Chapter 22 Costs and National Conditions
Reality is always cruel, and that fairy-tale reality only exists in the mouths of storytellers.
Merlin naturally has enough awareness of this cruel reality, and he can sit here now, with special people to answer his own questions, that is, he has eliminated countless people, and won the qualifications himself.
If he was just an ordinary player in the United States, how could he have such an opportunity.
However, after watching the KeSPA competition, Merlin had an idea to bring this professional competition system from South Korea back to the United States.
He's an American, and he has the pride of being an American.
As an Anglo-Saxon, as the noblest white race on earth.
How can a noble white man have something inferior to a yellow man?
Merlin believes that the reason why the American players are at a low level is not because they are not talented or hard enough, but because they do not have a correct game pattern and a correct training method.
The Korean professional league is held every week, while the StarCraft league in the United States only comes once a year.
First of all, there is a huge difference in the frequency of practice.
The frequency of contact is low, and there is no high-level confrontation in normal times, and the level naturally improves slowly.
As long as you have played a slightly more high-end game, you will know that the gameplay during the game is absolutely different from the gameplay of the ladder.
The ladder doesn't require a variety of strategies and tactics.
Even most of the scores are not very high, so there is no need to scout and no strain.
Because, unlike the opponents who will study you, in the ladder you are hidden in the darkness.
People don't know your usual tactics, so they won't study them.
And you don't know what tactics your opponent might use, just keep your eyes closed.
To put it bluntly, the ladder is a fight between two blind people.
The contest is about the extent to which both players learn from each other how many hairs their opponents have.
As long as you are strong enough, there will be enough information about you on the market for your opponents to study.
If South Korea's professional game system is brought back to the United States, the strength of "StarCraft" in the United States will definitely improve rapidly.
The reason why Merlin brought back the idea of the competition system and training system was because he learned from Wanhu that Wanhu had the idea of preparing for the World Series.
It's that every country in the world will compare StarCraft, just like the World Cup of football.
Merlin came to inspect not because he was afraid that his strength would be poor and he would lose face in the game. It's about preserving the glory of being an American!
However...... He thought that he could bring the esports tournament system back to the United States, and he was naïve.
If this thing could be done, Wanhu himself would have done it a long time ago.
However, Wanhu can't do it.
Although the United States is also in the midst of a new round of economic crisis and financial crisis, Americans have released their exuberant mental power through ball games.
In other words, the role of KeSPA in South Korea has long been occupied by ball games.
People like to watch games, buy jerseys, shoes, balls and training sessions.
With these ball games to help alleviate social contradictions and ease social forms in the United States, why do you want to go far and do a set of e-sports event system?
You know, ball games are much better than video games.
That is, there is no one inventor and one copyright owner for ball games. Ball games are only available to manufacturers who produce peripherals.
In this way, once this ball game becomes bigger, it will not be controlled by others.
But video games are different, and there are always developers and publishers for video games.
If you use video games as a competition, do you have to consider the interests of developers and publishers?
If there is a conflict between the interests of the publisher and the interests of the event organizer, it is possible for the publisher to threaten the tournament organizer by canceling the copyright authorization of the game.
Although the United States has not been founded for a long time, it is a weather-beaten and battle-hardened business warrior, and they see the risks of such a new thing as this one better than anyone else.
And why did South Korea choose video games as their target?
Because they don't have a choice.
Because all other sports, all kinds of ball games, require a lot of infrastructure and higher costs. However, now is the time of economic crisis, not only ordinary people have no money, but even the country has no money.
E-sports, on the other hand, is a goal that can be chosen when there are no traditional sports.
Because of his low cost and quick results, the target group is especially young people.
Merlin returned to the United States with the whole set of KeSPA rules full of hope, and went around boasting about what he had seen and heard, and there were many people who were interested in the Korean league, but few people wanted to establish such a league system in the United States.
Wanhu Interactive Entertainment is indifferent, not because it doesn't want to, but because it can't do it.
The reason why South Korea was able to set up KeSPA is because of the support of the Korean government and major foundations.
But if Wanhu Interactive Entertainment wants to engage in it in the United States, who can it rely on?
Although there are many more rich companies and rich people in the United States than in South Korea, those rich people, why should they help you make money from interactive entertainment?
You know, the copyright of the game, for e-sports, is the sword of Damocles, and no one will ignore it.
Wanhu will not give up the copyright stupidly.
Moreover, the cost of maintaining normal operations in any normalized organization is terrifyingly high.
To give an example, if there is really a ranking of China's richest people, Takahashi does not hide that he is the richest man in China.
But how many days does he have enough wealth to sustain the Chinese government?
Fifteen days.
That's right, it's only fifteen days.
This is simply because the Chinese government is relatively efficient.
If Takahashi's wealth were to support the U.S. government's operations, it would probably be able to support it for three days.
Precisely because it costs money to maintain a regular organizational operation. Therefore, whether it was the empire of Britain, which claimed that the sun would not set on the territory, or other countries that carried out great voyages.
Basically, they didn't choose to establish a grassroots government in a territory outside their homeland, and really brought this territory under their rule.
It's just the creation of one colony after another.
Not to mention, even China's Xiang (meow) port is not the same.
The so-called Hong Kong government can only maintain a basic rule, but the actual rule depends on an endless stream of dynamic social organizations.
Even, for the sake of management convenience, the concept of high-level Chinese was created. Use the high-class Chinese to manage the ordinary Chinese.
Wanhu Interactive Entertainment is not a fool, and it will not engage in any normalized league because of Merlin's running around.
It's not that what he says is bad, it's that there is no possibility of it being realized.