"Do you want me to contact them for you?" Liang Qikun asked.

Of course, they are referring to those indie gamers in the capital circle.

"How many can you get in touch with right now?"

"Forty or fifty."

"That's not bad."

"Why don't you like it?"

"For any game on the Qingyu platform, we will have a special team to review it, and we also have to look at the quality."

"Yes, otherwise players won't have a good impression of the platform."

"They'll just get in touch with me, I'll have to run a few agencies."

"No problem, to be able to get on such a platform with such a large amount of traffic, I don't think they can ask for it, as soon as I say this, I guarantee that some people have immediately thought about the game optimization plan, when will your platform be launched."

"As for the platform, it's just these two days."

"So fast?"

"As for the game store function, it will be two or three months, but we will do a good job of various interfaces for developers as soon as possible."

"I mean, how many stock games are expected to be there at the beginning?"

"In terms of quantity, plus your indie games, there must be three or four hundred."

"Did you announce it?"

"Herring Cup, you know."

"Yes."

"Announced after the final."

"Do you believe that there will be a lot of media people who will jump out and scold you for not being able to do anything?"

"Expected."

"Can you ask a question? As far as my personal interest is concerned. ”

"You say."

"How much money can you herring make a month now?"

"I don't care about the accounts, and I haven't calculated the net profit."

"Alas, why don't you even know the profits, ah yes, you are the daughter-in-law in charge of the accounts."

Ye Shenxi was surprised: "You even know about this?" ”

"Who told you to be so high-profile? When I'm not on the Internet. How much does that earn? ”

Ye Shenxi calculated, he didn't pay attention to the company's specific revenue data, but added the total revenue of several games: "In May, it's almost 120 million." ”

"Sizzle~~~" This is the voice made by Liang Qikun.

Outside the window, there was a sound of "pop~~~", and Lao Li's wooden brush fell to the ground.

"By the way, didn't you only open a paid system for Eternal War at the end of last month?" Liang Qikun remembered something.

"Hey, you're still saying you don't pay attention to online games?"

"I've long since opened my arms to absorb the advantages of various games, well, I'm no longer the same person I used to be behind closed doors."

"Ah, I see." Ye Shenxi's tone was very perfunctory.

"Then won't the "Eternal War" fly this month?"

"Okay...... "The payment system must have the highest income on the first day, and the freshness is there, but the number of new players is also maintained at a relatively terrifying level.

"And you're going to make a single-player game yourself?"

"Mine has been established, try the water."

"What kind of team, awesome? Think about me? Liang Qikun joked.

Ye Shenxi said seriously: "Of course you are welcome, if you want to come, you can do it at any time." ”

"Then tell me about your project." Liang Qikun couldn't wait.

……

……

On June 15th, the herring cup offline knockout round officially started. After two months of registration and online auditions, 16 teams stood out and walked to the Zhengda Gymnasium of Huangpu Shuangdan University, where the two-day knockout round will be held.

The tournament lasted only two days, and it was also the first in-person tournament of Eternal War, so this kind of stadium with a capacity of about 5,000 people was the best choice after the measurement.

And 40 days later, there will also be ESCL2008 offline finals in China, and its organizer is also Modern Torch, so it is only natural that "Eternal War" has been added to the competition. It's just that the game has only been launched for a short time, and although the player base is enough, I haven't played the qualifiers in the division, so I just played an exhibition game as a performance project to enliven and enliven the atmosphere.

Ji Qinlin is also communicating with Korea International Electronic Marketing Company, the organizer of the World Finals in South Korea, hoping to add "Eternal War" as a performance project to the World Offline Finals to be held in Cologne, Germany at the end of this year.

A total of about 8,000 herring cup tickets have been sold this time, and they can be bought on electronic ticketing websites such as big sales or ticket grabbing, or digging treasures.

According to Ye Shenxi's idea, it was originally divided into two ways to sell on-site tickets and electronic tickets, the latter can be obtained by opening the box, and after owning it, you can also enter the scene, and you can also watch the game directly in the game through the spectator mode.

You can even trade in the marketplace, but there is a time limit for trading.

The reason for the failure to implement it is not only that it is an extremely new attempt in itself, but also that needs to consider the audience's acceptance...... Well, the spectator function has not yet been developed, which is the most important point.

Tickets for the first day cost 68 yuan, and the second day is 88 yuan, so the price is also more expensive because the second day of the game is more important.

This price is still relatively close to the people as a whole, and e-sports is also an emerging industry, which must not be compared with pop singers' concerts or some theatrical evening dramas.

Tickets were sold out in one day at the beginning of the month, and I don't know if it was in the media campaign to make scalpers feel that they could make a lot of money, until all 8,000 tickets were sold out on June 12, and the organizer Modern Torch let go of his apprehension.

Even for an event with a relatively long history and appeal like ESCL, in the competitions of each sub-division, players still have a large number of remaining tickets to choose their seats after buying tickets directly at the door after they go.

The sales of tickets alone reached more than 620,000, to be honest, it was a bit unexpected by Modern Torch, of course, they didn't expect this to make money, because they didn't plan to make money at all, the purpose of the Blue Fish Cup was game promotion and market development.

At this time, it is impossible to make money in e-sports competitions, which is already the consensus of the industry.

Negotiated three sponsors, including Sao Fubao, hardware sponsors MSI Weixing and Kang Shuaibo Ice Tea, which is also a more influential brand in China after the screening of Modern Torch, which is also in line with e-sports and youth games.

When choosing a sponsor, you will also pay attention to whether it will affect the image of the game or the company, for example, if you go to get a sponsorship such as "Arctic thermal underwear, autumn pants suit", even if people are willing to pay, the image of the competition is really a bit less fashionable.

This kind of first-time competition is not realistic to attract sponsorship from international giants like Sansang or Intel, and Modern Torch has received a total of about 1.35 million sponsorship fees, which is just a cup competition, and the offline competition lasts for two days.

According to the previous agreement reached with the herring network, the specifications of the competition are high, the sponsorship fee is taken by yourself, and the money for the competition is paid by the herring.

Anyway, those people in the Modern Torch Organizing Committee have been busy for a few months, and the prize money has fallen.

……

It was already half past ten in the evening when Ye Shenxi's flight landed, and the first day of the competition had ended.

The partners of this competition also have an electronic game portal, which has set up a special webpage for the Qingyu Cup, which updates the schedule and results at the first time, contestant interviews, on-site pictures, and webcast entrances, of course, using the signal sources of other cooperative media.

There are also four media that broadcast the whole game live, in addition to TV media Game Style and ESTV, there are also online media such as CNTV and Pacific Games.

It's just that now the edge signal of this mobile phone is really outrageously slow, which is why he doesn't like to use his mobile phone to surf the Internet.

I have the impression that at about this time, the 3G signal began to operate in several cities across the country, and Huangpu must be one of the pilot cities, but Funan seems to be not among them, and it is really troublesome, is it difficult to get a mobile phone with dual SIM and dual standby? When you come to Huangpu, you can activate the Internet card?

Before he took two steps, he heard a familiar coughing sound, and when he looked up, Xia Qingyu was standing ten meters away with his hands crossed, looking at himself with an expression of "I was caught".

Ye Shenxi took the cigarette away from his mouth and said strangely: "Why are you here?" ”

"I'm here to pick you up." Xia Qingyu walked up to Ye Shenxi and pinched his hand, the one holding the cigarette.

"Hey, I didn't say anything in advance when I came here." Ye Shenxi said with a smile.

"Forget." Xia Qingyu lied and came casually.

"How do you know I'm coming out of this exit."

"You've always been."

"That's from Funan, this time it's the capital."

"Anyway, you're not late, at most I'll call you back to the airport to pick me up."

The two have been together for almost eight months, but they still have a feeling of being in love, staying a little longer if they can, and coming over early to wait if they can meet an hour earlier. Maybe it's also because of the relationship between gathering less and leaving more.

Ye Shenxi turned around and began to look for the trash can to extinguish the cigarette, Xia Qingyu said generously: "This is the same as smoking, don't waste it." ”

He added: "After the draw, it will be over thirty...... Well...... Fifteen minutes to kiss me. ”

"Then I have to extinguish it immediately, so I smoked half of it, how about 7.5 minutes?" With that, he walked straight to the trash can and extinguished the cigarette.

This is the attitude that satisfies Xia Qingyu, Xia Qingyu snorted.

"How's it going today?"

"The spec is high. Whether it is lighting equipment, hardware, competition process organization, host, and various performances interspersed, Modern is really attentive, and it should be the highest level in China. ”

"After all, it cost so much money, isn't it, what about the attendance rate and the number of viewers of the live broadcast?"

"The attendance rate should be seven or eight percent, and if you broadcast it live on TV and online, the number of viewers today is about 350,000."

The attendance rate was much better than Ye Shenxi expected, but the ratings data was not very clear to him: "What is the concept of 350,000?" ”

"Last year's ESCL World Finals averaged 170,000 per day."

"So exaggerated?"

"After all, the jet lag is different."

"That's right." It really scared Ye Shenxi, but even so, it was still a little scary in comparison.

The two walked side by side in the direction of the parking lot, and after walking around a corner, Xia Qingyu suddenly turned around and shouted, "I can't hold it!" He pounced on Ye Shenxi.

There is no reason to punish yourself with Ye Shenxi's mistakes.