Chapter 606 - Sponsorship Fees (1/2)
Eric was amused. “Why wouldn’t I be sure? IOI is formidable in the rest of the world. It only failed in China because it was subject to unfair gaming regulations!
“You produced the athletes, you produced the judges, and you took IOI as GOG’s stepping stone. IOI didn’t fail because there’s anything wrong with it. Of course, I would have complete confidence in it!”
Lin Wan nodded and smiled. “Alright, I wish you all the best, then.”
Obviously, Eric had not realized the difference between IOI and GOG’s quality. He was merely blaming IOI’s failure on Tengda’s alleged underhanded tricks.
Lin Wan also clearly wanted Eric to hold on to that view.
Eric took a sip of his coffee. “I wish you all the best as well, Miss Lin. I wonder if everyone in your department lost their jobs after losing IOI’s management rights. I guess not. After all, this was all a part of Tengda Corporation’s plan. You were probably given a brand-new project to work on.
“It’s a pity that Tengda Corporation didn’t treasure the opportunity to work on a rare S-Grade game like IOI, which would probably only come across once every ten years. You won’t get another chance.”
Lin Wan smirked and stood up.
“Mr. Eric, you don’t have to worry about that. We already have a new job to do. GOG’s international servers are going to be opened soon. Guess how much we have in our marketing funds.
“Seventy million US dollars! What a coincidence!” Lin Wan purposely exclaimed sarcastically.
The hand Eric was using to hold his coffee cup paused in midair.
What was the meaning of this? Are they going global without any warning?
What’s more, they’re… using our money to do that?
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August 6th, Saturday…
At DGE Esports Club…
Huang Wang just finished setting up his camera, which had only just arrived.
Old Zhou dissed him. “I wonder who it was who said he would not reveal his face back then.”
Huang Wang sounded helpless as he responded, “I don’t have a choice. I don’t know why people keep asking me to switch on my webcam every single day. What’s there to see?
“I’m a man. There’s no cleavage to reveal, unlike female live-streamers… er, okay, I do have cleavage, but no one would really want to see that!
“Yet, the requests for me to switch on my webcam are incessant, and there have been more and more of them recently. Someone even insists every day that I’m only refusing to switch my webcam on because I’m ugly. How can I tolerate that?!”
Old Zhou laughed, amused that netizens had so many tricks up their sleeves these days. Live-streamers were practically being controlled by them.
Huang Wang adjusted his camera and started live-streaming as usual. The moment Huang Wang started live-streaming, a huge number of viewers entered the room.
Huang Wang won a lot of fans over from his game with Pang Ling. After he set up his own account, many fans started following him in waves.
The competition had attracted many gamers over to GOG, who then became fans of Pang Ling… and then became fans of Huang Wang.
What’s more, Huang Wang was good at live-streaming. Each time he played with Pang Ling, they joked and laughed as they slaughtered everyone else in the game. Huang Wang’s sharp tongue also worked nonstop, perfectly suiting his viewers’ taste.
After all, many viewers thought that speaking more equated to having the gift of the gab. No matter what the live-streamer said, they would be happy as long as they could hear something.
As Huang Wang’s live-streams became increasingly popular, the platform started offering various recommendations of it, which caused the number of fans to keep increasing in return.
When viewers first entered his live-stream, they had talked about anything and everything under the sun. Yet, a few days later, all the bullet screen comments revolved around something else.
“???”
“Host, who are you?”
“Why is there a strong and handsome man seated there? Where did the host go?”
“Holy sh*t. This is what the host looks like? Are you sure you weren’t a boxer before you started playing esports? My mind is blown!”
“The host is so good at battling, in every sense of the word!”
“Quickly, strike a pose!”
“Is this the live-streamer that chatters incessantly? He looks so different from what I imagined! I thought that the live-streamer would be a scrawny monkey!”
Huang Wang felt upset reading all the comments.