December 16th, Sunday …
Pei Qian woke up and was completely dumbfounded when he saw the topics on the trending searches.
"# Support FV Team's transformation to GOG #???"
"How did this thing get on the trending topics?"
"That's ridiculous!"
Pei Qian slept after watching FV Team's competition yesterday. He did not pay much attention to the discussions on the forum.
The only thing that made him feel gratified in yesterday's competition was that FV Team did not say "thank Boss Pei" after winning the championship.
As for whether FV Team would lose or win, Pei Qian could accept it. It was not a big problem.
However, Pei Qian could not remain calm when he saw this trending topic on his cell phone when he woke up.
What was going on?
Why did they support FV Team's transformation to GOG?
At first, Pei Qian thought that this topic was started by GOG's players to fan the flames and poach IOI's foundation.
However, he realized that he had guessed wrong after clicking on the topic and reading everyone's discussions.
After the competition yesterday, GOG's players were enthusiastically discussing the exciting civil war between the two domestic teams at the international invitational tournament. They did not pay attention to FV Team at all.
Only a few informants had come to GOG's forum to congratulate Boss Pei for winning the Double Championship of GOG and IOI once again. The entire world should celebrate.
The first to change was IOI's forum.
If FV Team had lost, it would have been a little sour for them to go to Finger Games to change the version and secretly give the other teams the Balancer. However, now that FV Team had won, they had to settle the old and new grudges!
That was because in E-Sports, only those who won would have the right to speak. They would be able to scold others with confidence.
FV Team had already proven that they could still win the championship under the organizers' Finger Games' version. However, this also meant that they would be targeted more next year.
Thus, IOI's players were unhappy. They felt that it was not worth it for FV Team. Thus, they started a topic, hoping that they would switch to GOG. As players, of course, they would follow suit.
This topic was only being discussed in IOI's circle, but many GOG players saw it and felt that it was a good thing! Welcome with both hands raised!
You IOI players have obviously made the wrong decision. Your mistake was that you decided too late!
You should have switched to GOG last year!
Thus, the players on GOG's side were naturally happy to add to the popularity of this topic. In one night, the topic # Support FV Team's transformation to GOG # became a hot topic. It even surpassed the topic of GOG and IOI winning the two World Competitions.
Even under FV Team's celebration Weibo, the first few hot comments were all feeling that it was not worth it for them and hoping that they would transfer to GOG as soon as possible.
Pei Qian was dumbfounded at the content.
This was completely out of their expectations!
What would happen if FV Team really transferred to GOG?
One had to know that FV Team was the two-time champion of IOI's international competition. They had two sets of champion skins.
Wouldn't it be equivalent to rubbing Finger Games' face against the ground if the champion's skin was transferred to GOG before it was even made?
What to do? Should I do something?
Pei Qian was still the boss of FV Team after all. Most of the people in FV Team would listen to him no matter what he said, be it if he asked FV Team to transfer to GOG or stay in IOI.
However, Pei Qian decided not to care about this after some consideration.
If FV Team wanted to transfer to GOG, they could do so. If not, they could not.
Let's see how they feel about this matter.
If FV Team really felt that it was a little unfair to stay in IOI, Pei Qian could not bear to force them to stay there.
Even if FV Team really transferred to GOG and brought a group of players over, they would most likely bring over some players from IOI's local server. There were not many players left in IOI's local server.
Thus, Pei Qian did not continue thinking about this matter.
Since GOG and IOI's World Competition had ended, this matter could be considered over. He should continue to worry about other things …
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2 PM in Europe, 8 PM in China.
Chrétien, Jin Yong, and a few upper echelons of Finger Games were holding an emergency meeting in the hotel where the staff of Finger Games were staying.
Logically speaking, Jin Yong should not participate in a meeting of this level. However, the problem was that the main problem to be discussed this time was the local server.
After FV Team won the championship yesterday, the public opinion in China exploded, but the activity of the local server players decreased!
Today, the operators of IOI's local server had already sent a message saying that the activity of the players on the second day of winning the championship had plummeted compared to the same period!
This was even under the circumstances where IOI's local server had already opened various welfare activities such as half-price for the champion's skin and extra experience when playing games.
What's more, today was Sunday. There should be more players.
It was fine that the championship had been snatched away by FV Team in other regions. It was difficult to arouse the enthusiasm of the players, but why did the activity of the players in the local server plummet? Why did it fall even more seriously than in other places?
That was completely unacceptable!
One had to know that there were not many players left in IOI's local server to begin with. If this continued, it was hard to say if there would still be enough people to start the game.
If it was a standalone game, it did not matter how many active players there were online. In any case, everyone would play their own games and would not affect each other. However, the gaming experience of players in MOBA games depended entirely on the total number of players. If there were too few people, they would not be able to match up with opponents of similar strength. Low-level players would easily be beaten up and crushed. This would further exacerbate the collapse of the entire pyramid structure from the bottom up!
If this went on, the local server would probably stop operating in a few months' time.
It would be meaningless even if they gritted their teeth and held on. At that time, they would only be able to queue up once every ten minutes. It would be no different from shutting down the server.
This emergency meeting was to solve these two main problems.
First, how could they stop the loss of players in IOI's local server?
Second, how should they resolve the negative comments about encouraging FV Team to switch to GOG?
As the person-in-charge of IOI's local server, Chrétien and Jin Yong naturally could not run away. They were pulled over for a meeting immediately.
Jin Yong sat in a corner of the conference table, listening to the upper echelons of Finger Games and Chrétien chattering. He felt a little hopeless.
His standard of whispering was not bad, but he still felt uncomfortable on such an occasion.
He had thought that he would be able to fly back tomorrow after the IOI World Competition was over. There should not be any more major missions in the near future.
Never in his wildest dreams would he have thought that before he could fly away, the wok would fly over first!
They were clearly not in the country, but they still had to take the blame for something happening to IOI's local server. That was ridiculous.
Jin Yong felt that he was really unlucky.
Previously, he had felt very lucky to be selected to join IOI's cooperation department. After all, this was a key project that the upper echelons of Long Yu Corporation had decided on. However, he now deeply realized that this was a sinkhole!
He had not stopped ever since he joined this department!
There would always be some unimaginable and serious problems in all sorts of unexpected places.
He had to deal with it, but he could not!
Take this matter for example. Jin Yong could not figure out how to deal with it no matter how hard he thought.
The only way he could think of was for Finger Games to admit defeat obediently. Then, they would adjust the content that had been cut off from FV Team in the next version and make it look like they were really serious about balancing the data and not targeting FV Team.
However, was that possible?
If Finger Games were to do that, it would indeed be possible to save a portion of the players in IOI's local server and retain FV Team. However, it would also very likely cause a series of other losses.
Would foreign players and teams think that they were succumbing to the power of domestic players? Would they think that they were 'crying babies have milk to eat'? What if foreign players threatened to quit the game as well?
They would strengthen the heroes that FV Team was good at. If they really gave FV Team three consecutive championships next year, would the teams in the other divisions still be able to play?
One had to know that Finger Games' current strategy was to let IOI's local server wait to die and focus on the European market. They had at least picked up CEM this time. They were just one step away from the championship. Wouldn't all their previous efforts be wasted if they changed everything back?
The current situation was that IOI's local server players felt that they had been treated unfairly and did not want to play with them anymore. However, the players in Europe and the United States could not win the championship year after year and could not see hope year after year. They were also very unhappy.
It would have been fine if IOI was the only game in the world. They could only blame themselves for being too lousy.
However, GOG was currently expanding very strongly in the European and American markets. The league had also been established. The European and American teams had gone from being beaten up last year to entering the top four this year. That was obvious improvement.
If they could not win the championship, would it be the same for the European players?
GOG was ahead of IOI in many aspects. What's more, its momentum in recent months was obviously much stronger than IOI's. No matter how one looked at it, it was more worth investing in and looking forward to than IOI.
Thus, a very strange situation appeared on IOI's side. Everyone felt that they should be taken care of.
If they continued to target FV Team, the local server players would not do it. If they changed back, the European and American players would not do it.
This root contradiction could not be resolved at all. This outcome was already destined from the moment Finger Games targeted FV Team's heroes in order to let the European and American teams win the championship.
If CEM Team could win the championship, they might be able to protect Europe. Now, they could not get anything out of both sides.
Everyone discussed and said some very superficial methods. For example, make the champion's skin look better, organize more activities to promote FV Team in the country, change the heroes that FV Team was good at in the Spring Competition version back a little before considering whether to cut them in the international competition.
However, everyone present knew very well that these measures could not solve the problem fundamentally. Even if they could be effective, the effect would most likely be limited.
After a period of silence, Chrétien said, "Perhaps we have to prepare for the worst in advance."
"What should we do if the local server's players are so lost that it is difficult to operate normally and the value of the ICL league is on the verge of collapse?"
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