Chapter 867 Who would have thought of the popularity of video games in the past?
Chapter 867 Who could have imagined the popularity of video games in the past?
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"Hi everyone, I'm Dan."
"Hi everyone, I'm Jude."
“Welcome everyone to watch our latest football league esports competition.”
"Today is a very important day, because today we will compete for the top four in the European division. The top eight will compete with players from all over the world in the Game Carnival a month later."
"That's right, let's invite our CEO of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment Europe, Ms. Matsuhashi Minoru, to give a speech."
Manchester, England, has the largest football stadium in England, called Heathrow Stadium. It is the home ground of the English team Manchester United Football Club. This stadium can accommodate more than 70,000 people to watch the game.
In normal times, this stadium is usually filled with fans from all over the world, but today this stadium looks a little different.
Because there are countless video game players gathered here today.
A European Games World Cup e-sports competition will be held here today.
The Premier League, as one of the in-depth partners of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, after they learned that Youxing Electronic Entertainment planned to hold such an event, they almost did not hesitate to give their largest football stadium to Youxing Electronics.
For entertainment use, the boss of Manchester United even waved his hand and waived any venue rent and ticket money.
Of course, he hopes that his newly formed e-sports club team can get a few more participating places.
This is mutual benefit, and Zhu Youxing readily agreed.
This competition was held quite grandly, and all the spectators in the stadium were already full. People wore various costumes of the players they supported and shouted loudly the names of their favorite video games.
At this moment, the boss of Manchester United is watching all this in an independent private box, where he has the best view and can have a panoramic view of the entire stadium.
Even though he had admitted that video games were indeed very popular, he still did not expect that e-sports could be so popular.
"I really didn't expect that."
The Manchester United boss let out a sigh.
The assistant next to him asked tentatively: "Boss, when you say you didn't expect it, you mean..."
"Look at those spectators down there."
The Manchester United boss pointed to the wave of shouts outside.
What is going on now is the football e-sports league, which is also one of the most popular e-sports events in Europe. The contestants are two people in a team. At this moment, four players are fighting hard, hoping to win here.
stood out in the competition.
"Carson! Carson!"
"Hausmann! Hausmann!"
The name of the player is like a magic power, making the audience crazy in the arena.
The Manchester United boss continued: "Look at this scene, if someone had told me ten years ago that video game competition would become a world-class entertainment event, I would have regarded that person as a lunatic."
His eyes were profound: "But now, looking at this scene, if someone told me that e-sports will not become mainstream, I would treat him as a lunatic."
"Boss, this shows that you have unique vision. You chose to be a partner of Youxing Electronic Entertainment at the earliest time." The assistant said actively flattering me.
"No, I didn't take it seriously at first." The Manchester United boss shook his head and said, "I didn't know anything about video games at the time. What I was thinking was, isn't this just something for children to play? Can something for children play?
What kind of future is there? When the children grow up, they will no longer be interested in this thing."
The assistant looked very curious and asked: "Then boss, how did you change your mind?"
"On the one hand, Youxing Electronic Entertainment gives you too much money. You only need to license a video game and you can easily get millions. This is still very good."
After the Manchester United boss finished speaking, he quickly showed a regretful expression.
It was obvious that he was beginning to regret that the money was a bit short.
If we had known that e-sports was so popular and video games were so popular, we could have asked for more licensing fees.
However, the contract we signed at that time was very long, so we could only wait for the price increase in the next year.
"On the other hand, the organizing committee of the Premier League wanted to make a breakthrough and did not want to be more controlled by FIFA, so it found a new breakthrough point. At that time, FIFA also found an entertainment company that was willing to cooperate.
Developing football games together, the Premier League and FIFA are equivalent to each finding a target to bet on, and betting on who can have the last laugh."
The assistant immediately said: "Then it's obvious, boss, that you made the right bet."
"That's right." The Manchester United boss immediately became happy, "In the end, Youxing Electronic Entertainment succeeded in this competition, and the entire Premier League team also benefited a lot from it, and I finally discovered in the process that the original
Video games are not just for children. Look at the many men, women, and children below, which is the best proof."
"Boss, your vision is unique enough."
"Haha, what I hope most now is that the boy named Carson who I just signed can bring me back this year's e-sports World Cup football championship."
He looked at the large screen hanging in the center of the field, where the live game of Carson and another one of his players was being played, and the two of them looked attentively.
Once upon a time, Carson was a guy who liked to cause trouble everywhere, but video games changed him, and video games also changed many people.
Carson's opponent is a French e-sports team player. Both parties have qualified for the e-sports World Cup, and now they are competing for the European championship.
The audience in the audience shouted loudly to support their favorite players. Whenever one of them scored a goal, there would be bursts of cheers.
Different from traditional real-life football games, football video games have a faster pace and bring more intense excitement to people.
In real football matches, it is normal for a close match to have a small score difference. Most of the more than ninety minutes of the match is spent by football players fighting for the football.
However, it is normal for both sides to score seven or eight goals in a game of football video games, and the average length of a game is also shorter. However, relatively e-sports will have more games, and the overall time is less than that of traditional football.
Almost the same, but more exciting.
The cheers of the audience in the stadium almost never stopped. Many of them even became hoarse from cheering loudly, but they still cheered excitedly. Many of them did not even understand video games, they just knew that there were games.
It was a football match, but when they saw that the football match was a video game, they did not leave the field. Instead, they became very interested in this kind of electronic football game. Coupled with the atmosphere of the scene, they quickly became involved.
In the end, after more than an hour and a total of five games, Carson's team won the final victory in the European region with a total score of three to two. Under the cheers of countless people, Carson won his victory.
The first glorious moment in life.
"Okay, we should go down, I want to reward my football player!"
Winning the European Championship made the Manchester United boss even more happy.