194: The first mobile game to be released? It's Honor of Kings, currently under development!

"Now, let us turn the screen over to the venue."

As the voice of the dota 2 commentator, Cake, appeared.

The camera focused on the audience in the venue once more and zoomed in toward the venue's big screen.

The next moment, the entire screen went black, and the promotional video for the dota 2 Global Finals began to play.

The content of the promotional video had not changed; it was the same video that had already spread across the entire internet for dota 2. Even the content regarding major game manufacturers at the end of the promotional video had not been edited out.

However.

As the promotional video ended, the screen did not return to the venue.

Instead, as music played, a new game screen appeared.

It was just that.

This time, the game footage was not complete. At first, it only showed a series of heroes like Zeus and Storm Spirit making their appearances. These heroes were only on screen for a few seconds, moving across the game map, but the field of view was zoomed in, locked only onto a few heroes, with no more of the scene visible.

Yet, looking at the content in the video, many veteran players had expressions of confusion.

Because the hero models in the video were quite different from the ones in their memories, and the models for the map, defensive towers, and so on were also a bit strange.

It seemed a bit more cartoonish?

And just as many dota 2 players were confused, the next second.

The original zoomed-in view pulled back and expanded completely.

Instantly, the joystick in the bottom left corner and the skill buttons in the bottom right corner appeared before everyone's eyes.

As this frame flashed by, the screen completely plunged into darkness.

Only one sentence appeared on the big screen.

"dota 2 mobile game is under development, coming soon, stay tuned!"

At this dota 2 Global Finals, which was being watched by tens of millions of people, Tencent actually didn't forget to advertise their dota 2 mobile game!

In fact.

After seeing the buttons and outline of the mobile game, many people recognized at a glance that it was a dual-joystick design, and they were quite looking forward to this mobile game.

After all, at present.

Worldwide, there had not yet been a truly strict MOBA mobile game.

Although games like Fight for Freedom and Chaos Order had appeared, their core game content was different, so they didn't count as MOBA games in the strict sense, but they had established the operating logic of dual joysticks.

In the following period, some "pseudo-MOBA" mobile games had appeared domestically and abroad, but generally speaking, they were still lacking, and many players were still looking forward to a real MOBA mobile game.

Therefore, after this promotional video came out, regardless of why these viewers were watching the dota 2 competition, at this moment, the comments were basically all full of anticipation.

"Holy crap, a MOBA mobile game, dota 2 made it first?"

"Although I am a league of legends player, I really want to play a MOBA mobile game. It's just that Langchao Group hasn't made any moves. If there's only a dota 2 mobile game, it's not like I can't give it a try."

"Looking forward to it, looking forward to it! Playing mobile games while lying in bed is the way to go!"

"Not bad, Tencent isn't just resting on their laurels. I just don't know how long it will be before we can play this game."

"dota 2 is already very complicated, can a mobile version work? I still want to play a simpler MOBA mobile game, if there is one."

Among these expectant comments.

There were even quite a few league of legends players.

After all, the mobile game market is booming nowadays, and the market scale of mobile gamers has already become quite exaggerated.

Meanwhile.

Inside Langchao Group.

Watching the dota 2 mobile game promotional video that Tencent just released, Qin Mo asked IceFrog.

"According to your understanding, judging from those few scenes just now, to what stage has the development of the dota 2 mobile game reached?"

IceFrog thought for a moment.

"It should be ninety percent there."

After speaking, IceFrog looked at Qin Mo.

"President Qin, that mobile game of ours..."

As one of the people Qin Mo trusted the most, Zhao Lei and the others in the room also knew not long ago that, besides WeChat, the R&D department next door was developing a mobile game that was also a MOBA game.

"The development progress is a bit slower than theirs; the dota 2 mobile game should be released first."

"But it doesn't matter."

"By then, no matter how many MOBA mobile games are on the market, they will all just be cannon fodder."

Hearing this answer, IceFrog and the others nodded without pursuing the matter further. Since Qin Mo was so confident, they wouldn't doubt anything.

And after saying this, Qin Mo turned back to look at the live broadcast screen again.

In his past life.

Not to mention the mobile game field, the mobile game he was developing was enough to crush all games in the world in terms of player count.

The market share it occupied in the mobile game field even exceeded the market share of league of legends in the PC MOBA field.

The number of daily active players for this game was a true miracle!

140 million daily active users, 300 million monthly active users!

This number could no longer be described simply with a few adjectives; 140 million daily active users was a number that all game companies around the world wouldn't even dare to imagine.

Even the total sales of a single commemorative skin could exceed the total revenue of many AAA games, and the total daily gross revenue even broke through 2 billion at its peak.

"Honor of Kings, I still have to make you wait a little longer."

Muttering a few words, Qin Mo said the name of this game. However, a big reason why Honor of Kings could become popular was the game's social attributes.

It could even be said.

Honor of Kings was the game version of WeChat, taking social gaming to the extreme.

Therefore, before WeChat succeeded, he could not launch Honor of Kings; the latter needed to utilize the platform of WeChat in order to completely capture the market.

Meanwhile.

On the live broadcast screen.

The dota 2 Opening Match was still continuing.

The players from both sides were already seated and ready, and behind them, two figures were standing respectively.

One of the figures was wearing headphones and was communicating something with the team players, while the other person was holding a notebook, also recording something at every moment.

They were the coaches and tactical analysts of the different teams.

And further behind them, there were two referees, constantly monitoring the progress of the game on the field.

This scene indeed looked much more professional than the league of legends competition.

After all, until now.

There were still not many league of legends teams with coaches.

But this dota 2 competition started right off with a dual configuration of a coach and a tactical analyst, which felt quite professional in terms of perception.

"It's starting to feel like professional e-sports; these coaches and tactical analysts look quite stylish."

"Indeed, there's a contrast immediately. I hope they aren't just putting on an act."

"Although the venue and stage setup aren't great, the support is indeed maxed out."

"Hurry up, hurry up."

"Having a professional setup is just different. The players don't need to consider the hero bans and picks themselves at all; just leave it to the coach. The coach can also arrange tactics for the next game in real-time."

Soon, both sides finished their selection.

After the tactical analysts left the stage, the coaches even came to the center of the field to shake hands and pay respects before leaving the stage.

Under the gaze of tens of millions of viewers around the world.

The dota 2 e-sports competition, which was given high hopes by Tencent, finally began!

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(PS: There will be no detailed match process)