Chen Mo made a Weibo post after the group stage.
"About the Season One World Finals: Over seven million viewers watched the group stage online or on TV. Most of them were Chinese viewers, but there were also over 2.7 million viewers in Europe, America, and Korea. This also means that the League of Legends World Finals has become the most watched esports event in history. "
The Weibo post immediately caused a lot of discussion!
Most players and video game industry insiders could only vaguely feel that League of Legends was popular, but they didn't have a clear idea of how popular it was.
However, the number of 7 million viewers really shocked everyone!
This was because this number had far surpassed all the previous Esports competitions, which meant that the World Finals of "League of Legends" had become an important event, comparable to some traditional sports!
On the forums.
"Over seven million viewers for the S1 Finals? Is this for real? Isn't this just a League of Legends tournament? "
"I don't think it's fake. Just Maoyu alone has over two million viewers, and that doesn't include other platforms, official channels, and overseas viewers. Even if Maoyu faked the numbers, Chen Mo wouldn't fake the numbers. "
"Haven't you noticed that a lot of the chat groups and forums have been talking about the finals? Obviously, this is the real number! "
"I don't think seven million is a lot. The International Science and Technology Conference in Magic City had 6.3 million viewers. Most of them probably haven't heard of that conference, right? But there's probably not a lot of people in China who haven't heard of League of Legends, right? "
"No, no, no, it's just famous among us internet addicts. League of Legends isn't that famous."
"But it's still quite famous!"
"I can only say that it's an international tournament. Many people didn't pay attention to it at the start, but it's getting more and more attention after the two Chinese teams beat the foreign teams!"
"Awesome, let's wait for the finals. If the Chinese teams can win, I think the World Finals will be history!"
…
Emperor Dynasty Entertainment Headquarters.
Emperor Dynasty Gaming Platform, Fantasy Gaming Platform, and a few other more influential platforms were having an emergency meeting.
Xu Xiaojun presided over the meeting, and his expression was very ugly.
Everyone present was the person in charge of the major platforms. It could be said that all of them held a large number of channels and resources in their hands. No matter which of these people it was, they were all people of status in the gaming industry. They were all people that independent game designers would not dare to offend.
As the saying went, "It's easy to deal with the King of Hell, but it's difficult to deal with the little devils." The people who were truly in charge of the channels and resources of the various gaming platforms were not CEOs like Lin Chaoxu and Ding Xing, but the people in charge of the platforms. If these people were to unite, they could even decide the life and death of a large number of games.
If most of the distributors in the country refused to promote the game, then it would be very difficult for the average designer to have their game appear in front of the players.
But now, the atmosphere in the conference room was very gloomy, and the expressions of these people were very bad.
Xu Xiaojun cleared his throat and said with a serious expression, "The number of viewers for the League of Legends World Finals has reached seven million, and it's currently being shared on all major forums, video websites, and livestream platforms. It's safe to say that the influence of this competition is comparable to that of many traditional sports. We can predict that after the finals, League of Legends will experience another explosive growth in the country. "
He looked at everyone in the room, "Boss Lin organized this meeting so that we can discuss countermeasures. Everyone, please express your opinions."
The person in charge of Fantasy Gaming Platform, Yao Bo, sighed, "Boss Ding is also throwing a tantrum, but … with the current popularity of League of Legends, I'm afraid any countermeasures won't work."
Xu Xiaojun also knew that Yao Bo was right. With the current popularity of League of Legends, what countermeasures could the distributors come up with? The success of the League of Legends World Finals depended on the game itself. Only when the game was popular could the eSports competition become more popular.
But this meeting was to discuss countermeasures, after all, they couldn't just stand there and watch each other, right?
Xu Xiaojun said in a low voice, "Although the current situation can't be turned around by one person or a few people, we should at least analyze the success of the League of Legends World Finals. Even if we can't come up with any countermeasures, we'll at least be able to report back."
Yao Bo nodded, "That's right, Boss Lin and Boss Ding asked us to hold this meeting for the same reason. We should at least analyze the success of the League of Legends World Finals. "
… …
It wasn't just the distributors, most of the video game designers were analyzing the success of the League of Legends S1 World Finals.
The promotion of League of Legends in China had already given the distributors a huge slap in the face. The distributors were supposed to be working together to suppress Thunderbolt Gaming Platform, but League of Legends came out of nowhere and completely crushed all the competing PC games, cementing Thunderbolt Gaming Platform's position in the PC market.
Now, Chen Mo had very successful games on both mobile and PC. He also had a place in the VR market with Minecraft and Outlast, two very unique VR games.
It could be said that the traditional distributors in China had been on the losing end since the beginning of the competition. It was a huge humiliation for so many companies to not be able to beat Chen Mo alone.
And the League of Legends World Finals was like rubbing salt into their wounds.
Originally, these distributors were generally pessimistic about the finals. It was very simple, because these distributors had organized many Esports competitions, so they knew the ropes.
Fantasy Gaming Platform had hosted many competitions in the past, and Yao Bo was one of the more famous eSports players in China.
The reason why they were complaining about it was because in the eyes of the distributors, eSports was a loss-making business. It was a way for video game companies to promote their games.
Esports required money to rent a venue, buy equipment, offer attractive prize money, and invite famous players from all over the world … These were all money, but what about the tickets? They couldn't set the price too high, it would be great if they could recover their costs, they wouldn't make much money.
It was also hard to get sponsors, the most they could do was get sponsors from a few companies like motherboards or keyboards.
Many eSports competitions were loss-making, and there were even cases of prize money not being paid out.
Chen Mo's effort this time was too big. Whether it was the venue or the prize money, everything broke records. If it was like before, they wouldn't be able to recover their costs at all.
But when the numbers came out, everyone was slapped in the face.
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