November 27, Sunday.

Pei Qian didn't set the alarm clock this morning. He originally wanted to sleep happily until noon, but he woke up at around 7 o'clock in the morning and was not sleepy at all.

I always feel a little panicked and uneasy for no reason.

"Which department is causing trouble for me again..."

Pei Qian was speechless. After tossing and turning and failing to fall asleep, Pei Qian reached for his phone from the bedside and scrolled through it aimlessly.

Then I habitually entered the ioi forum.

During this period, Pei Qian has been paying attention to the situation of ioi, hoping that the game will improve quickly, so that he can legitimately spend money on Gog.

The online public opinion in the past two days was not very good towards ioi and Zhidou Company, which made Pei Qian very worried.

After two days, the Longyu Group should have taken some action, right? The players’ anger should have subsided, right?

I hope ioi is okay.

However, as soon as Pei Qian clicked into the ioi forum, Pei Qian saw a post that made him a little frightened.

"Reporting a wave of external comments, let’s see how the Zhidou Company’s ultimate foolhardy move is so inhuman inside and out!"

"Before, I thought that the old players of the Chinese server would be outraged by ioi's changes, but I didn't expect that foreign players would be even more outraged than us! Because ioi plans to classify the Chinese server as a low-price zone, and the price of the foreign server is two times that of the Chinese server.

Double or even triple!”

"Old players in the Chinese server just lost money on their previous purchases and can still enjoy discounts in the future. However, foreign players have always been able to buy at the original price. This is true in the world..."

"The low-price zone is okay. Aren't many game platforms also implementing the low-price zone strategy? Besides, GoG's national server skins seem to be much cheaper than those abroad, right? I haven't seen any rebellion from foreign players?

"

"The situation of gog is completely different. In fact, in terms of pricing, domestic and foreign prices are the same. Domestic epic skins and legendary skins cost 18 yuan and 45 yuan respectively, while overseas prices are 2.49 knives and 6.99 knives. There is basically no difference.

"

"The reason why Gog is so cheap in China and has skins that are almost free is that there is a creative community in China! This is our exclusive benefit. All heroes whose players provide creative ideas will have new skins when they first go on sale.

Super discounted.”

"Then foreigners don't have any objections?"

"The opinion is very small, because not every foreign player knows about the creative community. Looking at the original price, the prices in all areas are the same. Besides, the prices of $2.49 and $6.99 are already low enough.

What more bikes do you want?”

"I think another reason is that gog skins have been priced at a bargain price from the beginning. Everyone is used to it, and there is not much room for price reduction. But gog skins were very expensive at the beginning, and too many old players have already

I bought a lot of skins, but now I suddenly have them cut in half, which is hard for people to accept."

"Indeed, it's like buying a house or a car. Not long after the purchase, the price is cut in half without being able to guarantee the price. Although it is a commercial behavior, most people's mentality will collapse..."

"Didn't you say that we are planning to release commemorative skins and commemorative avatars for veteran players?"

"At the beginning, it was originally said to be for players in the Chinese server, but the old players in the foreign server quit, so now Zhidou Company has changed its words and said that all old players will have it. In the end, it basically did not have much appeasing effect..."

Looking at the comments below this post, Pei Qian became more and more panicked, and sat up from the bed with a tremble.

"It's broken, ioi seems to have entered some kind of vicious cycle."

"Damn, I'm so envious..."

Pei Qian thought that Zhidou Company would be able to calm down the players' anger soon, but now it seems that this is not that simple!

Because now the player group that ioi is targeting has shown obvious fragmentation, and it has been divided into three parts.

New players in the national server, old players in the national server, and players in the world server, these three player groups ioi are reluctant to let go and want to please, but the interests and demands of these three groups are very different.

If a company pleases any one group, it will trigger a fierce backlash from the other two groups.

This leads to a kind of "luxury car dilemma". When luxury car brands have problems, brand value drops, and sales decline, many luxury car brands can only choose to cut prices in order to stop losses.

However, once the price is reduced, the loyal old car owners will not be happy, and it will also give people the impression that "this car does not maintain its value", further damaging the brand value, and no one will buy the car.

Neither raising prices nor lowering prices will work, no matter what you do, it will be wrong.

Pei Qian was a little panicked.

Brother, I didn't do anything.

You can't kill yourself and then give up the market to gog, right?

I've already cut the Yangyang game in half and fought you with only one hand, but your backhand has destroyed your martial arts? You don't have the strength to fight back, right?

No way, right?

Pei Qian felt inexplicably irritable and continued to browse the forum while brushing his teeth.

Finally, my hard work paid off, and I successfully found a piece of news that seemed relatively optimistic.

"Rumors say, the ioi World Finals is about to be held! It is said that a lot of money has been spent this time. The prize pool will definitely exceed the gog competition, and it will be held in Los Angeles. The cards will definitely be full!"

"It sounds pretty good, and ioi should be more competitive than gog. If the competition can be held well, it will definitely increase the popularity. Moreover, this time the storm is probably successfully transferred."

Pei Qian has actually heard about this news many times, and it should be coming this time.

It can only be said that ioi's first World Finals was really ill-fated.

In fact, this competition should have been held a long time ago, but during that time Dayak Group was hemorrhaging money to acquire Finger Company and was not very rich in funds. Gog directly pushed the prize pool to a new level, so the ioi finals could only be shelved.

.

After all, it was done late and the prize pool was even lower, which is hard to say or not.

Now that Dayak Group and Finger Company are free, they must have prepared funds and venues. They are confident that they can host it better than GoG's Global Invitational Tournament, so they let the news out to appease the players.

Pei Qian couldn't help but sigh, as by some mistake, the process of history seemed to have been greatly advanced by himself.

In my memory, LoL's S1 finals were held quite well. A year later, with the rapid development of LoL, S2 moved to Los Angeles and had a huge influence.

Although ioi and lol are two very different games, and Zidian Company and Riot Games are completely different, there are still certain similarities in this matter.

Zhidou Company originally just wanted to deal with S1 casually, just to test the waters and be done with it.

As a result, I was forced to increase the amount of capital invested to the level two years later.

"Speaking of e-sports...should I visit various clubs?"

"Since the last auction of GPL quotas, I haven't paid much attention to these clubs, and I don't know how their teams are organized."

After Pei Qian finished washing, he was going to go out to have breakfast, and then go to Mingyun Villa to have a look.

It is said that several new clubs that have joined GPL have basically chosen the villa in Mingyun Villa as their training base, but I don’t know what the specific situation is now.

…

After breakfast, Pei Qian took a car to Mingyun Villa.

When he was approaching Mingyun Villa, Pei Qian noticed that the driver, Xiao Sun, made a special turn and changed the route instead of following the previous route.

"Mr. Pei, today is Sunday. That road may be particularly congested. I'll take another route. Although it's a little detour, it should save some time."

Pei Qian didn't care and nodded: "Okay."

But when Xiao Sun turned to the side road, Pei Qian suddenly felt something was wrong.

I've always taken that road to Mingyun Villa before, and it doesn't seem to be too busy?

Mingyun Villa is located in the southeast of Jingzhou City, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and has a nice scenery. However, at the beginning, due to poor supporting facilities, the occupancy rate was not high and no one cared about it.

Later, Moyu Internet Cafe opened a branch here, and then Wuming Restaurant also opened here. As Wuming Restaurant became an instant hit, it gradually became a gathering place for many wealthy businessmen and celebrities in Jingzhou, and the surrounding neighborhoods were also affected. , turned into a small commercial center and food court.

But even so, Pei Qian didn't often encounter traffic jams before.

After all, the nameless restaurant can accommodate too few guests. Even if the restaurant is full every day, how many cars can it have?

As for taking a special detour?

"Maybe it's because... today is Sunday? Everyone just went out together? Well, that's definitely the case."

"Um?"

Pei Qian was enlightening himself when he suddenly realized that something was wrong outside the car window.

Because he saw an Internet cafe, and the business was very prosperous. He seemed to have no impression of it when he came here before.

"Huh? Who is so enlightened? Open an Internet cafe to distract the customer flow of Moyu Internet Cafe?"

Pei Qian was pleasantly surprised to see that this internet cafe was doing well, but when he took a closer look, he realized that this was just a fishing internet cafe.

And this is not the earliest Moyu Internet Cafe Mingyun Villa store, but it is only a few hundred meters away from the original Moyu Internet Cafe.

This road had not been traveled often before, so Pei Qian had no impression of it.

Pei Qian was shocked and asked the driver Xiao Sun: "Why is there a fishing Internet cafe here?"

Xiao Sun said: "Ah, Mr. Pei, it was just opened recently. There is also a branch of the managed gym. Didn't you know?"

Pei Qian: "?"

Xiao Sun continued: "Because recently all the major clubs have settled in, teams have been formed, and people from all over the country are coming for trial training. Mr. Xiao and Guo always felt that one Internet cafe and one gym were definitely not enough, so they prepared in advance We’ve opened a branch here.”

"Sure enough, it was full as soon as it opened! It is said that the players of each club are now going to the managed gym to exercise. There are also Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons in these two Internet cafes. If you organize any Internet cafe competition, you can see a lot of them. master."
To be continued...