my return 2002

Chapter 194
Grand headquarters.

After returning from the capital, Chen Tianqiao directly left the work matters to Tan Qunzhao, and sat alone in the boss's chair in the office, lost in thought.

From the outside world, it seems that the grand scene is boundless, and it is making money every day. However, this trip to Jingcheng once again made him see the policy risks hidden behind the game industry.

Although he was very reluctant, Chen Tianqiao had to admit that if it weren't for Shen Lang's anti-addiction plan, the entire game industry would have suffered a huge blow this time.

As for games, in Chen Tianqiao's view, it is just a business. To make money, it doesn't have to be games. Now that Shanda has enough capital, why doesn't it try to make money in ways other than games?
This can not only get rid of the inherent impression of Shanda from the outside world, but also expand Shanda's market territory and change the single profit model that relies solely on legends to make money.

Thinking of this, Chen Tianqiao once again thought of Apple's iPod, and the "inspiration" of making a hardware connection between a computer and a TV could no longer be restrained.

When excited, Chen Tianqiao quickly forced himself to calm down. To achieve this, Shanda's current product line alone is obviously not enough. Shanda still needs more "brands" in order to make users willing to buy. His hardware.

So how to get more "cards"?Mergers and acquisitions!What is Shanda most lacking now?It's money!
Chen Tianqiao believes that the power of money can shake everything.

Tan Qunzhao was dumbfounded after hearing the acquisition plan proposed by Chen Tianqiao. It was nothing more than buying fiction websites such as Hongxiu Tianxiang, Under the Banyan Tree, and Xiaoxiang Academy. These websites cost little money. What really shocked Tan Qunzhao was that these acquisition In the list, there is actually Sina's name!
"Mr. Chen, is it unrealistic to acquire Sina?"

Faced with Tan Qunzhao's doubts, Chen Tianqiao said with great pride: "It's all about human effort. If we can complete the acquisition of Sina, Shanda will become the most influential Internet company in the mainland in one fell swoop."

Seeing that Chen Tianqiao didn't look like he was joking or drunk, Tan Qunzhao couldn't help feeling a little headache, so he could only remind him.

"However, Sina is also a rice stock listed company, and its size is not as big as Sheng's. We are undoubtedly swallowing elephants by doing this! And how much money will it cost to acquire Sina? What are the investors' wishes? These all need to be carefully considered. .”

Chen Tianqiao patted Tan Qunzhao on the shoulder with a smile, and said with a smile: "Of course I know this, and I didn't say that I would swallow Sina all at once. We can eat away at it gradually. As for the investors, I will convince them. "

Tan Qunzhao opened his mouth, but finally swallowed the words. Based on his understanding of Chen Tianqiao, as long as Chen Tianqiao decided on something, he would not be able to pull it back. Just like when he was acting as a legend, other executives in the company opposed it. , Chen Tianqiao still goes his own way.

"I hope he's still right this time!"

At this moment, Tan Qunzhao could only pray in his heart that the goddess of luck would still be on their side this time.

Soon, Shanda's series of acquisitions caused quite a stir in the Internet circle. Some small companies even took the initiative to seek refuge. Shanda spent a lot of money, and the founding team took money and left.

In 2004, for many Internet companies that were unable to find a profit point, Shanda's move was undoubtedly like doing charity.

It's just that behind all the glitz, the undercurrent has begun to surge.

Plug-ins, a problem that all online game companies in the mainland cannot avoid, and will be difficult to eradicate for a long time in the future, is like a cancer that clings to the growth of the online game industry and gradually grows stronger.

In fact, the origin of cheating has existed since the moment the online game was born, but neither the Stone Age nor the King of Kings had achieved unrivaled commercial success like Legendary.

Coupled with the weak technical strength in the early days of Legendary and the inaction of Actoz, the parent company of Legendary, cheats quickly flooded Legendary games.

In the beginning, the legend’s cheats were only a means to assist the player. You must know that the operation in the early stage of the legend is very cumbersome. If the character wants to run, he needs to walk a certain distance to run up. It was pitch black, and many players even almost smashed the computer in the Internet cafe when they were not familiar with the game mechanism.

So candle-free and run-up plug-ins almost became the standard equipment for legendary players at that time.

However, as the profits brought by legends became more and more lucrative, more and more professional cheating teams began to conduct research on legends, and there were also cheats with increasingly abnormal functions, such as being cut without stalemate, double fire, no skill cooling, etc. wait.

Fortunately, at this time, Shanda also had a certain technical strength and began to deal with the cheats. However, in the face of huge benefits, the team that made the cheats did not give up. The team battles wits and courage.

Not only is it a legend, Miracle MU has not escaped the intrusion of cheats. The development process of Ninetowns is almost a replica of Shanda, and it is naturally impossible for Ninetowns to avoid the problem of Shanda.

Various leveling cheats and PK cheats of Miracle MU are emerging in endlessly, and like the legendary parent company, Webzen, the parent company of Miracle MU, has almost no protection measures for the server source code, and the source code will be cracked soon. This is also in a state of desperation.

Of course, other online games are not much better. Even Fantasy Westward Journey has a lot of cheats, but Ding Sanshi is extremely tough in the face of cheaters, and directly banned the title. Since Fantasy Westward Journey is a self-developed project, the source code is in the hands of NetEase In fact, it is difficult for the cheating team to make effective and stealthy cheats. Players are afraid that their hard-earned accounts will be frozen, and Fantasy Westward Journey gradually got rid of the intrusion of cheats.

Jianyu Jianghu naturally has no way to escape. Since Jianyu Jianghu did not delete files for the public beta, various cheating teams have taken a fancy to this piece of fat. On the first day, 92 people were online at the same time, and then it broke through 120 million. What is this? big business opportunity.

Since the first day of the public beta, there have been plug-ins with various functions in Jianyu Jianghu, such as automatically killing monsters, automatically taking medicine, passing through walls, automatic collection, and mining, but any imaginable function can be realized by the plug-in.

However, these hacking teams obviously underestimated Shen Lang's determination to fight against cheating. In Shen Lang's view, titles and so on can only serve as a deterrent to players, and there will always be players who will take risks.

What Shen Lang has to do is to make those cheat production teams never dare to touch Inspur Technology's games again!
The more interesting scene is that if the cheat team wants to sell cheats, it needs to do publicity, and as the largest game community in China, Duwangame naturally becomes the best platform.

Inspur Technology can directly find the other party's IP address by following these plug-in advertisements. Of course, there are also some plug-in teams with good technology who use technical means to tamper with the IP address in advance. It is the means of pediatrics, and their exact address was quickly found.

He even used technical means to save these cheating transfer records. With the evidence, Shen Lang would naturally take up legal weapons to protect the company's rights and interests.

Selected the six cheating teams with the highest profit, and reported to the police at the location of their accounts, and the stolen goods were quickly obtained.

Inspur Technology's thunder method spread quickly in the online game circle, the online game companies applauded it, and the game players also praised it.

As for the cheating teams, they were all trembling with fear, fearing that one day Inspur Technology would catch them too, and some of them ran away the same day they heard the news.

Of course, Shen Lang didn't mean to kill them all. He quickly issued an announcement on the official website of Duowangame and Jianyujianghu, saying that this time only the culprit will be pursued, and the rest of the hacking team can forget the past as long as they reform their mistakes. He even said that if these Members of the plug-in team are willing to "be good", and Inspur Technology also welcomes them to join.

This coquettish operation made all the online game companies look confused.

Even Wang Tao didn't quite understand Shen Lang's actions.

"Mr. Shen, what's the use of bringing these mobs back in? Their technology is only at the level of cheating. If they really let them engage in game development, they must be caught blind."

Shen Lang smiled and asked Wang Tao, "Why are all the major online game manufacturers now strictly prohibiting cheating, but they keep banning cheating repeatedly?"

This question really confused Wang Tao.

Shen Lang said indifferently: "Because cheat makers understand players' psychology better than game planners, they can always make cheat functions that players desperately want. This already has the potential of an excellent plan."

"Although Sword Rain Jianghu is in full swing, so far, there hasn't been a large-scale event that can be achieved. Our foundation is still too weak."

However, for several days in a row, no cheat maker came to Inspur Technology to "abandon the darkness and turn to the light". In the eyes of most cheat creators, Inspur Technology's trick is to let them fall into the trap of themselves, and only fools come here.

However, a "fool" really came this day.

"Hello sir, how can I help you?" the lady at the front desk asked enthusiastically.

This man was wearing a black T-shirt and his hair was as messy as a chicken coop. He was bewildered by the enthusiasm of the young lady at the front desk, and it took him a while to explain why he came.

When the lady at the front desk heard that she was looking for the boss, she immediately called Shen Lang's office landline.

Shen Lang was delighted when he heard that there was someone who really "turned himself into a trap", so he came to the door to greet him in person.

"Hello, I am the boss of Inspur Technology, Shen Lang."

"Mr. Shen. Well, I'm the producer of Mu Yu Qing Tian. I read on the Internet that you said that you can give me a job opportunity. Is it true?" The man licked his lips nervously.

Shen Lang looked at this person in surprise. The reason why he reacted so strongly was because this cheat is a very famous cheat in the game. Compared with the many functions of other cheats, this cheat has only one function, which is It allows players to use lightness skills multiple times in the air, which is favored by some scenery parties.

Compared with the defendant's six cheats, Mu Yuqingtian's cheat has a much larger audience. The reason why Shen Lang didn't list him as the defendant is because this cheat is completely free and destructive to the balance of the game. not big.

"Of course, the plug-in you designed is very interesting. On behalf of Inspur Technology and the Jianyu Jianghu project team, you are welcome to join!" Shen Lang said and stretched out his hand.

The man hesitated for a moment and held Shen Lang's hand, with a relieved expression on his face.

Afterwards, Shen Lang brought him to the Jianyujianghu project team. When Wang Tao heard that he was the maker of Mu Yuqing Tian cheat, he also looked at him in amazement for a while.

"Dude, you did a good job with this cheat, how about it, why don't you just join us and make this cheat into a game function, so that all players can use it!" Wang Tao patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile.

The man looked at Wang Tao in surprise, and pointed at himself: "Me? Is it really possible? But... I haven't graduated from high school, and I learned programming by myself by finding information on the Internet."

Shen Lang and Wang Tao looked at each other and smiled: "Our company does not have strict requirements for academic qualifications, the most important thing is ability and ideas!"

"By the way, I don't know your name yet."

"My name is Lu Ming."

Shen Lang asked the clerk to help Lu Ming go through the entry procedures, and then posted an announcement on the official website of Jianyu Jianghu, celebrating the creator of Muyu Sunny Day joining the Jianyu Jianghu team.

This news quickly aroused great repercussions among Sword Rain Jianghu players. Mu Yuqingtian's cheat function is actually very popular among players. Later, after the official blocked the cheat function, some players petitioned on the forum .

Now the creator of this cheat has joined the Jianyu Jianghu team, maybe the function of the cheat will be implemented in the game soon.

Of course, compared to the players, for those cheat producers, this inclusion is more significant, at least it shows that the previous announcement of Inspur Technology is not a bait.

As a result, more and more cheat producers began to contact Inspur Technology. Of course, these cheat producers are not the kind of large cheat production teams, and more cheat production teams choose to focus their research and development efforts on other games. Such as legend, miracle MU.

The team that Inspur Technology incorporated and produced the cheats was also criticized by some colleagues. When Chen Tianqiao was interviewed by the media, he directly accused Shen Lang of helping the evildoers.

It can be seen that Chen Tianqiao has been devastated by cheating.

One month later, six cheat production teams were brought to court one after another. These six cases also attracted a lot of media coverage, because before this, no game company in the mainland had ever brought a cheat maker to court. .

Moreover, some information at the trial scene also surprised many netizens. These six plug-in production teams actually made a profit of more than 30 in just two short periods of time by selling game plug-ins, and the highest profit was as high as 50.

For the first time, the profiteering of the plug-in industry was exposed to the public.

In the end, the six plug-in production teams were sentenced to prison terms ranging from half a year to one year and fines. The major game companies naturally applauded for this.

It's just that they couldn't be happy soon, because after the exposure of these six cases, although a group of cheat makers were scared away, it also exposed the huge profits of the cheat industry to the public.

On the contrary, it prompted some people to take risks and start to enter this industry.

Of course, there is also an unwritten rule in the hacking industry: don't touch Inspur Technology's games.

Because the boss of this company is not a good person, he will really call the police.

As a result, agent Korean games such as Legend and Miracle MU began to become hotbeds for the proliferation of cheats, and Legend 3 even had various bad offline cheats.

(End of this chapter)