Los Angeles, USA.

Riot headquarters.

An emergency meeting is underway, an urgent discussion meeting is being held on recent developments in League of Legends, and the managers of various departments are sitting next to each other in the conference room.

None of the game designers were there.

Because this meeting has nothing to do with the game itself.

A man in a black suit sat in the main position.

"Aris, report the share of this year's League of Legends games." The man in the suit asked the lady next to him.

"This year's share of League of Legends, China's share has shown steady growth, but the growth rate is not as rapid as before, South Korea's share is steadily declining, and the share growth rate is very slow in the main regions, and there are even traces of decline, but the game share of Vietnam, Thailand, Southeast Asia and some Nordic countries is rising." Alice said, reading the data.

League of Legends is still hot as it stands.

Although the player share of the main regions is declining and declining, the share of League of Legends in some small countries in the rest of the regions is rising rapidly, and the number of players in League of Legends is still increasing on the whole.

A game that has been on fire for seven years.

It's already hard.

In this case, "League of Legends" as a whole can maintain an upward trend, which is still very good, at least for a game, seven years is a very long life.

Many games are basically going yellow after being popular for three years.

"We have been thinking about the venue for this year's S series for a long time and decided to hold it in China, and we have already negotiated with our boss." The man in the suit said with a smile that the thigh they hugged was Tencent, the giant company of China's Internet.

"China?" Alice and the others were excited about the news, because there was a famous venue in China.

"And the location of the finals, we are ready, is in the Bird's Nest, and Tencent seems to have paid a lot of price in order to get the qualification to go to the Bird's Nest to host the finals." The man in the suit said excitedly.

That's a bird's nest!

It was once a huge venue for the Olympic Games.

Being able to borrow this kind of venue is actually Tencent making the status of e-sports a leap.

At least eSports is no longer a must-play competition.

Being able to play at this level of venue is definitely the greatest recognition of esports.

Tencent, the big financier, is so rich that he can even win a difficult venue like the Bird's Nest, and it stands to reason that without an official relationship, it is difficult to win a venue of the Bird's Nest.

"I'm kind of looking forward to this year's competition." Alice couldn't help but say when she heard that the final venue was in the Bird's Nest.

Another middle-aged man also smiled and nodded, and said after a moment of silence: "However, pay attention to one thing, in the past few days, many Koreans have complained that Chinese have too many in Hanbok, which seriously affects their game experience." ”

Brandon spoke very slowly, so many people could hear it clearly.

This is indeed a problem.

And it's a hard nut to crack.

Because the current version is like this.,First experience the server out of the version update.,Make sure there's no problem.,Update it again in the United States and Europe.,There may be bugs in this time.,After the BUG is cleaned up in this time.,Then update to Hanbok.,When you update to Hanbok.,The version BUG is almost cleaned up.,And finally,Update to the server in China.。

In fact.

At first, it was good for the Chinese server.

How to say it.

Chinese fans are key members of the League of Legends game, and Riot's original idea was to make Chinese players feel that there was a bug-free version of the game, so the update was the latest.

The American server, the European server is updated quickly, so it is also easy to have bugs, and the Hanbok side is updated second, and there may be vulnerabilities that have not been corrected, but when it comes to the Chinese server, it can be said that this new version is the final enhanced version, and there can be no bugs.

But what!

The game version of the words.

Chinese players are the latest to experience, that is to say, if you want to understand the version in advance, you must go to Hanbok or American to experience, and American is the fastest update, the most prone to BUGS, and Hanbok is the second update, in fact, the probability of BUGS here is already very low.

So Hanbok is not only because of the high level of players here, but also partly because you can feel the new version in advance and understand this new version in advance.

Chinese players stay here.

Understanding the new version, there really isn't any problem.

But here's the thing.

There are too many people going.

If it was a professional player who went to Hanbok to experience this new version, the people at Riot would of course turn a blind eye, and now? Not only professional players, but also major anchors... There are also some civilian players who want to go to Hanbok to play.

That's it.

The experience of Hanbok players was washed away by this group of players.

What's more, Chinese players are very unfriendly to Hanbok players.

"It's sealed." Marco Merrill, another CEO of Riot, directly gave affirmative words, "It's all blocked, except for the accounts we sent out to professional players, all the Hanbok black accounts are blocked." ”

To register a Korean account, you need a Korean ID card.

The black number has detailed statistics.

It's easy to get rid of these black accounts.

"One more thing, Merrill." Brandon touched his beard and said, "The Chinese team in South Korea has taken advantage of a loophole and wants to play professionally in South Korea, don't we do something?" ”

"Do you think I'm going to make this team the World Finals?" Merrill asked rhetorically, "Or is our Riot company so tempered that it makes people forget that we're a game company?" ”

Truly.

Riot's temper is the best among game manufacturers.

Blizzard and V.

As long as there are stupid players who touch their bottom line, they will all be blocked, no matter how much money you recharge, you are a player, we are manufacturers, if you don't play, roll out, as long as the game cheats, directly block your IP, and put a label on you that you have cheated before.

Fist has a good temper though.

But it's not that there is no temper.

The team that took advantage of the loopholes to play professionally in South Korea did succeed, but Merrill also had a way to deal with them.

The meeting is still going on.

They put all the problems that they had been backlogged for a long time and solved them in a one-day meeting.

The issues to be addressed are player share, recent trends, and revisions to be made in the next version, as well as the environmental problems of Chinese players frequently doing things in Hanbok and the Chinese team that exploits loopholes.

It also includes the question of how the S series will be held.

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