But there is no if. The fact is that the battle between Blizzard and Ice Frog made them lose their almost dominant situation in the e-sports market.

They couldn't even hold the second seat.

The two completely different attitudes of Blizzard and Valve towards the player community have also made the development trajectories of these two companies completely different after 10 years. Of course, the greatness of Blizzard is not a company that only knows how to be arrogant and self-confidant. The greatness of it is that it is good at absorbing its own shortcomings, so they later became much more kind to the policies of the player community.

They even learned to interact with players in the community. For example, in the expansion pack of Dark 3, a powerful legendary equipment they designed by players in the player community was officially added to the game.

This design was very successful. Blizzard, who tasted the sweetness, played the game again in the carnival.

Of course, although Blizzard has been criticized in many places, Valves are not much better. Since Steam's success, Valves has been completely passively slacking off, and it takes ten months off a year and twelve months. This kind of thing may only be done. Who said that the capitalist bosses are vampires, but I think Valve bosses are philanthropists.

Of course, for players who like valve games, there is such a lazy and unprofitable game company, they may often scold their mothers.

Although Blizzard often fails to make a promise, they are at least developing games from beginning to end.

These are some memories, which quickly passed through Jester's mind. When he came to the e-sports business department, the quarrel he saw was the issue of the prize money of a competition that Guan would organize next. One party suggested that he would continue to propose to continue to use the Carnival's $100,000 policy, but someone immediately raised an objection, and their objections were so convincing that they could not be refuted.

"If there are 100,000 US dollars in each and every second competition, how many prizes will we prepare for next year's carnival?"

The person who said this was a young man with blonde hair. As soon as he said this, the people present were silent. Jester heard this sentence. No one questioned what he said about next year's carnival - because this year's carnival was too successful, and it was basically inevitable that the second session will be held next year. This was a joke at a recent company research and development meeting.

The popular e-sports event at the Carnival will of course continue to be held. After the first success, of course, it will attract more players to participate in the next session. In addition, the prize money for this one is 100,000 US dollars, and the next session is obviously not lower than this session, which is a huge expense.

The most important thing is that this kind of competition is just beginning, and it is impossible to get reliable sponsorship. The most are competitions in some places, with a total prize of only one or two thousand US dollars. Even so, few people are willing to hold the competition.

In addition, the current e-sports is basically a distorted project, a project that only input but lacks output, but it is not done or cultivated. It is impossible. After all, without the current cultivation, there will be no future success in Jester's previous world. It took ten years to truly start cultivating e-sports after 2000. After all, the conditions in all aspects are ripe, this industry, or this community, will be truly perfected.

This road is very rugged, and many people can't understand why Jester insists on doing this when he goes back.

Although there is a promotional element in it, it is more important that Jester really wants to start cultivating a complete e-sports community since the prehistoric era of electronic games. Jester knows the power of e-sports. Once players of the right age fall in love with this project, they really like it, just like football, saying something that doesn’t fit the situation.

Just like what Liverpool's legendary coach Shankley said, football is not life or death, football is higher than life or death.

The same will be true for e-sports.

Just when everyone was silent, Jester knocked on the open door, attracting everyone's eyes. Jester is not unfamiliar to everyone in the company. Although Jester does not often show up outside, he often visits various R&D departments within the company to understand the development status of different projects.

Moreover, Jester will definitely attend the monthly senior meeting and the quarterly full staff meeting.

The people who are discussing in the e-sports business department are not just employees of the e-sports department. One feature of Mars Entertainment is that the discussion atmosphere is very free. As long as it is its own project, the company encourages it to participate in the discussion in other departments according to the company's regulations. In this room now, there are at least five or six other projects discussing.

When they heard the knock on the door, they looked towards the door.

When they saw Jester, who was leading a beautiful Asian girl with black hair, they all knew that Jester's girlfriend was Claudia. After seeing Lee Fuzhen, they also leaked a strange look. However, Jester didn't care much. He smiled at everyone, and then said to the young man who just said that if the second-level competition was spent 100,000 US dollars like this now, how much would the carnival competition cost.

“The carnival can be increased to $200,000.”

After saying that, Jester himself laughed out loud, and others didn't know what Jester meant by saying this. They could only look at Jester with a weird look.

Jester smiled a few times and saw that no one matched him, so he knew that no one understood his joke, so he embarrassedly withdrew his smile, then clapped his hands, and said: "Actually, what I mean is not to increase the prize money for the Carnival to 200,000 US dollars. I am just a metaphor - I mean, we need to make a complete competition gradient. Assuming Carnival is the annual finals and the highest level competition, how should those divisional competitions be set in other regions? If the prize money for the finals is 200,000 US dollars, I am just an assumption, how should the prize money for the divisional competition be set."

Seeing that what I said attracted everyone's attention, Jester continued without any pause: "Also, building a perfect and healthy e-sports community will be the plan for our company to continue in the future, ten, twenty, and thirty years. I will privately spend one million US dollars every year and invest no less than one million US dollars in building a special foundation. However, building a complete ecosystem is not only what I can do, but also what our game company can do. We need to let more companies participate. Only in this way can this ecosystem form an industry that only invests but no returns, and this community can truly develop."

As Jester continued to speak, his speaking speed also became faster and faster. Moreover, it was obvious that the people present were also infected by Jester's own emotions, and many people were also excited. It seemed that Jester described to them a grand future that would inevitably be realized.

Jester did not just talk about luxury. After using an excited tone, he immediately poured a bucket of cold water on the employee who had just ignited this excitement.

Jester changed his voice and continued, "Don't be happy or excited. First of all, you must understand how difficult this will be a path that is difficult to complete and difficult to achieve. Even those who are determined to be it may have to endure years of loneliness and no one understands it. What you are saying now cannot represent at all, but it does not mean that you will not be able to get rich returns in the future. Think about the scene of football and basketball when they were just born. Today's electronic games, or e-sports, were they at that time, simple, crude, and primitive, and are not worth mentioning in the eyes of many people. But isn't the same football back then? Who is sure of the future?"

As he said, it seemed like a true expression of feelings. Perhaps he could not control his feelings. As Jester said, he could not control himself. He stretched out his hand and once again restored the extremely excited tone he had just said: "You don't need to say anything now, you just need to do something you want to do. We just need to know that what we are doing is something that others have never thought of, and that if we change the words we might be scolded for being ignorant of the world, it is that we are creating the world."

"In the country across the Pacific Ocean, there is a great writer named Lu Xun. What he said makes sense. I also like it very much. There was no road in this world, but when people walked more, it became a road. We are pioneers who opened the road in the boundless and even a dark wilderness. In the near future, or in the distant future, ten or twenty years later, many of you may no longer be engaged in this industry, but you will not regret wasted your youth, nor will you be ashamed of being unknown, because you once dedicated your most precious years to a most memorable period - you have pointed out a path for others, even if this path is either right or wrong."

"Although we can only be a spark, we can definitely start a prairie fire."

Jester's last passage almost blurted out, and he had almost no specific thoughts. It was simply a subconscious roar. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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