Therefore, Boss Jia created Counter Strike even though he didn't know much about it. It was like Dota was born before Warcraft was born.
Without Warcraft's popularity, it was hard to say whether Dota would have a chance to grow.
Of course, Dota's success was due to its game quality and gameplay. Even if Dota didn't succeed, a similar gameplay would succeed sooner or later, but it wouldn't be Dota.
Counter Strike was facing the same situation. They didn't have the buff from the half-dead players.
Most importantly, Counter Strike was released in 1999. At that time, the world's network was quite large and there were enough netizens to support an online battle game.
However, in 1997, the number of players wasn't enough.
In summary, with these two unfavorable factors, Counter Strike's failure was almost inevitable.
On the other hand, it also showed that time travel and prophets might not be a good thing.
Boss Jia understood this point later, but since Counter Strike was released in advance, it wasn't realistic to create another half-life. Therefore, Boss Jia decided to use WCG to promote Counter Strike. Whether it succeeded or not was up to fate. At worst, he could wait until 1999 when the Daqian invested a lot of money to promote Counter Strike 2.
Facts proved that Boss Jia's second decision was correct.
Although Counter Strike was rushed from the competition to the players, and the teams from the eight countries participating in the competition were mostly newcomers from the hundreds of thousands of players in Counter Strike. They registered as professional players in the shortest time possible, but their skills were mediocre.
However, there was a major change in Counter Strike's competition system, which was to strengthen the national character.
Although all the players represented their country, the previous competitions were all individual battles. Moreover, there might be internal conflicts in the finals, so the national character wasn't very strong.
It was similar to most of the competitions in the Olympic Games, where the players' IDs were placed above the country's name.
However, Counter Strike was different. Counter Strike wasn't an individual game but a team of five. It was a group battle.
Therefore, under Boss Jia's suggestion, each country could only send one representative team to participate in the WCG competition. Just like the World Cup, each country could only send one representative team.
In a five-person team, the players' IDs weren't so eye-catching. The only eye-catching thing was their country's name above their head.
In this way, the expectations of all the people in the country would be concentrated on one team. This team would have the honor of the whole country on their shoulders. Naturally, the feelings of this team would be more intense than in other competitions.
Therefore, when the Counter Strike competition started, the teams of Hua Xia, Fusang, United States, ST, Korea, Ying State, Germany, and Australia appeared on the stage, the top eight teams of Counter Strike.
All the players were cheering for their country's representatives.
No one knew if it was intentional or not, but after the lots were drawn, China's opponent was actually Japan. This match-up could be said to have instantly caused an uproar in the entire stadium. All the Chinese and Japanese spectators were boiling with excitement.
The United States's opponent was Korea, ST's opponent was Germany, and Ying State's opponent was Australia. Except for ST's match against Germany, the rest of the matches were very interesting.
Since ancient times, Fu Sang had never been a country that was strong in shooting games. Moreover, the members of Fu Sang were all temporarily put together. Two of the members were even members who were directly selected after signing up. This was because in the entire Fu Sang, there were only a total of a dozen people who signed up for the national team.
On the contrary, the Boss Jia attached great importance to Hua Xia's team. The Daqian Games worked very hard to find a few masters to join the team. As a result, the Fusangpeople were beaten to a pulp. After three matches, they didn't even win a single match. The total number of their kills was less than ten, while Hua Xia had hundreds of kills.
In the end, Hua Xia's team only lost a small match if the referee didn't ask the team members to give the Fusangpeople some face. Then, the Fusang's team defeated the Fusang's team. After that, they never played FPS games again.
The Fusang's players were naturally shocked and angry. Many of the players who watched the match decided to take revenge and started playing Counter Strike to practice their skills. This improved the eSports atmosphere in Fusang.
After Hua Xia's team defeated Fusang, it was the match between Korea and the United States.
The Koreans weren't very interested in Counter Strike. However, to everyone's surprise, this Korean team was very strong. They actually played five matches against the United States in the best-of-five matches. In the end, they eliminated the United States and advanced to the semifinals.
What? The Koreans had defeated the Americans in an international competition? Furthermore, they had won by using gunfire as a weapon?!
All the Korean players were excited. All of a sudden, all the Koreans who were not interested in Counter Strike began to talk about it. The five hastily formed teams had become the heroes of Korea!
It couldn't be helped. The Koreans really needed heroes who could defeat the Americans. Therefore, even though the five of them were defeated by the Chinese team, they were still treated like heroes when they returned to China.
This was the mentality of the Koreans. They flattered the United States the most, relied on the United States the most, feared the United States the most, and hated the United States the most.
This kind of mentality was actually the same for the people of Fusang.
In other words, all the countries in the world that had lost their military sovereignty had the same mentality as the United States.
The United States is my father, but it doesn't stop me from being an unfilial son.
In addition, ST defeated Germany, and Australia defeated Ying State.
What was even more unexpected was that the champion was actually the ST team. The final battle was between the ST team and the Chinese team. As a result, the Chinese team was almost shaved bald by the ST team. If it weren't for the ST team's King, who was the captain of the ST team, saying that he wanted to give face to the host and give the overall situation to the Chinese team, the Chinese team would have suffered a crushing defeat of 3: 0.
Boss Jia was puzzled by this result. Were the members of ST's team also carefully selected from all over the country?
But even so, with ST's small population, it was impossible for them to defeat Hua Xia!
Later, when Boss Jia was eating with ST's King, he smiled and told Boss Jia that in fact, except for him, the other four players in ST's team were members of his Palace Guards. They were the best sharpshooters in the country, the kind in real life.
As for himself, he often went hunting in Africa. Although his shooting skills were not as good as the Palace Guards, he was still a sharpshooter. After all, he was an expert who had shot hundreds of thousands of bullets!
Although it was their first time shooting in a computer game, it was different from a real war. Their operation might not be as good as those professional players.
However, the battle deployment and fighting skills were similar. These were things that professional e-sports players couldn't master.
Therefore, these real-life experts would only need to train for a few weeks to become experts in the game!
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