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Chapter 146 It’s meaningless, but it’s fun

In the history of China's online game development, Korean online games have had a profound impact on China's game industry.

For example, Legend, Miracle, Ragnarok, MapleStory, Arena of Valor, Audition, Kart Racing, Cross Fire, Dungeon Fighter, Aion...

Especially in the early days of Chinese online games, Korean online games were almost killing everyone, and they have always firmly occupied half of the country.

For example, early legends and miracles had no rivals at all.

Several games are still in operation ten or twenty years later, which shows how popular these games are.

In addition to squeezing the market, the style and design of Korean online games also affected the design and aesthetics of domestic online games, which were called Korean-style online games at the time.

Early online games only had two forms: European and American style and Japanese style. Because the United States, Europe, and Japan were the three major game markets at that time, the game industry was developed, and the design and painting style had their own characteristics, so two genres were formed.

Korean online games were copied from Europe and the United States at the beginning. At that time, the most influential Korean online game "Paradise" had half of its game settings directly copied from a European and American open source text adventure game called "Nethack".

Not only do the items, monsters, and spells have the same values, but even their names have not changed, the character growth and interface structure are also almost the same.

Qin Shaoyan has never relaxed his vigilance about Korean online games. He has made many targeted plans from the beginning of the layout of online games.

At around five o'clock in the morning, Qin Shaoyan arrived in Seattle by plane with a few confidants.

At that time, the Chinese game industry was in its infancy and could not resist the invasion of Korean games.

After the Asian financial turmoil, the Koreans put forward the strategy of "building a nation through culture" and made every effort to develop the entertainment industry.

Before he could do anything, the other party came to him.

In this era, if you want to be in the game industry, your biggest enemy is not Europe and the United States, but South Korea.

The other half of the settings, art style, and game mechanics are copied from "Diablo".

George, who was woken up from his sleep, yawned and complained, "Damn it, John. Is there anything you can't do until I wake up? Disturbing my sleep will affect my working status during the day."

……

George was stunned for a moment, and then asked in great surprise: "How did you know?"

It was not until 08 that the economic level improved. Also with the support of policies and capital, the influx of outstanding talents began to slowly squeeze out Korean online games.

The success of "Paradise" also became the starting point for the industrialization of Korean online games.

Qin Shaoyan didn't waste any time and asked directly: "Are the Koreans coming?"

Qin Shaoyan sneered several times. It was a long-term tug of war with Korean online games, but that didn't stop him from messing with the Koreans first. He was disgusting and disgusted with them.

"They are from NEXON company, right?" Qin Shaoyan continued to ask with a stern face: "Do you know where they live?"

"I know." George nodded, then felt a little strange, "What happened?"

This online game became very popular in South Korea as soon as it was launched, allowing NCSOFT to catch up from behind and become the earliest online game giant company in South Korea alongside NEXON.

Laws, policies, and capital tilt, coupled with the addition of outstanding graduates from South Korea's top universities, have led to the rise of the South Korean game industry, and then they have gone overseas to seek gold.

A large amount of chaebol capital has poured into the game industry. Many Korean game companies started by imitating "Lineage" in the early days.

South Korea positioned the IT industry and cultural industry as the backbone industries for national development in the 21st century and launched the "Cultural Industry Promotion Law."

"Give me their address." Qin Shaoyan urged, "Hurry up."

George looked at Qin Shaoyan in confusion, but he didn't ask any more questions and wrote an address on a sticky note.

Qin Shaoyan took the note, turned to look at Zhang Pingyi, took out a handful of coins and the note from his pocket and gave it to him.

Zhang Minyi looked at the things in his hands with a confused expression, then looked at Qin Shaoyan, "Mr. Qin, what are you doing?"

"Master Zhang!" Qin Shaoyan looked at Zhang Pingyi solemnly, "Now there is an important task for you."

Zhang Pingyi instinctively felt something was wrong, but he still subconsciously said: "Uh, you tell me."

"You know how to call 911?" Qin Shaoyan pointed to the public telephone booth on the street, "Go ahead, follow the address here and make up your own reasons. Let the police officers in Seattle treat the Koreans well."

Hey!
Zhang Minyi was very speechless. He watched Qin Shaoyan remain silent for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Does this make sense?"

"It makes no sense." Qin Shaoyan replied honestly, "But I feel happy."

"Go quickly!"

Zhang Minyi rushed to the phone booth with a troubled face, picked up the phone, inserted coins, and started pressing 911.

George couldn't understand what the two were talking about, and looked helplessly at the two whispering, "Hey, John, why did Zhang go to the public phone booth? I have the phone with me."

Qin Shaoyan smiled, how could he use his phone for such a thing?
Qin Shaoyan turned to look at George, who was still confused, and said in English: "Take us to meet the Koreans." George was a little confused, "Why meet them?"

"I want to make an appointment with them for breakfast and have a chat together." Qin Shaoyan urged, "Hurry up and finish early and go to bed early."

Twenty minutes later, Qin Shaoyan sat in the car and watched a Seattle police raid from a distance.

The tall policeman picked the person up from the hotel bed, put him on the ground and searched him, then put his hands cuffed behind his back into a police car and took him back to the police station.

Qin Shaoyan raised his hand to look at his watch and praised in Mandarin: "The Seattle Police Department is very efficient. Master Zhang did a great job."

Zhang Pingyi next to him had a dark face and said nothing, pretending not to hear.

George, with a face full of shock and confusion, asked in English: "John, what happened?"

"I don't know?" Qin Shaoyan also looked confused, "How could this happen?"

"It seems that the plan to have breakfast with the Koreans has been scrapped. Let's go back and rest first, and then go to V Club."

Then Qin Shaoyan looked at George seriously, "George, my friend, can you keep today's matter a secret? I don't want Gabu to know that I'm planning to meet the Koreans, I'm afraid he will misunderstand."

George yawned and said casually: "Okay."

"you swear."

"Okay, I swear!" George said impatiently, "Damn it, let's go back and rest, okay?"

The life and death of Koreans was none of his business, he just wanted to go back to sleep.

Several people returned to the hotel with different moods. After a good sleep, they became energetic again.

Qin Shaoyan walked into the V agency headquarters with a happy face and greeted the familiar employees.

Valve employees responded enthusiastically, joked with Qin Shaoyan, and congratulated him on his success at the E3 exhibition.

After talking and laughing all the way, Qin Shaoyan walked into Fatty G's office.

Fatty G looked up and was a little surprised to see Qin Shaoyan, "Why did you come so quickly? I thought you would stay in Los Angeles for a few more days."

Qin Shaoyan sat on the sofa minding his own business and sighed, "That's what I planned originally, but something unexpected happened and I had to come over in advance."

Fatty G asked curiously: "What happened?"

"How are the negotiations between South Korea's NEXON company and you going?" Qin Shaoyan suddenly asked.

Fatty G was startled and frowned, "How did you know? Did George tell you?"

Representatives from NEXON came in secret and specifically asked Valve to keep the information strictly confidential and not to disclose it to the outside world until the negotiations were concluded.

Although Fatty G felt unhappy that the other party was so solemn, he readily agreed.

As a result, as soon as the conversation started, Qin Shaoyan came to the door.

Next to him, George immediately defended: "It's not me, I didn't say anything."

Qin Shaoyan said lazily, "It's not George, it's the Koreans themselves who said it. They are claiming everywhere in China that they have obtained the license for the online game version of "Counter-Strike" and are negotiating with agents."

"Waltfalk?!" Fatty G was instantly furious, "We have not reached any agreement at all, how could they do this? Isn't this a fraud?"

"They also asked us to keep it secret. Damn it, what do you mean by keeping it secret?"

Qin Shaoyan agreed: "That's what Koreans are like, they have no business credibility."

Fatty G cursed a few times and looked very unhappy.

Qin Shaoyan suddenly asked: "Are you negotiating with the Koreans today?"

"Have."

"Then you don't have to wait any longer." Qin Shaoyan smiled, "They won't come today."

"Why?!" Fatty G was a little shocked.

"That's what Koreans are like. They call it small negotiation skills." Qin Shaoyan thought for a while, "In Chinese terms, it's called play hard to get. It's like fishing, before you pull the fish up, you will put the line out first."

Fatty G was a little dubious, so he asked someone to contact the representatives of South Korea's NEXON company to confirm whether they would still attend the appointment today.

After a while, the secretary came to reply, but could not contact the NEXON representative, and the other party did not leave any message.

Fatty G got furious and yelled, "These damn Koreans!"

(End of this chapter)