I don't want to fall in love, I just want to get rewards

Chapter 54 Court Mediation
It’s been seven days since the release of “Weapon Forger Master”.

Chu Huai lay on the bed, reading the comments about the game from players on various gaming platforms.

After five days, although the revenue brought by the game continued to increase, the scores of the game on various platforms continued to decline, and the comment section was not so friendly either.

Chu Huai was not too surprised by this.

After all, "Forge Master" itself is just a small game with almost no technical content, and the balance of pvp can be said to be very poor.

After all, a kryptonian can spend money to get top-level equipment in a day; while ordinary players may need to work hard for a week to get a small piece of top-notch equipment.

It's only been a week since the server was launched, and the attributes of ordinary players in the arena are not even as good as those of the top-level kryptonian players' pets.

Of the revenue from the game during this period, after half was taken by the platform, the remaining half was mostly invested in publicity and scoring.

Chu Huai's fingers continued to slide down, and then his eyes stopped on a comment.

[No, why would so many people play a plagiarized game? You can go and take a look at "Xuanjiang", the content is exactly the same. If they don't have popularity, they can just copy it, right?]

"What a bunch of idiots! There have already been several games like this where you chop down trees and get treasures." Chu Huai sneered, but he still kept it in mind and went to the game store to search for "Xuan Jiang".

After downloading the game and entering the page, Chu Huai was stunned.

The game "Xuan Jiang" is surprisingly the same as his "Forge Master", both of which involve forging equipment through blacksmithing. Except for the art and music, there is no difference in other aspects.

"Fuck, I got robbed." Chu Huai suddenly jumped up from the bed, his mood no longer as calm as before.

In terms of infringement, the law has always been "not to protect ideas, but to protect the expression of ideas", which is why there are so many games where you drop equipment by clicking on the screen, from the beginning, such as "Treasure Chest Knights", "Secret Realm of Eight Wastelands", "Seeking the Way of the Thousand Worlds", etc., but there has never been any infringement problem.

Because they use different ways of expression, namely "cut down the peach tree" and "open the treasure chest"...

But now the similarities between "The Master Forger" and "The Mysterious Master" are so great that they may have already involved plagiarism.

Chu Huai glanced at the release date of "Xuan Jiang" and found that it was exactly three days earlier than "Weapon Forging Master".

Could this be a coincidence?
What shocked Chu Huai even more was that the art, music and even the sense of attack of "Xuanjiang" were much better than those of "Weapon Forger", but the game itself did not have much popularity, which was obviously the result of deliberate control by the other party.

Chu Huai was not a fool. He was sure that he was being targeted by his opponent, and it was very likely that the source code of his game had been leaked to the opponent.

What made him even more angry was that after the game was released, the records of the initial code were deleted by someone unknown, leaving him unable to even produce evidence.

Thinking of this, Chu Huai's face turned pale.

His studio is not big, with only a dozen people, all of whom are friends he knows. Now a traitor has appeared among them.

"Who is it?" Chu Huai squeezed the phone tightly, and figures flashed through his mind.

At this moment, he felt as if he was in a fog. He couldn't see anything around him. He could only feel a strong sense of malice, but he didn't know where it came from.

While thinking about things, he refreshed the comment section.

Then he was completely dumbfounded.

[Copying the game and forcing players to pay, bah. 】

[I played it for ten minutes and felt like I wasted my life, so I uninstalled it. ]

[No, what's wrong with the production team? They plagiarized without even making any changes.]

……

A large number of negative comments appeared at the top of the comment section, and most of them contained the word "plagiarism". Not only that, even several marketing accounts appeared on the notes and began to lead the rhythm.

Faced with this long-planned attack, Chu Huai didn't know how to fight back for a moment. He could only contact the Internet trolls and try his best to control the comment section.

However, just after he contacted the internet trolls, the court called him.

"Hello, is this Mr. Chu Huai? It's like this..."

……

Chen Che sat in front of the computer, looking at the almost one-sided comment section with a satisfied smile on his face.

In modern business wars, the importance of public opinion is self-evident. As long as you can stand on the high ground of public opinion, you have basically won half of the war.

Fighting for the high ground of public opinion is essentially a matter of spending money.

As for Chu Huai's financial resources, Chen Che has also made some inquiries. He is sure that when it comes to spending money, Chu Huai is definitely not his opponent.

After all, Chu Huai only made a small profit from the last game, but the most he could get was only four or five hundred thousand.

Moreover, seeing the promotion of "The Master of Forging" on various platforms, Chen Che dared to conclude that Chu Huai didn't have much money in his pocket and had no spare energy to compete with him for the right to public opinion.

Of course, Chen Che’s purpose is not limited to this.

He had already contacted a lawyer and submitted a lawsuit to the court. According to the time, Chu Huai should have received the news from the court by now.

What followed was a month-long court mediation.

Chen Che was almost certain that court mediation would not succeed. The longer he delayed, the worse Chu Huai's final outcome would be.

After all, as the storm gets bigger, Chu Huai's players will definitely be lost bit by bit... Chen Che doesn't need his game to achieve any results, he just needs to drag Chu Huai to death.

"Don't just fall down like this." Chen Che let out a breath, and the scene of Chu Huai driving towards him that day reappeared in his mind.

No matter how proud and arrogant the other party was at that time, Chen Che would make his future miserable.

After yawning for a while, Chen Che continued to contact the navy and launched an attack on "Weapon Forging Master".

……

After hanging up the phone, Chu Huai's breathing became noticeably heavier. He sat down on the bed, and before he could recover, his phone rang again.

The incoming call column says "Skinny Monkey".

Chu Huai's heart beat faster. He had a vague feeling that this phone call definitely did not bring good news.

"Hey, Monkey, what's the matter?" Chu Huai took a deep breath and tried to make his tone sound calmer.

"Brother Huai, this is bad." Shouhou's voice was full of helplessness and anxiety, "Our game has been removed from several platforms because we are suspected of plagiarism."

"Okay, I know. Don't panic. I'll come for a meeting this afternoon." Chu Huai closed his eyes, and after the call was hung up, he couldn't bear it anymore and threw the phone heavily to the ground.

"Fuck, who wants to fuck me?"

Chu Huai gasped for air and looked out the window with bloodshot eyes.

It was clearly a sunny day today, but in his eyes, the whole sky was so dark, like a big mouth ready to bite anyone.

(End of this chapter)