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The top trending topic is: [Shocking! A well-known veteran game company has been embroiled in a plagiarism scandal!!!]

The second most searched topic: [The plagiarism dispute between Terraria and Atlantis is now settled!]

The third trending topic is: "Admit your mistakes and accept the consequences: An apology statement from the product development manager of Tengyan!"

Chen Dong had just finished eating a barbecue at a nearby shopping district, which cost 3,000 yuan per meal. When he returned to his office, he saw Yin Qingying sitting in a chair, as if she had been waiting for him for a long time.

"What's wrong, Manager Yin? What happened?"

If it's about repaying a debt, then you don't need to be in such a hurry.

Chen Dong leaned back in the boss's chair and joked with a smile.

He knew that Yin Qingying had been working part-time as an NPC at amusement parks in Hangzhou for the past few weekends, and had even become a minor sensation in the local cosplay community because of her contrasting temperament.

Staring at Yin Qingying's cold and beautiful face, Chen Dong suddenly had a good idea.

Perhaps Yin Qingying could cosplay female characters from Starcard's future games, helping to increase the popularity of the games and characters.

Chen Dong thought about it more and more and felt that the idea was feasible. However, none of the three games under Xingka at the moment had a female character that Yin Qingying could cosplay, which made it impossible to put the idea into practice.

Seeing Chen Dong staring straight at her, Yin Qingying felt inexplicably uncomfortable, and the temperature of her cheeks seemed to rise considerably.

"President Chen." Yin Qingying stood up and interrupted Chen Dong's rambling thoughts.

"An hour ago, the Steam platform removed Tengyan's 'Atlantis'. Half an hour ago, Tengyan's product development manager posted an apology statement on his private account, admitting to his plagiarism and sincerely apologizing to Starcard."

As she spoke, Yin Qingying picked up her tablet and showed Chen Dong the two statements.

One is a statement from the Steam platform regarding the handling of infringing works, and the other is Zhao Qin's apology statement.

"Besides that," Yin Qingying continued as Chen Dong reviewed the two statements.

"Perhaps it was the impact of these two statements that gave Terraria a significant boost in exposure, resulting in a substantial increase in sales and a jump to fourth place on the popularity charts!"

A hint of excitement was faintly revealed in Yin Qingying's cool voice.

In her opinion, Terraria is a worthy contender for first place in the annual game development competition.

However, due to the plagiarism incident, Terraria has never been able to achieve a true ranking, and even fell out of the top ten at one point.

Now that the plagiarism incident has been definitively concluded, Terraria's surge in popularity and rise in the rankings can be seen as a bittersweet reward.

Compared to the slightly agitated Yin Qingying, Chen Dong appeared calm and composed, as if he had already anticipated this outcome.

In reality, Chen Dong didn't know what had happened. He was just thinking about whether he could adapt this incident into a plot and write it into a novel.

Being plagiarized, confirmed plagiarism, being punished for plagiarism, the plagiarist suffers huge losses and is still required to apologize humbly.

The development of this event was just like a plot from a novel, fulfilling the three key elements of encountering a predicament, resolving the predicament, and gaining something.

However, in Yin Qingying's eyes, Chen Dong appeared calm and composed, showing no emotion whatsoever.

soon.

The good news that Terraria had climbed to fourth place on the popularity charts reached the ears of every employee at Starcard Games.

In an instant, the entire floor erupted in cheers loud enough to lift the roof off.

Especially the employees in Product Development Department 3.

As the developers of Terraria, they shared the same thoughts as Yin Qingying, clearly knowing how excellent the game was and that Terraria shouldn't be ranked at the bottom of the list.

Nowadays, their feelings seem to be best described by the poem, "Only after parting the clouds can one see the blue sky."

However, the employees of StarCard Games were too optimistic.

……

At 7:58 p.m., the number of viewers in Su Tao's live stream had exceeded 50,000 and was still heading towards an even higher number.

However, the large number of viewers who flooded into the live stream were not there to watch Su Tao play games, but to watch her refresh the popularity rankings again and again.

According to the rules set by the Steam platform, the popularity rankings are refreshed every hour based on real-time data.

The game that NetEase spent hundreds of millions of dollars on, claiming it would operate for 150 years, has now fallen to third place on the charts.

The game that took its place and rose to second place was Terraria, made by StarCraft.

Furthermore, the gap between it and the number one game on the charts, developed by Tencent, is rapidly narrowing.

In terms of sales, number of online players, and game ratings, Terraria has surpassed games made by Tencent.

Therefore, Su Tao believes that after the rankings are updated at 8 o'clock, Terraria will become number one on the list.

To Su Tao's surprise, while she was seriously playing games and creating entertainment, the number of viewers in the live stream kept fluctuating around 40,000.

The seemingly tedious act of waiting for the popularity rankings to refresh actually attracted many viewers to the live stream.

It has to be said that humans always seem to enjoy doing some strange and unusual things.

"Oh my god, my palms are sweating buckets, I'm so nervous!"

"The annual game development competition is already halfway through, is my recommended game finally going to reach the top?!"

"It seems highly likely that Terraria will be nominated for the TGA awards in September!"

During the wait, the live stream chat remained lively.

Since Su Tao has gradually become a fan of StarCard Games, most of the viewers in her live stream are also StarCard fans, so they are naturally happy to see Terraria reach the top of the charts.

As time passed, after Su Tao refreshed the page countless times, the popularity rankings on the Steam platform finally saw some changes.

The most obvious change is that the top spot in popularity has shifted from Tencent's game to StarCard's Terraria.

next second.

The number of comments in the live stream instantly increased several times over.

In addition, the news that Terraria had jumped to the top of the popularity charts on the Steam platform also appeared on the trending search list immediately.

Meanwhile, Chen Dong was still preparing for his trip to Jiang Xiaonan's school the next day to attend the school's open day.

Chen Dong sometimes had to admit that he was an extremely competent boss.

Just as Chen Dong was agonizing over what to wear tomorrow, a phone call came in.

After the call connected, Jiang Xiaonan's lovely voice came through the receiver.

"Boss, don't forget to attend Xiaonan's school open day tomorrow!"

Hearing Jiang Xiaonan's soft, sweet voice, Chen Dong couldn't help but smile.

"Don't worry, Xiaonan, your brother won't forget."

"Hehe, the boss is such a good person!"

"Oh, right, my sister seems to have something to say to the boss. Boss, please don't hang up."

However, as the sound of a showerhead spraying water gradually came from the other end of the phone, Chen Dong suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Sure enough, Jiang Jia's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Xiao Nan, wait a minute, your sister is still taking a shower."

However, Jiang Xiaonan still knocked on the bathroom door and called out loudly.

"Sister, didn't you have something to say to the boss?"

next second.

"Jiang Xiaonan, hang up the phone right now!!!"