Author 丨 See the wind
Edit 丨Ling Fox
Original 丨 game hunting
It is hard to imagine that "Peace Elite", which has already experienced castration once, can castrate again before taking the stage of the Asian Games.
Recently, some netizens found that on the Road to Asian Games 2022 website, the instructions of "PUBG Mobile (Peace Elite)" were not quite right in the eight esports games that were selected for the official asian games for the first time.
In the specific project explanation of the English website, the pubg mobile (peace elite) competition became a "cross-country shooting competition" that "included but not limited to skydiving, cross-country shooting and racing", and "classic gameplay fusion triathlon".
That is to say, the "battle royale" gameplay of "PUBG Mobile (Peace Elite)" will be changed to 4 teams of 4 people at the Asian Games, driving in multiple stages of the competition to complete the shooting of the target, and finally reach the finish line, and the result will be ranked according to the ranking of arrivals.
It is reported that the organizing committee changed the player's shooting to shooting targets, because it was worried that the "battle royale project would damage international relations." In order to achieve such gameplay and design, PUBG Mobile (Peace Elite) will develop an additional Special Edition of the Asian Games.
As an emerging e-sports project battle royale game, or tactical competitive game, itself should be a game/competitive project that tests the cooperation, strategy, reaction, and micro-manipulation of players/players, but it has been castrated into a "triathlon" and become a pure "virtual range", which does not reflect the full charm of this e-sports game, greatly reducing the unique fun of e-sports.
In the process of obtaining the version number, the changes from PUBG: Battle Royale to Peace Elite are fixed that there is no "background story" in the original game itself, so that the game has a reasonable and positive background. At the time of the Asian Games, it was really unconvincing to castrate again for fear that the "battle royale project would damage international relations".
Esports into Asia should have been a happy thing for players.
In 2018, e-sports appeared on the stage of the Jakarta Asian Games as a performance event, and in September 2021, the Olympic Council officially announced that eight games, namely The Glory of Kings Asian Games Edition, Hearthstone, League of Legends, DOTA2, FIFA, Peace Elite Asian Games Edition, Street Fighter and Dream Three Kingdoms, will be unveiled as official Asian Games events, and the medals will be counted in the total number of national medals along with other sports.
In recent years, China's e-sports industry has been developing rapidly. In 2020, the overall market size of domestic e-sports will exceed 147.4 billion yuan, and it is expected to reach 184.3 billion yuan in 2022. Such a huge market contains a lot of potential, giving birth to a new e-sports industry chain, some e-sports events, such as the "League of Legends" S event, has also become a popular and concerned event among young people, in 2021, the Chinese team won the S event finals championship, but also let the domestic young people's e-sports enthusiasm unprecedentedly high.
Under the boom, domestic cities, including Shanghai and Wuhan, have also expressed support in policy, and Hangzhou, which hosted the Asian Games, is also one of the cities that support e-sports.
E-sports into Asia is a practice that conforms to the trend of the times under the development of the general environment. This represents the gradual acceptance of the emerging e-sports spirit of mainstream sports, which is regarded as a huge historical opportunity for the e-sports industry, on the other hand, it is also an opportunity for the government to further standardize the e-sports industry.
But if it becomes a competition project, it means to abandon the core gameplay and become one "customized version" after another, such an e-sports, it is difficult to say whether it has improved or regressed.