Chapter 616: The Dragon's Hole Cards Are Out

The effect of the TV broadcast was better than that of the scene, which made Jiang Shaoyun and Yang Yun feel helpless.

Yang Yun had a classmate who had personally participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and when the Bird's Nest came back to watch the TV versions of various countries, he complained in the group of classmates, thinking that he really felt that the gap was too big.

The student said that when he watched the scene, he could only feel the atmosphere, but he could not see the specific wonderful part, although everyone used the same signal source of the Olympic Organizing Committee, but the TV version made by the Chinese themselves was not as good as that made by foreigners.

The NBC version in the United States is the clearest picture, with lens processing technology, the highest overall planning ability, the cleanest picture, and the smoothest connection.

The Japanese NHK version is the best commentary, containing the most complete part of the opera ritual music, the host is a Chinese expert, and the commentary does not contain political positions, which is very neutral.

As for CCTV's version, it was soon discovered that the director team switched the public signal source of the Olympic Committee with its own machine at will, and the effect was miserable compared to the version of other countries......

So Yang Yun made a request and said: "Although Shonan TV has used eight cameras, I think the broadcast effect is definitely not good, we are really unprofessional!" You help me make a copy of the Fox version back, and preferably get the full master. Our first WCG opening ceremony video, at least let us think about it a little bit in our hearts. ”

Jiang Shaoyun smiled: "Look at what you said is as pessimistic as ......"

Yang Yun was helpless: "I don't worship foreign flattery, but that's the case." Okay, let's not talk about that. Can the ratings be counted now? What's going on at the CPL? ”

"The ratings won't be available until the next day, and you can't get them live today. Fox TV made the sacrifice to promote WCG in prime time. This is rare, there should be no live broadcast in the future, at most it is recorded in the free time during the day. As for the CPL, we have not sent back any news from EA's internal line, and all EA employees will not work overtime tonight, and we may find out more about it a little later. ”

"OK, report back in time. I'm not going to leave for a day today. ”

Hanging up the phone, Yang Yun came to the smoking area not far away and thought about it, he was very curious about the reaction of EA and Sony. I don't know how they will respond, but he is still a little apprehensive in his heart.

Longteng is the elite this time, and the high-cost promotional film production costs are brought to Fox TV in North America at a high price. Canal+ TV in Europe. Advertisements in a number of world-class professional game magazines and periodicals almost single-handedly promoted the promotion and development of WCG, and the hole cards were almost all out, but the time difference between the pit father and the time difference was held on the same day, and WCG was half a day earlier.

How will CPL respond in these 12 hours? EA doesn't even work overtime, will they be sure to win?

Yang Yun suddenly thought of a question. He believes that the CPL will not survive until the next year, which is based on the premise that the members of the EA Alliance are very rational. Rational people generally don't think that EA, or Sony, or the board of directors of other companies feel that the gain is far less than the investment, and the rational ones will definitely refuse to continue investing in the second year, and the CPL is over.

But if EA's alliance finds other sources of revenue, such as acquiring a better studio or developing a popular game, then tens of millions of dollars a year in CPL publicity may not be a big problem.

In this way, EA Alliance members abandon rationality, CPL is angry and keeps burning money every year, burning for a year or two Yang Yun thinks it doesn't matter, if CPL holds on for three or five years and does not collapse, this will make WCG extremely embarrassed, which is forcing WCG to increase investment, but once the price is raised, it is impossible to reduce the price in the future.

"It's very likely...... EA Alliance will contribute a maximum of $10 million in five years, and if it is divided equally, which company can't get 2 million a year? And we have to pay more than 10 million a year, and the most important thing is that we need to set up a huge organization to manage e-sports all over the world, doesn't this add trouble to me? ”

Yang Yun squinted his eyes and thought a lot, the fierce is afraid of the ruthless, the ruthless is afraid of the dead, the roles of the ruthless and the lifeless were played by him before, so the competitors did not dare to take the move, and they were broken one by one.

Now that he has become a target, if the EA Alliance fights with him ruthlessly and desperately, he will probably retreat, unless he is even more desperate, everyone fights to the death, and the blood is flowing like a river.

He didn't want that!

A cigarette went out, Yang Yun took out the phone and began to connect, he had to do something in advance.

……

At this time, Sony's Ken Kutaragi, Namco's Hirono Nakata, IDSoftware's John, Nishigi's Terry, and independent media personality Muñoz once again gathered in the office of Kevin, the new president of EA, in the dead of night, the office of the president of EA was still lit, smoky, and silent.

"Tell me, you've also watched Fox's WCG opening ceremony, and the game clip just now, what do you guys think?"

Kevin is a middle-aged man in his 40s, much younger than Robert, who died of a heart attack, which is also the choice of EA to avoid the past, in order to compete with the dragon company, you must be healthy and energetic.

The CPL alliance is a joint-stock cooperative system, with independent media person Muñoz owning 10%, Sony holding 39%, EA 51% absolute control, Namco and ID Software are third-party sponsors, and Ximutou is EA's studio.

When the new president Kevin took office, the first big thing was to take over the CPL game, and because of Robert's rashness, Kevin had to carry it out head-on.

In the process of gradually becoming familiar with and promoting, Kaiwen has made great adjustments to some rules and regulations and practices, mainly to reduce its own pressure, attract many IT industry manufacturers to join, and charge a variety of advertising fees with clear prices.

For example, in the first Microsoft CPL professional esports league competition, Microsoft had to pay $1 million to buy it if it wanted to get the naming rights.

Of course, Microsoft did not agree to pay the money, and EA did not find Microsoft to quote such a high price, and they finally retained the independence of the main event of the CPL, and did not find a sponsor to name the CPL, but sold the game console, monitors, game booths, venues, team uniforms, TV rights, exhibition and advertising fees, and many bits and pieces of advertising areas, and also made hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Everyone knows that Kevin is much more savvy than Robert, so no one wants to speak first.

Kevin began to name non-shareholder members first, with Terry of West Wood being the first to be named.

Terry was a little reluctant in his heart, just now he saw a little bit of the battle clip of "Saloman: Red Alert", and it was a first-person perspective deliberately taken by the TV station, those dazzling operations, five fingers flying on the keyboard, and the APM operation was at least about two hundred, and his mentality was unbalanced.

As the leader of the CPL's "Command & Conquer" competition, he has seen the game videos of the top 32 players, but he rarely sees it from a first-person perspective like this, and Ximutou Studio does not have the right to form an independent competitive game club on its own, they can't have their own small group like Longteng, and they are not too sure about the concept of APM200.

From the perspective of operation technology, the skills of the WCG players seem to be good, and they are not inferior to the CPL masters.

The similarity between the game interface and operating habits and "Red Alert" is extremely high, Long Teng launched "Red Alert" first, and they launched it a little later, and the two companies tacitly agreed that no one accused anyone of infringement, so they coexisted peacefully and competed together.

But the more this happened, the more irritated Terry felt, and when Kevin asked him, he couldn't help but say what he had been holding back for a long time: "The homogenization of the two games is too strict, which is very bad for us!" If our "Command & Conquer" is inferior to the other party in terms of influence, the player's evaluation is not as good as the other party, and the sales are not as good as the other party, maybe I can't help but take the other party to court! ”

Kevin said unhappily: "Terry, this matter has long been rejected by the board of directors, this is a confused account, no matter who you and Long Teng sue whom, it is impossible to win the lawsuit, this will drag us into endless lawsuits, you are asking for trouble by doing this!" ”

Terry was speechless and spread his hands: "Then I don't have any other opinions." ”

He actually left it alone and stayed out of it!

Kevin's teeth itched with hatred, Ximu is a studio owned by EA, and he deliberately asked Terry to explain that he wanted him to take a good lead, but he didn't expect Terry, a bastard, to say such frustrating words, which greatly reduced the morale of the team!

But he knew better in his heart that Terry's depression had a source, and "Saloman: Dune 1993" beat Nishimu's "Dune" without any power to fight back, and the sales were only in the early 5,000 copies, and he couldn't even recover the cost.

Everyone took a breath to develop "Command and Conquer", basically relying on the perseverance of the team, but they ran into "Red Alert" again.

The two sides have been fighting for several years, and in the key WCG and CPL battles, the two sides are still fighting the same type, which can only be said that Terry is really lucky!

Kevin shook his head secretly, gave up on the hapless guy, and set his eyes on John: "2vs2 and 5vs5, what do you think?" ”

John is confident and confident: "I dare to guarantee that the influence of "Thor's Hammer" will be greater than that of "Special Forces", they only have 5VS5, the champion is 100,000, and the individual talent is 20,000. And we are divided into 2VS2 and 1VS1, and the champion can also be divided into a minimum of 200,000 per person, and when we finally distribute the bonus, the media will definitely hype it up, becoming the best choice for global esports game fans! ”

Kevin scolded angrily in his heart: "That's all for your money!" No, we still paid for it with EA's help! ”

No wonder John looks confident!

It turned out that standing and talking didn't hurt my back. (To be continued......)