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Chapter 319 Let's Sue the Boss! (6k views, please subscribe)

Although the original spirit of the internet was equality, openness, inclusiveness, sharing, and decentralization, this is clearly against human nature and utopian.

The spirit advocated by the early days of the internet did indeed create many shining examples of human achievement, but the dark deeds caused by the lack of regulation on the internet far outnumbered those so-called glorious achievements.

Even with increasingly standardized internet regulation, cybercrime is increasing year by year. The existence of the deep web and dark web, fueled by the darker side of human nature, has become a "real abyss" in the virtual world.

The Chinese internet is one of the most strictly regulated internet networks in the world.

However, the Dongda students' innate tendency to cause trouble has never been curbed, especially on the internet, where they tend to stir up trouble wherever one side is in trouble.

Lu Yao's Guang'an Network Games Company is up to something right now.

After Tencent sent a lawyer's letter to ByteDance, the internet was flooded with ridicule and mockery of Tencent, and Tencent's stock price fell for several days as a result, but Tencent itself was not seriously injured.

Tencent is an internet technology company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Even if the sentiment in China is transmitted, the impact on Tencent in Hong Kong will be limited. Most companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange are played by institutions or large investors.

Therefore, Tencent doesn't care about the feelings of domestic players.

Despite the overwhelming emotional outcry on the Chinese internet and the spontaneous boycott by domestic players, Tencent's stock price has fallen somewhat, and its game revenue has also decreased in recent days, but Tencent doesn't seem to care.

Penguin didn't even issue a single announcement or explanation.

They remained silent.

Silence is the greatest form of contempt.

The criticism from Tencent's game developers didn't even garner sympathy from players of other game companies. Many players from NetEase and Xiaomi instead turned their criticism on Tencent's players.

"I've said it before, over and over again: when you're playing Penguin Games and you're being bullied by Penguin and can't get justice, the first thing to do isn't to complain to other netizens, or to seek help from other platforms, or even to confide in people around you. Seeking help from these people only provides psychological comfort and has no real value. The most important thing to do when you're being bullied by Penguin is to get away from Penguin immediately. No matter how much money you've spent or how much time you've invested, no matter how reluctant you are, you have to leave as soon as possible."

"Don't blame Tencent, and don't blame other gaming platforms. It's because you all became Tencent users one after another, raising Tencent's status higher and higher, that you are in this situation today."

"You yourselves are the culprits."

"Everything you are suffering now is entirely your own fault."

The above post was not created by the current players themselves, but written by Lü Yao, posted on a marketing account, and then spread by his own online army.

In just half a day, this post went viral almost like crazy because of the context at that moment.

This has made countless Penguin players increasingly annoyed.

Those netizens who left the Penguin platform and became loyal players of the Guang'an series were overjoyed and expressed their excitement online.

"Back then, I was also a Tencent gamer. There was really no other way for people to play Tencent games back then. Because when it came to the greed of domestic game companies, they were all disgusting and ugly. Otherwise, look at NetEase, Giant Interactive, and Century Baicheng. Tencent was considered one of the more conscientious companies back then."

"Yes, I remember that at the beginning, the penguins were quite conscientious."

"That's normal. The boy who slays the dragon will eventually become the dragon himself in the dragon's treasure."

"This is actually the disease of big companies. When a company becomes like this, it means that the company has started to grow big, but it will inevitably start to decline."

However, because the companies are so large and the road ahead is so long, the decline is so slow that many company leaders don't even notice the changes.

By the time the company's founders and leaders discovered these changes, it was too late to turn things around.

"Damn, I hope the Guang'an Group won't end up like this in the future."

"Hey, why think so much? We're players. Like Tencent said, no company will make games forever, but there will always be companies making games."

Gamers might experience a gaming drought, but they won't stay in one forever.

This online post, which was almost a direct counter to the Penguin, was like a Zen koan, possessing the power to enlighten people. Many players who had been "suffering from the Penguin for a long time" were stunned and then turned to Guang'an.

At this moment, many players, many netizens, and even many others understood...

What has made these large corporations successful is not their own strength, but the support of millions of netizens. It is the netizens' adoration that has brought them to their current status. Yet, after building their empires, these internet giants have turned around and tried every means to denigrate the netizens and gamers who made them who they are.

They use every means to try and pry the players' money out of them, and even after getting the money, they treat the players like dogs.

Playing games is part of human nature, but games aren't only available on Tencent's platform.

Thus, on July 27th, the largest data transfer on the Internet since 2010 took place.

More than ten million players have flocked to the Light Shore series of games.

On July 27th alone, the total recharge amount for all games in the Guang'an series exceeded 500 million yuan.

After so many players flocked to the Light Shore system, they were surprised to find that the gaming experience was not much different from that on Penguin, and in some cases even better.

FPS games have a battle royale mode like in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

The "treasure hunting" gameplay in PUBG is considered the originator and pioneer of this type of game in China.

If you're looking for a competitive game, MOBA mobile games are a great option, not to mention that Guang'an's "Honor of Kings" has quite a few female players.

If you find MOBA mobile games too competitive, then "Shoot the Shoot," which is easy and fun with a bit of competition and also includes some treasure-hunting gameplay, is a good alternative.

However, although……

There are still too few games available on Guang'an.

Therefore, some players left messages on the official website of Guang'an, or tagged the official account on other online platforms:

"The games on Guang'an are indeed very fun, but there are too few types to choose from. Are there any other types of games?"

Faced with netizens' somewhat greedy request, Guang'an's official response was almost indulgent: "Yes, brothers! Yes, we have it!"

"On August 5th! Guang'an will hold another game launch event, where several games with completely different styles, types and gameplay will be released at the same time. Please look forward to it."

The official announcement from Guang'an immediately caused an uproar on its website.

Holy crap!

How come there really is one?

Aren't all players of the Light Shore series this lucky?

At this moment, the players who were still hesitating stopped hesitating and started migrating their accounts.

Guangan Games uses multiple login methods, including mobile phone numbers, Xiaomi accounts, and ByteDance accounts. However, as game accounts become increasingly important in people's daily lives and are linked to more and more things, more and more players are now using their mobile phone numbers as the main body of their game accounts.

As for changing phone numbers as casually as before... that will become less and less common over time.

Not to mention that major operators will also launch number portability services later on.

When Lü Yao was studying abroad, he used the same mobile phone number for almost fifteen years without ever changing it. All his accounts, bank cards, and software were linked to that main number.

In fact, games from the Guangan ecosystem also support direct login via WeChat and QQ accounts. However, since Guangan and Tencent became competitors, all external redirects originating from Guangan have been blocked by Tencent's technical department.

Penguins are really good at this.

Many small websites and companies on the internet are eyeing the natural traffic pool platforms of QQ and WeChat, so a lot of external links enter QQ and WeChat. For companies that do not pose a threat, Tencent turns a blind eye, after all, the existence of these small companies also improves the ecosystem of WeChat and QQ.

But for companies that pose a competitive threat, Tencent will completely block them!

For a period of time, in order to compete with Taobao in the e-commerce field, Tencent made all external links from Taobao inaccessible.

I wonder if Guangan Network Games will ever be able to cooperate with Tencent in the future... This massive migration of internet player data reminds Lü Yao of some interesting things that happened when he was studying abroad.

In Lü Yao's memory of studying abroad, Tencent's "Honor of Kings" had experienced several player data migrations due to operational accidents, and each migration allowed other games in the same category to reap huge profits.

For example, the game "Onmyoji Arena" by NetEase.

Later, a small, unknown company also managed to attract a large number of former "Honor of Kings" players through its sincerity. The company's servers were so overwhelmed that they had to work overnight to repair them and spend a lot of money to buy more servers in hopes of retaining the players who had migrated.

Unfortunately, neither NetEase's "Onmyoji Arena" nor other MOBA games from smaller studios can compare to Tencent's "Honor of Kings," which has been iterated over many years, in terms of user experience.

Whether it's the gameplay mechanics of the heroes, the sound effects and the feel of the combat, other manufacturers lag behind Tencent's "Honor of Kings". Even Riot Games' later MOBA mobile game "League of Legends" is somewhat inferior to "Honor of Kings" in terms of special effects.

After all, Honor of Kings later even came up with special effects like "Dharma Image".

Even though these special effects result in higher resource consumption on the phone, it also shows that even if Yao Qiguang's "Honor of Kings" has operational mistakes, they have not neglected the pursuit of game performance.

So those players who were angry and indignant about the penguins either quit the game or quietly returned to the penguins' gaming ecosystem.

Now, even Yao Qiguang and Feng Ji's team have been absorbed by Lü Yao.

Lu Yao will definitely crack down hard on this data migration! He'll do everything he can to retain these players. He'll try his best to win their hearts.

……

Shenzhen, Penguin Park.

The series of marketing activities carried out by the Guang'an Group brought Guang'an great benefits, while Tencent suffered great losses in return.

On July 27th alone, Tencent lost 500 million yuan in cash. Although 500 million yuan is nothing to Tencent, for entrepreneurs, seeing competitors make money is more painful than losing money themselves.

The players who contributed 500 million RMB in revenue to Guang'an on this day were not limited to contributing only 500 million RMB.

In the future, they will continue to bring huge benefits to Guang'an.

In the capital market, this wave of new players alone could bring Guang'an a valuation of 50 billion yuan.

Not to mention that after July 27th, a large number of Penguin players are still leaving.

It's not just the penguin players that are leaving; they're the ones who are leaving!
This wave of losses is clearly the fate of penguins.

Faced with such a massive exodus, Tencent couldn't sit still. At the group's monthly meeting in early August, CEO Teng invited representatives from various departments to discuss countermeasures.

Among the executives summoned, President Liu was also trying to advise President Teng to focus his main efforts on increasing the group's asset size. Faced with the aggressive Guang'an and ByteDance, what Tencent should do is not to fight back, but to cooperate with them.

As for Penguin's own industries, they can wait until the cooperation matures in the future and then try to see if they can get the technology from others.

However, at the beginning of this month's meeting, Mr. Teng remained as headstrong as ever.

This caused President Liu to gradually fall silent.

Although he didn't grow up on this land, President Liu still has the blood of this land flowing in his veins. Having worked in China for so long, he naturally understands that the game industry and the subsequent short video track are currently considered "toxic assets."

Even if these projects lose a lot of money, Mr. Teng will still continue to do them.

Only by constantly generating new initiatives, and by making them distinct from its own financial practices, can a company continuously attract people from other departments and positions to work for it, and even draw in resources from outside.

And these forces...

Ultimately, they are all intended to weaken President Liu.

President Liu understood that he had now become one of the original veterans.

He shouldn't have continued to resist.

Therefore, at the Tencent Group Executive Meeting in early August, President Liu, unusually so, and perhaps for the first time since joining Tencent, did not make any excessive remarks. The entire pace of the meeting was controlled by President Teng.

President Teng had noticed all the changes in President Liu, and he was very pleased with them.

So in the end, President Teng sat in the main seat of the huge conference room and said in a tone that was not as gentle as usual: "As the group grows bigger, many people become arrogant and domineering, and they start to neglect the grassroots business. They can even easily neglect our bread and butter."

"Look at the online opinions about us penguins now!!"

"Look at the netizens' attitude towards our penguins now!!"

"Everyone here is a veteran of the group, a long-time contributor, but have you all forgotten how we developed in the first place?"

With a stern face, President Teng reprimanded his subordinates: "Although Shangnan's Guang'an Online Games is our competitor, I greatly admire what President Lü said on social media. He said, 'Sincerity is the greatest strategy in this world.'"

"So what we need to do next is to make every effort to make changes and try our best to regain the confidence of players and netizens."

"As for how to do it, each department should submit its plan as soon as possible. If the submitted plan cannot be done well, then let me be frank... those who are not competent should submit their resignation."

Mr. Teng stood up with a gloomy face: "Meeting adjourned."

This meeting of senior executives of the group fully demonstrated President Teng's domineering presence, which made everyone in President Liu's faction feel uneasy. Many people's eyes turned to President Liu in unison.

But President Liu just kept his head down and didn't say a word.

The day after Tencent's group executive meeting in early August, CEO Teng met with the largest financial media outlet in China, as well as several new media platforms, including Sina News, Sohu News, and others.

Faced with the overwhelming offensive from the Northern faction, President Teng, who has always disliked showing his face, finally took matters into his own hands to stabilize morale.

There is nothing we can do about this.

Currently, most of the important positions in the group are occupied by people from President Liu's side. The remaining President Ren, President Tang, and President Lu do not have enough influence on the internet to compete with that young President Lü from Shangnan.

Look around.

In Tencent, which lacks a representative figure from the group, only Tencent's own internet influence is enough to rival Lü Yao.

So, there was no other way but for Mr. Teng to take matters into his own hands.

In this media interview, Tencent CEO Teng first publicly acknowledged the current shortcomings in the management of Tencent Group, and told the outside world that Tencent will actively make changes. For Tencent, users are still their most important concern, and Tencent's subsequent internet business operations will focus more on users and players.

The penguin will definitely make sweeping changes to give netizens a satisfactory explanation.

Following this interview, various departments at Tencent actively launched more generous promotions, offering significant discounts on virtual assets such as skins and items. They also introduced numerous events where participants could obtain skins, heroes, and items simply by participating in activities.

However, Teng avoided addressing the issues that players are concerned about, such as the ownership of virtual assets and the legal issues with ByteDance.

Penguin's move was indeed effective.

Those players who excitedly joined the Light Shore series of games turned around and went back.

This is a traditional skill among players. If there's a bargain, not taking advantage of it will make them feel bad and lose money. If they can get something for free, they will; if they can't, they can take the opportunity to buy something they've always wanted.

The summer of 2016 was even more exciting for gamers than the Lunar New Year.

Such a grand occasion inevitably reminded Lü Yao of the response taken by Honor of Kings when League of Legends mobile game was launched.

Although both games are under Tencent's umbrella, Tencent's internal projects employ a competitive, survival-of-the-fittest mechanism. To ensure the future development of their respective project teams, many teams will strive to survive in Tencent's competitive ecosystem.

Unfortunately, the game "League of Legends Mobile" is operated by Tencent Games, and despite the players' eager anticipation, Tencent Games delivered a huge disappointment right from the start.

This prompted "Honor of Kings" to launch a plethora of events during the initial launch of "League of Legends Mobile," as if they were afraid of being crushed by this ancient and powerful IP.

Even though the penguin is using this traditional tactic, Lü Yao is not worried at all.

On August 5th, he will give the world's gaming community a little shock.

……

Just as Lü Yao was gearing up for the new game launch event a few days later, the internet celebrity couple who had given Li Qiuwen advice in early June contacted her.

The internet celebrity couple also brought two young women to Li Qiuwen's room. These two newly arrived internet celebrity women had made a name for themselves in Lü Yao's MCN company, with more than two million followers across the internet.

After entering the dressing room, Yao Xinjie, the man in the internet celebrity couple, closed and locked the door behind him before going to Li Qiuwen's side.

Yao Xinjie asked with a smile, "How's it going? I heard you've approached the boss privately several times. Has there been any substantial progress?"

Li Qiuwen's face flushed instantly, and she avoided eye contact: "Oh dear, how did you guys know?"

Yao Xinjie laughed and said, "These kinds of things can't be hidden in the company. But I haven't seen the company give you any preferential treatment. Don't you think the boss wants to be the boss's wife?"

This may seem like a joke, but it's the beginning of a devastating blow to one's spirit.

Li Qiuwen bit her lip: "The boss said I need to mature a bit more, and I'll naturally become famous when the time is right."

Yao Xinjie narrowed his eyes, and Chen Xiaoyu, who was next to Yao Xinjie, opened her mouth in surprise and said, "Huh? This shouldn't be, right? A lot of scumbags deceive women like this. You weren't deceived by the boss, were you?"

Li Qiuwen knew exactly what was going on. Hearing that Chen Xiaoyu was doing things exactly according to the script the boss had guessed made Li Qiuwen feel that this group of people were incompetent.

But Li Qiuwen still looked surprised and said, "No way."

At this moment, Chen Xiaoyu sat down next to Li Qiuwen: "Oh dear! I'm a few years older than you and have seen more people. Many scumbags are like this, saying they'll buy you things when they have money in the future, or that they'll marry you after they've achieved success in their careers! In reality, these are all just empty promises."

The two girls brought by Yao Xinjie and Chen Xiaoyu also chimed in, "That's right, we've heard this kind of thing so many times."

That's why they say women are born actresses.

Li Qiuwen looked flustered and asked, "Then what should I do?"

Chen Xiaoyu, filled with righteous indignation, said angrily, "Of course we can't let this go so easily! Let's sue the boss!"

(End of this chapter)