733 The Future of Esports
The GI thought he was the kind of fearless person, but he couldn't tell why, and at this moment, standing on the side of the road opposite the gate of the GOOD Twin Star Park, he suddenly hesitated and didn't dare to step forward.
He can't be because this park of the GOOD club shocked him too much, he is just worried that if the talks collapse again today, maybe before they enter the KPL, there will really be no more teams coming to them, as for what will be the situation after entering the KPL, whether he can successfully find an investor to develop the team into a complete e-sports club, now he is not really sure even if he is optimistic.
Just as he was hesitating, the soldier's mobile phone suddenly rang. He took out his mobile phone and looked at it and found that it was Wan Liangye calling.
"Have you arrived?" Wan Liangye asked.
The soldier said: "I just arrived at the gate of your park. ”
Wan Liangye said slightly apologetically: "I'm sorry, there is something suddenly on my side, and I may have to delay for a while." In this way, if you go directly to the doorman, you will say that you are He Yubing of the Wild Wolf Clan, and naturally someone will receive you. Don't worry, I've said hello. ”
"Uh...... All right. ”
Putting away his mobile phone, the soldier shook his head with a self-deprecating wry smile, and said in his heart that this time it was really a bad start, he had just arrived here, but people over there suddenly had something to delay.
Thinking that it would be okay to go in early, and he was not sure whether smoking was allowed in the park of the GOOD Club, so the soldier did not immediately run to report his name as Wan Liangye said, but stood on the side of the road and lit a cigarette by himself, looking at the GOOD Twin Star Park from a distance, in a daze.
At this moment, a young woman in a black professional uniform walked out of the gate of the park, stood at the door, looked around, and finally locked her eyes on the GI.
It's a weekday, and although the roads in this industrial area are wide, there are hardly any vehicles passing through them.
The woman in professional clothes quickly crossed the road, came to the soldier, and asked tentatively with a smile: "Hello, are you Coach He Yubing?" ”
The GI nodded a little awkwardly, "Yes." ”
The woman breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Hello, my name is Liu Xiaoshuang, you can call me Xiao Liu, or you can call me Xiaoshuang." Mr. Wan has some things to do, and I won't be back until a little later, so I specially asked me to receive you first. Speaking of this, she paused, looked left and right, and asked suspiciously, "Are you waiting for someone?" ”
The soldier is a little embarrassed, he can't say that he is smoking here in a daze, right? He coughed lightly and said, "No, no, I just arrived not long ago, and I'm making sure if I'm making a mistake." ”
Liu Xiaoshuang smiled, did not continue to dwell on this issue, but turned slightly sideways to the soldier and said: "Please come with me, before Mr. Wan comes back, I will take you to visit our GOOD Twin Star Park, so that you can have a better understanding of our side first." ”
"Okay, okay." The soldier nodded again and again, snuffed out the cigarette butt at the smoke extinguishing place on the trash can next to him, and then followed Liu Xiaoshuang across the road, and after completing the registration at the doorman, he entered the GOOD Twin Star Park.
As soon as she entered the park, Liu Xiaoshuang began her introduction.
"The campus you see now is the headquarters of our GOOD Club. As you might not imagine, back in the days of the GOOD Club, our training base was just a two-storey house with a small courtyard. Our boss Mr. Wan, that is, Mr. Wan's father, is the chairman of a large company. At the beginning, Mr. Wan gave Mr. Wan a start-up fund to let him go to the society to experience by himself. At that time, Mr. Wan didn't want to always live under his father's halo, and Mr. Wan was still very young at that time, so he avoided all the fields involved in Mr. Wan's company, and plunged headlong into the e-sports field in China, which was just in its infancy. ”
Mr. Wan used that money to buy a two-storey house in the center of the magic city as a training base, recruited some teenagers with e-sports dreams, and established the GOOD e-sports club. At that time, the fields they were involved in were Warcraft 3 and StarCraft, which were very epochal. However, at that time, e-sports was not recognized, and the international arena was dominated by four e-sports geniuses, the Emperor of Men, the King of Beasts, the Moon Demon and the Ghost Emperor, so the development of the GOOD club at that time was not smooth. ”
Just when everyone thought that Mr. Wan was fooling around with his father's money, the city planning listed the double-storey house as the first batch of planned demolition areas...... Wait a minute, I'll open the door. ”
In fact, looking back, the development of real society is really interesting. Many people who do entities have fallen into the vicious circle of rapid social development and price reduction competition among peers, while housing prices and land prices have soared like rockets. Those who invested in buying a house in the early years have all made a fortune, while those who have worked hard to become entities have become veritable losers, in debt, and struggling to survive.
Wan Liangye's early experience of founding the GOOD Club is a clear example. The e-sports he invested in must have lost a lot of money, but he didn't expect that he would earn the first pot of gold in his life by relying on "real estate".
Of course, now this situation has been greatly corrected, and everything is moving in the direction of healthy sunshine. But this is not what the soldier cares about, he is now only secretly shocked that Wan Liangye entered the e-sports circle much earlier than the introduction on the Internet.
While listening to Liu Xiaoshuang's narration, the soldier followed Liu Xiaoshuang around the small garden in the central area of the park and walked into the main entrance of the Twin Star Building.
The three-meter-high fingerprint unlocking automatic sliding door slowly opened, and the first thing that appeared in front of the soldier's eyes was a very large hall, which was separated by glass doors and glass walls on the left and right, and the middle aisle led directly to the stairwell and elevator room.
The hall on the left is very exquisitely arranged, with trophies on almost every platform, and medals on the larger three-dimensional booth are placed in an orderly manner, with pennants and certificates hanging in a few glass covers. In addition to these furnishings, the most important thing that attracted the attention of the GI was the dense array of photographs hanging on the three walls.
The room on the right was empty and empty, and it was pitifully cold compared to the room on the left.
Liu Xiaoshuang saw the soldier's confusion, stopped and explained with a smile: "The hall of honor on our left records the development history of our GOOD e-sports club, which belongs to the past and the present. The Hall of Honor on the right is reserved for the present and the future. Mr. Wan often said that throughout the development history of e-sports, from the early StarCraft, Warcraft 3, to Chenghai, and then to DOTA, DOTA2, LOL, and the current gradually maturing Glory of Kings, e-sports is developing in the direction of low operation difficulty and low threshold. At the expense of a certain degree of competitiveness, it has gradually solved the popularity rate of games, making e-sports more accessible to the people and developing in the direction of national development. ”
"In fact, it's not that the simpler the game, the better esports can develop. Even now, the global Tetris contest is held every year, and the prize money is also very large, but the degree of attention is not very high. ”
Liu Xiaoshuang said with a little surprise: "Mr. Wan also said so. He also said that it is difficult to predict how far esports will develop in the future, whether it will be a new vehicle to achieve major innovations, or a return to tradition with the latest technological forces. After all, while mobile phones are the mainstream game carrier, VR technology and 3D printing technology are also developing rapidly. ”
Speaking of this, she obviously couldn't suppress her excitement, and her voice was much louder: "Imagine boldly, in the future, either the whole people will fight to the death in virtual reality through VR, or control robots to enter the 3D printed battlefield for actual combat duels, and maybe even e-sports players like Iron Man, wearing armor and fighting in person." The future of esports will inevitably be reborn over and over again with the advancement of technology. Therefore, Mr. Wan often said that since the future cannot be predicted, then try to do a good job in the present...... Coach He, this way, please. ”
Under the guidance of Liu Xiaoshuang, the GI walked into the Hall of Honor on the left.
GOOD is worthy of being a long-established esports club, SE Club only has a wall of honor, while GOOD Club uses a hall to carry the glory they have achieved in the past. The glory of GOOD is not only those trophies and medals, but also the uniforms and special peripherals worn by the retired star players in the team, which are more worthy of cherishing than those honors.
Just after a general walk, the GI deeply felt that this was a very humane club. If you don't really love esports, you don't really care about these players who have fought for the honor of the club, you don't really have feelings, and most importantly, if you don't really have money, you can't create such a great club.
Although the number of contacts is not much, the soldier admires Wan Liangye from the bottom of his heart at this time. For a moment, the GI even wavered in his heart, feeling that even if it wasn't cooperation, just joining GOOD should be very satisfied.
However, the inner wavering is only for a moment after all. The GI was well aware of what he had been insisting on, and his original intention remained the same.
Liu Xiaoshuang only gave a general introduction to the GIs about those honors, and the next thing she mainly led the GIs to visit was the three photo walls.
In addition to the photos, there are many text annotations on the photo wall, which record the development history of the GOOD club and record every glorious moment of the GOOD club in various arenas.
"The outside world says that Mr. Wan is very rich, but I think he can't make so much money by investing in e-sports clubs, right?" The GI couldn't help but ask the doubts in his heart.
Liu Xiaoshuang said with a smile: "Actually, everyone has a deep misunderstanding of our GOOD and our President Wan. Mr. Wan has been losing money in the field of e-sports all these years. However, the money he lost was really a drop in the bucket compared to the money made by his venture capital firm. In fact, we have always wondered why Mr. Wan has been losing money in the field of e-sports, why does he still invest so much money in it every year, and even built such a tall headquarters for the club. Guess what Mr. Wan said? ”
The GI asked, "What did he say?" ”
Liu Xiaoshuang's eyes flashed with excitement at this time, and she said loudly: "Mr. Wan said: Money is a bastard, and you can make it if you don't have it." But if the dream is gone, the soul is dead. ”
Hearing this, the soldier uncontrollably got goosebumps all over his body, his heart was turbulent, and the second half of the sentence echoed in his ears repeatedly: The dream is gone, the soul is dead!
However, the soldier had not yet come to his senses, and Liu Xiaoshuang's words behind him shocked him even more.
Liu Xiaoshuang said proudly: "Can you imagine that there are many players in our club who would rather retire in our club than transfer." Here, it is really regarded as an inseparable home by each of us! ”