, prize money for various esports events generally decreased. As investors stopped injecting funds into clubs, player salaries also declined.

Various conflicts had been brewing for a long time, and they all erupted due to the high prize money of "Oracle Era".

Tang Wenyi was so angry that she contacted a gaming magazine and told the reporter, "Youke's actions are damaging the already fragile domestic e-sports environment. Now, all the major e-sports clubs are in disarray because of that 200 million yuan prize money; nobody is focused on training. Players of all kinds of games are secretly practicing 'Oracle Era'..."

Chen Guiliang's actions were indeed unethical; Tencent, for example, didn't do that.

In any case, a large number of experts flooded into "Oracle Era" in a short period of time.

They quickly adapted to the game and developed some basic strategies.

……

“This won’t work; the esports ecosystem won’t take off.” Chen Guiliang was having a headache.

Currently, esports competitions can only be broadcast on local sports channels or pay-TV channels. There's a national ban; these things can't be broadcast on satellite channels.

With a limited audience, there is no way to generate commercial profits, and esports clubs and players are barely surviving.

The only way to break through is through the internet.

We could use Tudou.com, but to be honest, it's not a perfect fit.

Chen Guiliang opened a webpage and searched for sites A and B.

Bilibili has actually been established, but it is too small in scale, with very few users and submissions.

A-site is doing quite well.

Then let's choose A-site. Chen Guiliang plans to parachute in a team there and do things according to his own ideas.

The bullet screen mode is very suitable for e-sports.

When Chen Guiliang added the site owner's QQ, he left a message saying, "Name your price if you want to acquire A site."

A short while later, the QQ friend request was accepted, and the website administrator asked, "Who are you?"

"Chen Guiliang."

"I'm still Ding Sanshi."

"Check my Weibo. I'll post an update: Monkey, come eat bananas."

"real or fake?"

A few minutes later, a group of netizens stared blankly at Chen Guiliang's Weibo post.

"What's going on? Has Old Master Chen gone mad?"

"His account was probably hacked."

"They might be exchanging secret signals with a friend."

"..."

The administrator of A-site was also dumbfounded, staring at his phone for a long time before finally remembering to reply to QQ: "Boss, I'm so excited! ONG!"

"selling?"

"Sell!"

"Name your price."

"500?"

"Okay, give me an address, and I'll send someone over to sign the contract."

"That's it? Shouldn't you have tried to negotiate?"

The stationmaster was stunned for a long time, feeling like he was dreaming.

The butterfly effect still exists.

Later, Douyu's boss, Chen, who was forced to operate a sewing machine, should have bought AcFun by then, but AcFun remained in the hands of its founder.

the reason is simple.

Chen Guiliang launched "Three Kingdoms Kill" first, and Bianfeng Games missed out on this game, which is why its development was not as smooth.

As a result, Mr. Chen, who should have bought AcFun, did not make as much money as he should have – Chen Moujie worked at Bianfeng Games' Jiangcheng branch.

Chen Guiliang's idea for buying AcFun was simple: first, upgrade the website's servers and bandwidth, and then revamp the site to add game and article sections.

We also invited high-ranking players of "Oracle Era" to create game tutorials and funny videos and upload them to AcFun. At the same time, Chen Guiliang drove traffic to AcFun, guiding players to learn and discuss those game videos.

The comments will keep them coming back for more!

Two or three years later, once the technical issues are resolved, we will use AcFun for game live streaming.

Douyu, in another timeline, originated from AcFun's live streaming platform.

ACFUN Tieba (forum).

The founder and administrator of AcFun (A-site) hadn't even signed the contract yet, but he couldn't wait to announce it in a post: "I have some good news to share. Haha, Chen Guiliang's Weibo post was a verification code he sent me. I'm now financially independent! Old Master Chen is going to spend 500 million to buy AcFun! See you all again someday, I'm going to enjoy life now!"

This person is very abstract...

Chen Guiliang's Weibo was instantly flooded by a group of anime fans, all of whom were posting "Monkey Mountain Sightseeing Group".

Chen Guiliang's Weibo followers were baffled by what they were doing and kept asking what "Monkey Mountain" was.

When news broke that Chen Guiliang was going to acquire AcFun, a large number of unsuspecting netizens flocked to the site. Then they discovered: "Holy crap, they even have bullet comments?"
This is interesting. I'll register an account and try sending bullet comments.

Chen Guiliang was speechless. He sent a QQ message to the administrator of AcFun: "Are you out of your mind? What are you announcing when we haven't even signed a contract?"

The other party also realized something was wrong and replied weakly, "Mr. Chen, the acquisition isn't going to be canceled, is it?"

"Wait, I'll send someone over to sign the contract right away," Chen Guiliang said.

(End of this chapter)