"You're wrong. XC's goal isn't live streaming, but the League of Legends World Championship. Live streaming is just for them to relax and have some fun."
PDD is different. His looks and style are naturally suited for live streaming, and he can thrive in the live streaming industry. So I tied him to my chariot in advance, and also tricked his friends over. His friends called their friends, and in the end, all the top League of Legends streamers were on Panda TV.
"If Little Ma knew how much effort I put into this, wouldn't he give me a big red envelope?"
The coach's lips twitched, thinking to himself that it would be quite generous of him not to give Little Ma a voodoo doll, but to give him a hundred voodoo dolls every day.
After PDD returned, he immediately contacted several familiar friends, and after discussing it, they decided to sign with Panda TV.
With League of Legends being so popular right now, there shouldn't be any future in playing professionally. Take this internet cafe league, for example. It was officially organized, and the prize money was only a mere 500,000 yuan. If it were split among five people, that would only amount to 100,000 yuan. If there were teams and coaches involved, they would only get a small share of the money.
Live streaming is like earning money while playing games, and there's absolutely no reason to refuse such a good thing.
They had considered streaming it before, but League of Legends doesn't even have its own dedicated section, so streaming it in other game sections wouldn't be very effective.
If there are no viewers, the contracts with the live streaming platform will be very poor, and the platform's commission will be very high.
But this time, PDD actually said that he knew the big boss of Panda TV, and the big boss personally promised to give him benefits.
With this relationship in place, things can't possibly be worse than before. As for how much money we can make, that depends on our own abilities.
Sure enough, after they contacted Panda TV, Director Li, the person in charge there personally promised them that they would open a separate dedicated channel for League of Legends, and all members of the XC team would join. The platform would also provide traffic support.
Hearing the official response, PDD and his group were no longer worried and signed contracts with Panda TV to start broadcasting.
Moreover, they didn't just go by themselves; they also invited their friends to go together. As a result, eight or nine out of ten players who participated in the Tencent League of Legends Internet Cafe League went to Panda TV.
When the director of Tencent's League of Legends learned of this, he was overjoyed. He thought Panda TV was incredibly generous, giving League of Legends free publicity—they were practically living saints!
So he quickly ran to report this to Brother Ma.
To everyone's surprise, after hearing this, Little Ma felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a pile of shit.
From a business perspective, this was indeed a free promotion for League of Legends by Panda TV, which also increased the popularity of its own live streaming platform, making it a win-win situation.
From a personal perspective, Lin Chen is just too annoying. I make mobile games, and he comes to target my games. I make PC games, and he comes to exploit me in various ways.
What? Do I, Tony Ma, look like someone you can easily bully?
The more Little Ma thought about it, the angrier he became, and his face grew increasingly grim.
A moment later, Brother Ma slammed his fist on the table in anger.
"No way, we have to do live streaming too!"
Half an hour later, all of TX's top executives were sitting in the conference room.
When Brother Ma saw that everyone had arrived, he spoke up.
"I only have one thing to say today: we're going to launch QQ Live, which is directly competing with Panda TV from Xingchen Technology! All departments, please cooperate fully, understand?"
Little Ma thought everyone would enthusiastically answer "We understand," but to his surprise, no one reacted at all.
"Hmm? Is there a problem?"
"That's what the finance director said awkwardly."
"Mr. Ma, this time it's benchmarking against Xingchen Technology again. Isn't the return on investment too low? This year's financial statements already look terrible."
After the finance director finished speaking, the others followed suit and spoke up one after another.
"That's right, Mr. Ma. Panda TV's foundation is already there. Almost all the top streamers are on the Panda TV platform. Where are we going to recruit streamers?"
"Mr. Ma, League of Legends is doing quite well now, and Panda TV is even promoting it for free. There's no need to target them."
"Yes, yes, this is also a way for Star Technology to show goodwill towards us."
As everyone chattered on, Little Ma's expression grew increasingly grim.
Finally, Little Ma couldn't take it anymore and slammed his fist on the table.
"Enough! I just gave you a notification, not a call to discuss things. Those who are capable can stay, and those who aren't, go to HR and resign now!"
The room fell silent the moment those words were spoken.
Brother Ma looked around and continued.
"Development department, how long will it take to complete the development?"
"Reporting to Mr. Ma, developing a live streaming platform is not difficult; the difficulty lies in investing more money to upgrade bandwidth."
"Upgrading the bandwidth is no problem. Just take the invoice to the finance department. Finance department, is there any problem?"
"Ma... no problem, Mr. Ma."
The finance director was about to continue trying to dissuade him when he saw Little Ma's gaze and immediately changed his mind.
He only dared to offer advice because of his seniority; if it were someone else, they might have already been fired.
Pony Ma's authority on Tencent is unshakeable.
"Alright, all other departments, please cooperate fully and develop it as soon as possible. We'll name it 'QQ Live.' Meeting adjourned!"
After saying that, Brother Ma left the meeting room.
This meeting infuriated him. If the finance director weren't still useful, he would have fired him on the spot.
One month later, the QQ Live platform was officially launched.
To attract streamers, QQ Live offered very generous contract terms, and even made private phone calls to top streamers promising them a large sum of compensation.
These conditions did indeed attract several top streamers to switch from Panda TV to Panda TV.
Li Mengqi stormed into Lin Chen's office.
"Boss, I'm so angry! Tencent is so bad. They actually poached streamers from Panda TV and even offered them extra money. It's unethical."
Lin Chen stared at Li Mengqi's heaving chest, his eyes following her movements, completely oblivious to what she was saying.
"Boss, did you hear that...?"
Seeing that Lin Chen didn't react, Li Mengqi glanced at him and then looked at herself in the direction of his gaze.
Her face immediately turned red, and she quickly covered her chest with both hands.
Lin Chen coughed.
"Ahem, your clothes are quite big today... oh no, I mean, they look really nice today. By the way, what did you just say?"
"Hmph, I was just saying that Tencent poached several of Panda TV's top streamers."
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