In most developed countries, the video game market is still dominated by home game consoles, with personal computers and arcades playing a supporting role.

And there is one developed country that is different, that is, South Korea, South Korea, a country that can be said to be the king of personal computers.

In a small country, the number of Internet cafes is almost as large as the number of arcades in the United States.

Among them, the most popular games are "StarCraft" and "Warcraft" of Chiba Games.

StarCraft has sold almost two million copies in South Korea, where the total population is just over 40 million, less than 50 million. Such a game that sold two million copies is almost the same as being said to be a national game in South Korea.

Because StarCraft and Warcraft are very good to watch, there are special game competitions. Basically, the game is played on a weekly basis. The team races are the mainstay, interspersed with individual races.

On top of this event, an organization was formed, the event organization called "Casper". Because of the mode of the team game and the large number of audiences, it has a good publicity effect.

Therefore, major companies in South Korea have set up teams. Including South Korea's two major communication providers, "Ace Keti" and "Keti", as well as South Korea's giant enterprise "Three Funerals" have set up teams.

Many young boys have also invested in the electronic competition industry. There are many people who became famous for a while, and some of them won a lot of championships, which can be said to be a bumper harvest.

Because, the intensity and intensity of the competition in South Korea, as well as the strict organization of the event. Rigorous training, the level of the game throughout Korea, and the rapid improvement of the game.

The consequences of this are: In international competitions, such as the annual StarCraft World Finals, which starts in the round of 32 and adopts a double-elimination tournament program. Players from other countries, when they meet South Korean players, have to shake.

They're so strong, it's like standing out from the crowd. Wolves enter a flock of sheep and beat these foreigners as if they were beating children.

Rifle. A homonym for life in English, this is the name of a Korean player. He rose to fame at a young age, and when he won the World Championship for the first time, he was only 16 years old.

To know. The prize money for the first place in the world championship is $100,000. This money. For an ordinary person, maybe for decades, he won't be able to make so much money in his life.

And he did it at the age of sixteen, and in the following period, he swept various competitions in Korea and abroad, and he was in the limelight for a while.

Recently, though, he's been in trouble and has gone to jail. It is estimated that if you play "StarCraft" again, you can only play "Iron Cup".

Why did he go to jail. It's because of one thing, because of two, "fake match".

That's right, he played a match-fix. Of the 596 matches played in the past three years, 100 were suspected of match-fixing.

Some people will ask, why is his performance so good even after the match-fixing?

Match-fixing doesn't mean he loses the game.

The markets on the periphery of StarCraft and Warcraft have all sorts of weird ways. For example, bet on the opening, bet on tactics, bet on time.

It is said that Rifle has all of these, and another is to bet on the number of games.

You must know that a player like Rifle is generally able to get three wins without pressure in a best-of-five game.

In the peripheral handicap, the number of games is 2.5 is a odds, 3.5 is a odds, and 4.5 is a odds. Correspondingly, this corresponds to a best-of-three game, a best-of-four game and a best-of-five game.

And when others often mean that the odds are 2.5, that is, when they play a total of three factories, they buy a lot. Laifu began to release water. Lose one or two games as required. So as to match the outside handicap.

Some people will say, is Rifle a fool, a world champion, a world runner-up, a three-year career, a total prize fund of more than half a million dollars, do you need to go to match-fixing?

Actually, it's a thing that you can't help yourself. You can't help yourself.

Fame is easy to run rampant at a young age, and his fate is like this.

Because, although he is good at games, he is still a child at heart, and there are people on their team's coaching staff who owe a lot of gambling debts and can't pay them back, so the way to think is to pull Leauff into the water.

It is said that every time Laifu goes abroad to compete, he will gamble. Moreover, the loss is quite big, and a loss is tens of thousands of dollars. He couldn't afford to let him give money, so he could only be someone's marionette and play a fake game.

In this way, step by step, while he got the results, he actually didn't get much money home. He owes money all the time, so he can only fake the game.

At first, no one really noticed because his game skills were so good. The water he put in the process of the game, not to mention whether the opponent will find it, even those viewers and professional game commentators may not be able to see it.

When explaining, most of it was because he made a mistake in judgment, made a wrong decision, or was too reckless, resulting in a loss.

After all, he is young and it is normal for his mentality to fluctuate after a winning streak.

It wasn't until a transfer a few years later that the matter came to light.

This incident caused an earthquake in the Korean e-sports industry. You know, although there were people who faked matches before, they were all small minions.

A world-class player like Rifle until he faked the match. Whether it is for Rifford himself, or for Team Casper, or for South Korean Star, e-sports itself is a huge blow.

After investigation, the treatment of Rifle is as follows: Lifetime ban and prohibition of video game-related occupations.

And, because match-fixing is a matter of credibility. South Korea, on the other hand, is not a small country with a population of tens of millions. "StarCraft" is a national-level game and a national-level competition in South Korea.

It can be said that even if Rifle comes out of the bars, the rest of his life will be miserable. I can't even find a job.

Don't think it's a joke.

The issue of credibility, when not needed, really doesn't seem like a problem. But. When needed, it turns out to be extremely precious.

Although, he can't eat it as a meal. When water is drunk, but it means whether a person can eat, drink, and live in the future.

When Lin Yan got the news, he sighed a little and passed.

Becoming famous as a teenager is often not a good thing.

Many people have learned the article "Hurt Zhongyong", not to mention the seedlings to help grow. Fame at a young age is not good for growth. Even in the face of various temptations after becoming famous, it is impossible to resist.

Laifu is obviously a runaway teenager.

And his achievements. also gave him no chance to mend his ways. No one will give him this chance.

The Casper team was reorganized, and the World Esports League was actually a "charity organization" formed by Chiba Games. In addition to carrying out "charitable activities", it is also possible to carry out some tax-avoiding operations.

After all. I'm doing charity. You can't collect taxes on charity.

In fact, most of this kind of behavior of large companies engaging in charitable organizations is for this purpose. It's like some companies, when they are more profitable, they will buy some luxury cars. Not because they really have money to burn, but they want to avoid taxes. Even, the number of avoidances of this car is more expensive than the car itself.

Of course. This kind of thing is not said on the surface, but everyone is doing it behind the scenes. Don't talk about the second. When those American tycoons incarnate themselves as spokesmen for the American dream.

I would never say that I studied hard, I opened a company, and then inherited a billion dollars.

Those who say that the rich in the United States will not leave money for their children are all jokes. On the surface, it is not given, it is because the inheritance tax is too high.

Wouldn't it be right to directly hand over a charitable organization to your own children and let him take care of it.

This child's food and clothing, even if he is racing every day and buying all kinds of luxury cars, it is a charity need, and he does not need to pay taxes.

There is nothing new under the sun.

After a period of sports clearance, it was found that in e-sports, the matter of match-fixing can be said to be shocking. In some places, there is even a blatant exchange of competition places.

This is not surprising, because there are so many interests at stake.

Lin Yan's recent focus is no longer here, and he has encountered a little problem here. That is, the popularity of the new generation of video game arcades is not particularly strong.

Many players are skeptical of online battles. They believe that the machine has always been their own, and the Internet fee is charged every month.

If the console had to be connected to the Internet, wouldn't it become an alternative rental.

Chiba games, of course, have to be explained, saying that it is not forced to go online. However, the effect is not too good. Because, someone is doing evil. The preliminary estimate is that the people of the video game league are hiring some idle people for five yen and are talking nonsense.

Rumors with a purpose are always so easy to spread. At this moment, even if Chiba Games clarifies, it will be not a person inside and out.

The crisis public relations department is also scratching its head about this matter. However, fortunately, there is a plan prepared in advance, and there is no panic. Everything is going in order.

In the end, the solution given by Chiba Games is this. Home game consoles are still based on local games and stand-alone games. And the online battle is just a bonus.

In addition, the networked machine, after a period of time, will give away a game for free.

These games are generally some old classic games, or some novel and fun sketch games.

A few strings of carrots were thrown down, and the voices against the Internet finally dissipated a lot.

Fortunately, due to technical reasons, it was not practical to sell the digital version of the game directly on the Internet. Because, the game is too big, the download is too slow, and it affects the experience too much.

This is also the reason for giving away games, only ancient classics and small games, a big game to download for a few days and nights, who can play for that long.

If you want to go completely digital, it means that the console must be connected to the Internet all the time, and if you don't connect to the Internet for 24 hours, the machine will be locked.

This is because constant monitoring is not carried out through the Internet. Making the whole machine a pirated version and playing a pirated game is simply a small operation that is too easy to do.

Because, digital games, compared to the piracy of ready-made games such as discs, are less costly.

Originally, in the current situation, pirated CDs are also repeatedly banned. It's a big problem. It would be terrible if digital games didn't do a good job of stopping piracy.

If there are any benefits to the digital version, in fact, the benefits are also very large. First, it saves the production line and logistics transportation of optical discs, as well as the distributor's share, which can save a lot of costs.

The second is that you can update the facts and change the bugs in the game.

The third and most important thing is that it can basically solve the problem of second-hand games that has been difficult for many years.

You know, second-hand games are cheap, affordable and convenient for players, but it's the opposite for game manufacturers.

These second-hand games change hands, and they don't have a dime of income. And if all the games on the market are second-hand, game manufacturers will have to eat grass.

Chiba Games, as well as the Video Game League, have all moved the idea of banning second-hand games. However, players are not lambs to the slaughter, they are very smart. Arm yourself with the weapons of the law.

Based on the arguments, he finally won the right to trade second-hand games.

And the sale of digital games can be regarded as an act of saving the country with a curve.

Because, in this case, video games have no physical entity, and every second-hand game transaction can be monitored.

In this case, you can take a cut of it. It is no longer a situation where players trade second-hand games, and manufacturers can only eat grass.

However, it is clear that the players are also very resourceful.

Because, the twenty-four hours online mechanism, and the video game has no physical entity, it is a fact. This game, although you said you bought it.

But in fact, it's just a lease. The seller monitors the buyer's behavior at all times, which will not be pleasant.

Therefore, the pure digital version of the game sales, Lin Yan wants to put it on a personal computer and use a software to achieve it.

Until then, what is needed is a new type of downloading technology that can make downloading things very fast, even for that kind of big game, and be able to play it in an acceptable amount of time.

Now the breakthrough of this technology is limited, and once this technology matures, the software can be launched.

Lin Yan once wanted to learn from a previous company and develop a blue ocean market, that is, the performance of the entire console, so that he was not very high, and then develop some casual games.

However, after thinking about it, he gave up. This is tantamount to losing the mainstream player market. Although, in the short term, five to ten years of a host's lifecycle, is not a bad thing, in the long run, it is not a good thing.

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The previous chapter was numbered incorrectly, sorry. (To be continued.) )