Chapter 1221 The palace guards play a game (9/66)
For some reason, the conversation between King ST and Boss Jia at the banquet was spread to the Internet and became popular. It turned out that there were also the tricks of letting real special soldiers join the e-sports to play games.
However, because ST's usual slutty operation did not arouse many players' disgust. Although some players protested to the International E-sports Federation, saying that it was unfair to let them participate.
However, the International E-Sports Federation stated that all professional players of ST comply with the registration process, and the International E-Sports Federation does not have any regulations that active-duty soldiers cannot participate in the competition, so everything is in accordance with the rules and there is no need to question it!
On the contrary, afterwards, as the news spread became more and more widespread, this gradually became an enduring legend in e-sports events. "There may be a whole palace guard opposite me" has also become a famous game meme for the Counter-Strike and spread.
Many players will lose when playing games or simply rank in daily competitions. Once they encounter a strong opponent and lose, they will say that they should be a palace guard opposite them.
As these legends and memes continue to spread, the names of the Counter-Strike also spread.
It is worth mentioning that later this rumor reached the ears of armies of various countries, and some people guessed that since the elite in reality could become masters in FPS games.
So, on the other hand, can a master of FPS games also become a real soldier king?
Taking a step back, can an FPS game take on the heavy responsibility of training soldiers?
After all, in reality, many training conditions are not met. After all, you cannot really put a recruit into the real battlefield for training. After all, you may die if you are not doing it well.
But in the game, a real battlefield environment can be simulated.
So after a few months, Daqian Games suddenly announced that it had reached a cooperation with the United States and relevant departments of China to develop an improved version of "Counter-Strike" that can help the soldiers train, which further spread the name of "Counter-Strike".
At the same time, because the Counter-Strike competition is naturally highly viewing and the irresistible nature of men to resist guns, the Counter-Strike, which has always sold in a weak manner, finally began to grow in sales. At the end of 1997, it successfully exceeded 4 million sales, an increase of 20 times compared with May.
This also allowed more game manufacturers to see the commercial value of WCG. A game that was not worth mentioning before was forcibly sent to the WCG competition, and the sales volume increased by 20 times.
And it's not just one game. The Need for Speed and Live Football that later appeared have similar wild growth, which naturally makes more game manufacturers ready to go and try every means to send their games into WCG games. An e-sports industry that has just begun will soon flourish.
On the tenth day of the 2nd WCG, the final game is StarCraft.
Unlike the obscurity of the Counter-Strike before the game, StarCraft, which was released directly in E3 last year, achieved great success and even replaced Red Alert, becoming the most powerful real-time strategy game in all media.
Especially the three power settings of the Gods, Zergs, and humans, as well as the profound plot contained in their background stories, have attracted countless players.
As of the day when WCG began, StarCraft had sold a total of 14 million copies worldwide. As the first game to be launched on WCG, StarCraft has also gained unimaginable attention, becoming the second most popular game among all game competition events.
Moreover, the StarCraft competition began at the beginning of StarCraft, and almost all countries held national-level competitions, which made many StarCraft professional players already have great popularity.
For example, China's professional player Huang Xu is famous all over the world for the first-hand Zerg Feilonghai, winning the championship of the 1st National League in China.
Anyway, StarCraft has gained a lot of attention and traffic throughout WCG, but unfortunately, the championship ended up in the hands of the Koreans.
There is no way. Koreans had already taken a fancy to this game when StarCraft was just released, and then became the StarCraft Club Professional League as quickly as possible. Almost all the outstanding players in South Korea came to the league.
South Korea has a very mature national league and club system, which even China cannot compare with. Because after a year of development, there is only Jiashi Club in China. Most of the e-sports competitions in the country are civil wars of Jiashi Club, which is invincible, but also boring.
In the end, the efforts of the Koreans gained fruits, and they successfully dominated the entire StarCraft event. The most nonsense is that in the semi-finals of StarCraft, three of the four were Koreans, and the final was even more of the Korean civil war, which made the Koreans very proud. Although the Chinese were actually in the WCG scene, they were cheering from the Koreans in the end, which made the Chinese people present feel so angry that they had no choice!
Their Huang Xu fell into the hands of Koreans in the quarterfinals. His skills are not as good as others, so there is no way to do this.
It seems like I feel like I have returned to the past history.
In the end, Need for Speed and Live Football made their final debut, both achieved quite good ratings, and Live Football created another climax of WCG.
That is Maradona, the king of football, finally appeared in the final field of the live football game, cheering the two players against each other, and also delivered a speech on the spot. Although not anyone has the physical fitness and talent to become a professional player, everyone's brains and hands can also make you the new king of football.
This spoiled all the live football fans applauded wildly, and then the two players in the final used Maradona as a striker. In the end, Maradona defeated Maradona, which made the whole audience laugh and laugh.
Maradona's appearance effect is huge, which has made many professional fans who have not paid attention to electronic games before and have become interested in live football. This is also a huge reason why live football can soar by 2 million after the game ends.
However, it is rumored in the industry that Maradona was invited by Korami for $5 million, and this idea was given to Korami by Boss Jia.
Although there are many rumors in the world and it is full of troubles and it is difficult to tell the truth, there is one thing that is undoubtedly that all game companies understand that WCG and e-sports are already becoming more and more effective for a game.
Chapter completed!