When he enjoys watching livestreams of this game, he naturally wants to experience it for himself.

If he discovers that Pico doesn't support the game, and if his financial situation allows him to purchase a brain-computer interface VR device, then his next VR device will have to be Futureverse.

"We call this a 'open strategy,' and it all depends on whether pico wants traffic or room to survive."

Tencent's actions may be beneficial to Pico in the short term, but in the long run, Pico is essentially turning its users into potential users of brain-computer interface VR.

The subordinate quickly grasped the brilliance of this tactic: "What if Pico refuses?"

Ren Yu: "If they don't want to, they don't want to. It's not their place to object to what we want to do."

"We communicated with our various live streaming platforms to ask them to develop a dedicated regular VR version of the application, and then encouraged our streamers to live stream brain-computer interface VR content."

“If Pico is unwilling, then we’ll just use traffic promotion to get users to download the live streaming app directly. They can’t stop users from doing it spontaneously, can they?”

After receiving Tencent's reply, Zhou Hongwei immediately saw Tencent's ruthlessness.

They're all old foxes, they know each other well.

He was perfectly aware of Tencent's strategy: "Having authorization is better than having none."

"What we need to do is not to give Tencent even the slightest bit of traffic at the official level."

"Tencent's live streaming software can be listed on the Pico platform, but we will not help them promote it."

"The only way for Tencent to spread the message among users is to drive traffic."

Zhou Hongwei's logic is that as long as Tencent creates a live streaming platform specifically for VR, it will be fine.

If Tencent wants to promote this widely, it needs to tell users that while regular VR devices can't play brain-computer interface VR games like "Heroes of the End," they can watch streamers play them.

In this way, it also indirectly helps to drive traffic and promote Pico.

Zhou Hongwei understood very well that it was impossible to stop them; technically, it was impossible to prevent players from downloading the software spontaneously.

I might as well sign a cooperation agreement but not promote or advertise for you.

If no agreement is signed, and Tencent promotes it extensively, Pico users will get used to watching VR live streams.

At this point, Tencent will take drastic measures, claiming that you have infringed on copyright.

Back then, Pico was the only one who couldn't watch VR live streams, and losing something you once had is very painful.

This would be a fatal blow to pico.

Tencent is really capable of doing something like this.

Therefore, Zhou Hongwei preferred to sign the copyright agreement first.

However, the problem is that Tencent not only wants to promote its own games, but its main goal is to build up the VR live streaming ecosystem.

Based solely on Futureverse, the number of units held in China is only a few million.

However, if other VR devices are included, VR live streaming can reach tens of millions of potential customers.

Other VR devices can also stream live, but none of them offer as much content as Futureverse.

First, build a VR live streaming ecosystem, and then promote the "Heroes of the End" e-sports competition.

Ren Yu had already made a tactical plan for this year in his mind.