Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

At the same time, Pei Qian, Ma Yang, and Chen Yufeng were watching the live-stream of the ICL league.

"Boss Pei, there were less than 30,000 people in the ICL league yesterday. Today, there are more than 60,000 people. It can be seen that FV Team's influence and popularity are still very high."

"Zhao Xuming called me yesterday and was very dissatisfied with the number of people on our live-stream platform. He wanted us to fake their popularity, but I rejected him flatly!"

"I believe that they will understand our good intentions in the future."

Pei Qian nodded slightly. "Yes, you did the right thing."

Even though Pei Qian wanted Bunny Tail Live-Stream to promote the ICL league but this matter was a priority.

The priority of maintaining Bunny Tail Live Broadcasting was not to make money, but to promote the ICL league in Pei Qian's heart.

He had long set the rules for Bunny Tail Live-Stream. All the statistics including the number of people in the live-stream and the gifts had to be real. This was the key condition for making Bunny Tail Live-Stream unable to become profitable in the long term.

The ICL league had to be promoted, but it could not affect Bunny Tail Live-Stream's loss. Chen Yufeng's decision was in line with Pei Qian's wishes.

The competition was in progress.

FV Team and SUG Team played back and forth brilliantly. SUG Team had been sparring with them the entire time during the World Competition after all. Their strength had improved by leaps and bounds. The two teams knew each other very well and understood the version. In addition, this was an exhibition match, everyone was very open, so the effect of the show was very good.

All sorts of bullet screen comments flooded the live-stream. It looked very lively.

Apart from the five-digit number of viewers who looked a little shabby, everything else was perfect.

Pei Qian nodded slightly in satisfaction. It looked like the matter of buying exclusive broadcasting rights for ICL was almost done.

The money had been spent and the live-stream of the ICL league had started smoothly. It seemed to have brought some popularity to Bunny Tail's live-stream platform but it was far from enough to make Bunny Tail's live-stream profitable.

Chen Yufeng said, "Boss Pei, according to our previous plan, the GPL league this Saturday will also be broadcasted live on our platform. The relevant preparations have been done."

Pei Qian: "Oh, alright."

In fact, Pei Qian did not want to live-stream the GPL league. That was because it was his own business. He did not need to spend money and could take the broadcasting rights as he pleased.

It was something that did not cost money and purely earned popularity. Wouldn't that be a loss if it was broadcasted live on Bunny Tail?

However, he had no choice. Eric and Zhao Xuming had requested that the GPL league be broadcasted live on Bunny Tail when he signed the contract with them.

The reason was very simple. He was afraid that Tengda would cause trouble, so he hoped to tie the GPL together.

The GPL would be affected if the live-stream platform got stuck or collapsed. Eric and Zhao Xuming felt that Boss Pei would not play any tricks then.

Pei Qian had not intended to play any tricks, but Eric and Zhao Xuming did not believe him. He had to use this method to gain their trust.

Thus, there were also relevant terms in the contract.

Pei Qian had no other choice. Since he could not give up his child to lure the wolf, he would just broadcast it.

In any case, the other live-stream platforms had already been broadcasting it for so long. The audience watching the competition had basically been divided up by the other platforms. If the GPL were to log into the Bunny Tail live-stream at this time, it should not bring too much popularity, right?

The work at Bunny Tail Live-Stream had probably come to an end. Pei Qian took out his cell phone and casually browsed the forum.

It had to be said that IOI players had a lot of discussions about the ICL league.

Especially today, there was the world champion FV Team. The exhibition match was very exciting, so the forum was very popular.

Among these posts, some discussed the competition, some discussed the strength levels of all clubs in the ICL league, and some discussed the celebrity players.

Suddenly, Pei Qian frowned.

The titles of the popular posts felt a little strange!

'ICS League protests Finger Games' double standards! '

'Everyone, don't say that ICL's viewership has gone down the drain. Revealing the fact that the other live-stream platforms' data are fake!'

Both posts were very popular. Pei Qian clicked on the first one.

This post was mainly to move the discussion content of the overseas forum. Finger Games treated ICS league differently from the ICL league, causing the ICS club and audience to protest.

Finger Games had already responded by saying that they would lower the starting price of the ICS league slots and apologised to everyone.

The key was that this post had analyzed many details of this matter and reached a conclusion: Tengda was behind this!

GOG's overseas league was also in the midst of preparation. They deliberately raised the price for very few slots for the overseas club. It was a stark contrast to Finger Games. That was why the ICS club was incited and Finger Games had no choice but to admit defeat…

Pei Qian was confused.

What the hell!

This has nothing to do with me. Don't push the blame onto me!

Pei Qian realized that he had the attribute of getting the blame now. He was obviously not the one who did this. Yet, both netizens and competitors had blamed it on him. It was ridiculous!

Pei Qian did not take this news to heart.

If Finger Games wanted to lower the price, so be it. In any case, the starting price of GOG's Northern American Region had already fallen to one million yuan. The other regions were even lower, and they could not make much money anymore. They were no longer a threat to Pei Qian.

He clicked on the second post.

"Recently, many people with bad intentions came to the forum to set the pace. They said that less than thirty thousand people watched the ICL league's premiere. The league has turned cold and no one is watching it anymore. Many people are discussing and agreeing seriously. I really want to laugh."

"Could it be that people really think that the popularity of the other live-stream platforms of millions to tens of millions is real?"

"Let me explain. The popularity of the other live-stream platforms is calculated based on the algorithm. What's more, backstage can adjust it at will. In fact, there are only ten or twenty thousand viewers in the live-stream for millions to tens of millions of viewers!"

"Everyone will find out after a slight comparison. Aren't the bullet screen comments in the ICL league's live-stream much denser than the millions of viewers on other platforms?"

"That's because Bunny Tail Live-Stream is Tengda's business, and the aim of Bunny Tail Live-Stream is to 'never falsify'! All the live-stream data in it is real! The ICL league and Bunny Tail Live-Stream are obviously a clear stream in the entire live-stream industry, but they were mistaken for 'going cold'. That's ridiculous!"

There were a few similar posts, and they were all quite popular.

These posts listed a lot of data strongly supported their own views, including the density of bullet screen comments in various live-streams, the change in popularity and the like. They also compared them to Bunny Tail Live-Stream.

No one knew the exact ratio of popularity and number of viewers on other live-stream platforms but it confirmed that all other platforms were faking it.

It completely proved that Bunny Tail's live-stream data was real coupled with Tengda's credibility letter!

The popularity of these posts was not low. It seemed like someone was still reposting them everywhere. There were discussions on Weibo, forums, and various other places. It had set off a wave of 'denouncing the live-streaming websites that create fake data'!

The netizens were obviously in agreement.

"Indeed, the fake figures on live-streaming platforms are getting more and more overboard! Do they really think that people are fools to play with the popularity of millions or tens of millions? How could everyone in the country be watching live-streams?"

"There are too many unspoken rules behind the scenes. They have to increase the live streamers' popularity. Suppressing the live streamers' popularity would lower popularity. There are also various agreements and gifts. They would burn money while thinking of ways to make the streamer spit out more money…"

"It's all business. The waters are too deep."

"The money of the ballers will be returned but commoners' money would be split thirty to seventy percent."

"Indeed, the number of viewers for the ICL league is unreasonable. Do you really think that the other platforms are really popular? There might not be thirty thousand viewers!"

"Don't be embarrassed. The number of people in the ICL league today has increased to more than sixty thousand! It had completely beaten the millions of popular streamers on many platforms looking at the density of the bullet screen comments!"

"Bunny Tail Live-Stream is actually Boss Pei's live-stream platform? That data must be real then!"

"Eh? Is Boss Pei going to change the live-stream industry again? I'm going to watch Bunny Tail live-stream now!"

"I realize how difficult it is to see real data these days only after being played by these live-stream platforms for a fool. I won't say much more. I will support Bunny Tail Live-Stream and Boss Pei!"

Obviously, Bunny Tail Live-Stream had established a second memory point in the audience's mind after all these posts spared no effort in advertising: real data!

Once the audience accepted this point, there would be a result: the audience would adopt a different standard for the number of people live-streaming on Bunny Tail.

If it was any other live-stream platform that had fifty thousand views, the audience would feel that this live-stream was cold; if it had one million views, the audience would think it was alright; if it had seven or eight million views, the audience would think that this live-stream was very popular, but they would also think if it was the official platform deliberately uplifting it and making fake figures?

However, it was different in Bunny Tail Live-Stream.

If there were a thousand viewers, the audience would think that the live-stream was still quite popular. If there were tens of thousands of viewers, it would definitely be very popular!

The key was trust.

If other live-streams were to publicize that they were real figures, the audience would not believe it. However, with Tengda Corporation as a credibility backer, most viewers would believe it.

What's more, while the entire live-stream platform was fighting to fake and generate fake popularity, Bunny Tail Live-stream was like a clear stream that left a deep impression!

Many people realized that Bunny Tail Live-Stream was Tengda's business and expressed their desire to watch it.

Pei Qian was confused.

What's going on?!

All of you should have discussed the ICL league properly. Why did you bring the topic to Bunny Tail Live-Stream?!

Why did it suddenly become publicity for Bunny Tail Live-Stream?

"That's not right. Why do these posts seem to have been released in a concentrated fashion? What's more, for some reason, they became popular very quickly…"

Pei Qian carefully studied the contents of these posts and the speed at which the topic became popular. For some reason, he smelled the familiar smell of fake reviewers.

Could it be… that someone was causing trouble?