I don't know why, the conversation between King ST and Boss Jia at the banquet spread to the Internet, and then it exploded.

However, because of ST's consistent operation, it did not cause too many players to resent it, although some players protested to the International Esports Federation, saying that it was unfair to let them participate.

However, the International Esports Federation said that all professional players of ST are in line with the registration process, and the International Esports Federation does not have a rule that active military personnel cannot participate in competitions, so everything is in accordance with the rules and there is no need to question it!

On the contrary, after the incident, as the news spread more and more, it gradually became an enduring legend in esports events, and "there could be a whole palace guard across from me" became a famous game meme of Counter-Strike, spreading.

Many players are playing matches, or simply playing ranked in daily competitions, and once they encounter a tough opponent and lose, they say that they should be opposite a palace guard.

And as these legends and memes continue to spread, so does the name of Counter-Strike.

It is worth mentioning that later this rumor spread to the ears of the armies of various countries, and some people estimated that since the elite in reality can become a master in the FPS game.

So on the other hand, can a master of FPS games also become the king of soldiers in reality?

Taking a step back, can an FPS game take on the heavy responsibility of training soldiers?

After all, in reality, many training conditions are not available, after all, you can't really put a recruit into the real battlefield for training, after all, if you don't do it, you will really die.

But in the game, a real battlefield environment can be simulated.

So after a few months, Daqian Games suddenly announced that it had reached a cooperation with the relevant departments of Mi and Huaxia to develop an improved version of "Counter-Strike" that could help fighters train, which made the name of "Counter-Strike" spread even more.

At the same time, because the Counter-Strike game is inherently highly spectacle-watching, and the irresistible nature of men to guns, Counter-Strike, which has been selling poorly, finally began to grow in sales, and finally at the end of 97, it successfully exceeded 4 million copies sold, an increase of 20 times over May.

And this has also made more game manufacturers see the commercial value of WCG, a game that was not worth mentioning before, because it was forcibly sent into the WCG competition, the result is that the sales have doubled by 20 times.

And it's not just such a game, the later debuts Need for Speed and Pro Evolution Soccer have similar wild growth, which naturally makes more game manufacturers ready to move, trying to send their games into the WCG competition, an e-sports industry that has just started, will soon flourish.

On the tenth matchday of the 2nd WCG, the game in which the finals took place was StarCraft.

Unlike Counter-Strike's obscurity before the game, StarCraft, which was released directly at E3 last year, was a huge success, even taking over Red Alert as the most powerful real-time strategy game in all the media.

In particular, the three forces of the Protoss, the Zerg, and the Terrans, as well as the profound plot contained in their backstories, have attracted countless players.

As of the start of WCG, StarCraft has sold 14 million copies worldwide, and as the first game to land in WCG, StarCraft has also achieved incredible attention, becoming the second most popular game in all game competitions after Red Alert.

Moreover, the StarCraft competition has started at the beginning of the birth of StarCraft, and almost all countries have held national-level competitions, which has made many StarCraft professional players already have a good popularity.

For example, Huang Xu, a professional player in China, is famous for his Flying Dragon Sea of the Zerg and won the championship of the 1st National League in China.

Anyway, StarCraft has achieved a huge amount of attention and traffic throughout the WCG, but alas, the championship ended up in the hands of the Koreans.

There's no way, the Koreans already took a fancy to this game when StarCraft first started to be released, and then it became the StarCraft Club Professional League as soon as possible, and almost all the outstanding players in South Korea came to the league.

South Korea has a fairly mature national league and club system, which even Huaxia can't compare, because after a year of development, there is only one club in China, Jiashi Club, and most of the country's e-sports competitions are the civil war of Jiashi Club, which is very invincible, but also very boring.

In the end, the efforts of the Koreans paid off, and they successfully dominated the entire StarCraft project, the most nonsense is that in the semi-finals of StarCraft, three of the 4 people were Koreans, and the final was the Korean Civil War, which made the Koreans very proud of themselves, and the entire WCG scene, although the Chinese people were actually Chinese, but in the end they were cheered by the Koreans, which made the Chinese people present hate itchy, but there was nothing they could do!

Their Huang Xu fell into the hands of the Koreans in the top 8, and his skills are not as good as others, so there is no way.

It seems that there is a sense of returning to the past.

In the end, Need for Speed and Pro Evolution Soccer made their final appearance, both of which achieved quite good ratings, and Pro Evolution Soccer created another climax of WCG.

That is, Maradona, who is the king of the ball, finally appeared in the final of Pro Evolution Soccer, cheered for the two players who played against him, and also gave a speech on the spot, although not anyone, have the physical fitness and talent to become a professional player, but everyone's brains and hands can also make you a new king of the ball.

All the Pro Evolution Soccer fans applauded wildly, and then the two finalists invariably used Maradona as a striker, and finally Maradona defeated Maradona, making the audience laugh.

Maradona's debut effect is huge, so that many professional fans who did not pay attention to video games before have also begun to be interested in Pro Evolution Soccer, which is also a huge reason why Pro Evolution Soccer was able to soar by 2 million circulation after the game.

It's just rumored in the industry that Maradona was invited by Konami for a full $5 million, and this idea was given to Konami by Boss Jia or something.

Although there are a lot of rumors in the rivers and lakes, and they are disturbing, and it is not clear to tell the truth, there is no doubt that all game companies understand that WCG and e-sports have become more and more important for a game.

Game companies that understand this are undoubtedly becoming more and more important to WCG.