H2> but there is no if, the fact is that Blizzard and Ice Frog have lost their almost dominance in the esports market.

Even, they can't even hold on to the second place.

Of course, the greatness of Blizzard is not a company that only knows arrogance and resting on its laurels, his greatness lies in his ability to absorb his own shortcomings, so their policies towards the player community are obviously much kinder.

They even learned to interact with the players in the community, for example, in the Diablo 3 expansion, they let players design a powerful legendary equipment in the player community, which was officially added to the game.

This design was so successful that Blizzard, having tasted the sweetness, restarted the player-designed equipment at a later carnival.

Of course, although Blizzard has a lot of criticism, but the valve is not much better, since the success of STEAM, the valve company is completely passive and slacking, a year of twelve months of ten months off, this kind of thing may only be done by them, who said that the capitalists are vampires, I think the boss of the valve is a philanthropist.

Of course, for players who like valve games, there is such a lazy and unenterprising game company, they may have to scold their mothers often.

Although Blizzard often skips votes and doesn't believe it, they have at least been developing the game from start to finish.

These are some memories, quickly passed through Jester's mind, when he came to the e-sports division, he saw a scene of quarrel is the question of the prize money of the next tournament that the crown will organize, one party mentioned whether to continue to mention yì or follow the carnival's policy of 100,000 dollars, but some people immediately raised objections, and their objections were so convincing that they could not be refuted.

"If every minor tournament like this costs $100,000, how much money are we going to prepare for next year's carnival?"

It was a young man with blond hair who said this, and as soon as he said this, everyone present was instantly silent, and Jester heard this sentence, but no one questioned what he said about next year's carnival - because this year's carnival was too successful, and the second session will be held next year is basically inevitable, which Jester said in a joking tone at a recent company R&D meeting.

Of course, the popular e-sports event at the carnival will continue to be held, and after the first success, of course, it will attract more players to participate in the next edition, plus the prize money for this time is 100,000 US dollars, and the next edition obviously cannot be lower than this one, which is a big expense.

The most important thing is that this kind of competition has just begun, and it is impossible to get reliable sponsorship, and most of them are competitions in some places, with a total prize of only one or two thousand dollars, and even so, there are very few people who are willing to hold the competition.

In addition, the current e-sports, is basically a deformed project, a project that only has input and lacks output, but if you don't do it, don't cultivate it, it's impossible, after all, without the current training, you won't use future success, in the last world of Jester, from zero years later, it really began to cultivate e-sports, and it was also after ten years, after all aspects of the conditions were mature, this industry, or this community, was really perfected.

The road was very bumpy, and many people couldn't understand why Jester insisted on doing this thing when he went back.

Of course, there is an element of propaganda in it, but more importantly, Jester really wants to start cultivating a complete e-sports community from the flood age of video games, Jester knows the power of e-sports, once players of the right age like this project, then they really like it, just like football, and say a word that doesn't fit the situation very well.

As Liverpool's legendary manager Shankly said, football is not life and death, football is higher than life and death.

The same will be true for eSports.

Just when everyone was silent, Jester knocked on the open door, attracting everyone's attention, Jester is not a stranger to everyone in the company, although Jester does not often show up outside, but within the company, he still often visits various R&D departments to understand the development status of different projects.

And once a month high-level meeting, once a quarter all-staff meeting, Jester will inevitably attend.

The people who are discussing in the e-sports department are not just employees of the e-sports department, one of the characteristics of Mars Entertainment is that the atmosphere of discussion is very free, as long as there is nothing to do with their own projects, according to the company's regulations, the company is encouraged to participate in the discussion of other departments, and in this room now, there are at least five or six people from other projects discussing.

They heard a knock on the door and looked in the direction of the door.

Seeing Jester with a beautiful Asian girl with black hair, they all knew that Jester's girlfriend was Claudia, and they all leaked a little weird look after seeing Li Fuzhen, but Jester didn't care much, he smiled at everyone, and then said to the young man who said just now that if a sub-competition like this costs 100,000 US dollars, how much will the carnival competition cost.

"The carnival can be raised to 200,000 dollars."

After saying that, Jester himself laughed first, and the others didn't know what Jester meant by this, so they could only look at Jester with a strange look.

Jester laughed a few times and saw that no one matched him, so he knew that no one understood his bad joke, so he withdrew his smile awkwardly, then clapped his hands, and then said: "Actually, I don't mean to raise the prize money of the carnival to 200,000 dollars, I'm just a metaphor - I mean, we need to make a complete competition gradient, let's say that the carnival is the annual finals, the highest level of competition, So how should those divisional competitions in other regions be set, if the prize money for the finals is $200,000, I'm just a hypothesis, then how should the prize money for the divisional competitions be set. ”

Seeing that what he said attracted everyone's attention, Jester continued without the slightest pause: "Moreover, building a perfect and healthy e-sports community will be our company's plan for the future, ten, twenty, thirty years, and all the time, I will privately take out one million dollars a year to form a special foundation, and I will invest no less than one million dollars every year to invest, but building a perfect ecosystem is not only something I can do alone. It's not just something we can do as a game company, we need more companies to participate, only in this way, can this ecosystem be formed into an industry that only has investment and no return, and this community can truly develop. ”

As Jester continued to speak, the speed of his speech also came faster, and, obviously, the people present were also infected by Jester's own affection, and many of them were also enthusiastic, as if Jester described to them a magnificent future that could be realized.

And Jester didn't just talk about luxury, after first talking about the e-sports career in a passionate tone, he immediately poured a bucket of cold water on the employees who had just ignited this excitement.

Jester's voice changed, and he continued: "Don't be happy, don't be excited, first of all, you must understand how difficult it will be to complete, how difficult it will be to achieve results, and even those of you who are willing to do it may have to endure years of loneliness and no one understands, what you are saying now does not mean anything at all, but it does not mean that you will not be able to get rich rewards in the future, think about the scene of football and basketball when it was first born, the current video games, Or that e-sports was them at that time, simple, crude, primitive, and not worth mentioning in the eyes of many people, but what about football back then? Who is sure of the future? ”

Speaking, it seems to be a real expression of feelings, maybe it is because he can't control his feelings, Jester said, he couldn't hold back a little, he stretched out his hand, and once again resumed the extremely excited tone just now: "We don't need you to say anything now, we just need you to do something, we just need to know that what we are doing is something that no one else has ever done and that no one else has ever thought about. That's when we break new ground. ”

"In the country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, there is a great writer called Lu Xun, what he said is very reasonable, I also like it very much, there is no road in this world, but people walk more, it becomes a road, we are the pioneers who blaze a trail in the boundless, even a dark wilderness, in the near future, or in the distant future, ten or twenty years later, many of you may no longer be engaged in this industry, But you will not regret that you have wasted your time, nor will you be ashamed of your obscurity, because you have dedicated your most precious years to a most memorable time—that you have shown others a way, whether it is right or wrong. ”

"Although we can only be a spark, we can definitely start a prairie fire."

Jester's last sentence was almost blurted out, almost without any specific thought, it was simply a subconscious roar. R1152