My rebirth is different

Chapter 528 Reconciliation
Hearing Effie's tone, Mr. Tao seemed to have room for maneuver, and immediately regained his energy.

"Of course! I came here with sincerity this time. Our winger and Facebook have never been deadly rivals. They should be complementary. You are working on the whole country, and we are in the local market. Now that Ogilvy has been acquired by Facebook, those games The agency rights are all in the hands of Facebook Games, so we will offline these battle functions as soon as possible. In fact, in order to show our sincerity, the winger game platform has already been offline at the moment I set off from Hangzhou to Modu. battle zone."

Effie was a little surprised. I didn't expect that the wingers were really determined. They "surrendered" before the lawsuit was filed?

Of course, although she can't understand it, she can also understand how sad life is for people like winger after being "bombarded" by Yu Wenfei's post during this period of time.

"Very well, I did see the sincerity of the winger." Effie nodded.

Seeing that things were going well, Mr. Tao was even happier, and he hit the rails while it was hot: "We will also post a formal apology on the winger's official website, apologizing for the winger's infringement of the rights and interests of the Facebook game. But compensation... Mr. Ai also knows , winger is just a small website, that..."

As he spoke, he showed embarrassment.

"Does Tao always want to settle out of court with our Facebook game?" Effie asked with great interest.

"Yes... yes..., I think it's better not to bring this matter to court. No matter who wins or loses, it will not look good." Mr. Tao said sincerely.

Although she doesn't agree with his words, Effie also knows that it doesn't matter whether she goes to court or not, as long as she can achieve the set goal.

"Well then, I'll give Mr. Tao two options. The first option, as you said, is to take off the relevant infringing functions, apologize on the official website, and compensate Facebook for economic losses of 500 million!" Effie said, raising a finger.

Mr. Tao became anxious when he heard it. What's going on?

When I was sued by Ogilvy & Mather for the first time, I only claimed 200 million yuan, why now it has changed to 500 million yuan!
Just as he was about to open his mouth to ask back, Effie stopped him.

"Don't worry, I know Mr. Tao is meaningful to 500 million. But you have to know that Ogilvy is Ogilvy, and Facebook is Facebook. Let me tell you a fact, that is, the cost of this lawsuit, just hiring a lawyer, is far more than 500 million."

Mr. Tao was immediately dumbfounded. He had inquired about the lawyer representing Facebook this time, but he had a lot of background.The Global Law Firm specially invited from the capital, this law firm has an astonishingly large background!
Presumably Effie is not lying, and 500 million may not be enough for the lawyer's fee.

"The second option is to also take the infringing function offline. We don't need to pay compensation, but..." Effie said again.

As soon as he heard that there was no need for compensation, Mr. Tao immediately regained his spirits, and he quickly asked: "But what? Mr. Ai can say it, as long as we can do it!"

"But apologizing on your official website is not enough. You must make a public apology on the Hangcheng Daily, and your attitude must be sincere enough." Effie said with a half-smile.

This is... a bit uncomfortable.

If Effie followed what Effie said and made a public apology in the newspaper, wouldn't everyone know that the winger had indeed infringed? This would be too embarrassing.

But Mr. Tao thought about it again, it's better than losing the lawsuit, it's better to apologize and pay compensation!
Isn't it just an apology?

Apologizing once is the truth, and twice, it doesn't matter!

He gritted his teeth, "Okay! Just do what Mr. Ai said! I'll call our company's attorney to come over and we'll sign a settlement agreement!"

This is called "a soldier who surrenders without fighting".

Yu Wenfei just invited a big law firm with a strong background, and then led a public opinion offensive. The winger game could no longer resist, and agreed to all the conditions proposed by Effie.

The punishment for the winger cannot be said to be serious, but it has set an example. Presumably no Internet company will dare to blatantly "borrow and imitate" Facebook's things in the future.

In fact, Mr. Tao is right about one thing, that is, if it really goes to court, no matter whether you win or lose, it will be detrimental to both parties.

Naturally, the winger loses and loses, so there is nothing to say. As for the Facebook game, on the surface, he won the lawsuit and hit his target, but in fact there are many hidden dangers.

Because it is likely to offend the judicial system.

This time, under the pressure of the public, the judicial system in Hangzhou slapped itself in the face, but don’t forget that the national judicial system is one family. When it comes to ambiguous situations, it is estimated that you will suffer.

So Fang Zhiyan gave a suggestion early on, that is, to apply pressure in advance to force the other party to admit defeat.

Reconciliation is the best solution.

Now everyone is happy, Facebook got the desired result, the winger didn't lose too much, and the court didn't have to face a dilemma.

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They are all happy, but some people are uncomfortable.

In Pengcheng, Tencent's headquarters, Brother Xiao Ma's face was so gloomy that water dripped down his face.

"Is there enough time for two days to modify the platform?"

Tencent has put out an advertisement, saying that the QQ game platform will be launched in three days, and the QQ pop-up window has been popped up to users several times a day!

Now it means that netizens all over the country know that Tencent is also going to be a game platform. Many people are looking forward to it. After all, QQ has a large user base, and it will be convenient to use if it is bound to a game platform.

But Facebook Games acquired Ogilvy, filed an appeal, and Yu Wenfei posted a long article to guide public opinion. This combination of punches not only knocked the winger down, but also stunned Tencent.

The reason why the winger was accused was because the online battle functions of CS, Warcraft, and Interstellar games were launched.

Obviously, if the Tencent game platform is launched, it will soon appear on the list of defendants...

This... is too bad luck!

If the opponent is Ogilvy & Mather, then Tencent may not care too much about it. It goes online normally, and if it really wants to file a lawsuit, it will fight.

But now the opponent is Facebook!
After Facebook opened its first round of financing, it seems to have become the Internet company with the largest market value and the most influence in China, and it can be said to be famous.

Now that Facebook has a huge amount of cash in its hands, the boss is well-known, and he has hired a law firm with a strong background. No one wants to face such an opponent, and Tencent is no exception.

"How to do?"

This is a question that many executives ask Xiao Ma.

"Platform revision! Remove the battle function!" Brother Ma replied gritted his teeth.

There is no way. At this time, Tencent is not worth mentioning in front of Facebook, but at least it is not a heavyweight player.

Everyone is social, one is strong and the other is weak, QQ emphasizes one-to-one, Facebook emphasizes one-to-many, different types have different styles.

It stands to reason that Tencent started so many years earlier, and it should be doing better than Facebook. However, the founder of Facebook is too powerful. It only took more than half a year to catch up with Tencent.

However, Tencent is not so envious, because in the field of online instant messaging, QQ is still the leader, and there are no competitors that can challenge its leading position.

Brother Ma once said that strong social interaction is definitely more sticky than weak social interaction!
In other words, although the momentum of Facebook's rise is very strong, but if it continues to develop like this, the future Tencent will not be weaker than Facebook.

Because the Facebook model is relatively easy to be replaced, maybe a new website will pop up in the next year or so, and it will take away Facebook's traffic.

But Tencent's QQ is hard to replace. The longer users use it, the more they can't do without it!
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In order to avoid trouble, Tencent could only reluctantly cut off the battle function, but the advertisements were all posted, and there were only two days left, and it was too late for the platform revision.

As a result, many QQ users received another pop-up advertisement on this day.

"Dear users, I regret to inform you that due to some technical problems, the launch of the Tencent game platform has been postponed. We will inform you of the specific launch time..."

This incident became a joke in the Internet circle for a while.

Although Tencent said it was a technical problem, everyone knew it well. It was obvious. This was because they were afraid of being sued by Facebook, so they went to modify the function of the version again.

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Just after finishing the matter of the winger, the representatives of the owners of the chain Internet cafes also found Effie.

This matter is easier to solve. Effie just demonstrated the newly developed Internet cafe cash register management software, saying that as long as the batch purchase of genuine games, not only can provide extremely low preferential prices, but also provide free management software that is better than all Internet cafes currently on the market. The software is better software, and will continue to provide upgrade and maintenance services in the future.

The condition she proposed shocked the Internet cafe owners. This business can definitely be done!

Among other things, as far as Internet cafe management software is concerned, the current market is not cheap. In fact, there is no cheap commercial software!
However, the management system developed by Facebook is too powerful in terms of functions just by looking at the demo. How can such a good software be provided for free?
It is equivalent to saying that the money paid for buying genuine games has already been compensated by the Facebook game on the Internet cafe management software!
What is the purpose of the Facebook game doing this?
When the bosses raised this question, Effie said sincerely that it was to cooperate sincerely with everyone to regulate the Internet cafe market...

Of course, everyone understands that this is just a scene.

When the contract was actually signed, an inconspicuous supplementary agreement stipulated that the Facebook Internet cafe management software had the authority to automatically install Facebook’s official software on computers in all Internet cafes, including but not limited to Facebook and the Facebook game platform.Moreover, cooperative Internet cafes are not allowed to delete these software artificially.

For this agreement, everyone didn't pay much attention to it. Originally, Facebook is currently a web version, and there is no software.Even if there is software, if you don’t install it automatically, the network administrator must install it manually, because many people use it.

As for the Facebook game platform, it is also one of the necessary software for Internet cafes.

　It's the end of the month, let's clear up the monthly pass, don't waste it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)