MANILA – PLDT Home and Smart Communications seized the opportunity to reach the growing gaming community in the Philippines by introducing its latest products for the market at the E-Sports and Gaming Summit (ESGS) happening on October 24 to 25.
As co-presenters in arguably the country’s biggest eSports and gaming convention in the country, PLDT Home and Smart will be setting up a Smart Game Hub during ESGS to show off its next wave of products and for gaming fanatics and enthusiasts.
The goal is to introduce to the public that in-game transactions and online game purchases can now be made via PLDT and Smart. For instance, subscribers can now charge Steam wallet purchases to their PLDT Home bill or ePINS that allow gamers to pay using prepaid load or postpaid account under GameX, a gaming portal developed by Smart.
Those into mobile games, on the other hand, can rely on Smart’s direct carrier billing on Google Play also allows mobile gamers to buy games and make in-app purchases conveniently using their prepaid load or charged to their postpaid account.
There is also Smart’s Big Bytes 50, which offers 350 MB worth of data for gaming, surfing, and other apps, plus free 600 MB worth of access to Fox, iFlix and Spinnr – all valid for 3 days, perfect for games like Clash of Clans or Hearthstone.
Smart’s direct carrier billing on Google Play also allows mobile gamers to buy games and make in-app purchases conveniently using their prepaid load or charged to their postpaid account.
Instead of just sticking with the typical exposure route, the sister companies took on projects to give more value to the over 6,000 participants expected to flock to SMX Convention Center in Pasay over the weekends.
adobo confirmed that PLDT Home and Smart designed an official ESGS app that gamifies the experience of the event – bestowing tickets to an exclusive after party to users who complete the challenges.
PLDT Home Fibr also took the chance to show the speed and reliability of its broadband by using it to power the dozens of competitions at ESGS.
Aside from PLDT and Smart, ESGS 2015 is supported by top brands MSI and Samsung, which grabbed the opportunity to reach ESGS’ very targeted group of audiences by becoming Gold Sponsors. Silver Sponsors include Sports5, OLX.ph, Mineski Infinity and Monster Energy Drink.
Noteworthy of Gariath Concept, the pioneer e-sports and gaming event organizer behind ESGS, is its ability to win the support of some of the world’s biggest gaming brands like Ubisoft, the brand behind iconic games like Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Crysis, Razer, which have recently opened a flagship shop in the country, and Sony’s PlayStation.
