Hearing Luo Fan's words, Cao Shuai was stunned for a moment and then remembered that the company also had a map business.

Luo Fan originally asked Gao Meng to acquire a company with map qualifications, and also recruited some employees from Google Maps to start a map company.

The name of the company is Kuwo Map, which is a subsidiary of Kuwo Music.

KuWo Map has now been applied to Star Chat. The location of Star Chat and the location sent during chat are all using Kuwo Map.

"Boss, are you doing the map business just to share bikes?" Cao Shuai asked.

"Yes, the shared bicycle business is a very important part of our company's ecological chain, and our company will definitely engage in this.

The previous shared umbrellas and shared power banks are all laying the foundation for shared bicycles. However, the field of shared bicycles is not mature enough at this stage, so the company has not acted rashly.

So we can invest in ofo, but we have to pay attention to the timing and withdraw when we need to. Compared with ofo, our own shared bicycle business of Xingyuan is the most important."

Commander Cao nodded when he heard this. He probably understood what Luo Fan meant.

Xingyuan invested in ofo's shared bicycles mainly to learn from the technology and experience there, and when the time was right, it would withdraw directly and then start its own shared bicycles.

Anyway, there are no technical barriers in the bike-sharing industry, and you can gain market share by spending money.

"Brother, you don't need to worry about the shared bicycle business after you invest. If they pursue investment, you can pursue it. Just stabilize the proportion of shares in our hands. The rest of the focus will be on studying their operating model.

Compared with bike sharing, what is more important to us at this stage is the first world competition of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds".

The venue, the food and accommodation for the participating teams, the maintenance of on-site order, and whether the referee's commentary is professional must be carefully prepared, and no mistakes can be made," said Luo Fan.

"Don't worry, boss, Mr. Xu and I have basically been focusing on this during this period. It's absolutely foolproof."

"What about the online live broadcast problem? Has it been solved?" Luo Fan continued to ask.

"Solved, we can see the live broadcast of the game on our own APP and Wang Gongzi's Panda Live.

The line transmission has been checked many times, and there will definitely be no problems."

"What about the live broadcast abroad?"

"You may not believe what the boss said. We didn't even sell the live broadcast rights of the domestic "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" World Championship. It was given to Panda for free. The overseas live broadcast rights of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" were competed by major platforms and finally sold for 4,500

Thousands of dollars.

When the YouTube price reached this price, I was stunned. I really didn’t expect that they would spend so much money to buy out this live broadcast.”

"This shows that "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is still very popular abroad." Luo Fan said.

“It’s true, the foreign participating teams have all broken their heads this time, and they all look like they are bound to win the championship of the first “PUBG” World Championship.

On the other hand, the three domestic teams are all civilian teams and will probably be destroyed."

After listening to Cao Shuai's words, Luo Fan sighed. Penguin's client games are still too dominant in China. Coupled with the lack of enthusiasm for FPS games in China, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" has just caught up with the peak period of "League of Legends"

, a combination of multiple reasons has led to "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" never becoming popular in China.

Originally, Luo Fan wanted to use this league to increase the popularity of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" and then release the mobile game accordingly. However, if the Chinese team of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is defeated, this will also increase the popularity of the Hammer.

...

Two weeks later, participating teams from all over the world came to Shanghai.

At 5 pm on Saturday, July 11, 2015, the first PUBG World Championship officially kicked off.

The popularity of this tournament in China was pitifully low. Even if Luo Fan bought hot searches on many platforms, Xingyuan's internal resources were also invested in it. In the end, the popularity on major live broadcast platforms was not as popular as the popularity of LPL regular season games.

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In contrast, in foreign countries, despite the time difference in the start time of the game, the YouTube live broadcast room was packed with people.

The number of spectators in the preliminary round alone was equivalent to last year's S4 semi-finals.

The enthusiasm for FPS games abroad is evident.

This time the "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" league is not very interesting to the general domestic audience, but major Internet companies have been paying attention to it, especially Penguin.

"Mr. Ma, the viewing data for the first day of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" are out. This game is broadcast exclusively on YouTube. The most popular of today's games has more than 4 million live viewers in English.

The audience is watching, and the total number of live broadcast rooms in other languages ​​is 4 million.

Taken together, the actual number of viewers for this game exceeded nearly 9 million, which is already higher than the semi-finals of last year's S-Games."

After listening to the secretary's report, Mr. Ma frowned: "Is this game so popular abroad?"

"Yes, according to our records, the number of registered players of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in foreign countries is 4.7 times that in China, and the average online time is 5.1 times that in China."

"What about the domestic live broadcast data this time?" Mr. Ma continued to ask.

"The real popularity is about 250,000."

"250,000? It's still too much. In this way, you can inform the major game departments to increase the number of in-game welfare items this month. At the same time, adjust the schedule of the League of Legends professional league and put the most popular games on and

At the same time as the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds League.”

"Mr. Ma, are we going to snipe the "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" league?" Mr. Ma's secretary asked tentatively.

“We not only want to snipe, but also attract players’ attention to us as much as possible.

By the way, CF’s battle royale mode should also be in testing! Go tell them and ask them to work overtime for a few days and put the battle royale mode online within a week!”

"Yes, Mr. Ma."

With Penguin's successive big moves, the popularity of the "PUBG" World Championship in China has been further suppressed.

Luo Fan sneered when he got the news, knowing that this was Penguin's intention.

This move was in retaliation for Xingyuan's rejection of the Penguin common data some time ago.

"Boss, do we want to fight back?" Su Qing asked.

"No need to do that for the time being. Our first priority now is to make the "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" league launch smoothly. As for other things, we will talk about it after the league is over."

One month later, on August 8, 2015, the "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" league ushered in the finals.

That night, the number of people watching the game on YouTube reached 12 million.

In the end, Fnatic, a veteran FPS club from Europe, won the championship.

This club has won multiple world championships in the csgo world championship major, and its performance in fps games is very strong.
Chapter completed!