Live show operations

In the memories of the past life of Takayuki, the promotional campaign for Starcraft 1 wasn't particularly intense, because the birth of Starcraft 1 was full of twists and turns, and Blizzard didn't have much money left to promote a game at that time.

But even so, Starcraft still achieved unprecedented success, becoming the game that enlightened countless people in the world of esports.

And in this life, Takayuki has sufficient resources.

From Morgan Group, to Takayuki's own channels.

Major department stores, as well as the social media giant Facebook in the current United States.

With these channels conducting a massive promotional campaign, Starcraft can be said to have reached its peak upon debut.

Takayuki doesn't remember the exact first-week sales figures for Starcraft in the past life, he only remembers that thirteen years later, people calculated that Starcraft 1 had sold eleven million copies.

And this is just a PC game.

Starcraft 1 also naturally became one of the highest-selling PC games.

In addition to these legitimate sales, true Starcraft players would be at least five times more than this data, which was truly an absolute success for an electronic game at that time.

On the day of release, Li Mingzhe and several others came to the core Starcraft sales stores in different major cities in the United States.

The entire store had been decorated to resemble a starry sky today, with delicately packaged Starcraft boxes stacked in the center.

Li Mingzhe was sitting in front of a huge screen.

In front of him was a top-of-the-line computer that had already been set up.

Under the performance of such a computer, the display of Starcraft 1 had been pushed to its limits.

At this moment, Li Mingzhe's heart was surging, and he was ready to perform an exhibition match at any time.

Currently, he was practicing against AI opponents. With each proficient move, even in a situation of outnumbered battles, he could handle it calmly and even perform some cool special effects.

Finally, the release time officially arrived, and many players quickly flooded into the stores.

They rushed to the area filled with Starcraft packaging boxes, swiftly grabbed the game, and then sprinted to the checkout area to pay.

Among them, the most enthusiastic were naturally the players who usually played traditional strategy board games.

Ever since they watched the promotional videos for Starcraft, they couldn't wait to buy and play the game immediately.

Commanding soldiers, manipulating them to engage in fierce battles, was their dream, and electronic games could fulfill their dream, so they seemed a bit impatient.

The teams that quickly checked out soon spilled out of the store.

These players were already used to it.

Because whenever GameStar Entertainment released a game, there was never a shortage of queues on launch day.

Even puzzle games like Gomoku had people queuing to buy on launch day, which was ridiculous.

During this process, some players would take out their handheld GBA consoles from their pockets and play while waiting in line, which was a great way to pass the time.

But just then, several large screens inside and outside the store lit up, showing scenes of Li Mingzhe playing the game.

"Hey hey hey! Look up at those screens!"

Some players shouted excitedly.

The players who were originally patiently playing GBA games were startled and confused. They raised their heads, not understanding what was happening.

But as they saw the scenes on the screens, they gradually became fascinated.

Real-time strategy games were not too difficult to understand in terms of performance.

At a forty-five-degree angle, also known as isometric perspective, the images of various units were depicted as detailed as possible.

At the same time, buildings used to build and upgrade soldiers quickly rose from the ground.

This was a game that had just started.

In it, Li Mingzhe controlled Terran soldiers.

Under his operation, a squad of soldiers had already been assembled in just five or six minutes.

Then he quickly maneuvered this squad to the nearest enemy headquarters just detected, quickly dismantling the enemy before their economy was fully developed, and ending their game.

This fluid and rapid operation immediately attracted exclamations from the players.

"Wow, is this Starcraft? It looks so cool! Just a few soldiers collectively launched a charge and defeated an enemy."

"This game is great. It seems like I made the right choice to queue up today. I even skipped class just for this."

"Hey, guy in front, you're from ** class, right? I'm your math teacher. Today, you can expect to lose some credits for skipping class in front of me. How dare you skip class in front of me?"

"Teacher, I'm sorry!"

The student immediately fled, feeling somewhat unwilling but also helpless.

But he didn't intend to return to school immediately. He planned to come back after the teacher finished buying Starcraft.

Wait a minute... Wait a minute, something's not right. The teacher is also here, so doesn't that mean he's also skipping class?

He remembered that the next class was math. Could he make it back in time?

Seeing the math teacher's eagerly anticipating expression, he knew the teacher was definitely a loyal gamer.

"Um, teacher..."

"Hehe, Starcraft should be fun... Huh? Why are you still here? Don't you want credits anymore!"

The math teacher stared at his student with wide eyes.

"I'm sorry, teacher. But isn't it your class later? Aren't you planning to skip class for the game? Isn't that worse than me?"

Math teacher: "..."

"This student, I actually think you usually work quite hard in class. It's normal to skip class occasionally. I'll turn a blind eye to it this time, but there mustn't be a next time!"

The student immediately rejoined the queue happily, then joined the others in watching the exciting gameplay on the screen.

Under Li Mingzhe's operation and management, the game had now entered the mid-stage.

This time, he faced four opposing factions, one of which he had eliminated through a first-mover advantage, but he still had to deal with three opposing factions simultaneously.

In this situation, he could still calmly maneuver his soldiers to deal with the battles.

Whenever he could outnumber the enemy with skilled maneuvers, it would immediately attract exclamations from the players.

This kind of gameplay was much more attractive than the previous rush games.

Because rush games mostly only appealed to true gamers, but even novices who knew nothing about Starcraft could still enjoy watching the matches, making it a completely different level.