CSGO Unboxing Streamer: A Charity-Driven Tycoon

Chapter 343 The Sales Champion is Born!
The ten days from March 7th to March 17th.

RSS played a total of ten matches and lived up to expectations by winning all ten, advancing to the second round as the top team in the regular season.

The second round started with only eight teams remaining.

The good news is that they have two days to adjust. The top four will be decided on the weekend of the 20th and 21st, followed by a five-day break until the semifinals and finals on the 27th and 28th.

The initial qualifying rounds were not very intense for most viewers, with only Lu Yiming's warm-up matches being worth watching. However, once the regular season started, their viewing needs were finally met, and the popularity of the competition was no less than that of the neighboring league.

However, this is only the apparent popularity data. It should be noted that popularity data can be faked. The real data report that Lu Yiming obtained showed that during the same time period, the number of viewers in the CSGO live stream was more than twice that of the League of Legends.

of course.

This also does not mean that the current popularity of CSGO has surpassed that of the League of Legends, which can be seen from the fact that the data of the two sides will be evenly matched after some established popular teams enter the game.

These days, League of Legends players have gradually noticed a problem: the game's events have suddenly become more generous.

First, a "Lucky Star" program was launched.

For just one yuan, you can get three 20-yuan skin coupons. Not only that, you can use newly released skins for free for a month after activation, but you can also use five different limited-edition skins for free every day.

You can see that the limited-edition skin pool mainly contains skins released over a certain number of years.

That day, Lu Yiming was live streaming when he saw comments in the chat saying that the League was starting to do something. Lu Yiming thought it was something big, but it turned out to be just the launch of Project Lucky Star.

Find the webpage in the live stream and open it.

After quickly scanning the content, he laughed and said, "This event is great! This is practically pure giveaway! It's a pity I don't play this game, otherwise I would definitely spend at least a dollar!"

The words fell.

The phrase "saying one thing and meaning another" flooded the screen with comments.

However, Lu Yiming wasn't buying it. He looked at the camera with a playful expression and said, "You should say that you're saying one thing and meaning another. You think that since the other platform is offering such a great deal of benefits, I have to do the same on my platform, right?"

With Lu Yiming having seen through their thoughts, the viewers in the live stream stopped trying to hide them.

They immediately expressed in the comments that they also needed the Lucky Star Project.

Looking at these comments, Lu Yiming shrugged and said, "No way! I really can't afford to give away any more! There are millions of active players on the platform right now. Even if I give each of them a sticker that costs one yuan, that's a million yuan. And you guys probably don't even care about stickers. As for giving away high-value ones, I'm afraid I'll go bankrupt. How about this? Starting this month, the team competition prize pool will be doubled!"

The rewards for team battles on the Starry Sky platform are truly generous. Players of different ranks are divided into groups of a thousand to fight against each other, and the final winners can basically get accessories worth more than a thousand yuan.

Don't be fooled by the fact that it's only a little over a thousand yuan.

The number of players participating in team competitions is usually over 300,000 each time, which means that there will be 300 players with a minimum of 1,000 each. This alone accounts for an activity expenditure of 300,000 per month.

In fact, the top players' rewards only account for a small portion; the total rewards for the remaining players exceed the total rewards for these three hundred players, and adding a thousand is just the beginning.

The investment for a single event typically exceeds five million.

It's important to understand that CSGO skins have real market prices; they're not things that platforms can produce without cost.

When Lu Yiming announced his plan to double the prize pool for the team competition, the live stream chat exploded with excitement.

Seeing the reactions in the comments, Lu Yiming nodded.

This was originally planned to be announced tomorrow, but since the atmosphere has reached this point, he decided to announce it ahead of time. With the surge in players, the team tournament prize pool should have doubled long ago.

It can only be said that players' demands are really not high. For many players, team battles are just a cheap sticker or a cheap weapon case as a reward.

But they are satisfied as long as there is positive feedback.

Unfortunately, some games don't understand this principle at all; they only think about how to make money.

Making games with heart is the right thing to do, as long as the game is good. But making money while saying that you're not making enough and want to raise prices is something Lu Yiming thinks is worthy of being hung on a street lamp.

March 18th.

There was nothing particularly special about the day, but Xiaomi held a new car launch event in the capital, and Lu Yiming was invited to attend.

The press conference was held at the 2021 Capital International Auto Show.

Lu Yiming was naturally invited to go on stage, but he declined, citing the excuse that he didn't want to steal the spotlight. In reality, he was just afraid of trouble.

However, Lei's reaction made Lu Yiming chuckle, and after some thought, he agreed with Lu Yiming's statement.

Currently, Lu Yiming can be considered a national treasure in the eyes of the media. From central media to local media, there is no one who doesn't want to interview him. Unfortunately, Lu Yiming only focuses on live broadcasts and doesn't contact the media about anything else.

Of the current richest people in China, Ma Huateng was originally the most mysterious and low-profile, but now it has become Lu Yiming.

After all, Xiao Ma always has the opportunity to stand in front of the media, but Lu Yiming can be said to have no chance at all.

The press conference was a huge success, and the price was naturally the most talked-about topic online. The data presented at the exhibition was basically all there.

And in the face of the attention of many media outlets and Mi fans.

Lei Jun smiled and said, "I believe everyone is waiting for my offer. I won't waste your time. The final price for the Mijia Auto is 288,000 and 488,000 yuan! There are also three other versions available at 888,000 yuan!"

The words fell.

There was an uproar.

I don't know if they were surprised by the price being too high or too low.

At this point, Lei Jun continued, "The 288,000 yuan model is the youth version! It has a rear-wheel drive range of 800 kilometers and is equipped with the Mijia self-developed Navigation Intelligent System. I believe everyone has seen information about this Navigation Intelligent System on the official website in the past few days, so I won't go into details here!"

"The other option, the 488,000 yuan price range, is the high-end version of the Suqi! It's also rear-wheel drive, but the range reaches 1,500 kilometers. I believe that with this configuration, it would have no competitors in the 1 million yuan price range!"

Upon hearing this, many car company representatives present wore rather complicated expressions.

The appropriate price is one million. Even if you put in one hundred million, no one can build an electric car with a range of more than 1,500 kilometers!
Moreover, they all received the information; Lei had prepared a nuclear-level message that hadn't been leaked.

My wife is quite beautiful. Although she looks a bit like some celebrities, who wouldn't like their wife to look like Yifei?
At this moment, Mr. Lei paused for a moment, waiting for the gasps from the crowd to subside, before smiling and saying, "I'm sure everyone is wondering now! Why can the Mijia Car sell for 888,000 yuan! In fact, the reason it can sell for this price is thanks to Mr. Lu! Let me give you a few sets of data to give you a sense of it!"

"With a range of 2,000 kilometers, a charging time of 30 minutes to 40%, a self-developed motor, a 0-100 km/h acceleration of 2.48 seconds, and full vehicle intelligent control, do you think it's excessive to sell this car for 888,000 yuan?"

Pricing was once the biggest mystery surrounding the Mijia Auto. Lei Jun and Lu Wei, president of Mijia, had repeatedly emphasized that the first model was a bit expensive and denied prices of 9.9, 14.9, and 19.9 yuan.

In fact, in the current electric vehicle market, the Mijia Suqi (a brand of electric vehicles) surpasses all domestic and foreign car manufacturers in terms of range.

Some people think this price is too expensive, while others think it's too cheap.

At this point, Lei Jun's next two sentences significantly reduced the number of netizens who thought the price was too high.

"Actually, we concealed some information about the data!"

These words caused an uproar in the audience.

Some media people even looked at Lei Jun with shocked eyes, as if to say, "Is this something that can really be talked about?"
It is well known that embellishing data to a certain extent is a normal business practice.

For example, under relatively ideal conditions, a car can travel 500 kilometers on a full charge, but in reality, due to unfavorable road conditions, the actual range is often lower than expected. However, a significant number of car companies still choose to use the 500-kilometer range in their advertising.

After all, consumers only look at the data and rarely look at the actual situation behind the data.

At this moment, Lei Jun's words were tantamount to self-destruction.

Faced with the gasps of surprise from the crowd, Mr. Lei smiled and said frankly, "Actually, this was Mr. Lu's suggestion. He said it's better for the data to be more authentic and reliable. Once you break your promise, it's hard for people to trust you again. So, I used the performance under extreme conditions for the kilometer data!"

At this point, many people present were puzzled.

What does it mean to perform under extreme conditions? Of course, some clever people figured out what it meant, and their expressions gradually became outrageous.

However, compared to their outrageous expressions, what Lei said next made everyone in the live stream and the audience exclaim that it was outrageous.

"That's right! The mileage data I published before was actually obtained under extreme load conditions. For example, the 800 kilometers for the youth version refers to driving 800 kilometers on the highway with the air conditioning on for about nine hours."

After he finished speaking, a video screen appeared behind him.

At this point, Mr. Lei said shyly, "We have already released unedited videos of this data on some platforms. Due to time constraints, I only played the edited footage on site. Interested friends can go to the following websites to watch the original video."

Speaking of it.

The official live stream chat was filled with comments all containing the words "Thor".

In fact, consumers already knew what kind of data was like, but they didn't expect that Lei Jun's data this time would be guaranteed to be authentic!

The Youth Edition boasts an 800km range. Initially, some viewers commented that it would be good if it could only go 500km. However, Lei Jun surprisingly stated that this was the result of running the air conditioning and power at full throttle the entire time, which made many people want to buy it.

288,000 is indeed not cheap, but this range is comparable to Tesla's new car equipped with a semi-solid battery.

It's worth noting that this Tesla model sells for $299,000 overseas.

The only selling point is the battery life. Due to the special nature of the battery, only 100 units can be sold in China, and they have all been pre-ordered.

In fact, the expressions of some presidents of emerging electric vehicle companies in China are frighteningly dark.

It's fair to say that the release of this Mijia car was a devastating blow to them. They don't even need to look at the stock market; their own stock is probably booming right now.

The press conference was held in the morning.

Orders can be placed directly online. In just five minutes after Lei Jun announced that pre-orders could begin, the number of pre-orders for the Youth Edition exceeded 100,000 units.

It's important to know that a deposit is required for a final order. Reviewing the final order contract and going through the confirmation process usually takes four to five minutes.

At this time, there are many people gathered at the scene. Some people choose to place orders on the spot, but when people are using the network together, network lag issues will occur.

At this point, many people began to complain quietly that they hadn't managed to snag a spot, since only 100,000 people could make a reservation for the first release of the "Crispy Wife Youth Edition".

As more and more people complained in hushed tones, everyone realized a problem: those who had come to the scene had become the unlucky ones.

As soon as the first person at the scene shouted for Mr. Lei to increase pre-sales, more and more people followed suit and cheered.

While Lei Jun was thrilled by the successful launch of the Mijia Auto, he also felt embarrassed as so many people shouted for pre-orders. He said, "I'm really sorry! For those who couldn't order a car online at the event, I'll have my assistant arrange for them to place an offline order later. However, this can only be arranged for three months later, as these 100,000 orders are truly our maximum production capacity! For the extra orders, I'll have to ask President Lu for more stock. I hope everyone here can understand! For those who place orders offline, I'll give you a separate gift!"

To put it simply, Mijia Auto is a product of the integration of resources from Fanxing Intelligent Manufacturing.

However, Lei Jun is used to outsourcing his own products, but Suqi is separate from Mijia and is his personal investment. He is responsible for the core parts of it, so it is no problem to say that it is his hard work.

It can only be said that General Manager Lei's reputation as the top salesman is well-deserved. His way of handling things was just right, which both calmed the anger of the people present and did not disappoint those who had already made reservations within the rules.

Behind the crowd at this moment.

When Lu Yiming heard Lei Zong mention his name repeatedly on stage, his expression behind his mask was quite speechless. It was clearly Lei Zong's fault for not preparing enough production capacity. Lu Yiming had already reminded him that 100,000 units in the first three months would definitely not be enough, but Lei Zong chose to play it safe and only built a factory with a monthly output of 40,000 vehicles.

However, Lu Yiming suddenly thought that maybe this was also Lei's intention. Under this kind of scarcity marketing, Lei might really be able to achieve an annual sales volume of 400,000 vehicles.

Let’s put it this way!

Currently, Mr. Lei can only take one-tenth of the profit from a single vehicle. However, as sales increase, his profits will also increase. If annual sales reach 400,000 vehicles, Mr. Lei can take 40% of the profits.

This wasn't a rule specifically made for him.

Instead, all partner companies will have corresponding terms, which is also a clause jointly adopted by all companies in the Proposal for Win-Win Cooperation of Prosperous Star Intelligent Manufacturing.

After all, you can't expect top sales performers to earn the same salary as ordinary people, right?
Lu Yiming felt that Lei Zong was probably the top seller at Fanxing Intelligent Manufacturing this year!
(End of this chapter)