This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 124 - 108: You Know Nothing About Connections (Part 2)
Sure, here’s the line-by-line translation:
This script is quite mature.
Heard, supposedly, a friend said, just refusing to admit that he made up stories from scratch and out of nothing.
No one cares how many bowls of noodles Lu actually ate, everyone just wants to see Lu open his belly to prove his innocence.
"We don’t need to prove our innocence ourselves."
After finishing a drumstick and slurping a bone, Chen Ba said: "Rest assured, someone will clear the air for us."
Xianyu Digital dares to snatch even the business of the official flagship store, why fear a small digital blogger?
Kid, never seen connections before?
For such a long time, is no one envious of Xianyu Digital’s flourishing business?
Surely there are.
But why don’t others dare to take action, have you ever thought about this?
Against such people, Chen Ba won’t personally get involved in arguments or fight pointless verbal battles.
Just as it happens, these two days, Old Huang and Su are both in Lin’an attending the so-called "Global AI Summit Forum", and Lin’an isn’t far from Jiangning, just a drive away.
"Wait for my good news!"
After saying this, Chen Ba commandeered Wang Kun’s newly bought Volvo and headed lightning-fast to Lin’an.
No one knows what he did.
Anyway, by evening, Chen Ba returned to Jiangning, handed a photo and two videos to Xin, the customer service next door at Xianyu Digital.
Then...
All those following this incident, especially those watching for Tianba Studio to clear the air, saw a jaw-dropping scene.
Xianyu Digital updated the product description.
Among a series of graphic card products, the product introduction picture added a photo of a "strange man with an arm around Su and Old Huang" smiling and giving thumbs up.
Then came two videos.
The first showed Old Huang, who looked busy, casually praised Tianba Studio and "Star Emperor" a bit, but didn’t say any nonsense.
The second was very sincere, Su appeared in front of the camera, praising Tianba Studio and "Star Emperor" generously, stating it’s the coolest Hua Country game she’s ever seen, AMD values the Hua Country market and is happy to partner with game developers like Tianba Studio...
"Just asking, who is the young man in the red hoodie?"
"Ba! The man behind Xianyu Digital, Ba of Tianba Studio!"
"Damn! Xianyu Digital has such strong backing? I thought they’d just issue a clarification, didn’t expect..."
"So funny! They even brought out Old Huang and Su, is Hail still here? Is your face hurting?"
A photo and two videos directly silenced half of the digital circle.
As for Hail, the digital zone UP host who initially caused trouble and questioned Xianyu Digital’s sourcing channel, promptly deleted the video trying to patch things up.
But how could everyone let him off the hook?
Wasn’t it said Xianyu Digital is a shady store with unreliable sourcing channels, selling all second-hand and refurbished cards?
Wasn’t it claimed your sourcing channels are the most reliable online, genuine products without mining traces are guaranteed, and you’re a Daren Shuo-level distributor?
How come from the looks, Xianyu Digital seems much more reliable than you?
Concerning Hail’s self-proclaimed primary distributor status, Daren Shuo immediately came out to clarify: That’s not true! Xianyu Digital is our best online distributor!
What a joke...
Daren Shuo-level distributor, how valuable is that? Even Xianyu Digital can’t get there, just a best network sales channel representative.
At this point, Hail is done for.
Even though he deleted the video trying to move past this quickly, the impact of Chen Ba pulling out Old Huang and Su for support was too big.
Not to mention, out of nowhere surfaced Intel’s official account, also commented: "I’m quite familiar with Ba too! "Shy"
Indeed quite familiar.
Intel joining the fun was something Chen Ba didn’t expect.
However, turning his thoughts, Intel just sponsored the "Golden Era" league and is forming a team to compete, Xianyu Digital also sells Intel CPUs, their relationship is indeed okay.
Not too bad!
Out running for the mix, the most important is having enough brothers, coincidentally! In other circles, Chen Ba may not have much influence, but in the PC hardware circle, brothers are indeed many...
Why doubt anything else, but choose to question Xianyu Digital’s sourcing channel?
Clearly, you don’t understand connections!
It’s like a certain enterprise unit, obviously only recruits PhD and Masters, and only hires three people, but then you find out four people have joined and one is only a bachelor’s graduate...
You might question the business abilities of those three PhD and Masters, but cannot question that bachelor graduate!
Because without him, maybe that unit wouldn’t even recruit externally, then the other three wouldn’t have a chance to join.
Unfortunately, Xianyu Digital is that connected person.
Though it seems just a usual online store, no special features, but this store always manages to secure scarce supplies like 4090 and even 7900.
Connections, terrifying indeed!
Speaking of this, even Lu and Yang Dong are curious, what did Ba do in Lin’an, that made Old Huang and Su agree to shoot such awkward short videos with him?
"Nothing much!"
"I merely talked to them about the Golden Era league situation." Chen Ba explained.
Golden Era League?
Upon hearing this, Yang Dong, Lu, and others all got interested.
"Seems like the teams aren’t complete, right?"
"Yes..."
Chen Ba thought for a moment, then answered: "Currently only twelve teams are confirmed registered, other interested manufacturers either lack personnel or haven’t paid attention."
Under such circumstances, he wasn’t planning to wait anymore.
Twelve teams it is, might be a few, but each participating team has an extraordinary background, getting the league’s fame out first is the most important. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
Regarding the team count issue, once the event gains fame, naturally new manufacturers will join.
"Is Jiangning hosting again?"
"No! Jiangning is just the first stop, then there’s Zhonghai Station, Peng City Station, and nine international city stops, totaling twelve stations."
Chen Ba explained the detailed competition format.
The "Star Emperor" Golden Era League adopts the touring district championship mode, with twelve teams set up twelve stations, deciding the twelve district champions.
Based on annual points, the ultimate overall champion, that is the champion of champions, is decided!
District champion prize $200,000, annual champion $3 million!
This is a huge sum, especially for a "Star Emperor" competition like this. Players might never have dreamed a niche game could have such high prizes.
Where does the prize come from?
A small portion is from Tianba Studio, but the ratio is low, the main prize source is still provided by sponsors like Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA.
stations, district champion $200,000, totaling a prize pool of $2.4 million! Added to the annual champion’s $3 million, the total prize pool reaches a formidable $5.4 million...
Converting to RMB is nearly 40 million!
What does this concept entail?
In terms of event prize, Golden Era is already one of the top electronic sports games, not worse than familiar ones like Dota2 or LOL.
If it’s a popular game we’d understand, setting such a high prize would be reasonable.
But "Star Emperor" is relatively niche, its players might just be a fraction of LOL.
In this scenario, when Tianba Studio released an announcement detailing the "Golden Era" event schedule and prize standards, all online players were amazed.
What is "Star Emperor"?
How does a game hardly heard of have a prize pool larger than the LOL World Championship? Just a peek at the participating teams shows...
Wow! Amazing!
AMD, Intel, Daren Shuo, Sapphire, Mixed Star, Refused Protection Jia... all top manufacturers in the PC digital circle.
This isn’t the same as JDG, BLG, TES types of "sponsorship" esports clubs.
Because these manufacturers are not merely naming sponsors, but personally participating! The members are employees, team uniforms are work clothes!
