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Chapter 224 The Idea of ​​the Invitational Tournament

Regarding the PC version of the road to survival, Chuhe did not advertise or promote it with much fanfare, but just posted a message on his Weibo, and then updated the official website with the latest news to open the pre-sale.

However, although Chuhe did not take the initiative to publicize it with great fanfare, the news of the PC version of Left [-] Dead was reported by many media websites, and they were all placed on the headlines.

After the precipitation of many games, Tianhe Network may not have been established for a long time and does not have the background of some big companies, but in the minds of domestic players, Tianhe Network is actually no less inferior to the first-tier international companies.

At the same time, the release of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds temporarily aroused the interest of players. Compared with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has almost crushed all FPS games in recent times, some players have begun to discuss PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

'It feels like it has completely become two games. In the creative workshop and the MOD community, I found a MOD made by a foreign master. All the zombies have been replaced with MIKU, and there is dubbing. '

'What's this? The MOD made by Zombie King is awesome. The map is actually Huangpu River. '

'You guys are nothing, I downloaded a social security MOD on N, and drank two bottles of Nutrition Express in one night. '

'Damn it, ask for seeds! '

'[email protected], a good person lives a safe life. '

However, although there are some influences and popularity, and it has also landed on the recommended position on the homepage of the steam platform, the road to survival has not posed the slightest threat to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

Left 22 Dead landed on the PC platform in the first week. The sales volume of the steam platform reached 18 sets if the previous pre-sales were counted. The highest simultaneous online number reached 12, and the average online number was [-]. The top ten of the game.

As a game that has been released on the host platform for several months, this result is actually very dazzling, but compared with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, there is still a big gap.

The sales volume of 34 in a week even increased slightly compared with the sales volume of the previous week, which is a very exaggerated figure.

Even though the price of the game itself is low, it is still an unbelievable value. For a buyout game, the sales volume undoubtedly represents everything.

As for the 34, it is not clear how many of them were repurchased after being banned.

"The cooperation with Tianhe Network for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was the best decision I made last year." In a private restaurant in Jinling, Chuhe and Charles chatted while eating.

Absolute success!
A large amount of investment, coupled with a very bold decentralization, has created a monster called PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

That's right, a monster.

In Charles's opinion, such a game is definitely a monster. It has been a long time since a game has such a phenomenal level of performance.

Neither EA's Battlefield One nor Activision's Call of Duty Modern Warfare last year achieved such a phenomenal performance.

Until now, on twitch, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has always been ranked first in viewership, and at the same time, on some game forums, the area with the highest number of daily messages is also PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

Among them, including CS anchors such as Shroud who participated in the test of Left [-] Dead, most of them also started live broadcasting of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and gradually shifted the focus of time to it.

Of course, this is not the most important point. The more important point is to carry out the reform of the rotten orange platform in Huaxia District by referring to the steam platform, adding localized payment procedures such as Alipay and WeChat, and taking advantage of the opportunity of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to add Huaxia price zone.

Originally Rotten Orange had only about 30 registered users in Huaxia District, but after PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds was monopolized by Rotten Orange, this number quickly rose to 600 million. Of course, most of the accounts only have one version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. They just used rotten oranges as a starter for eating chicken.

But there is no doubt that these registered users are hidden gold mines that have not yet been discovered.

A large number of positive data, as well as the profits of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, have made EA's market value increase slightly, and this small increase is equivalent to an increase of more than one billion yuan in market value for EA out of thin air.

"Of course, our cooperation is very pleasant." Chuhe nodded and said.

It can be said that in the rise of Tianhe Network, the role played by EA definitely belongs to the kind of grandfather in the network novel.

From the very beginning, EA took a fancy to Tianhe Network's performance in the development arena, and the two sides carried out preliminary cooperation. Later, the arrival of Tiger's team greatly improved the development capabilities of Tianhe Network.

If the original Tianhe Network can only be regarded as a beginner in terms of technology, then the EA team joined. After a period of time, the technical team of Tianhe Network has changed from a beginner to a slightly experienced team.

"We should speed up the development of the host platform, and the current increase in the number of players of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has basically reached a bottleneck. We need to continue to spread its influence. Maybe we can use it to challenge Counter-Strike in FPS. Compete for the position of overlord." Charles said excitedly to Chuhe.

Although the current PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is still growing with a sales volume of 30 every Tuesday, in fact, the growth of players and users of the game itself is not as impressive as imagined, and more of them are cheating teams.

After all, even if Tianhe Network has already cracked down on cheating very hard, and through various means of soft and hard, the atmosphere in the game has become very good, but the popularity of such a game is placed here, and the profits in it are too great Yes, even if the blow is strong enough, there are still countless people rushing forward to make a fortune.

"E-sports, holding an official league is not impossible, but it is unrealistic to surpass Counter-Strike's status in FPS e-sports." Chu He shook his head slightly when he heard what Charles said.

Even though PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds today seems to be completely crushed compared to Counter-Strike, Chuhe still doesn't think that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds can surpass Counter-Strike in e-sports.

Of course, what I’m talking about here is professionalism, not pure enthusiasm, because whether it is in terms of balance or viewing, Counter-Strike is really a blast for e-sports. The soul concept of this game is positioned on entertainment.

As for the host platform, the team's focus was indeed on the research and development of the host platform at the beginning, but with the game development on the PC platform, and later player feedback, it was necessary to try it out in person.

Chuhe already has a scale in his heart. The performance of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on the console platform may not be better than that on the PC platform, because this game, like Counter Strike, is more suitable for PCs rather than consoles.

However, regarding the e-sports invitational tournament, we can start to engage in it.

(End of this chapter)