Chen Mo returned to his office on the fourth floor after arranging for the tournament to be held in the projection area.
For a competitive game like LoL, hosting large tournaments was an important part of the promotion process, so it was important to plan ahead.
However, there were too few champions in LoL at the moment. If they were to host a professional league, the balance and viewing value would be affected. Chen Mo had too many things on his plate, so he didn't have the time or energy to deal with this.
Therefore, he decided to host it in the experience store first to gain some experience. Once he was done with the international version, the number of champions in LoL would increase, and he would be able to start planning for the official tournaments.
Qian Kun quickly came up to Chen Mo when he saw him, "Manager, I've read through the plans for the new patch. But the April Fool's Day event is still to be decided. When will it be decided?"
Chen Mo thought for a bit, "Hmm … Tomorrow afternoon at the latest. Make the new champions first."
"Alright," Qian Kun nodded and went back to work.
The next patch was scheduled for April 1st, which was April Fool's Day.
It had only been a month and a half since the new patch was released during Chinese New Year, so it was a bit rushed. However, Chen Mo's idea was to make the best use of every holiday. Releasing the new champions at the same time would make the promotion more effective.
The five new champions were: Erilia the Blade, Li Qing the Blind Monk, Orianna the Clockwork Demon, Draven the Glorious Executioner, and Leona the Goddess of Dawn.
Obviously, this was a gathering of troublemaking champions. Chen Mo's attitude was clear, "Players, please show off and start your performance!"
Moreover, these five heroes were all classic evergreen heroes. Their characteristics were also very obvious.
The Blade Girl who was still fun to play even after being slashed countless times.
One of the most fun champions in the entire Alliance, the Blind Monk.
The Clockwork Midway Player.
Draven who could kill a kid with one slash.
The brainless support Japanese Maiden.
If these five champions were to play at the same time, it would be too much to watch.
At the same time, there would also be a special April Fool's Day event: Welcome to the Draven Alliance.
Apart from the April Fool's Day event, Chen Mo was also planning on making a 'healing' game to cleanse everyone's hearts.
…
For the entire month of March, League of Legends continued to gain popularity, allowing Thunderbolt Gaming Platform to establish an advantage in the competition.
The partnership between Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Fantasy Gaming Platform had, to a certain extent, consolidated the resources in the country. This was very bad news for Thunderbolt Gaming Platform. Many players and designers were watching, unsure of who would win in the end.
However, after League of Legends gradually revealed its dominance in the PC market, the situation gradually became clear.
Although Emperor Dynasty and Fantasy Gaming still controlled most of the resources and players in the country, Chen Mo's Thunderbolt Gaming Platform was able to compete with them with just League of Legends.
Moreover, if Emperor Dynasty and Divine Fantasy couldn't find a way to counter League of Legends in the future, they would basically lose.
It was like hitting a Hearthstone. Although you had a lot of HP, if the opponent had a 10-10 Servant, you wouldn't be able to deal with it. That would be very awkward.
Everyone in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was extremely nervous. Ancient Calamity had already entered the development phase, and was seen as the game's greatest hope of beating League of Legends.
In order to speed up the research and development progress, Ancient Calamity had used many of the existing rules and designs in COG. However, it had been completely simplified, and the packaging had been completely changed from a Western fantasy theme to a slightly more Chinese ancient theme.
Emperor Dynasty Entertainment even had the intention of collaborating with a few great web novelists to create some works related to the Ancient Calamity, to make the game more topical.
Everyone knew very well that the competition of channels would inevitably turn into a competition of products in the end. Whichever channel's product could reach a dominant position would have the absolute dominance.
If Emperor Dynasty and Fantasy Gaming Platform couldn't come up with a game that could stop League of Legends, their resources would slowly be taken over by Thunderbolt Gaming Platform. It was only a matter of time.
…
April 1st, April Fool's Day.
Chen Mo made a long Weibo post just after midnight.
"There will be an update for League of Legends today, the update content is as follows.
"First, the primary school student logo will be released: Based on the data mining capabilities of cloud computing, we have a chance to determine if a player is a primary school student. Once confirmed, we will prepare a special 'red scarf' logo for the player. Players will be able to see this logo in-game. We hope everyone will be more tolerant when playing the game.
"Second, new heroes: There will be thirty-five new heroes, namely Erilia the Blade Will, Li Qing the Blind Monk, Orianna the Clockwork Demon, Leona the Goddess of Light, and thirty-one Glorious Executioner Draven.
"Third, new event: Welcome to the Draven Alliance, as well as Draven's exclusive April Fool skin: Draven Draven. (Also includes various icons and guard skins)
"Apart from that, Thunderbolt Gaming Platform will be releasing a brand new healing game called 'Digging Up'. It's completely free and suitable for those with bad hands and bad tempers. You'll feel like your soul is being healed after playing it. Everyone is welcome to download it."
There were also pictures. The first picture was of a player with a red scarf behind his name, marked as a primary school student by the system.
The second to sixth images were the concept art for the five new heroes.
The seventh picture was of Draven Draven's skin.
The eighth picture was of Digging Ground for Advancement.
Mixed in with a bunch of fake April Fool news, Chen Mo's Weibo looked … hard to tell if it was real or fake.
Everyone was very clear that since this Weibo post was posted on April Fool's Day, there must be some fake news in it. However, they really couldn't figure out which one was fake.
The players all left comments.
"You purposely posted this on April Fool's Day, don't you think it's completely untrustworthy?!"
"Data mining capabilities based on the data mining capabilities of cloud computing? I don't believe a single punctuation! Mark me as a primary school student if you can! "
"Did primary school students eat your rice?"
"That's great! I already said that the primary school students in ranked should be dealt with a long time ago. With this new rule, the primary school students have nowhere to hide, how satisfying! "
"Previous poster … do you need to recharge your IQ? This is obviously fake news!"
"So it's all fake news. Adding thirty-five new heroes at once? I wouldn't be able to do that even if my liver exploded. "
"Thirty-one Glorious Executioner Draven? What the hell, thirty-one duplicate heroes? "
"This new activity … seems to be real."
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