Chapter 539: Self-inflicted, don't live
Without three points and threes, how dare you go to Liangshan, he also understands this truth, Yang Yun shrugged: "I'm not too nervous about this first time, I just don't want to mess up WCG." ”
Everyone smiled, everyone has worked together for six or seven years, and they all know that Yang Yun's character has always been like this, he has pursued perfection as much as possible in what he wants to control over the years, and everyone can understand his caution.
"Therefore, the CPL league announced today that the total prize money for each of the three games of "Command and Conquer", "NBALive96" and "FIFA96" is more than 1 million, and my countermeasure is not to respond to the game and let them make trouble on their own. They provoke, raise, stud, whatever they want, I don't follow, anyway, if you don't raise, you can open the hole cards next year! ”
Yang Yun's words were amazing, beyond everyone's expectations, everyone thought that Yang Yun would at least follow a 1 million start, since KTT has done it, why can't Longteng do it?
"You're saying you don't want to give that much in winnings?"
"Yes! I decided that in the WCG competition, the team champion of "Special Forces" will have a prize of $50,000 in cash + $50,000, the runner-up will be 3+3, the third place will be 1+1, and the single champion of "Saroman Snake: Red Alert" will be the same, and the maximum prize for a single game will not exceed $100,000. ”
After saying that, everyone was shocked, this is only 200,000 US dollars for a game, and it is not even a fifth of CPL? How can this be against others?
"Mr. Yang, in this case, the game masters of the whole world. And game fans, aren't they all rushing for CPL with high bonuses? If it's me. I want to participate in CPL too! Lin Zhihong thinks Yang Yun is thinking too much, is this really good?
Yang Yun smiled and said, "I haven't finished yet. Although the championship prize money is small. But I'm going to broaden the scope of awards. The CPL only focuses on the top 10 at most, while we at WCG focus on the top 100. The top 100 teams will all be rewarded with thousands of dollars, and they will all have the opportunity to receive mentorship and training. In that case, who do you think will have more influence? ”
A word woke up the person in the dream, Zhao Yongping was the first to react, patted the table and praised: "Wonderful! We are making the Sega Carnival a big carnival in the world! Let's not forget what we did when we started the WCG, we wanted to promote the competition of video games, and we wanted breadth rather than professionalism at the beginning. It's never too late to start the fierce competitive competition when the WCG really matures! ”
Wang Zhe slapped his forehead and suddenly realized: "This is a fan of the authorities!" The concept of competitive games has just been born, and how many of those game masters are there in the world? This is the same as sports, it does not mean that you can become a master if you are talented, it also requires a lot of time for systematic and scientific training! During this time, I only thought about how to overpower the CPL in terms of influence, but I unconsciously fell into the misunderstanding of thinking, mistakes, mistakes! ”
Lin Zhihong also understood, and his eyes rolled. And many other things come to mind: "To make WCG a popular event, it is necessary to buy hearts and minds and build good relationships. But the main thing at this stage is breadth. As for depth, leave it to CPL, there weren't enough professional esports players in the beginning. Without enough exciting games, the money in CPL will definitely go down the drain next year! ”
Yang Yun smiled: "Yes." Professional e-sports hasn't come out yet, and you can't walk. They just want to fly. I'm sure EA is thinking of some bad moves, such as only doing it for a year, if the CPL can suppress the WCG best, if they can't suppress it, they will retreat, they pat their butts and leave. If I follow them and expand the total prize money to 1 million, but I can't reduce it, then I will be under great pressure in the future! ”
Everyone thinks so, Longteng doesn't do this with a shot and run, WCG will continue to run, it will not stop for ten or twenty years, as long as Longteng Entertainment Game Company exists for one day, WCG will definitely not stop.
"I'm looking forward to seeing Robert's expression!" Yang Yun said with a smile.
"Ha Lu Ha! I think they should be the second monk confused, right? ”
"There will be divisions in the CPL league, and their expressions must be quite exciting!"
"They must not be able to figure out why KTT can give 1 million, but Longteng himself is so stingy!"
"But why would Need for Speed promise a $1 million prize? Yes! I see, this is a decoy, KTT is a third-party company that has nothing to do with Dragon in the eyes of outsiders, and if we don't think it's suitable for this operation, the second edition of Need for Speed game is it! ”
"That's right, WCG happens every year anyway, and Need for Speed doesn't necessarily release a new version every year."
"Mr. Yang, your serial plan is really ......"
"Xie Lu, thank you for your compliment!"
"Ha Lu Ha ......"
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For half a month, Robert was restless, he was like having a nervous breakdown, all he thought about was Long Teng's name all day long, why didn't Long Teng make a move, why did Long Teng have no news at all, how did Long Teng ......
He was tired, even more tired than the fear of being caught by the police after committing the crime, he had been so tired a few months ago, he had been tortured by the dragon for a while on the NBALive game, and now he had a relapse of his old illness, and he had to take a lot of sleeping pills every day to fall asleep.
He couldn't figure it out, why did Longteng have to target them, obviously they could develop different games separately, and everyone could play happily together.
At the beginning, there was a three-British alliance to fight against foreign enemies, but unknowingly it evolved into EA's front foot secretly preventing Yang Yun from secretly transferring EA-Sports resources, Yang Yun's back foot tore his face and dug the wall openly, and finally became an enemy, and then he is now in a state of stalemate, which really hurts him, the CEO of a nervous breakdown!
Perhaps, this is the truth that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, there is no reason, that is, you can't see the good of the other party, or you can't tolerate the other party.
In late August, Robert finally waited for the news, and two more came at a time.
In the first news, Long Teng announced the prize money of the WCG competition, looking at the prize number of $50,000, Robert's brain crashed on the spot, and he was reminded by his subordinates after five minutes in a daze.
Then his face was distorted, he gritted his teeth, stomped his feet and pounded his chest, and complained loudly: "No! You can't do that! You're going to leave the WCG unattended, and the players will all come to the CPL! No...... You can't do that...... Why don't you add bonuses......"
The subordinates looked at each other, isn't it the only purpose of holding the CPL to let the WCG be ignored? They are not good men and women, they take the promotion of e-sports as their own responsibility, they are not so noble-minded, they hold CPL just for money, or they just want to take the opportunity to boycott the dragon game.
President Robert's head wasn't irritated, was it? Everyone asked each other with their eyes, but they didn't get an accurate answer.
Robert didn't know why Lu Dao was so angry, he only knew that Lu Dao, Long Teng's choice this time was completely different from him, he quickly thought of the focus of breadth and depth, but CPL chose professional depth, WCG chose popularization breadth, who is right and who is wrong, until next summer, no one can say whether it is right or wrong.
And after fighting Long Teng for many years, his intuition told Robert that this time it was likely that Yang Yun was right again......
"You're roasting me on the fire! There's no way I'm going to go back on my word and lower the bonus, I'm afraid the money will be in vain! Robert smiled bitterly, he also wanted to roast Long Teng on the fire on the last plate of generals, but he didn't expect Long Teng to use a beautiful chain of horses, which not only relieved General EA's crisis, but also reversed EA once, making him in a dilemma.
There was a wave of frustration in EA's president's office, and when Robert was at a loss, the second news came in less than half an hour.
Time magazine called to inform them that Robert's feature on the cover will be suspended next month, and Time Magazine is temporarily not promoting EA and CPL's short-term plans, and if the plans change, they will re-ask employees to call EA's president's office.
Shaking and shaking, Robert pressed his heart, his whole body was very uncomfortable, and he vaguely guessed the reason.
Time Magazine must have seen the whole process of the competition between the CPL and WCG, and then they made their own judgment and planned to abandon the controversial interview with the president of EA, because a lot of the content in it was ridiculous and generous Robert boasted about himself, as a serious business week with influence in the world, they didn't want to make jokes!
Thinking of this, Robert's last spiritual pillar suddenly fell.
He kept telling himself that no matter what, he must support the official promotion of the CPL league next summer, whether it is success or failure, whether it is losing to WCG or crushing WCG under him, whether it is a profit or a loss, he will persevere until that day, he wants to control his own destiny with his own hands, not by Yang Yun!
"Time Magazine" is his greatest mental support, as long as it is on Time Magazine, even if he is fired from the EA board of directors the next day, it doesn't matter, he has been fighting hard and waiting for that day to come.
But now, there is such an ending, he feels hopeless!
Robert's heart contracted at an accelerated pace, convulsions, the pain made him unbearable, he felt sad pain, he waited hard for half a month, but waited for this, his glory, fame, prestige, self-confidence, faith, everything about him was destroyed by these two news!
His body collapsed with a bang, his weak arms clutched, he swept the folders on his desk, pulled the phone cord off, tripped over the boss's chair, and scattered all kinds of papers on the ground.
The secretary quickly called the police and asked for help, and the staff who knew a little first aid knowledge quickly came to assist in first aid.
On August 30, 1996, Robert died in the hospital at the age of 59 due to myocardial infarction.
He was truly liberated. (To be continued......)