Reborn multinational giant

Michael looked excited, and Laura and G Fat, who were sitting next to him, also changed their faces slightly.

Now League of Legends is Dota2’s biggest competitor, and they certainly don’t want to see League of Legends with such good results and data!

Seeing their expressions, Fang Zhe continued to talk freely:

"League of Legends game has been in the North American public beta since 2009. I think you should have been paying enough attention to his performance in Europe and America.

Over the past three years, the number of users accumulated by the League of Legends in Europe and the United States can reach 10 million. Now, it has achieved this result in less than two months of its public beta in China.

I think there are two biggest reasons for this. One is that Dota has a wide range of influence among many players in Europe and the United States. In China, compared to many huge gamers who have not been exposed to such games, they have played Dota. Only a small part of it, so in terms of game popularity, the gap between Dota2 and League of Legends in China is not big.

For another reason, you should also know who is the agent of League of Legends in China, Tencent!

Tencent is one of the most influential Internet companies in our country, especially in the field of computer software and terminal games. Tencent's powerful traffic promotion and distribution capabilities are even better than our Steam China.

At present, Tencent pays enough attention to the League of Legends game internally. The domestic streets and alleys are all advertisements for this game. If we do not take a strong counterattack as soon as possible, after the League of Legends swept away most of the users, Dota2 will China can only be the second child forever, and is still the second child with a big gap with League of Legends.

You should know that for similar boutique games, players who choose League of Legends are unlikely to choose Dota2. Now that League of Legends robs one more user, Dota2 will lose one user in the future!"

The faces of the three G fat people became more solemn, but Laura still defended:

"League of Legends is such a powerful game, we should pay close attention to the operation of Europe and the United States, otherwise we may face a situation of losing everything in the future!"

Hearing what Laura said, Fat G and Michael beside her frowned. Although they both felt that Laura's words were reasonable, they always felt that there were some problems until Fang Zhe continued to speak:

"Ms. Laura, you have been responsible for the global operations of Steam. Steam China is an independent operation. You may have limited knowledge of the Chinese market. However, as you said earlier, Steam China now has more than 32 million registered users, that is, There are 32 million end game and console game players.

In fact, the number of mobile game players in China exceeds 50 million, and the number of players for comprehensive mobile games, web games and mobile games is more than 200 million. With the popularity of smart phones in China, the number of Chinese game players in the future There is also a very large growth potential.

I say this because I hope you can understand that the Chinese game market is large enough, and now, the performance of League of Legends in the world is the most prominent and outstanding in China.

I believe that the distribution and promotion capabilities of leading companies in Europe and the United States cannot be compared with your company. However, in China, no company can compete with Tencent in the issuance of end games. If we don’t attack early, Head-to-head, to contain the momentum of the rapid rise of League of Legends in China, waiting for Dota2 and even Steam China, it will be a disaster!"

"Laura, I think I understand what Mr. Fang Zhe meant. If we cannot curb the rise of the League of Legends in the Chinese market as soon as possible, then not only Dota 2 of the same type as it will be affected, but even Steam China, It’s also because most gamers put their time, energy and money into the League of Legends central zone, which is greatly affected. I’m right, Mr. Fang Zhe!” said Dota2 producer Michael.

"You are right, this is the truth!" Fang Zhe nodded.

"So, does Mr. Fang Zhe think that with a Ti2 game, the rise of the League of Legends in China can be curbed?" Laura asked puzzled.

Fang Zhe spread his hands and said:

"Comprehensively curbing the rise of the League of Legends is of course our ideal goal. Our internal team is also working on a set of plans to snipe the rise of the League of Legends.

Including the large-scale publicity during the public beta of Dota 2 in February next year, our company will also have a number of self-developed and agency heavyweight game public betas in the near future. Even if we cannot completely curb the rise of the League of Legends, we can also give it a major blow !

Otherwise, as Mr. Michael said, whether Dota2 or Steam China is affected, it will directly affect the interests of both of us!"

At this meeting, Valve, including G Fat, has been persuaded by Fang Zhe that the interests of Valve are now tied to Huizhong, or Steam China, if Steam has not entered the Chinese market before Valve They have not tasted the sweetness yet, perhaps they will stubbornly insist on the European and American markets first, but now, naturally, the best interests are first.

Then, the two sides began to discuss the general plan and arrangement of Ti2 in China.

In this regard, Fang Zhe and Huang Zheng, who had held a two-day transoceanic meeting, had already discussed a set of very feasible plans. When Li Wen took out this plan to G Fat and Laura, Michael When waiting for senior executives, G Fat and others felt that Huizhong attaches great importance to this Ti2 event in China.

According to the plan, starting from the global public beta of Dota2 in February next year, Ti2 qualifiers will start globally.

First of all, the qualifiers will be divided into more than ten regions, including the European Division, North America Division, China Division, South Korea Division, and Japan Division, based on the countries and regions in which the Dota2 public test operates.

Afterwards, each competition area will select 1-3 teams according to the strength of each competition area through various promotion and elimination competitions, and a total of 16 teams will participate in the Ti2 group invitational tournament.

In the group invitational tournament, 16 to 8 and 8 to 4 will all be held in Seattle, and the next top 4 ranking matches and finals will be held in China. What makes G Fat and others feel excited is that this plan proposes At that time, the final of the Ti2 winner and runner-up will be held in Yanjing Bird's Nest, China!

The Bird's Nest is the place where China hosted the Yanjing Olympics three years ago. Its popularity and influence in China and the world are absolutely far beyond ordinary venues.

It is also stated in the plan that Huizhong hopes to share a total of 300 million yuan with Valve, which is equivalent to nearly 50 million U.S. dollars, for planning and hosting this event, 100 million yuan of which will be used as a prize for the competition, and the rest RMB 200 million of the competition will be used for various publicity and event arrangements.

After reading this plan, G Fat and others were completely moved and shocked by Huizhong’s sincerity and generous amount. The prize of 100 million yuan, nearly 20 million US dollars, is such a large amount of prize money that has never been seen in the history of global e-sports. Over!

Thinking of Ti1 this summer, Valve only gave out 1.6 million US dollars as a prize for the competition. Fat G felt that he and Valve were too stingy and shabby at this time!