Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

spend twenty to thirty million yuan in the first year, we might not be able to win.”

Eric was very unhappy after hearing this number.

“Of course, we can take out twenty to thirty million yuan, but it’s too ridiculous to take money for this reason!”

“How much popularity would we be able to generate if we spend this money elsewhere to promote ICL?!”

“We are going to give twenty to thirty million yuan to these clubs to improve their training environment just because of a video by Boss Pei? Why!”

“Did Boss Pei pay for this?”

Zhao Xuming hesitated for a moment before replying, “Er… he did, but he didn’t as well.”

Eric: “?”

Zhao Xuming explained, “It’s like this.
The GPL slots were publicly bid, and the prices were very high.
A single slot was sold for twenty million yuan.
Shenhua Real Estate was the king of bidders back then, and raised the GPL slots to twenty-six million yuan.”

“The results of the auction at that time were even on the news.
The total price reached a sky-high price of 180 million yuan.”

“Then… Boss Pei transferred all the money back.”

“A large portion of them are returned to these clubs to improve the treatment of the players, and to establish a budding training base.”

“Therefore, even though the money was paid by Boss Pei in name, it was actually the money from the various clubs.
The money might have travelled from left pocket to right pocket but, these clubs are very grateful to Boss Pei.”

Eric :”…”

Eric had already been removed by Finger Games and replaced with Chrétien when these things happened.
He was far away in the United States and did not know much about these things.

Now that he heard what Zhao Xuming said, Eric finally knew what kind of situation he was in.

Boss Pei’s left and right hand operation was akin to offering Buddha a helping hand.
He did not spend a single cent to improve the treatment of the players.
At the same time, the club could improve the training environment and obtain real popularity.
They were also very grateful to Boss Pei.

However, Eric could not do that!

The ICL slots were basically half bought and half given.
They basically did not make much money.

At the moment, there were only a few powerful clubs in the country that had IOI branches.
What’s more, they were not very rich.
Finger Games and Long Yu Corporation needed their support.
Thus, they did not ask for much money.
They only offered very low friendship prices and cabbage prices.

What’s more, even if Eric wanted to strangle them and make them spend more than ten million yuan to buy a slot, it was probably not feasible given the financial situation of these clubs.

On the other hand, GPL had actually relied on Boss Pei’s connections to attract a lot of capital.
It was equivalent to creating something out of nothing.
Everyone had spent money together to organize the GPL league.

However, how could Eric and Zhao Xuming have so much power?

What’s more, GOG was extremely popular in the country before they started to plan for the GPL.
It was a natural process.
On the other hand, IOI’s popularity was far from enough.
ICL was held to promote the game.
It was the complete opposite.

Eric’s idea was to only open a limited number of slots in the early stages and let in only six or seven teams.
After the competition was organized, they would sell slots in succession every season.
That would maximize the benefits.

However, this also meant that Finger Games had not earned much money from the ICL league when it first began.

ICL could not play the GPL game.

At the end of the day, they could only fork out this huge sum of money from two places: either the clubs or from Finger Games and Long Yu Corporation.

The club would definitely not fork out any money.
Why should they have to fork out an additional two million yuan a year to increase the treatment of the players? It would not benefit the club much.

At the end of the day, it was all thanks to the company!

If they did not fork out this sum of money, the ICL would forever be at a disadvantage.
Boss Pei would definitely have to keep bringing this up.
However, Eric would feel extremely aggrieved if he were to fork out this sum of money!

Eric’s face was dark as he fell into a dilemma.

However, after much consideration, he still did not have a good solution.
This was like a dead end.
He would either lose money or lose popularity.

After much consideration, Eric could only choose to lose money.

That was because the popularity of the ICL league was equivalent to money.
If they ignored it, it would cause the popularity of the ICL to decrease.
The effect of all the initial investments would be greatly reduced, and the actual loss would be greater.

On the other hand, if he spent money to maintain the popularity, he might still be able to earn back the money in the future.

After much consideration, Eric gritted his teeth and said, “We’ll pay for this!”

“Contact the various clubs in ICL immediately and get them to cooperate with us.
Then, spend a sum of money to publicize it.
Before the public opinion stirs up, let everyone know our efforts to standardize the ICL ecology and protect the rights of the players!”

Eric knew very well that since he had to do this sooner or later, the sooner the better.

If he hesitated and allowed everyone to discuss it, it would definitely hurt the popularity of the ICL.

If he reacted quickly enough and showed everyone enough sincerity, he might turn the crisis into opportunity and leave a good impression on the audience.

Zhao Xuming quickly nodded.
“Understood, I’ll arrange it now!”

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