Build a gaming empire from scratch

Chapter 90 Professional Players Entering the Arena
The next day was Sunday, and the mobilization of old players didn't stop at all.

On the contrary, because more people are on vacation and more new players get the console, it becomes even more intense.

Although in Lingxi's hot word list, the hot word "veteran player general mobilization" is not ranked high, it has always been in the top ten, and has not been able to enter the top 10.

But that's because players are playing in the game, not brushing posts on Lingxi.

Lin You can see detailed background data here.

From last night to now, the number of players online at the same time has not exceeded one million, and the highest peak during the daytime on Sunday even reached 160 million people online at the same time!

Thanks to the advanced enough distributed virtual world construction technology they adopted, the more people playing games online at the same time, the more abundant the accumulated fuzzy computing power will be.

Otherwise, with the computing power they rented, the server would have been paralyzed long ago.

During this process, a large number of old players were randomly matched together by the server, and it was not uncommon for two fully collected white-robed bosses to meet together.

After this situation happened, most of the old players would chat for a few words, and those who had a normal chat would disperse, quit the game and log in again, waiting to be matched with the next new player.

Those who are more able to chat will even forget the original goal and start chatting after adding friends.

Greatly improved the social attributes of this game.

Of course, such a general mobilization will have the greatest impact on new players.

Whether it's on Lingxi, or in the "Journeyman" game community that has been revised by Lin You and Xiaomeng, new players are posting everywhere.

They told about the people they met in the game, the interesting and touching moments during the journey together, and they also marked the time of encounter and separation very accurately, hoping to find the player who played the game together.

Although this purposeful action is theoretically much easier to find players you meet by chance than the purely random matching in the past.

However, due to the large number of postings, the short-term explosion of missing person posts made this kind of searching like finding a needle in a haystack, and there were still very few players who could finally find their travel companions.

However, the influx of a large number of players made the player community quickly active.

Among the new players this time, there is also a group of very special new players.

Strictly speaking, they are all very standard heavy players, even more serious than heavy players, they can be called core players.

They are professional e-sports players.

However, professional players in this world are completely different from what Lin You imagined.

Or because the game development time is too short, and the technological leap is too fast, there is not a truly dominant game on the market.

The early e-sports competitions were all small events for self-entertainment, and there was no such thing as a professional player. Everyone was an amateur, and the purpose of the competition was to make friends and entertain.

However, the effect of the game on improving and maintaining the popularity of the game is very significant.

Soon game developers took notice and began holding competitions for their games, offering lucrative prizes.

With bonuses, there are players who specialize in studying games and training skills.

At this time, the competitive nature of the game became stronger.

It's just that the prize money for the competition at this time is not much, generally between 10 and 20.

It looks like a lot, but it is not worth spending a lot of energy to organize a team and travel thousands of miles to another city to compete.

Besides, this kind of competition has no continuity. Maybe one or two games will be held when the game is hot. After the popularity drops, it will naturally no longer be held.

Therefore, for players at this stage, participating in the competition is based on fate. When there is a competition in a city not far away, they invite a few friends to form a team and run over to join in the fun.

Players who participate in the game are still treated as earning extra money. If they can win, they will make a lot of money. If they can't win, they will just play.

This state has lasted for several years, and it was not until VR game manufacturers entered the field with abundant capital and began to organize their own events that this state began to change.

The iconic event was Desert Island Games, which held an event for their ace game "Gunfire", which directly raised the prize money of the champion to 200 million, which increased by several orders of magnitude in one go!
More importantly, they directly stated that in the next 5 years, the competition will be held on time in mid-June!

It is this stable event and the high championship bonus that gave birth to the embryonic form of the e-sports club.

Then various powerful game companies followed up and announced their own events.

This allows the club to participate in more than a dozen different competitions every year, and the championship prize money is also rising steadily.

In this way, e-sports clubs have the soil for survival.

They gather talented and powerful players to form a club.

Provide them with a better training environment, stable salary, and high bonus incentives, and then send them to different arenas to win more championships and obtain club benefits.

It started like this.

Until a manager found out that with the prize money for the champion of the competition, how could he make money from advertising endorsements?

After he successfully won a clothing endorsement for the club's ace player, the operation of the e-sports club began to embark on the road of full commercialization.

Up to now, e-sports professional players have become a very formal and widely recognized profession.

After all, to become a professional player, the standard is ridiculously high.

You must not only have superb game talent, but also have super physical fitness, and be able to train with high load on the omnidirectional treadmill for 6 hours a day!
The most outrageous thing is that for commercial value, you also have to be handsome!
There are no e-sports players with messy and greasy hair, acne on the face, dark complexion, and sloppy looks, because they can't get endorsements and have no commercial value.

If the e-sports professional players here are pulled out, they can directly form a men's team to make their debut!

Lin Shun is such a professional player who is smooth, talented, hardworking, young and rich.

He is the same age as Shuihua. He debuted less than three years ago and already has [-] endorsements. He is very popular and his annual income has exceeded one million.

At the same time, he is also the suitor of Yao Yuhua, the best friend of the princess.

Before, Shuihua took the princess to experience "Flame 3" in the e-sports club through his relationship, and the club where Lin Shun was going was the one he went to.

Her acquaintance is Lin Shun.

It's a pity that the falling flowers are intentional, but the flowing water is ruthless.No matter how good Ren Linshun's conditions were, no matter how good-looking he was, Splash just wouldn't call.

Zhu Cixia used to gossip and ask why Shuihua?
As a result, Shuihua said: "It's too familiar, just thinking about being together, I feel ethical pressure."

Fortunately, the two have been neighbors since they were young, grew up together, and their parents are also half-life friends.Otherwise, after Splash clearly rejected Lin Shun's confession, it would not be possible to continue to be cheeky and drag Zhu Cixia to borrow VR equipment to play games.

Even if Lin Shun sighed, he could only agree to help, otherwise Shui Hua would dare to complain to his parents when he returned home.

The two families are too familiar!The parents of both parties had originally come to see this as another son or daughter.

It's just a pity that Splash didn't call Lin Shun life and death.

Before Lin Shun confessed his love to her, she was very serious about helping Lin Shun and the little sister lead the red line.

Of course, not Princess Zhu Cixia.

It's not because of status or anything, Shuihua simply thinks that Princess Zhu Cixia is too good.And this guy Lin Shun...he is not worthy!
　Because I made a mistake yesterday, it turned out that the latest chapter was updated 1 day ago. If you don’t know it, you might think that I stopped the update.There's only one more chapter to go... It's been a long lesson.

　　
　
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