Chapter 608: Put Some Pressure on Riot

"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds?"

In the manager's office, Liang Yan sat opposite Gao Jun, feeling surprised at what the other had just said, just like Gao Jun's reaction when he first got the phone call, wondering why an advertisement for another game had been aimed at him, a LoL professional player.

Gao Jun laughed and said, "Yeah, I guess they just saw your popularity and want you to bring in a wave of newbies."

Liang Yan looked puzzled, also somewhat speechless, planning to directly refuse.

I'm not boasting, but Liang Yan clearly knows what role he plays in the LoL field; without exaggeration, in many people's hearts he is already a legend in that field, and overall his influence is already on par with Faker; as for the two former LPL representatives, Changzhang and Uzi, they're not even worth mentioning in front of him, let alone global influence.

So as such a global figure, if Liang Yan suddenly started streaming another game, especially one that could become a competitor to LoL, this would obviously put huge pressure on LoL, and no one can predict the outcome.

Why would Liang Yan wade into this muddy water?

Not to mention he never considered following Wei Shen's path to transition; even if we concede ten thousand steps, if Liang Yan really wanted to transition, it definitely wouldn't be PUBG—aside from Liang Yan himself not being interested in the game, LoL has now taken a development path completely different from its previous life; this is precisely the period of rising popularity, far from its peak, with one's gain the other's loss, for PUBG to try to recreate that historic level of popularity is absolutely impossible.

As for money, don't joke—the little pay Gao Jun just mentioned is nothing compared to Liang Yan's actual net worth; it's not even a hair on nine oxen.

So Liang Yan actually has no reason to accept this job.

When Gao Jun privately called Liang Yan over to talk, he also anticipated that Liang Yan would likely refuse, because no matter how you look at it, Liang Yan truly had no reason to take it.

But just as Liang Yan was about to shake his head and refuse, he suddenly thought of something.

—if streaming PUBG could really put some pressure on Riot, then it might not be a bad thing?

The fact before us now is that VG won MSI, and it can be called a crushing victory; moreover, it's foreseeable that if Riot doesn't intervene or suppress VG, VG will clearly continue its first-half dominance, at which point saying the S7 championship is already in VG's pocket is no exaggeration—Riot clearly wouldn't want to see that happen.

So it's obvious Riot will definitely take action against VG; as for whether they'll directly swing the knife at Liang Yan, the absolute core of VG, that's uncertain.

Although the Canyon Vanguard's post-mid-season change to allow tower diving followed history as expected, Liang Yan also truly couldn't guarantee that future version directions would still resemble his memory, following a familiar trajectory.

What if Riot goes crazy? In that case, directly nerfing the jungler into a support is also possible.

This is something no one can predict.

But what if Liang Yan puts some pressure on Riot? Makes them hesitate when swinging the knife? Put bluntly, a star player of Liang Yan's caliber suddenly going to stream PUBG—would Riot think twice? Definitely.

If Liang Yan also hints a little at that meaning during the stream, Riot will definitely follow that train of thought, thinking he's laying the groundwork for a future transition.

From this angle, this job does have value to accept.

Thus, amid Gao Jun's gradually astonished gaze, Liang Yan slowly nodded:

"Can accept.

"Money isn't important, but how many hours per day and how many days we stream will be up to us.

"If they can accept this condition, I think we can take it."

Money isn't important…

Upon hearing this, Gao Jun immediately knew Liang Yan definitely had something else in mind, and he couldn't help but curiously ask: "May I ask the reason?"

Liang Yan didn't hide it, looking at his own manager and smiling: "Actually, it's nothing much—I just want to put some pressure on Riot, so they don't recklessly suppress us."

Gao Jun froze at the words, quickly understood Liang Yan's meaning, his eyes lit up instantly, excitedly gave a thumbs-up: "Brilliant! Little Liang, your move, this angle, is too brilliant! I didn't even think of it! Okay, I'll go talk to them right away!"

Actually, there's not much to discuss; Liang Yan knows the other side will definitely accept the condition.

Because the situation is clear—if VG doesn't take this job, the other side gets nothing, so no matter what conditions VG puts forward, as long as they're not asking for an exorbitant fee, the other side has no reason to refuse.

As expected, Gao Jun didn't have to spend much saliva; a few words and the deal was settled.

Gao Jun hung up the phone, looking refreshed at Liang Yan:

"Alright, they'll send the contract over soon; if there's no problem, we can get started tonight!"

It's the year 7102, technology is highly developed; contracts can be signed online, after signing just mail the hard copy over, and contracts signed this way have the same legal force as offline signatures.

…

That evening.

After dinner, Liang Yan kept his promise from before yesterday's stream, going live on time at 7:30—still a simultaneous dual-platform stream on Mouse Platform and some fish platform.

By the way, at this time some fish platform hasn't yet experienced a series of incidents, still dominating some tooth platform, and is truly the number one domestic streaming platform.

At the same time, the teammates who had previously agreed upon also went live simultaneously.

The camera turned on, the microphone turned on, the voice chat with teammates connected, and the handsome guy who is both the strongest and best-looking in the LPL opened his mouth in the stream:

"Good evening.

"Let's play something different this year, uh, team up with teammates via voice chat.

"No, not ranked teams, that's too bullying.

"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has been hot lately, let's give it a try……

Instantly provoked a screen full of "WTF".

…

One hour later.

Los Angeles, Riot headquarters.

The Eastern Hemisphere was gradually moving into deep night, while the Western Hemisphere here had just seen the sun rise not long ago.

Among the two founders, the one in charge of technology, Tai Da Mi Er, had already arrived at the company early. To prevent the design department from slacking, he supervised the team to rush the schedule and research the new version direction; Tai Da Mi Er's work start time has been very early lately.

Today, Tai Da Mi Er had just arrived at the company when the secretary responsible for monitoring global LoL-related public opinion dynamics rushed into his office looking tense, obviously somewhat panicked, and pushed the door in without knocking.

"Boss…… there's something I think you should know right away."