Chapter 788: Future Capital is sued
In mid-August, Junzi Interactive Entertainment once again made headlines.
The "free game, paid props" model also demonstrated its strong dominance for the first time. "Legend of Mir 2" has since embarked on a completely different development path from "Xian Ji". It can be said that it opened Pandora's box and made everyone exclaim that it was possible to play games in this way.
In fact, the market was not optimistic about this model at the beginning. Many people were even booing it secretly, waiting for Lu Yiming to suffer a defeat.
However, the result was that everyone was slapped in the face.
The monthly active data of "Legend of Mir 2" is not even inferior to that of "Xianji", because free games are really good!
Even in the revised version of "Legend of Mir 2", ordinary players can get "salary", which is the first time in the history of online games!
As long as players are online for more than 120 hours a month, they can get a "full salary" worth 100 yuan. If they log in to the game every day and sign in at the designated time, they will receive various game props as rewards.
Wages are paid in the form of game point cards, and players can get cash by trading with other players. In simple terms, ordinary players can be supported by wealthy players and earn money by playing games without spending any money.
This further increased the popularity of "Legend of Mir 2". In the month after the "salary payment" came out, the number of simultaneous online users of "Legend of Mir 2" climbed from 400,000 to 1 million, becoming the creator of the domestic MMORPG record of similar online games!
Tamron Games.
After seeing the magic of free games, Ma Teng conducted an in-depth study of the gameplay and logic of the free model of "Legend of Mir 2" and was immediately delighted.
He even felt that he had found his final destination and direction.
He actually felt that everything in this game was very familiar, as if it was tailor-made for him.
He felt somehow that this was the path he wanted to take.
So, he immediately held a meeting in the company and decided to directly copy a free online game version of "Legend of Mir 2".
Tenglong Games doesn't have the money and ability to copy "Xian Ji", but it is too easy to copy "Legend of Mir 2".
When Ma Teng announced the decision at the conference, Zhang Zhidong was speechless and couldn't help complaining, "Boss Ma, didn't you plan to give up the MMORPG category before? Why are you picking it up again now that the free version of Legend of Mir 2 is so popular?"
Ma Teng said calmly, "It's not bad to make money. We just didn't find the right solution before, but now we have found it."
It has to be said that Ma Teng is a very qualified capitalist. After all, the first requirement of a capitalist is to be thick-skinned, and the second requirement is to be conscienceless. Obviously, he perfectly meets these two requirements. As for the third requirement - to do whatever it takes to make money, he has also slowly begun to cultivate it.
In fact, despite all the complaints about Ma Teng's decision, people still approve of it in their hearts. After all, Tenglong Games doesn't even have any business now. It's exhausting to maintain a game from South Korea that's full of cheats, and it doesn't make much money. No one would object to making some money by copying "Legend of Mir 2".
In fact, it is not just Tenglong Games. After seeing that Junzi Interactive Entertainment was making a lot of money by selling "Legend of Mir 2" for free, other domestic game companies have already established research and development departments and started to learn from this game.
Zhang Zhidong asked, "Mr. Ma, what about the story background of our game plot? Should we also use The Investiture of the Gods?"
Ma Teng's thick-skinned skills are not yet fully developed, but he still has to have some shame. After careful consideration, he said, "This is too obvious a copy. The background of Legend of Mir 2 is a mythological story. We can use martial arts novels. I remember that martial arts novels were very popular a few years ago. Let's buy a well-known novel and adapt it into a game."
Everyone had no objection to Ma Teng's proposal.
"This is good. A martial arts novel with a certain degree of popularity will be good for the promotion of our game."
"Among domestic martial arts writers, the most famous one is Louis Cha."
“He has a lot of good novels.”
"Go find the most famous one, buy the game development rights directly, and then we'll make the game."
Gentlemen entertain each other.
Jiang Rongfa also got the news very quickly and reported to Lu Yiming: "Boss Lu, Tenglong Games is planning to copy the free model of our "Legend of Mir 2". It is said that they have bought the copyright of "Tian Long" by Louis Cha and announced an investment of 20 million for research and development."
Lu Yiming didn't care at all after hearing this. He smiled and said, "Let him copy it. This is what he is best at."
In the time and space when Lu Yiming lived, there were countless free games, but Legend's position was always very stable and it was not afraid of any challenges at all.
In the original time and space, the reason why Ma Teng was able to plagiarize was because he had the powerful weapon QQ.
He once said bluntly in an interview, "Because I have 500 million users." It can be seen that this is the confidence for him to plagiarize.
Copy a game and just have a QQ pop-up window, and that would get 500 million exposures.
Even if one person out of a thousand users clicks into the game, that would still be 500,000 players.
At this level, who wouldn’t be scared?
The key point is that these are all his own software, and I wonder how much advertising costs can be saved!
This is also the biggest reason why Lu Yiming wanted to take over QQ. This is how "Legend of Mir 2" and "QQ Farm" are played.
But now that Ma Teng no longer has QQ, his ultimate weapon, he can no longer play this game, and he certainly won’t be able to save on advertising costs.
Lu Yiming opened the QQ group and directly @Ma Teng.
"Xiao Ma, you can't be so shameless."
As soon as Lu Yiming spoke, some people quickly emerged from the originally quiet group.
"What happened to Xiao Ma?"
"What happened? Did Xiao Ma run into Mr. Lu's trap again?"
"Hey, this guy is wearing glasses. You can tell at a glance that he is a scoundrel. What unscrupulous thing has he done again?"
"Eat melons in the front row."
“Selling melon seeds, peanuts and mineral water.”
Xiao Ma Ge was blown up by the group message and immediately retorted: "Boss Lu, you can't slander someone's innocence like this."
Lu Yiming said bluntly: "You bought the rights to the game adaptation of Tianlong and thought I didn't know? You copied the operation model directly. You really don't care about your face!"
Ma Teng’s profile picture turned black immediately.
Shi Yuzhu, on the other hand, spoke up and said something fair to Ma Teng: "Mr. Lu, game patents have always only protected the IP, not the gameplay."
Lu Yiming pointed the finger at Shi Yuzhu without hesitation: "Law is the bottom line of morality. You are stepping on the bottom line of morality to talk to me about morality? What, do you want to learn Tenglong game too?"
Shi Yuzhu was honest and upright. Facing Lu Yiming's attack, he did not just walk away like Ma Teng did. Instead, he openly admitted, "Yes, I also went to Hong Kong to find Mr. Jin to buy the copyright for the game adaptation, but I bought The Legend of the Condor Heroes."
It has to be said that Shi Yuzhu was a man who was able to do such a thing as buying computers on credit and making money out of nothing in the early 1990s. His thick skin had been tempered a thousand times over, and he was not comparable to a newbie like Ma Teng.
When Lu Yiming heard that Boss Shi was not going to sell Melatonin and was planning to develop online games, he didn't know what to say for a moment.
After all, Tamron Games was guilty of "plagiarism", so he would definitely scold it to death.
But Boss Shi is different. The charging model of "Zhengtu" is his own creation. However, according to the original timeline, Boss Shi would recruit a group of game developers who left Shanda to join the online game industry next year.
And all this was brought forward because of Lu Yiming.
What can Lu Yiming say?
All we can say is that the times are calling, and some people are destined to take a certain path.
It's not just Ma Teng and Shi Yuzhu. In fact, many domestic game manufacturers have been working at full capacity to copy the game as soon as possible and list it on the market to make money.
The model developed by Lu Yiming is really easy to use, simple and crude, and it requires a lot of money and stupid people. If we don't hurry up and develop new tracks and new ways of playing, we will be in trouble.
They cannot afford to learn the model of "Xianji", but many people want to emulate the operating model of "Legend of Mir 2".
The fastest to take action was Tamron Games, followed by the new disruptor Giant Interactive.
In September, just as the gaming industry was about to enter a fierce competition mode, Xia country's capital market was the first to usher in a shocking news.
Something happened to the Delong Group!
The super large group with assets worth hundreds of billions is now only one step away from official bankruptcy.
When Li Yiwen came to see Lu Yiming, his expression was not only excited, but also a little terrified: "Fuck, you are really amazing. You actually knew that the Delong system was going to collapse several years in advance."
Lu Yiming seemed puzzled: "Hey, is the Delong system collapsing now?"
He hadn't paid attention to this matter for a long time. He thought the Delong Group had collapsed long ago, but he didn't expect that they had persisted until now.
In his memory, the Delong Group in the previous life seemed to have an accident in April 2004.
As a result, it is already September and we just received the news that the Delong Group is going to collapse. It has been lingering on for five months. The force of the butterfly's wings flapping is quite strong.
"I thought the Delong Group had already gone bankrupt, but it has managed to survive until now."
Li Yiwen said: "I have investigated and found that the financial situation of the Delong Group was already somewhat unsustainable in April, but someone stepped in to help Tang Wanxin at that time."
Lu Yiming asked curiously: "Who is so rich?"
Li Yiwen smiled and said, "They are old acquaintances of ours, Zhao Bin and Luo Yongjie. However, Zhao Bin used the Zhao family's connections and spent the bank's money, while Luo Yongjie used his own financial reserves."
Lu Yiming shook his head when he heard this: "Then they are dead."
Li Yiwen sighed, "That's right. Tang Wanxin has disappeared. I heard he is abroad. The entire Delong Group has a financial black hole of more than 17.2 billion. The famous 'old three stocks' of Delong Group, Xiang Torch, Tunhe, and Alloy Investment, have all collapsed. The three stocks have hit the daily limit in succession. In less than half a month, the market value of 20 billion has evaporated. Even the Daluo Jinxian can't save them."
There is no doubt that in this situation, it would be optimistic to say that it is terminally ill.
As long as nothing unexpected happens, the matter can be settled.
The two were chatting when Li Yiwen's cell phone rang . He took out his phone and answered it. After a few words, his face changed drastically.
"I see."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Yiming asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
Li Yiwen took a deep breath, calmed himself down a bit, and then said, "Something happened at the branch of Future Capital in Zhonghai. The call came from the police station. Someone called the police and said that an employee of our company was committing fraud."
"What the hell?"
When Lu Yiming heard this, he could no longer sit still.
Although there are many companies under his name at present, the investment is also huge, and the profits of those companies cannot cover the cost of investment at all.
What is even more frightening is that those who invest and come to demand repayment of their investments will not be able to sustain capital in the future!
Lu Yiming asked: "Besides the police, who else knows about this?"
Li Yiwen said: "Because Future Capital has invested in a large number of industries in Zhonghai, and there is not enough evidence, the news has been suppressed for the time being, but I am afraid we have to give an explanation."
After Lu Yiming came back to his senses, he nodded solemnly, "I really have to give an explanation, otherwise the good reputation I have worked so hard to build will be ruined."
Future Capital is the core asset among the core assets, and there must be no problems. If there is a problem, it will not be a small problem. The entire system he built may be in danger of collapse!
Lu Yiming thought about it and said, "We can first contact the reporter privately to find out what is going on."
Li Yiwen hesitated and said, "Is this really okay? If people find out, will they say we are threatening the person who reported the crime?"
Lu Yiming said, "There is indeed such a risk, but I want to know what is going on. If it is really a fraud by a company employee, I will definitely not tolerate it. Bring a video recording device and record everything we say during the meeting."
"OK."
Afterwards, Li Yiwen made a few phone calls and got the information of the person who reported the case, then he took Lu Yiming and rushed there.
Although from some perspectives, the information of the reporter is strictly confidential, but at Lu Yiming's level, this level of information is not confidential at all, and it can be found out by making a few phone calls. After all, those gifts are not given for nothing.
The atmosphere in Wang Yuanjiu's home was very depressing today. His wife Gong Wanrong was sitting on the sofa crying early in the morning. He was also sitting on the sofa smoking silently, and the ashtray on the coffee table was already full of cigarette butts.
"Honey, please stop crying."
Wang Yuanjiu wanted to comfort his wife, but he was so bitter that he didn't know what to say. After all, he wanted to cry now.
Just at this moment, the cell phone on the table rang.
Hearing the ringtone, both the husband and wife felt their hearts skip a beat.
Wang Yuanjiu looked at Gong Wanrong, sighed, picked up the phone and pressed the answer button.
"Hello?"
"Hey, Wang Yuanjiu, I'm warning you for the last time. If you don't return the money to me tonight, I'll see you in court tomorrow!"
Before Wang Yuanjiu could speak, the other party hung up the phone.
Wang Yuanjiu said to Gong Wanrong, "It's my second uncle's call."
Gong Wanrong was about to speak when Wang Yuanjiu's cell phone rang again.
"Hello?"
"Xiaojiu, I'm your aunt. You lent us the money before, look..."
I received several calls in a row, all from people collecting debts.
Just when neither of them knew what to do, there was a knock on the door.
The couple looked at each other, then looked at the iron gate in surprise and suspicion.
“Who’s coming to our house?”
"Are you here to collect a debt?"
"Do you want to open the door?"
"Should we call the police first?"
The two discussed for a while, and Wang Yuanjiu gritted his teeth and said, "It's a blessing, not a disaster. If it's a disaster, you can't avoid it. Open the door."
Gong Wanrong went to open the door, and Wang Yuanjiu silently picked up the baseball bat next to the shoe cabinet.
When the door opened, Gong Wanrong saw two handsome young men standing outside. She was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who are you?"
Li Yiwen quickly said: "Hello, I'm Li Yiwen, from Future Capital..."
Before he finished speaking, Wang Yuanjiu's anger flared up, and he immediately yelled angrily, "What else do you liars want to cheat from me? We have mortgaged our house, and we have no money left for you to cheat."
Li Yiwen was so embarrassed that he felt extremely depressed.
When Lu Yiming saw this, he didn't look angry at all. Instead, he said in a friendly manner, "I am Lu Yiming from Future Capital. I am the founder and major shareholder of Future Capital. I came here today to understand the ins and outs of this matter. First of all, don't worry, I am doing legitimate business and will never deceive consumers and partners. I suspect there is some misunderstanding here."
At this moment, a young girl came out of the house and saw Lu Yiming. She was immediately surprised and asked, "Mr. Lu?"
Gong Wanrong said in surprise: "Wang Qiufen, what did you say? He is the richest man in Lu?"
Wang Qiufen is their only daughter who just graduated from college this year, and her idol is Lu Yiming!
Wang Qiufen said excitedly: "Yes, he is the richest man in Lu. I have his poster in my dormitory. There is no doubt about it. He is worth over 100 billion at such a young age. Wow..."
When they heard that the man in front of them was Asia's richest man, Lu Yiming, the couple's expressions eased a lot. After all, they had heard of Lu Yiming's name, a big boss worth hundreds of billions.
In comparison, the money they were defrauded of seemed to pale in comparison.
Gong Wanrong said, "Mr. Lu, Mr. Li, please come in. Fenfen, go and pour the tea."
"Okay!"
Wang Qiufen immediately went to boil water and make tea.
Lu Yiming and Li Yiwen entered the house and put down some small gifts they brought. Li Yiwen set up the camera and then sat on the sofa with Lu Yiming.
Lu Yiming considered his words for a moment, then asked, "Can you tell me how you were defrauded?"
