For some reason, the conversation between ST's King and Boss Jia at the banquet was spread to the Internet, and then it became popular. It turned out that there was also a trick to let the special forces in reality join the e-sports competition.
However, because of ST's special operations, it didn't arouse the disgust of many players. Some players protested to the International E-Sports Federation, saying that it was unfair for ST's special forces to participate in the competition.
However, the International E-Sports Federation said that all the professional players in ST had followed the registration procedure, and the International E-Sports Federation didn't prohibit active soldiers from participating in the competition. Therefore, there was no need to question the rules.
After the incident, as the news spread more and more widely, it gradually became an enduring legend in e-sports competitions. The phrase "I might be facing an entire team of Royal Guards" also became a famous meme in Counter Strike, spreading like wildfire.
When many players lost to a strong opponent in a competition or daily ranking competition, they would say that they were facing an entire team of Palace Guards.
As these legends and memes continued to spread, the name of Counter Strike also spread.
It was worth mentioning that this rumor spread to the ears of the armies of various countries. Some people speculated that since elites in real life could become masters in FPS games.
On the other hand, could a master in FPS games become a king of soldiers in real life?
At the very least, could an FPS game bear the heavy responsibility of training soldiers?
After all, in real life, many training conditions were not available. After all, it was impossible to put a recruit into a real battlefield for training. After all, the recruit might really die.
However, in the game, a real battlefield environment could be simulated.
Therefore, several months later, Daqian Games suddenly announced that they had reached an agreement with the relevant departments of the United States and Hua Xia to develop an improved version of Counter Strike that could help soldiers to train. This made the name of Counter Strike even more popular.
At the same time, because Counter Strike was highly entertaining and men couldn't resist guns, the sales of Counter Strike, which had been lackluster, finally began to increase. At the end of 1997, the sales of Counter Strike exceeded four million copies, which was 20 times more than in May.
This made more game manufacturers see the commercial value of WCG. A game that wasn't worth mentioning before was forced into the WCG competition, and its sales increased by 20 times.
Moreover, it wasn't the only game. Later, Need for Speed and Live Football also had similar wild growth. Naturally, more game manufacturers were eager to enter their games into the WCG competition. The E-Sports industry, which had just started, would soon flourish.
On the tenth day of the second WCG competition, the final game was StarCraft.
Different from Counter Strike, which was unknown before the competition, StarCraft, which was released directly at E3 last year, was a great success. It even replaced Red Alert became the most powerful real-time strategy game in the media.
In particular, the settings of the three forces, Protoss, Zerg, and Terran, as well as the deep plots in their backstories, attracted countless players.
On the day of the WCG, StarCraft had sold 14 million copies worldwide. As the first game to enter the WCG, StarCraft had gained an unimaginable amount of attention. It had become the game that received the most attention, second only to Red Alert, among all the games in the game competition.
Moreover, StarCraft competition had started at the beginning of StarCraft. Almost every country held national-level competitions, which made many StarCraft professional players very popular.
For example, Huang Xu, a professional player from Hua Xia, was famous for his Zerg Race Flying Dragon Sea. He won the championship of the first National League of Hua Xia.
Anyway, StarCraft had gained a lot of attention and popularity in the WCG competition. Unfortunately, the championship fell into the hands of the Koreans.
It couldn't be helped. The Koreans had taken a fancy to StarCraft when it was first released. Then, they quickly organized the StarCraft Club Professional League. Almost all the outstanding players in Korea came to participate in the Professional League.
Korea had a mature national league and club system. Even Hua Xia couldn't compare to them. After a year of development, Club Excellent Era was the only club in Hua Xia. Most of the eSports competitions in the country were internal conflicts between Club Excellent Era, which was invincible but also very boring.
In the end, the Koreans' efforts paid off. They successfully dominated the StarCraft competition. The most ridiculous thing was that in the semifinals, three out of the four players were Koreans. The final was a Korean internal conflict, which made the Koreans feel very proud. In the WCG competition, although Hua Xia was present, the Koreans cheered in the end. This made the Hua Xia players gnash their teeth in anger, but there was nothing they could do!
Their Huang Xu had been defeated by the Koreans in the quarterfinals. Their skills were not as good as theirs, so there was nothing they could do.
From the looks of it, it felt as if they had returned to the past.
In the end, Need for Speed and Live Soccer appeared as the finale. Both achieved good ratings, and Live Soccer created another climax for WCG.
Maradona, the king of football, actually appeared in the final match of the live football match. He cheered for the two players in the match and gave a speech on the spot. He said that although not everyone had the physical fitness and talent to become a professional player, everyone's brains and hands could make you the new king of football.
This speech made all the fans of Live Soccer applaud wildly. Then, the two players in the finals used Maradona as the striker. In the end, Maradona defeated Maradona, making the whole stadium laugh.
Maradona's appearance had a huge effect. It made many professional soccer fans, who didn't care about video games before, become interested in Live Soccer. This was also the reason why Live Soccer's sales soared by two million after the competition.
However, according to industry rumors, Maradona was invited by Konami for a total of five million USD, and this idea was given to Konami by Boss Jia.
Although there were many rumors in the industry, and they were chaotic, making it difficult to determine the truth, one thing was without a doubt, and that was that all video game companies understood that WCG and eSports were becoming more and more important to video games.
The game company understood this point, so WCG became even more important to them.
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