Chapter 383: The distributors ‘surprise
After the group compet.i.tion ended, Chen Mo posted on Weibo.
“About the first season of League of Legends World Finals: More than 7 million viewers were watching the group stage on the internet or TV, most of which were domestic viewers, but more than 2.7 million viewers were watching from countries such as Europe, America, and Korea. This also means that the League of Legends World Finals has become the most watched e-sports compet.i.tion in history. ”
The moment this Weibo post was posted, it immediately caused a widespread discussion!
Before this, most players and game industry professionals could only vaguely feel that League of Legends was very popular, but they didn’t have a clear idea how popular it was.
However, the number of 7 million viewers had truly shocked everyone!
This number had far surpa.s.sed all previous e-sports compet.i.tions, which meant that the world Finals of League of Legends had become an important event, even comparable to some traditional sports!
On the forum.
“The number of viewers for the S1 final match exceeds 7 million? Is that true? Isn’t this just a League of Legends game?”
“I don’t think it’s fake. There are more than 2 million people watching on fish-catching’s live streaming platform alone, and this doesn’t include other platforms, official channels, and overseas viewers. Even if he faked the number of people, Chen Mo wouldn’t fake the numbers. ”
“Don’t you think that during this period of time, many chat groups and forums are talking about the finals? This is obviously true data!”
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“I don’t think 7 million is a lot. The previous global science and technology Conference in Shanghai had 6.3 million people watching it. I guess many people haven’t heard of that conference before? But there are very few people in China who haven’t heard of League of Legends, right?”
“No, no, no. It’s only well-known among us internet-addicted teenagers. League of Legends isn’t that well-known.”
“But it’s still not low!”
“It can only be said that this is an international compet.i.tion. At first, many people didn’t pay attention to it. But after the two China teams beat the foreign teams, the attention of this game is getting higher and higher!”
“That’s awesome. Let’s wait for the finals. If the domestic team can successfully win the championship, I think this world Championship will probably make history!”
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Emperor dynasty Entertainment’s headquarters.
Emperor dynasty gaming platform, fantasy gaming platform, and a few other influential platforms in the country were holding emergency meetings.
Xu Xiaojun presided over the meeting, and his face was very ugly.
Everyone present was the person in charge of a major platform, and all of them had access to a large number of distribution channels. All of them were reputable people in the gaming industry, and independent video game designers didn’t dare to offend them.
As the saying goes,”the King of h.e.l.l is better, but the little devil is harder to deal with.” The ones who were really in charge of the channel resources of the major gaming platforms weren’t CEOs like Lin chaoxu or ding Xing, but the people in charge of the platforms. If these people joined forces, they could even decide the life and death of a large number of games.
If the majority of distributors in the country didn’t promote your game and worked together to shut you down, it would be difficult for most average video game designers to make their games stand out in front of the players.
But now, the atmosphere in the conference room was very gloomy, and these people’s faces were also very bad.
Xu Xiaojun cleared his throat, and his face was a little serious.”The number of viewers for League of Legends’s global Grand Finals has reached 7 million, and it’s currently filling all major forums, video websites, and live broadcasting platforms. It can be said that the influence of this game is comparable to many traditional sports. What we can predict is that after the finals, League of Legends will have another explosive growth in the domestic market. ”
He looked at the people present.”President Lin organized this meeting to let us discuss countermeasures. Everyone, please express your opinions.”
The person in charge of fantasy gaming platform, Yao Bo, sighed.””Chairman ding is also very angry, but … With the current popularity of League of Legends, I’m afraid there’s no way to deal with it.”
Xu Xiaojun also knew that Yao Bo was right. With the current momentum of League of Legends, what countermeasures could they come up with? The success of the League of Legends finals was based on the game itself. When the game became popular, the popularity of the e-sports compet.i.tion would also increase.
But after all, this meeting was to discuss countermeasures. They couldn’t just look at each other without saying anything, right?
Xu Xiaojun said in a deep voice,”although the current situation can’t be reversed by one or a few people, we should at least a.n.a.lyze the success of this finals. Even if we can’t a.n.a.lyze the countermeasures, we can still barely report back.”
Yao Bo nodded.”That’s right. That’s why Chairman Lin and Chairman ding asked us to hold this meeting.” At least a.n.a.lyze the success of the League of Legends finals first. ”
……
It wasn’t just the distributors, most video game designers in the industry were also a.n.a.lyzing the success of League of Legends’s S1 World Finals.
League of Legends’s local promotion had already given these distributors a tight slap in the face. The local distributors had initially joined forces to suppress Thunderbolt gaming platform, but the sudden appearance of League of Legends had completely crushed the other PC games in the same period, further establishing Thunderbolt gaming platform’s strong position in the PC market.
Chen Mo was very successful in both mobile and PC games, and he had made a name for himself in VR games with Minecraft and outlast.
Ever since the compet.i.tion started, these traditional Chinese distributors had been on the losing end. It was humiliating that they couldn’t beat Chen Mo even with so many companies combined.
And this League of Legends finals was like sprinkling salt on the wound.
Originally, these distributors were generally disapproving of the finals. It was very simple, because these distributors had organized many e-sports compet.i.tions and knew the ways.
Fantasy gaming platform had hosted many compet.i.tions in the past, and Yao Bo was considered a famous esports player in the country.
The reason for the negative comments was that in the eyes of these distributors, e-sports compet.i.tions were a business that made a loss and was a means for game manufacturers to promote games.
E-sports compet.i.tions required money to rent the venue, purchase various equipment, an attractive prize money, and invite famous players from all over the world … These were all money, but what about the tickets to the compet.i.tion? It was impossible to set the price too high. It would be good enough if they could recover the cost, and they wouldn’t make much money at all.
It was also very difficult to get sponsorships. At most, he could get sponsorships from a few companies such as the motherboard, keyboard, and mouse.
Many e-sports compet.i.tions simply lost money, and even late bonuses sometimes happened.
Chen Mo’s lineup this time was too big. Whether it was the venue or the prize money, he had broken records in all aspects. If it was as popular as the previous e-sports compet.i.tions, he wouldn’t have been able to recover his costs.
However, when the data came out, everyone was slapped in the face.
Who would’ve thought that this compet.i.tion would be so popular?