Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 160 E-Sports Club

November eighth.

In the Haojia Garden Villa area.

Zhao Chuanjin was dressed in professional formal attire and came to a villa with a confused look on his face.

He is a rich second generation and the owner of an e-sports club in "ioi".

As an Internet addict, he fell in love with "ioi" a few years after it was first launched.

But the problem is that although his skills are good, there is still a big gap between him and the people at the top of the pyramid.

In order to find someone to help him improve his score, Zhao Chuanjin directly asked his family for a sum of money to start a business.

I found a few players who were in the top [-] in the national server and founded the OGG e-sports club.

It's said to be a club, but it's actually Zhao Chuanjin's personal training.

Although "ioi" was very popular in the first year after its launch, in the following years, due to game operation problems, a large number of players were lost.

The clubs he formed together with him also reorganized or sold places for various reasons.

The reason why OGG has not disbanded is purely because he spends more than 100 million in it every year and can barely maintain it.

Zhao Chuanjin was also confused when he thought about the reason for coming here this time.

"The professionalization of "ioi" events...what does this mean?"

"Forget it, no matter what it means, this is my last chance."

Zhao Chuanjin's face was solemn.

The old man in the family has given a death order if he can't make any more money this year.

I have to go back and inherit the family business worth hundreds of millions, and become a manager or something. I see no hope for the future at all.

When I think about it, I may have to sit in a high-rise building every day in the future, watching the beautiful secretary serve me tea and water, repeating this boring life day after day.

Zhao Chuanjin couldn't help but tremble.

Terrible, really terrible!

After calming down, Zhao Chuanjin pressed the doorbell.

After a while, Chen Yaohui opened the door and greeted:
"Hello, this is Mr. Zhao, please come in. Mr. Liu will be here later."

Zhao Chuanjin was welcomed in in a daze.

As soon as he entered, Zhao Chuanjin looked at the people in the living room and was stunned for a moment.

Zhu Kaimao, Peter Zhou...

Damn it, they are all big names in the industry!
Everyone here is a well-known agent of an e-sports club.

Zhao Chuanjin just took a glance and saw the top domestic clubs such as GDE, LA, and WT.

What are these people doing here?
But the next second, Zhao Chuanjin immediately thought of the reason why he came here.

The "ioi" competition is professional.

Are these people here to talk about this?

But the question is, is it necessary to have such a large lineup? This would bring together almost all the big names in the industry.

Just when Zhao Chuanjin was surprised that the lineup in front of him was too luxurious, he found a young man walking from the side.

He looked like he had just graduated from college, but his face was filled with confidence.

Immediately afterwards, the young man spoke: "Hello everyone, I am Liu Wei, the chief designer and domestic general manager of "ioi"."

so young!

For a moment, everyone present was stunned for a moment, and then hurried forward and began to hand over their business cards one by one.

Liu Wei put everyone's business cards in his pocket, sat on the sofa and said to everyone:

"The purpose of calling everyone here this time, as everyone knows, is to establish a formal "ioi" competition club."

"But this time the club and competition rules may be different from all previous competition clubs. I hope everyone will be mentally prepared in advance."

Looking at the slightly dazed people in front of him, Liu Wei smiled slightly.

After some in-depth understanding, he had a preliminary understanding of the professional events in this world - broad, but not rigorous.

As far as he knew, among the major domestic clubs, except for the e-sports giant GDE, other clubs did not even have a coach.

Even the coach in the GDE club is just a takeaway orderer and cannot act like a coach at all.

As for other post-match review teams and psychological counselors, I have never heard of them.

These clubs are not like a qualified club, but more like an 'organization' that brings together capable star players.

Yes, a fragmented organization.

But this is also impossible.

The game industry is developing too fast, which leads to the club’s development system being imperfect.

Some clubs even have a part-time 'studio gold training' function.

Play games during the day and practice anonymously at night...

Therefore, in order to better regulate the competition of the league, Liu Wei must push the club's development on the right track.

Liu Wei poured a cup of tea and said: "First of all, the clubs must be standardized. Each club must be equipped with a coach, an assistant coach, and a psychological counselor..."

Several club leaders frowned, but did not object.

They know that Liu Wei's suggestions are for the benefit of the club, and it doesn't cost much to hire these people.

At least it's not worth mentioning compared to the signing fees of professional players.

But what Liu Wei said next made these people explode.

"The next step is the standard requirements for professional players."

"First of all, professional players must have a minimum salary standard, sign a contract, report it to event officials, and the liquidated damages must not exceed twice the annual salary."

"Secondly, the transfer of professional players can only be carried out during the transfer period. The transfer periods are June and July after the end of the spring split, and November and December after the end of the summer split."

"Professional player transfers must be reported to event officials and must not exceed the salary cap. Someone will explain the salary cap to you later..."

Liu Wei talked for a full 10 minutes about the rules for player transfers.

As soon as he finished speaking, several people burst into laughter.

"Minimum wage standard, how is this possible!"

"Transfers can only be made during the transfer period. This is completely unreasonable. No gaming competition has dared to do this before."

"I'm sorry, everyone, I'm leaving first. I think I may not be worthy of participating in such a 'formal' meeting, haha."

As a club leader left, two more people immediately followed.

Liu Wei took a quick look and saw that only the head of Club Six was still sitting there.

Three of them had tangled faces.

Seeing this, Liu Wei immediately reassured: "Don't worry, everyone, it's their loss if they leave."

Liu Wei had learned before that although game designers in this world are very respected, professional players are not very good at it.

Many people enter this industry with dreams in mind, but as soon as they enter, they are severely rejected by their peers.

The basic salary is less than [-] per month, and the liquidated damages are as high as hundreds of thousands.

Many clubs simply rely on liquidated damages to survive.

In Liu Wei's opinion, this kind of club cannot be said to be a club, but more like a capital company.

For example, those clubs that left just now obviously did not come with the idea of ​​achieving results.

The person in charge of the GDE Club was the first to speak: "We agree to Mr. Liu's request."

After thinking about it, the rest of the people nodded slowly.

Although they don't quite know what the significance of these regulations is, for a serious e-sports club like them.

There is not much difference between these standards, except that the basic salary is increased and the annual expenditure is 10,000+.

The transfer period just becomes a little more troublesome.Seeing that everyone else agreed, Zhao Chuanjin nodded quickly.

Anyway, to him, it makes no difference whether these rules exist or not.

The ones he found were paid as power coaches, which were several times more expensive than youth training, and his club basically didn't exchange players.

They belong to the kind of team that is always at the bottom of the rankings.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Liu Wei took a sip of tea and continued:

“The next thing is the club spots.”

"There are a total of twelve teams, excluding the six existing teams, there are still six free places."

"But we will only sell four of the places this time, and the remaining two places will be put to public tender."

"Everyone here has priority for the auction. Before the auction, I will tell you about the team promotion rules of "ioi"."

Liu Wei showed a harmless smile: "I have only one sentence, the promotion and relegation system will be abolished in the "ioi" competition."

In an instant, everyone present exploded.

Abolish the promotion and relegation system.

When several club managers who were still hesitating heard this, they looked at each other and made an instant decision.

They have to decide on this quota.

The managers of several wealthy clubs in GDE also said to Liu Wei: "I'm sorry, Mr. Liu, we need to make a call to the boss first, okay?"

Liu Wei smiled and stretched out his hand: "Of course, how about we get together in half an hour."

After saying that, everyone dispersed.

Zhao Chuanjin was still confused. What's going on with these people? Why don't they just cancel the promotion and relegation system? Why are you so excited?
Zhao Chuanjin secretly followed a person and listened to his conversation with his boss:
"Hey, boss, we must win the quota this time!"

"...At least another 100 million."

"It's not the boss. Liu Wei said that the promotion and relegation system will be abolished. This means that as long as we buy the entire quota, we will definitely be able to play in the main game..."

Hearing this, Zhao Chuanjin understood instantly.

Before "ioi", no matter what professional game competition it was, there was a promotion and relegation system.

The purpose is to ensure that professional players can be motivated and prevent failure.

At the same time, it also provides players at the bottom with a hope of moving forward.

But this also gave rise to a very important problem - very few capitals are willing to invest.

It's like Zhao Chuanjin's OGG club.

Perennially on the edge of relegation, he is a typical relegation king.

I can't beat the masters, but I can't beat the bad guys.

Even so, no capital is willing to invest in his team.

The top few club franchise tags are almost full, and the OGG uniforms are as clean as a blank piece of paper.

As for canceling promotion and relegation, if nothing else, at least someone will be willing to invest in the team.

After all, you can see the franchise icon no matter how you cook.

……

Soon, half an hour passed.

Liu Wei sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, and the remaining people looked serious.

"Then let's bid for the first spot first, with a starting price of 50."

50 million!
Zhao Chuanjin was very surprised, although 50 did not sound like much at first glance.

Don't forget, this is the bidding price. The general transaction price is at least three times higher than the bidding price.

Sure enough, as soon as Liu Wei finished speaking, the manager of GDE said directly:
"We, GDE, bid 200 million."

In an instant, those managers who were eager to try shut their mouths.

This is not because GDE is bullying others, but mainly because the price is a bit high.

In their opinion, the price of this quota is about 150 million at most.

The GDE manager is willing to pay this price. On the one hand, it is a premium to show his background as an e-sports giant.

On the other hand, it is a good start, hoping to leave a good impression on Liu Wei.

Others don't compete, and they are trying to save the GDE club's face in disguise.

But immediately, these people regretted their actions just now.

"Okay, the first quota is sold for 200 million."

Liu Wei got a small hammer from somewhere and knocked it on the table, quite in the style of an auction.

"Next is the second spot."

As Liu Wei's words fell, someone immediately started bidding:
"100."

"130 million, give me face, brothers."

"150 million..."

"180 million, that's about it."

In the end, the second spot was auctioned off by the LA Club for 180 million.

The second quota seemed to be only 20 different from the first quota, but the whole water was directly muddied.

Sure enough, every spot after that was between 180 million and 200 million.

When it came to the last spot, it was even sold for a high price of 247 million.

Zhao Chuanjin looked at the manager who was the last one to buy a spot and couldn't laugh or cry. He was completely dumbfounded.

what happened?

Why is this quota so expensive!
But then, Zhao Chuanjin suddenly became excited again.

Because he suddenly realized that he seemed to have made a lot of money indirectly.

I originally came up from the secondary league, and the place in the secondary league cost less than [-].

He has invested less than 300 million in total in the club since its inception.

But now the price of the last spot has reached 247 million. When the competition matures in the future, this price will definitely be much higher.

By then, not only will I not lose money, but I might even make a profit? !

In an instant, Zhao Chuanjin looked at Liu Wei with eyes full of admiration.

……

November NO.20.

When "ioi" officially released the rules for the new season, all players who love "ioi" were excited.

But then, another piece of news set the entire gaming world on fire.

'"League of Miracles" will officially land on the national server on November 23, a brand new moba game created by the original team of "ioi"..."

In an instant, the focus of everyone's discussion changed from the professional game of "ioi" to which one was better between "ioi" and "Miracle League".

"I think "ioi" is better. In the past six months, many new heroes have been added, and a large number of new players have also poured in."

"Come on, the crappy mechanism of "ioi" guarantees the interests of old players at the beginning, and then sells out old players for new players."

"How does "ioi" compare with "League of Legends"? The number of people in overseas "League of Legends" is ten times that of "ioi". When it goes online, you will know what an overwhelming advantage is!"

"Eye inserted."

"Inserting eyes and adding one."

"..."

The Internet is abuzz with comments about these two games, and Liu Wei is experiencing "League of Legends".

(End of this chapter)