Tokyo Gentleman Story

The E3 Game Conference in the second millennium AD.

In this year's E3 exhibition, there are Shenmue 2, there is Legend of Sword, there is Metal Gear, there are interactive movies.

But in the end, an explosive term began to appear.

"E-sports."

This term quickly became popular after the General Assembly of the Order of the Phoenix.

In reality, players are discussing e-sports.

On the Internet, the word is spreading at an explosive speed.

"This is WCG, this is the World E-Sports Competition."

Jed and Terry are watching the replay of the E3 show on the TV at this time.

At this moment, what appeared in the screen was the figure of Senxia.

"I think everyone is a little unfamiliar with the term'e-sports', but I think everyone is not unfamiliar with the concept of e-sports. As early as 1986, the ABC channel of our Beacon Country had two live broadcasts on TV. Children are better than trying out Nintendo game consoles. Although everyone was still very ignorant at that time, I think this may be the beginning of e-sports."

"At that time, we were still using red and white machines with weak performance, but it is undeniable that the red and white machines were the early classics of home consoles. After the birth of the red and white machines, the prototype of e-sports has appeared."

Senxia did not say Atari, because Atari has always been a pain in the hearts of the players of the Lighthouse Country.

So in the example, he used the concept of "red and white machine".

Although there is suspicion of advertising for Nintendo, Mori summer has no evasiveness.

Even in the back, Morinka continued to play Nintendo.

"Ten years ago, Nintendo held game competitions in 29 cities across the entire Beacon. Nintendo produced a special cassette for this competition that included three games: "Super Mario Bros.", "Red_Racer" and "Tetris" , The time limit is 6 minutes and 21 seconds, and the final score is based on the scores of the three competitions."

Morika continued to play Nintendo.

People who don't know, probably thought Morinatsu was a fan of Nintendo.

But Mori Xia was right. Nintendo’s game really received a wide range of responses and achieved excellent publicity results.

At that time, there were even 26 copies of the "1990 Nintendo World Championship" FC Gold Cassette.

By the way, the price of every Nintendo World Championship cassette is more than $10,000, which is still lower.

"Nintendo is really great. The Nintendo World Championship is the first official video game competition in history. It was born ten years earlier than the world e-sports competition. But..."

Charles, however, quickly changed from Nintendo to senior Renhei.

"However, Nintendo's vision is too narrow. Their seriousness is only their own games, so the concept of e-sports has not been fully demonstrated." Morixia said, "Their vision is limited by the times. My heart is also covered by the mist in front of me."

"So, it's different now." Moriha said, "We-from Aurora to Asia Pacific, from Los Angeles to New York, we are going to build a global competition. And this is the World E-Sports Competition."

"We will choose two or three games from every competitive game category to compete. For example, for real-time strategy games, we will choose "StarCraft", "Age of Empires 2" and "Red Alert" "These three games compete, and in the fighting, we choose the two games "The King of Fighters 98" and "Street Fighter 3", and in the first-person shooter game, we choose "Thor Athletics Field 3" and "Counter Strike" are two games. However, there is only one game on MOBA for the time being-"Hero Trail"."

At the end, everyone laughed.

MOBA is now on the Internet. The winner takes all. If you want to play MOBA, there is basically only a game like Hero Track.

In fact, other game manufacturers have not followed the trend and have only made copycat hero trail games.

Unfortunately, online games need people.

The number of people who play online games is limited, and the entire market can only support a MOBA game like "Hero Trail".

After other manufacturers come in, they may be attractive at first, but the number of players is always limited, and the current AI technology is not developed. It is very difficult to play a match with teammates comfortably. .

Of course, there are also manufacturers who have targeted the online game field that Morinia has not set foot in, and then the heroic trajectory led to the installation of broadband and made a small fortune.

All in all, it is a sentence: learn from me, live, and die like me.

Jed and Terry, who were in front of the TV, didn't care about anything else.

After hearing the name "Hero Trail", both of them were very excited.

These two people are both players of hero trails.

The two of them have reached the platinum level in qualifying.

Two people often like to compete in double-row qualifying, and sometimes they play three-row matches with a friend named "Poisonous Knife of Justice" they know on the Internet.

They think they still have that little strength.

"Hey, the registration interface is out!"

The two of them were not just facing the TV, their computers were also placed on the computers next to them.

After the exhibition, Senxia announced the details of e-sports, which can be found on the Internet for the first time.

So two people are constantly refreshing the "WCG" website.

Before, this website only had a simple promotional interface.

But after 12 o'clock midnight, when Jed refreshed the interface again, a different picture appeared on the current screen.

The two went to the match of the hero track, so after the interface was refreshed, the two began to find the rules of the match.

"You need at least five talents to be able to participate...Asian Division, Weekly Division, European Division..."

The competition is divided into three divisions. The previous game is decided in each division, and then the qualifying teams will play the group stage and finals in Los Angeles.

"Five people……"

Jed and Terry frowned.

Because there are only two of them.

At this moment, their QICQ rang again.

Jade clicked on the message, and then his eyes lit up: "Hey, the poisonous knife of justice agreed to team up!"

"Cool!" Terry also shined.

In this case, they would have three people.

"But it's still two..." Terry said again, "Jade, look at our friends, is there anyone else who is going to participate in the competition?"

"'Uncle Sam' said he had made an appointment with someone...wait, the poisonous knife of justice said he has a reliable friend." Jed watched online.

"Oh, that's good! But there is still one missing!"

The difference between team games and individual competitions is that if team games want to gather players, sometimes it is really not a simple matter.

At this time, in addition to technology, the player’s contacts and time itself are also tested.

This is a more troublesome thing.

"Hey, yes! Lisa said he is free!"

Lisa is a friend of the two, but this player is a "shemale" on the Internet, and the ID he uses is "Lisa".

"Uh--"

But just after speaking, Jed froze.

"What's wrong?" Terry was a little strange.

"Lisa said he wanted to play the Counter-Strike game. He said that if we can sign up for the Counter-Strike game together, he will join us."

This is embarrassing for him.

But Terry said quickly: "It’s okay, let’s sign up! Don’t we also like Counter-Strike? "Poisonous Knife of Justice" also likes this game, you can ask about the situation there, and look at the same. disagree."

"Well, there is no conflict anyway." Jed shrugged, and then began to inquire about the poisonous flying knife.

After all, this is the first conference, and we cannot expect to have professional players this year, so Morinia's requirements for the game are actually not as strict as in the future, and everyone can actually register "cross-border".

But if the WCG can be recognized and welcomed, Morinia will change the rules to make the entire league more standardized.

As for the present, it can only be so.

"Huh, I agree here."

That's the case with Jed and Terry. They breathed a sigh of relief and formed a team that participated in both the Counter-Strike and Heroic Track projects at the same time.

Then Jade collected everyone's contact information, and then prepared to get together another day, and then register for the competition...

"Planning."

On the other side, Senxia was sitting in the room, looking at the information on the computer.

Players' enthusiasm for e-sports is still very high.

It has been exploded on the forum of A company.

Everyone is discussing e-sports even if it is a sector that you don't want to control.

The Internet in the Beacon Country seems to be a carnival today.

"But why did you pay so much attention to Bangguo's information before?" Qianjia was looking at the information on the computer next to Senxia, ​​and then he asked Senxia again.

"Although we all think that country is a bit delicate, but this kind of thing, how can we not get around there!"

Charles sighed.

Although he also thinks that Bang Guo is very eye-catching, after all, Senxia is three-stroke black, and Senxia black three-stroke is even worse than Ren Hei.

"What is the impact of e-sports over there?" Qianjia is still very serious when doing business.

"This will start from the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis. At that time, the GDP growth of the great country in 1998 regressed a lot. I remember that it was about 6%, and the Korean won was greatly depreciated by half, and the stock market was even worse. It's cut in half and cut in half." Senxia was a little dignified. "At that time, the people of Bang Guo also noticed that the industrial structure of their country's economy has serious problems-the pillar industries of the national economy are mainly export-oriented and are influenced by the world economy. The impact of environmental changes is too great."

"Ahhh, I know, they changed their strategy afterwards. I remember that many animation manufacturers complained that piracy always flows from Bangguo."

Qianjia nodded, she also understood some things better.

"Yes, after the financial crisis, Bangguo began to change its industrial structure. The film and television industry, and the game animation industry developed rapidly after receiving support-like the game StarCraft, you know it, StarCraft is in Bang How prosperous the country is."

As a new force in the national economy, the e-sports industry has really achieved tremendous development in Bangguo. This kind of abnormal development, even Senxia now sees it, is very lamented.

"Ah, I know, they held a game before, and then various "StarCraft" shows began to appear." Qianjia also knows this.

——Although Morinka used Nintendo on TV programs before, in fact, Morinka is actually depressing the contribution of the great country.

After "StarCraft" was released to Bangguo, this game caused a certain degree of enthusiasm. At that time, the economic crisis in Bangguo led to a large number of unemployed people. Many people used this game to pass the time.

But at that time, this game can only be said to be a "relatively popular" game, which is not as good as it is now.

However, Bangguo’s TV program producers had an idea and began to produce "StarCraft" related programs.

There are many reasons for doing this. One is that the Big Country TV station was short of funds and the cost of producing interstellar programs was low. After all, two computers are obviously easier than going to various places to shoot and then edit and produce; and the other reason is that Someone found that this humble computer game has a huge development opportunity, and its antagonism and competition are very good.

This kind of accidental historical opportunity has made an amazing Bianguo e-sports.

What Senxia did not say is that in four years, the annual output value of the e-sports industry in the great country will reach 4 billion US dollars, and the value of its related industry chain even exceeds that of the automotive industry in the great country.

——It’s just that when Bang Nation came out of the economic haze, the situation changed. They switched to other industries, which is why "StarCraft 2" was not popular in Bang Nation.

It's not because people are getting old, or because the game is not fun, but because the economic base is different.

Believe it or not, if there is another serious economic crisis, they will continue to pull out the e-sports industry as a pillar?

Of course, this matter is temporarily absent.

"In fact, if we can, we will put e-sports competitions in the great country, the effect should be better." Mori summer also had to admit this.

"But you wouldn't do that, would you?" Qianjia certainly knew that Senxia was resisting Bangguo~www.readwn.com~ In fact, in Mudbang, not many people liked Bangguo.

After all, the universe is...

"Hey, Senxia, ​​you are going to do e-sports? Do you want me to lend you the venue? This is really cool!"

However, when the two were discussing, one person came into the house uninvited.

When Morinya saw the other party, he rolled his eyes directly.

"Alice, why are you here?"

...

Today’s two-in-one meow meow~

Having said that, our company is indeed ready to proceed, and the boss will offer incense to the Great Sage who has returned every day.

So there is a realistic basis before worshipping Yuzao...