article from: People gaming, Author: Wang Siqi, editor: Kevin, Head Figure from: People gaming
On October 16, 2020, Blizzard officially announced that StarCraft 2 will stop paying content. In other words, in the next few years, it can be predicted that Blizzard will gradually abandon support for this game.
On the fourth day after the incident, I came to StarCraft Old Boy Company to have a conversation with Huang Xudong. I talked with him about the past and the future, as well as him, StarCraft Old Boy, and StarCraft for twenty years.
1. “We who are eating this bite of rice don’t panic, why are you panicking?”
The live broadcast will continue.
On the evening of the 16th, the two anchors of StarCraft Old Boys Huang Xudong and Sun Yifeng came to the live broadcast room on time-for so many years, everyone still likes to call them Xiao Se and 91.
Before the broadcast, the barrage in the live broadcast room is particularly numerous. When Xiao Se spoke, the screen was full of all kinds of speech.
“Farewell to StarCraft”
“Blizzard XXX refund money”
“Thanks to SCBOY for your company for many years, and I’m over with flowers”
Seeing the negative energy full of the screen, Huang Xudong was a little bit dumbfounded: “I said, don’t do this, it’s like StarCraft 2 is about to die.”
“Today’s rhythm is quite a lot, I understand, I understand”, 91 still uses the joking tone of the past, making it difficult to tell whether he is serious or joking, “Sky of StarCraft II If it doesn’t collapse, I’ll just put it here.”
After that, although they couldn’t stop the full-screen complaints, the two of them eased their emotions and turned their perspective back to the game.
“Come, come and watch the game! Don’t the game never stop?”
Start the live broadcast.
The two habitually come to the live broadcast room every evening. This form has not stopped since 12 years. According to Huang Xudong, they broadcasted more than 340 days last year..
“Tired, but this is my job!”
On October 16, during the nearly five-hour live broadcast, the two kept comforting the players in the barrage.
“Don’t worry too much, don’t over interpret this matter”
“StarCraft 2 is not dead yet”
“We who are eating this bite of rice are not panicked, why are you panicking?”
From commenting on the game, to playing Star Archon, to playing CSGO in entertainment, the live broadcast of the day is full of choreography. When Huang Xudong finally said “Sleep and goodbye everyone”, the live broadcast room was full of joy, and no one was as negative as at the beginning-maybe after a joke, everyone can sleep peacefully.
Huang Xudong and Sun Yifeng, the two partners have been commenting and live broadcasting for 7 to 8 years. Since 15 years, the style of the two has no longer been so professional. The purpose is “Play with everyone and entertain the content. More”. He believes that the people who watch him live every day are because they want to relax after get off work instead of coming to interstellar class.
The same is true today. To bring the rhythm back successfully, he and 91 were confident before the live broadcast. Nevertheless, when Huang Xudong finally slowly read out the name of a sent airplane audience, he gradually brought everyone back to reality.
“Thank you Activision Blizzard for making better airplanes-thank you brother, Activision Blizzard will do better and better.”
II. “White Lies”
Two days before the incident occurred on the 16th, Huang Xudong learned of the incident earlier than everyone else. On the 14th, when he was commenting on the Blizzard game Triathlon, some viewers found that he was in a bad state that day, easily irritable, and obviously something was overwhelming.He first said that he was too tired that day, but after talking about it, he added: “After learning about this, the mentality did not explode, and more just a little can’t figure it out-I didn’t expect this day to come so early.”
“I always thought that Blizzard would embark on this road to stop paying, but I didn’t expect it to be so fast. What I expected is three years from ESL-Blizzard and ESL renewal in 2022 There may be problems, but it also depends on the three years of revenue or various data. There are two years to do, and he still has to support ESL. But for what reason, the money has not been made in the past two years. What? And all the players called him to pay, I have never seen a game, the player said, “please let me krypton gold”, only this game, really, can’t figure it out…”
He couldn’t stop talking about it.
After the live broadcast that day, he chatted with NetEase’s friends and 91 for a long time. During the chat, he fell into a sad mood several times. At this time, he admitted that 91 was more optimistic.
“There was no doubt in the communication process. We were actually very focused. In the end, we felt that as long as we do our content well-we actually prefer the anchor. StarCraft is very important to us, and we like this game very much. , But we only need to do our content.” Then he paused, “I think we can wait, or even wait for the second RTS to appear.”
But he knows better than anyone else, This announcement by Blizzard not only declares that the game is on reprieve, but the plan of the StarCraft Old Boy is completely overturned and redone.
2019 is the seventh year of StarCraft Old Boys. They also made a lot of wishes at the end of 19, hoping that they can be realized in the 20th year of StarCraft. Even-now it’s ridiculous to think of it, they even look forward to Blizzard can give some more support.
“Originally, we expected that next year’s team league new heroes will come out of the war treasure box. All the promotional resources of our team league will keep up with our purchase of 25 income into the league system. I calculated this system to have a chance to feed this game. Yes, they think the money allocated to the club is OK.” Xiao Se broke his fingers and counted on me.
He thinks that if it can be done as desired, this is absolutely meaningful to the interstellar ecology. Through this league, the self-financing of the Chinese interstellar ecology can basically be achieved, because as Xiao Se said, “Being a StarCraft 2 team is too It’s cheaper”.
The clues of the matter have changed since the beginning of 2020. First, Blizzard handed over the game to ESL.ESL undertakes. This made Huang Xudong think it was a good thing at the time, because after all, it was “let people who know how to do games do games.” Throughout the year, Blizzard’s work efficiency has become extremely low due to the epidemic. For game updates, there were almost no major moves throughout the year, and all offline events were also cancelled. Feeling anxious.
“Interstellar players still need to come to the offline gathering after 2~3 months. This kind of cohesion is very important. When they come back online, this kind of cohesion will dissipate. This year, there are games to watch as a whole but the overall state is no longer the same.”
Still working hard, continue to communicate with Blizzard headquarters through Netease Blizzard, and tirelessly communicate-after learning that Blizzard stopped updating paid content, he may become the last person looking forward to a turnaround.
Xiao Se said that even though they know Blizzard is “extremely arrogant”, they still hope that they can save such a game that has been with them for 20 years. They put forward a few opinions, all of which only require Blizzard’s approval of the “nod to the head” plan, including “We will make our own avatars, banners, and prop packs for the team leagues in the game, and then go to the United States to review.” He added emphatically. “The sales volume should be enough to feed all the clubs in the end.”
In the current state, it’s still falling apart.
Huang Xudong remembered that in 2012, when he had a dialogue with Blizzard’s tournament director, he had sincerely put forward his own opinions with the opponent, including: the unreasonableness of the WCS tournament system, and if doing so would lead to the future Damage to third-party events, clubs and players, etc. The answer from the tournament director at the time was very simple. The original sentence translated from English to Chinese was: “He said I just told you whether to cooperate, not for your opinion.“ p>
“That’s how they killed StarCraft and Warcraft these years,” Xiao Se said, “Now Blizzard has used 10 years of trial and error in StarCraft 2, I don’t know if Blizzard will be able to Being able to go back to the peak, but the past ten years has allowed me to see that a good game has gradually come to an end. Now in retrospect, the feeling that the difficulties encountered by Starcraft 1 has come to Starcraft 2 is really true. “
The most sad thing for Xiao Se is the announcement itself.
“In fact, StarCraft does not update, Warcraft does not update, they are all coming this way-you do not say that everyone knows well, why do you want to tell us now and break our hearts?What did the family do wrong? “
Speaking of this, Xiao Se laughed herself.
“It’s like—you just leave me. Why do you want to tell? Couples don’t even want to tell white lies.”
three, “Loser”
In 2010, Huang Xudong tried to give up and announced the decision to withdraw from the competition. He burst into tears on the scene of the game-this was the first time he gave up StarCraft, and his family even helped him find a job. .
“It was probably a TV station or a state-owned enterprise,” he recalled, “I was in a good family situation in childhood. It shouldn’t be difficult to return to a small place and find a stable job.”
When he first came to Shanghai, he admitted that he “loved to go to forums to spray people”. At that time, he was young and said a lot of offensive things, regardless of the consequences. Later, after being dug up by netizens, he was involved in the dispute between PLU and NeoTV. And he, as NeoTV’s only interstellar commentator, naturally became the target of shelling, and eventually he was defeated after being unable to attack for a long time.
At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Center, he announced his decision to withdraw from the circle, and cried after speaking-that was his first emotional breakdown at the scene.
“I also talked to the company. After I said it, I left, and then I just wanted to do it, just announce it, and leave after announcing it—all the people in the circle spray you and are suppressed. What I want to give up, I don’t want to do it… Why do I feel that I have worked for so many years?”
Two days later, he calmed down a lot. At this time, friends also came to persuade him, and a word from a colleague from the company woke him up: “If I leave now, I will have nothing to do with this circle in my life. But when someone mentions you, it’s just a Loser.“
Huang Xudong explains the program “Interstellar Night” produced during the period of StarCraft 1
At exactly this time, the arrival of StarCraft 2 gave him a chance. At the end of 2010, Xiao Se was on the understanding seat again, but the game changed from StarCraft 1 to StarCraft 2. According to him, if you want to fight for yourself, you are more to start again in StarCraft 2 and give yourself a chance.
Just keep doing it, Xiao Se recalled that in those two years he stopped arguing with anyone on forums, but it was inevitable that more people would scold himself. But in 12 years, the community’s view of him was basically reversed: “Others think I am still working hard, and I am quite hard. After a year of hard work, the community’s praise and attitude towards me has changed significantly. , Especially when everyone finds that PLU may not be as good as they thought.”
However, at this moment, he had the idea of going home. Because he was 30 years old in 2012, he was doing StarCraft 2 commentary and event operations on NeoTV, 3 to 5 games a day, no rest day, one month You can get 10,000 yuan-he calculated it, if you only take the money in the second half of your life, it will not be enough to gain a foothold in Shanghai.
He talked to his family and was ready to go home. In the same year, StarCraft Old Boy was established.
In the beginning, this combination of Zhou Ning, Xiao Se, F91 and MS-Joy was just a live broadcast account, so I can do live broadcast after work. Xiao Se and Joy are responsible for explaining the game, and 91 is more responsible for the first-view live broadcast. What surprised them was that in the age of 12 years when live broadcasts were not popular, they had just established a lot of fans who followed to watch live broadcasts on Twitch and Livesteam abroad: “The players are very active, and they are willing to watch it even if they are stuck.”
In the same year, this “can earn some change” combination, the real turnaround was due to a combined web tour. In 2012, the most popular way on the market is to upload videos on Youku and Tudou. There are some ads for Taobao or web games. Xiao Se clearly remembered that they were the first to find them in the game “Shenxian Dao” because “responsibleHe is the former professional player of World of Warcraft, A Feng, and we all know him.” This person in charge found KOLs in industries such as SKY and Xiaocang, and they all achieved good data and income. So they told Xiaose, you try Hey, let’s see if you can count backwards.
“We didn’t have much money at the time, but I saw Xiaocang, Miss, 2009, Haitao, they all suffered the same way as me, and eventually changed their destiny-they made money, there is nothing embarrassing to say” Xiao Said Se, “We want to try too.”
What he didn’t expect was that in the first month, 50,000 yuan was allocated to him. He was so surprised that there were so many! Although this figure lasted only two months, I saw an opportunity here-when he can earn 50,000 yuan a month, he seems to think that life can be changed.
four, transfers
In the beginning, Taobao didn’t make money.
“At that time, we sold keyboards and mice. In the first month, we earned 5000 or 4000, four people divided, haha-one 1000 yuan.”
The rabbit meat was originally because after the New Year, he brought back his mother’s rabbit meat to his colleagues to eat. The colleagues were so addicted that they hoped that “we can have more, and we are willing to spend money to buy it after plastic packaging.” Later, at the instigation of his colleagues, he negotiated with his family and put the rabbit meat on the Taobao store of Old Boy Star.
Unexpectedly, this product exploded as soon as it was launched.
“No one thought that this amount was huge–my parents still had work on them, so they got up early and went to make rabbit meat with relatives, and the sales were completed forcibly.”
After the success of the rabbit meat model, StarCraft Old Boy’s Taobao shop has changed a lot. Game peripherals, rabbit meat from Xiaosejia, 91 hairy crabs, etc.-by 2019, the sales of the old boy Taobao store have been very impressive. Besides, now theyThe rabbit meat from Taobao’s Taobao shop has been given to the production line, and the fish market business of “Hangzhou Half City” is also included.
Andfor the content of the StarCraft Boys, the real turnaround is in 2014.
That year, the live broadcast platform became popular, and StarCraft Old Boy undoubtedly became the top player in the game of StarCraft. Naturally, he received a lot of signing fees from the bonus of the live broadcast platform. What makes them most gratified is that since 14 years, the data of StarCraft’s live broadcast began to burst suddenly, especially the video he inadvertently contributed to Station B has also received a lot of clicks. For a while, he himself didn’t know the cause of the outbreak.
“We don’t know whether it was accumulated by ourselves or because of the live broadcast platform,” he said, “but when the two platforms got up, we did catch up.”
At this time, Huang Xudong is still NeoTV’s event operation and event commentary. In the evening, I became a member of the Old Boys of the Stars and began to broadcast live broadcasts of such self-made brands as First View and Kung Fu Cup. The change in live content came from 2017. No one had expected that several old men who explained the interstellar could become more popular because of “eating chicken.”
“After Chicken Chicken came out in 17 years, No and Mayuki wanted to find a breakthrough point for new projects. At that time, they were no longer able to do the storm, so they found Chicken Chicken. We also wanted to try it and help them to get through.”
Mayuki (马雪) was a StarCraft 2 professional player, post-transition commentary
So the content and duration of the live broadcast changed again. In the afternoon, Interstellar Old Boys became “SCBOX”-in a sense, since 17 years, SCBOX’s traffic and popularity are even greater than those of Interstellar Old Boys. The duration of the live broadcast has doubled from 3 to 4 hours to 8 hours. At the same time, the number of live broadcast viewers and the traffic of station B are also doubling and increasing.
In 2020, despite various factors such as plug-ins and game updates, the StarCraft Boys officially withdrew from the chicken-eating project. In addition to the inherent StarCraft 2 matches, the content of the daily live broadcast is also involved in football, CSGO and more games. The two continue to “do it if they don’t agree”, and the live broadcast style is becoming more and more harmonious: Toxic milk, aquatic giants, and Sun Yifeng will always be my eldest brother… The Star Interstellar Boy may be one of the most confusing live broadcast rooms on the Internet.
Interstellar comedians
However, just when the StarCraft Old Boys live broadcast room has been operating in the past few years, the domestic StarCraft 2 has experienced the opposite path.
5. Regret for ten years
“This decade should be a decade of trial and error for Blizzard in gaming.”
This is not the first time Huang Xudong has expounded this idea to me, and now he feels a little bit more: “Let me give an example-now looking back, I am watching StarCraft 2 and League of Legends was born in almost the same year, and it is also step by step that League of Legends has become like this now, while StarCraft 2 has gradually lost its height.”
If you borrow Huang Xudong’s opinion, he believes that StarCraft 2 has never been popular in China.
First, because slow. Xiao Se recalled that StarCraft 2 was released in 2010, which was highly anticipated, but it was only launched in 2011 in China, which caused the loss of many players during this period. Second, he believes that the monthly card, point card mode has allowed a large number of players to be dismissed when the game first landed on the national server.
“Maybe many players have been looking forward to it for so long, but never thoughtAn RTS game would be such a charging model, which seemed ridiculous at the time. “
Fate also at the time.
In 2011, it happened to coincide with the League of Legends landing in China, so a large number of players were attracted to the past. Xiao Se remembers that after Blizzard discovered this problem that year, as a way to remedy the Chinese market, he moved BWC to Shanghai in 2012. In that year, the president of Blizzard announced in the Expo site in Shanghai that “players with Wings of Freedom will upgrade Worm Heart for free” this message is enough to inspire interstellar players-however, although Blizzard has worked hard to promote the results in 12 years Still in vain. StarCraft II, which lost its high ground, went all the way down in those years. Until 13 years, “China’s StarCraft market officially entered a trough.“
Without competitions, no players, the online rate of the national server fell to only four digits-no one expected that StarCraft 2 experienced such a waterloo in China in only three years. Although at the same time, the foreign data just released by Wormheart is still good, but the domestic interstellar environment is already quite dire.
In 14 years, things changed slightly. Xiao Se recalled: “After NetEase Blizzard took over, it began to do the Golden League, do college games, and slowly cultivate-of course, it also encountered the outbreak of live broadcast platforms in 14 years. Live broadcast platforms such as Douyu came in and the plate slowly grew. Legacy of the Void is on sale, StarCraft 2 has been increasing data, and the data has been very good this year until last year. By the way, do you remember that last year when the data was updated, the national server has been stuck, and nearly 100,000 people are online every day.”< /p>
Strictly speaking, the data of StarCraft 2 has not exploded. However, for a game that has been launched for ten years, 100,000 monthly life does not prove that a game is really “hot”, but at least it is clear: With such a harsh domestic interstellar environment, what have been experienced by Interstellar 2 and Interstellar people in these years to be able to embark on such a path.
“Special regret” Xiao Se was very sad. When she talked about the development of StarCraft 2 in China during the ten years, she said:It can be said that StarCraft 2 is really a decade of trial and error by Blizzard-I don’t know if Blizzard will be able to return to the peak in the next ten years, but these ten years have shown me the measurement standard of a good game. It is changing, not only is the game production for a long time, but also requires good post-operation. “
What Huang Xudong regrets may also be the regret of interstellar players. Xiao Se clearly remembers that in 2011, LOL was just a performance item in the WCG competition, “no one watched it at the scene.” On the other hand, StarCraft 2 was surrounded by water. In their view that year, StarCraft 2 should have been a game that could lead an era, but Blizzard has gradually played the StarCraft 2 deck of cards in these years.
“In the earliest days, I remembered that the quality of League of Legends games was simply’unsightly.’ I have also seen Tencent and Fist have been making LOL step by step, step by step, step by step. Do it well. Including today’s S game, LPL, LCK and other system leagues, they have gradually become projects comparable to traditional sports.” Xiao Se said sadly, “What has Blizzard been doing in the past ten years? He first played with the Koreans. Fighting, and then very arrogant to establish their own system, not listening to any opinions from anyone… This year S10 was held in China, but StarCraft 2 ushered in such a face.”
“Ten years, ten years” Xiao Se paused, and continued, “I don’t think they have a good understanding of e-sports, which has caused problems in all their projects, even if they invest the most OWL also had problems this year. For this reason.”
Six, old boy
During the trough and improvement of StarCraft 2 in recent years, StarCraft Old Boy has also ushered in a new phase of change. At the end of 2019, Huang Xudong and Zhou Ning quit their jobs at NeoTV, established StarCraft Old Boy Company, and officially started their business.
He said frankly that after the focus was on live broadcast, as the live broadcast business increased, he said that he could no longer do specific work on NeoTV. “I don’t want to hang around on NeoTV anymore.” Although “I hang up for so long and the boss won’t say anything, but I always feel a bit sorry for NeoTV. In addition, I feel that I am still young and I can come out and do something.” After thinking about it for a long time, I decided not to do this and I would go on.
The Old Boy was established on January 1, 2012, and it has been 8 years now
At the beginning of the establishment of the Star Boys, there were two general directions of business. One was an advertising company for anchors, helping anchors with advertising services. The other is to do Warcraft RPG-this is the first time they overturned after starting a business.
“I didn’t expect the change to be so fast.” Xiao Se murmured with me like “what can I do”.
“At the time, we thought that the Warcraft RPG map was a good entry point, so we thought we came out and gave it a try. Who knew the whole environment changed too fast after doing it-you know, there was no auto chess when I came out to prepare (laughing), when we started to do half of it, it was the hottest time of the Warcraft battle platform, but then everyone went to dota to play Auto chess is gone-so this project is gone.”
Nowadays, the fifth floor of the building where the RPG was supposed to be made is empty. We found two chairs in the room and sat down, and he said: “It’s a lesson.”
The change of identity is becoming more and more tiring for him, and the most intuitive feeling of the audience in the live broadcast room is that there are more’Chafan’: “Every day I think about how To keep the company alive, there are a lot of things that I don’t want to do. Now I don’t want to take over a lot of jobs, but now a partner will tell you that there are so many people downstairs waiting for you to eat.” p>
91 has the smallest change during this period. When talking about him, littleLulu’s mind still looks like when he came to Shanghai in those years and lived in his home.
In 2004, Huang Xudong and Sun Yifeng met for the first time in an offline match. He said that because the two of them were both “Abby” on the forum before, they were already netizens. The first time they met, there was no greeting, and they just joked “Bag and chat.” In 2010, NeoTV won the broadcasting rights of the Korean League OSL. Xiao Se needed someone to cooperate with him to explain the game. However, due to the opposition between NeoTV and PLU at that time, many people were reluctant to come, especially at the time. The company couldn’t get any remuneration, Huang Xudong looked around, only F91 was willing.
“I don’t know what to do if I’m bored at home—he’s not afraid to offend PLU. It’s good to come to my house for 2 months. Of course he doesn’t need money, haha” Xiao Se said with a smile. The air is full of memories.
The two people only had one computer, which coincided with the launch of StarCraft 2. Except for understanding, they separated their sleep time and played StarCraft 2, and they spent two months like this-that was their first cooperation, although Huang Xudong Admit that he is not a qualified commentator, but “After talking for so many years, I have also practiced, and it’s okay.”
Fifteen years later, with the departure of MS-JOY, NeoTV needed a commentary partner, so Huang Xudong found him again. The two have been working together to this day.
“Everyone has really been for so many years, and they have worked together-as the saying goes, they have carried guns together, so this is (feeling) span>Not the same. Maybe in the future, many, many years later, we will not be together to fight for the cause, but we are still good brothers after all.”
“Play in the interstellar for a lifetime, and be a lifetime friend.”
One detail is that both he and 91’s WeChat are public, and his 5,000 friends have long been filled by water friends. Another detail is that he discovered that after so many years of live broadcasting, the age distribution of StarCraft users and their users has become very wide. At the beginning, he always thought that “interstellar users are 25 to 40 or so”, until he participated in several offline activities, especially in the comic exhibition, all of them were junior high school students and high school students, and they were “very understanding”. At a glance, it is their old audience.
In the past ten years, he has gained 50 pounds, but his mentality has not changed. He feels that his passion for interstellar is still there. 91 is the same. Sometimes he looks at so many friends, but what he thinks is, “Maybe we won’t do live broadcast later, everyone will watchNot anymore, but I still hope that StarCraft will become a good memory for everyone…Haha, maybe after you get old, you will remember to watch this game with us, which is pretty good. “
seventh, the third sailing
In the past few years, Huang Xudong has had three emotional breakdowns due to interstellar.
The first time in 2010 was after announcing his retirement. He “has been working desperately for more than a year after transitioning to StarCraft 2” and finally changed everyone’s view of him. But he knew in his heart that he still had to go home at the age of 30, accepting an ordinary job, and returning to ordinary life. Now he thought, if it wasn’t for the old interstellar boy, there would be no follow-up.
The second collapse, what he wanted to give up that day was the future of China StarCraft 2.
“I received a lot of reports at the time. When I checked the REP, I thought, TMD, don’t be ah… It turned out that except for one false report, the others were all.”
In 2017, there was a false match event in the NetEase Golden League.
The matter continued to ferment, until finally 7 players were found to be suspended-this suspension almost ruined all the new generation of interstellar players in our country. On June 10, 2017, Xiao Se said to everyone in the live broadcast: “It is possible for young people to make mistakes. I know that these players are not very superior in their lives. This is understandable, but unforgivable. “
This is the last time he shed tears in the live broadcast room. He thought a lot that day-after NetEase and the old boy painstakingly run the game and ecology for many years, when he was about to get results and results, he cut off hope. .
So, 18 years became the year when China Interstellar was defeated in the international arena. When they learned that they sponsored the contestants abroad(Starcraft Old Boy as a sponsor sponsors Chinese players to go abroad for the game, the first time the world’s anchor sponsors the players), unexpectedly lost to Starcraft Water at the Valencia audition Friends, he and Mangzong of 91 and NetEase Blizzard blew a cold wind overnight on Lingshi Road in Shanghai.
“What’s the point? Are we stupid to do this?”
He has to admit again that 91 is more optimistic than him in many cases, and more willing to accept reality than him. On the same day, 91 patted his shoulder and said to him: Let’s hold on again-at least until the end of this year, it can be regarded as a conclusion.
In the Montreal race at the end of that year, Li Peinan stood up.
“Without Li Peinan, I can’t imagine what the current players look like—even though we don’t have enough Li Peinan, there is still hope.”
Today, Xiao Se and Old Interstellar Boy have encountered the third and biggest problem, and what they are preparing is the third set sail of Old Interstellar Boy.
“ESL and GSL are both supported by Blizzard, but after two years there should be no more money. If not, where is the way out for these games? Without these two players, will they disappear? The next two years Will ESL build an ecosystem and find sponsors by yourself…”
Xiao Se muttered to herself, as if she was asking me a question and then asking herself.
“But what is certain is that Starcraft is valuable,” Xiaose said. “E-sports can independently make its own value. Now that manufacturers choose to dispose of it, it may also be an opportunity for Starcraft 2. Blizzard In the past, in order to get back the benefits, he fought a lot with KeSPA. Now when he takes the initiative to give up this benefit, can the third-party ESL be truly recognized through ratings, community influence, etc.? If it can form a positive cycle, That e-sports is valuable-I have always believed that the value of e-sports is the real value.”
The value of StarCraft II, he repeated over and over again, as if to explain himself.
Just like the gaffe in the live broadcast after learning the news in advance, but after the announcement, he pretended to be calm and comforting the water friend, in all the conversations, I can feel this kind of Twist and hover. In Huang Xudong’s years, he has cried and laughed for StarCraft, made money, and thought about leaving. Now he knows that after October 16th, the old interstellar boy is the only one who can’t fall. Both he and 91 know this.