Chapter 369: The prize pool of the S1 Grand Final
The video of Chen Mo livestreaming outlast in the middle of the night was quickly posted online, and many viewers who didn’t dare to watch the livestream felt the same way: How come Chen Mo’s outlast didn’t seem scary at all?
This gave many players who had never played outlast the wrong impression that the game was really simple.
As a result, many players were at ease and tried the game. As for the ending … Of course, they were still scared to death …
However, Chen Mo’s live streaming of outlast did indeed increase the sales of the game. Many players who didn’t know about the horror game or didn’t dare to buy it were happy to add one more VR pod to their game.
Many people thought that Chen Mo’s stream would spoil the fun of outlast, but it didn ‘t.
Chen Mo’s stream was on the third day of the game’s release. Most of the players had already cleared outlast by this time, since the game was less than two hours long. No matter how bad a player was at directions, they would only need four to five hours to clear easy difficulty.
Even if Chen Mo didn’t stream, there would be other players who loved horror games making live commentary, game-clearing videos, and game-clearing strategies. Chen Mo’s stream wouldn’t affect their second creation at all.
Moreover, even though Chen Mo had already shown the players the correct way to clear the crazy difficulty, the other players would still pee their pants in fear.
If you don’t believe me, you can download outlast and try it out.
In just three days, outlast had sold more than 30000 copies. As a horror game with an extremely small audience, the sales were impressive.
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Outlast was priced at 688 RMB, which was considered average among VR games. Outlast didn’t have a lot of investments, nor did it take a long time to develop. After all, in Chen Mo’s previous life, outlast was a low budget indie game with less than twenty people in the entire production team. It wasn’t too difficult for Chen Mo to port it to VR, it was just an additional investment.
On Thunderbolt gaming platform, outlast had an unexpectedly high rating of 9.4.
Most players felt that this was a horror game that was scary enough. If there was only one word to describe it, it would be scary!
As for how scary it was? Different people had different views, such as the night vision of the DV camcorder, the playstyle of the non-combat system, the background and plot of the story, the realistic VR game experience, and so on. All of these were important elements to enhance the sense of horror.
After the popularity of outlast, not only VR players, but also players on PC and mobile platforms learned about the game through livestreaming and videos.
The impact of outlast had far exceeded the sales of the game.
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In the experience store, Chen Mo was looking at the schedule of the S1 finals and other related information that Yan Huang had sent.
When Chen Mo livestreamed outlast, he had actually used the fear filter, otherwise he wouldn’t have been so calm. Even though the game designers knew the layout of the levels and how to farm monsters like the back of their hands, it was still scary when they actually started playing.
Just like many players, even if they had cleared the easy difficulty and were mentally prepared for the resp.a.w.n rate of the various monsters and high-level plots, they would still panic if they played the game a second time. This was an instinctive reaction.
Luckily, the system had a fear masking device, otherwise Chen Mo wouldn’t have dared to do the crazy difficulty and he wouldn’t have been able to act so cool.
As he was reading, his phone rang.
Chen Mo saw that it was from Qiao Hua and quickly picked it up,””Minister Qiao?”
“Chen Mo,” Qiao Hua’s voice came from the other end,”I heard that outlast’s sales are good. Congratulations.”
“It’s all thanks to Minister Qiao and Chairman Zhang that outlast pa.s.sed the vetting process,” Chen Mo quickly said.”That’s why the players are able to play it.”
Qiao Hua chuckled.”By the way, I’m calling to tell you something. The reviews for outlast are pretty good, so you don’t have to worry. It’s not going to be taken down.”
“Also, the game committee’s opinion on outlast is more or less the same. This is a successful attempt in the VR industry for domestic games. In the future, similar themes will be more relaxed, which is good news.”
“Yes,” Chen Zhao said.”It’s indeed good news.”
“However,” Qiao Hua’s tone changed.”This game has its risks. You have to keep an eye on that.” I’ll summarize my experience. If you want to develop a similar game in the future, it’s best to give me a heads up first like this time. ”
Chen Mo nodded,”don’t worry, I will.”
After hanging up, Chen Zhao was relieved.
In fact, horror games weren’t that scary. Many people were overly worried about horror games, mainly because of their perceptions. At least, from the news, they had heard of many people dying from gaming, but very few people were scared to death from playing horror games.
As long as a normal adult didn’t have heart disease or high blood pressure and was healthy, it wouldn’t be a big deal to be exposed to some horror elements. At most, they would quit the game.
Everyone knew how brave they were, not to mention that Chen Mo had made a lot of preventive measures for the VR version of outlast, so there shouldn’t be any problems.
With outlast’s experience, Chen Mo would be more confident in making other games in the future. After all, the parallel world’s videogame industry was completely different from his previous world, and some rules needed to be slowly explored.
However, Chen Mo didn’t have the time to pay attention to outlast’s follow-up, as League of Legends’s S1 World Championship was about to start.
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As the day of the compet.i.tion drew closer, a lot of information regarding the finals was constantly being revealed, including the venue, the schedule, the information of the partic.i.p.ating teams, and so on.
The most exciting thing for the players was the prize pool of this compet.i.tion.
As the official of League of Legends, Chen Mo announced that the base prize of the prize pool for the S1 World Finals was 40 million RMB. The champion team would receive 20 million RMB, the second runner-up Team 10 million, and the top four, top eight, and top sixteen teams would all receive a prize.
In other words, even if a foreign team was eliminated in the first round of S1, they would still receive a reward of 200000.
If converted to dollars, the total prize pool this time was nearly 7 million dollars!
Of course, because S1 was an invitation-based game, the division of the prize pool might seem a little strange. Many people might wonder why a team that didn’t make it out of the group stage could get 200000 Yuan in prize money even if they didn’t win a single game.
This was mainly for the future. After League of Legends went global, every spot in the world Finals would have to cross many levels to get it. Compared to the efforts of these professional teams to get a spot in the S League, the 200000 Yuan prize money was nothing at all. It could be regarded as a consolation prize.
Not only that, Chen Mo also announced that the champion’s blade, nie ruiwen, would be released during the finals. Anyone who bought the skin would receive a commemorative profile picture of the S1 World Finals, and 50% of the profits from the skin would go to the prize pool of the world Finals.