Chapter 501

Seeing Brother Ma's look of disbelief, Chen Mo just smiled.

Of course, China right now couldn't imagine just how profitable the e-sports industry would be.

Before he was reborn, the annual revenue of the e-sports industry back then was 144.5 billion yuan, already accounting for the lion's share of domestic entertainment industries.

As long as they established a firm foothold in the e-sports industry now and seized the market first, they could become the market leader in the future.

Brother Ma didn't understand this matter.

After saying a few more words to Chen Mo, Brother Ma left the filming set.

Chen Mo, on the other hand, called Wang Jinghua and asked her to help poach people.

"Money is not important; what's important is poaching the people."

Chen Mo emphasized to Wang Jinghua repeatedly.

Seeing that Chen Mo valued this matter so much, Wang Jinghua didn't dare to be careless and immediately went to major gaming fields to poach people.

Very quickly, with annual salaries starting at one million, she signed famous e-sports players like Sky and Fly to the Mo Mo Team and started the game promotion and training for LoL.

These e-sports players were god-like existences in the gaming world and had many die-hard fans.

Because they joined LoL, it led to a large influx of players into LoL.

A few days later.

"Mo Mo, our Kung Fu Panda has finished production, and we are starting to set the release date."

Wang Jinghua found Chen Mo to report the situation.

She was still very worried about the box office of Kung Fu Panda.

Although because of Chen Mo's voice acting, Kung Fu Panda had the support of many of Chen Mo's fans, the proportion still wouldn't be very high.

It was estimated that the box office appeal would be far lower than the box office appeal of other Mo Mo Company films.

"In addition..."

Wang Jinghua hesitated, her expression looking very bad.

"Sister Wang, go ahead."

Chen Mo signaled for Wang Jinghua to continue.

Wang Jinghua sighed.

"Pixar heard that we had finished the production of Kung Fu Panda, and they also followed up by finishing the production of Ratatouille; they are also confirming the release date now."

When saying this, Wang Jinghua's tone was somewhat helpless.

It was clear that Pixar was doing it on purpose.

According to the speed at which they produced animations, it should have taken more than a month to finish the animation production.

Now they wanted to catch up and release it at the same time as the Mo Mo Company, just to get the upper hand over the Mo Mo Company.

After all, since the company was founded until now, the Mo Mo Company had never had a box office failure when releasing a film in the same period as any other film.

If they could defeat the Mo Mo Company at the box office once, then Pixar would get very good publicity.

"It doesn't matter, let them release it if they want."

Hearing Wang Jinghua say this, Chen Mo felt even more at ease.

Pixar had made a risky move.

The most important thing in animation production is quality; only high-quality animated films will win the audience's word-of-mouth.

Now, in order to get the upper hand over the Mo Mo Company, Ratatouille had actually finished animation production ahead of schedule; this was undoubtedly an act of self-destruction.

They didn't know what the quality and level of Kung Fu Panda were like.

But one didn't need to think to know that it was definitely far inferior to Ratatouille; it was precisely this pride and arrogance that made Pixar choose to release it ahead of schedule.

Wang Jinghua glanced at Chen Mo, knowing the reason why Chen Mo wasn't worried.

However, she still couldn't help but worry.

After all, Pixar's fame was too great, and coupled with the outside world's disparagement of Kung Fu Panda now, she was very worried that Kung Fu Panda would become a runner-up to Ratatouille.

"Don't worry, Sister Wang; Kung Fu Panda will definitely explode globally."

Chen Mo smiled comfortingly at Wang Jinghua.

Wang Jinghua sighed.

Indeed, worrying was useless.

Very quickly, the news that Kung Fu Panda and Ratatouille had finished production was released one after another.

The media broke the news at the first opportunity.

The news that Ratatouille was scheduled to be released right after Kung Fu Panda sparked countless speculations.

"Pixar's move is too crazy."

"This time, the Mo Mo Company will taste failure for the first time."

"The Mo Mo Company will regret making animated films."

"Why do I feel a bit sorry for Kung Fu Panda?"

"This time I'm siding with Pixar."

The public loves to watch the excitement; seeing Pixar stirring up trouble like this, they all became excited.

They paid even more attention to the box office duel between the two companies.

On the other side, Chen Mo's establishment of the Mo Mo Team also caused a sensation domestically.

"Games can actually make money; is this hype or a scam?"

"Ten million in funds to build a gaming team; Chen Mo supports games?!"

"In an era of entertainment to death, another controversial move by Chen Mo!"

"Countless parents oppose it; games will ruin teenagers!"

Newspapers were reporting on this matter crazily.

Mainly because Chen Mo had directly splashed 100 million to establish the Mo Mo Team.

One must know that in 2007, games were still things that the masses would feel deep hatred for when mentioned, especially for parents.

A star with Chen Mo's influence openly establishing a gaming team was just leading children astray.

Parents were very puzzled.

Chen Mo ignored the voices from the outside world and started setting up an e-sports training base in Yanjing.

The equipment inside was very well-equipped, and at the same time, he prepared to vigorously develop e-sports-related industries.

He had no reason to let go of an industry with such large profit prospects.

As long as they seized the market first, they could eat the biggest piece of the pie in the market later.

Not only that, Chen Mo also publicly recruited professional e-sports players nationwide, publicly stating that the e-sports industry could also win glory for the country.

The compensation for professional players was not low either.

"Can you make money by playing games?"

"When did playing e-sports become a profession?"

"It must be fake; they even give money to the company every month and provide food and housing."

"It must be fake; how is that possible?"

"Where is there such a good thing as a pie falling from the sky?"

The Tieba forum was full of discussions from netizens.

Most people's thinking was still stuck in the belief that internet cafes were harmful places and that playing games was a sign of losing one's ambition.

How could they believe that playing games could become a profession?

Making money aside, they could even win glory for the country.

It was either a scam or a joke.

Except for many netizens on the internet who laughed off the Mo Mo Team's recruitment of players, a group of young players looked excitedly at the Mo Mo Company's announcement.

"Win glory for the country..."