Reborn America, this is my time

"Boss, today is the first day of registration for the national competition, and it is also the first day we launch the game. According to market feedback, the effect is very good."

In the early morning of March 2, the lights were brightly lit in the office of the chairman of Warner Communications.

Steve Ross leaned on the seat, closing his eyes as if taking a nap, but more like listening.

The subordinates in suits, despite their fatigue, reported the latest situation seriously.

"Our people have set up temporary sales points in 15 cities in 11 states to sell video games with the Destiny Game logo to the general public."

"According to their reports, in the past fourteen hours, our thirty-two sales points have received a total of nearly 900 players. Among them, more than half of the players were recruited from all over the country by our outsourcing personnel. Registration for the competition was directly brought to the site, and one-third of the players came to us on their own initiative, while the remaining players were brought in through word of mouth from on-site players.”

"Perhaps because the products we chose meet the needs of players, nearly 120 players purchased our games after the store closed."

"If nothing else happens, the players who bought the game have completely believed our words, and those who have not bought the game will also become our mouthpiece. It is expected that in three days, tens of thousands of players in North America will know that before the national competition is held At the same time, Ethan Jones secretly released the game."

"Although the method of population-to-population transmission seems a bit slow, with a huge base, people can still get to know us in the shortest time. The faster the spread..."

"The more likely it is that Ethan Jones will target us."

In fact, shortly after the release of Johnson's home console, console halls related to it had already emerged in North America.

Because the price of two hundred dollars is still too expensive for players who are struggling to make ends meet, but they still want to play games, so the boss who sees the business opportunity can make a fortune.

For twenty-five cents an hour, with the phone on for eight hours a day, they could earn two dollars.

In just three months, these people can make back the cost of purchasing the machine.

In less than four months, the rent and electricity bill can be amortized.

The rest is net profit.

Not to mention, operating eight hours a day is the most basic.

A timid boss will close the shop at midnight.

A bold boss will just close the curtain and continue working.

Under such a continuous situation, it only takes a month at most from opening to profit.

When such huge profits appear, there will be many console arcades hidden in America's borders, as long as there are densely populated cities.

And these vendors, composed of countless individuals, are the basis for Steve Ross to launch an attack, because as long as a part of the console arcade is rented and a large number of self-developed games are installed in it, they will be the best place for the public to come into contact with piracy. There is no one channel.

Of course, as his subordinate said, this approach is actually very rough.

When piracy and facade are superimposed on each other, they are simply pointing at the target with a lantern.

I was afraid that Ethan wouldn’t be able to catch him.

But compared with Sparks, a host room with a certain credibility is already the best endorsement.

Besides, they don’t do the whole process, right?

As long as the news about Destiny Games releasing a new game is spread, they can leave.

As for the remaining sales?

They sell a der!

Directly transfer the copy method of the cassette.

Just leave the rest to the market!

Because they don’t expect to make any money from this at all!

"So, when do you think Ethan Jones will discover you soon?"

Ignoring the concerns of his subordinates, Steve Ross asked the question that concerned him most.

Such words also made the young man put away his anxiety and said: "Three days at most."

"Three days? So soon?"

"Yes. Because we pulled people directly in front of people from the Destiny Game and the National Football League. According to our people's reports, someone has noticed us today. If we do this again tomorrow, they will definitely come to check. And in the early morning of the third day..."

"Ethan Jones should know what we're doing."

The young man took a deep breath and said: "After all, we are one of the only two enemies of Ethan Jones. The remaining one is staying in Palo Alto..."

They had long known about Hiroshi Yamauchi's settlement in the Bay Area.

When the head of a multinational company was left as a hostage by Ethan Jones, it was clear to everyone that Ethan Jones wanted to play big now.

In this case, even if Ethan Jones did not notice their little move, they had to prepare for the worst and use the current battlefield as a bright card.

"Then we'll sell it for two more days."

“Then return those stores to their original owners.”

"Then you can go to Europe and expand the European market for Warner."

The middle-aged man was stunned when he heard the straightforward arrangement.

After a moment, he smiled and nodded, "Okay boss."

Although the middle-aged man knew in his heart that his boss sent them to Europe, he might not have the intention of directly dumping the blame after being exposed, but since the boss has made a decision, they can only comply with it.

With the emergence of the morning sun the next day, the worker ants on the east coast became busy again.

Waiting for the clock to hit 9 a.m. on the West Coast...

As soon as Ethan stepped into the office, he heard Michael Dell chasing him.

"Boss, it's not good!"

"Our people sent reports overnight, saying that there were some problems in New York, Washington, Miami, Oakland and other places. It seemed that someone was soliciting customers at our registration site!"

This news made Ethan grin.

Michael Dell didn't know the situation, how could he not guess the inside story?

When Steve Ross used the tricks from his previous life according to his memory, even if Ethan thought about it with the soles of his feet, he knew that Warner Communications was already eager to take action.

And this kind of thing...

"Calm down."

Ethan waved his hand and said: "No matter what happens, our first action is to investigate everything, instead of reporting to me in a hurry."

"So, what you have to do now is to figure things out."

"Then, tell me the whole story."

Feng Qingyun's words made Michael Dell stunned for a moment.

Then, the young man who thought he had caused trouble nodded vigorously.

After replying "ok", he turned around and left.

Six hours later, he arrived in Los Angeles by car and saw the strange soliciting incident reported by his subordinates.

Since Michael Dell had already appeared on TV, he gave up the idea of ​​going into the tiger's den in person and found a clever subordinate to have a witty conversation with the guy walking next to the registration line.

Looking from a distance, he noticed that his subordinate and the person in question were walking away arm in arm, and he immediately motioned for the driver to follow him. After a while of twists and turns, the main engine room that he had heard and seen before came into view.

He didn't mean to alert anyone, he just waited secretly at the door.

After about an hour, he saw the subordinates dispatched.

At this moment, he had his hands in his pockets, his upper body was bulging, and he didn't know what he was hiding.

He continued to let the driver drive, and when they arrived at the previously agreed upon meeting place, he saw his subordinate unzipping his shirt, and then a bunch of cassettes fell out of his arms.

It was like a rain of money, but more like a lawyer's letter, which made Michael Dell frown.

And after he finished listening to his subordinate's report, the guy who was still trying to find out his thoughts immediately jumped up.

He signaled the driver to take him back to the company immediately.

Then, Ethan heard a detailed report——

"boss!"

"It's really a big deal this time!"

"Our home console has been cracked by our peers!"

"There are already people on the market selling games related to Johnson's home console!"

The high-pitched voice made Ethan think this guy was a little noisy.

While nodding slightly to show his understanding, he also picked up the cassette box on the table.

He stood up and stuffed it into the console, then picked up the handle and evaluated it one by one. The first game Ethan played was "The Legend of Princess Leia".

Although this game looks very bluffing on the surface, and the background of the game is no different from their "Starry Sky", but after entering the game...

The performance of the entire game cannot be said to be highly similar, it can only be said to be exactly the same.

The game flow perfectly matched with "Starry Sky", and Ethan knew at a glance that Steve Ross had just changed the skin of this game to a different scene. The modeling was very similar to "The Legend of Skywalker", and it was even more... Let Ethan know that the producers just moved the code from "The Skywalker Saga" over.

That's right.

Just move the code.

Although "The Legend of Skywalker" is an arcade game and "Starry Sky" is a console game, the development environment of the two games is the same and the development ideas are connected.

When the mother bodies that create them are all Apple IIs, and the creative ideas are all the quarter-screen designs outlined by Evelin, being able to let the boss understand their code is what the R&D team should do.

In addition, Ethan had the intention to put "The Empire Strikes Back" on the home console from the beginning.

Therefore, in theory, as long as the developers can find the game's code, they can replicate the modeling in "The Empire Strikes Back" in "Starry Sky".

Then just make some simple changes...

"The Legend of Princess Leia" also appeared.

After playing "The Legend of Princess Leia", Ethan tried "Ms. Pac-Man II".

The very similar structure to "Ms. Pac-Man" made Ethan narrow his eyes with a smile.

Take out the cassette, put it back in and open it again.

When the high-hanging sun had disappeared, Ethan also asked Hiroshi Yamauchi beside him his first question after arriving, "What do you think of these games?"

"Uh... I have a lot of ideas, but I don't have the intention..."

Yamauchi Pu thought for a while and gave his own evaluation.

"But if they want to make money with this stuff, then I think..."

"They could be dreaming."

When Ethan got the game cartridge produced by Steve Ross.

He asked Michael Dell to call Yamauchi Pu over.

Although I didn't witness the whole test of Ethan, a few sporadic experiments were enough.

After watching the game produced by Warner, Hiroshi Yamauchi fell into deep confusion.

Because he never thought that these guys could be so crazy?

Just make games under the names of "Pac-Man" and "Star Wars"?

What's the difference between this kind of behavior and an old man who hangs himself to die?

If we were to crack Johnson's home console and produce cassette games related to it, that would be considered a normal way to make money, because it would be promoting its own games through the platform of Destiny Games.

As long as the game is interesting enough, it can accumulate fans.

You can directly use the name of a famous IP to make a game, and the infringement is not only the patent copyright of the console, but also the copyright of IP such as "Ms. Pac-Man" and "Star Wars".

In the former case, when the cracking technology comes from Neon, it is actually quite difficult for the Destiny game to protect its rights.

In the latter case, when pirated games like "Ms. Pac-Man" and "Star Wars" appear on the North American continent, any judge will find the game salesperson guilty.

To put it bluntly, even though those people now dare to sell cassettes in the name of "Ms. Pac-Man" and "Star Wars", how many of them really dare to take money?

No normal person would do such an accurate thing!

But now, Warner is just losing money and making money?

This makes people a little confused.

"Isn't... Steve Ross' core goal to make money?"

"But if it's not making money, then what is he pursuing?"

Yamauchi Pu was puzzled.

Ethan dropped the controller and said, "It's March now."

"The end of the month is the time we agreed on."

"You can go back then."

The sudden change of topic made Hiroshi Yamauchi narrow his eyes.

In the next second, he guessed what Ethan meant.

"I think I can return to my country with good news." He said calmly.

"I hope so." Ethan replied with a smile.

Then he called Michael Dell over.

"Let our people investigate these things."

"No need to hide your identity."

"If there are indeed products marked with our company logo and company works on site, then we require them to immediately stop infringement, hand over the games, and compensate us for our losses."

"If they refuse to cooperate, tell them that we will definitely take the matter of rights protection to the law, but we must never use violence on the spot again."

Since there was no problem with Ethan's solution, Michael Dell did it without hesitation.

Hiroshi Yamauchi smiled and shook his head.

Because he thought he saw a cat.

Playing with mice there.

As for the facts...

is also like this.

When Michael Dell asked the contract firm of Destiny Game to send a team of lawyers to work with them to sweep away those infringing merchants that suddenly appeared, no matter what tough attitude they showed, those guys did not bow their heads and seemed to want to fight with Destiny Game. Fight to the end.

But on March 5, when they took the lawyer's letter they had prepared and went to the infringing merchants they had discovered, all the bosses there had changed. Not only that, they also cooperated very well with the work of Destiny Games, taking out all the infringing games that may exist in the store, and handing over the proceeds from these days.

This situation immediately put Michael Dell out of business.

And when he reported to Ethan with doubts and sincerely expressed that he didn't know how to deal with these things, Ethan gave him the secret to deal with it, that is -

"Wait."

"Wait?" Michael Dell couldn't understand.

"Why? We clearly know that those guys are organized and premeditated!"

"because……"

When answering this question, Ethan suddenly felt a little emotional.

"Because we also know that they are unwilling to do so."

"So, we have to wait."

"Wait until they have vented their dissatisfaction."

"Wait until they show all their methods."

"It makes them feel like they're calculating."

"Then, step them into the ground..."

Ethan's thoughts made Michael Dell frown slightly.

Although he didn't understand why the boss was sure that his enemy had a lot of background.

But he knew that at this moment he could only obey orders.

And just as he was pondering what kind of storms Destiny Game had endured before his arrival, on March 10, a piece of news suddenly appeared on the CBS morning news.

"According to the latest news obtained by our reporter, Destiny Games, the world's largest video game company, seems to have recently released a new video game. One of them is the sequel to "Ms. Pac-Man" and the other is "Star Wars" "The story... Although we don't know yet why Ethan Jones launched the game at this time, after investigation by our reporter, we found..."

"The new product of Destiny Game seems quite interesting..."

When the news reached Ethan's ears, he nodded immediately while leaning on the bed.

His face was filled with understanding.

"Steve Ross, is your father-in-law also a part of your offense?"

"Do you know that your father-in-law's family will be ruined if you do this?"

"Huh?" (End of chapter)