After not being a fanboy, I have everything I need

Gu Shaoqing also forgot how he spent the remaining two hours, until it was almost midnight when his cell phone rang.

"Congratulations, I will help promote it. Did you call me before for something?"

Gu Shaoqing stared at the text on the phone screen for a long time, and finally had to tap the keyboard, and sent a sentence: "Thank you, I'm fine."

After receiving the reply, Qu Su breathed a sigh of relief. He originally thought that Gu Shaoqing would question why he had dinner with Xu Qing. If that was the case, he would have to make up another lie. to explain.

He met Xu Qing this time purely because Xu Qing took the initiative to speak. What she meant was that the two of them didn't know each other well enough, and she hoped to meet and chat more.

And Qu Su also took the opportunity to make it clear to Xu Qing that he didn't have any feelings for her, Xu Qing didn't look surprised, she smiled slightly at the time and said: "I also guessed it would be like this, It’s just that I still want to try again, since you said so, of course I won’t bother you anymore.”

Originally, blind dates are fast-paced and purposeful, and they don't have deep feelings for people who just met a lot, so Xu Qing took it very seriously, and the two chatted at the dinner table later. Chatting, unexpectedly quite hit it off, the time dragged on longer and longer.

When Gu Shaoqing called on the way, Qu Su did go to the bathroom. After returning, Xu Qing told him about it. Originally, Qu Su intended to call Gu Shaoqing back immediately, but he hesitated. He still chose to put the phone in his pocket and never take it out.

In the past few days, he has tried his best to alienate Gu Shaoqing intentionally or unintentionally. If it is what he thinks, Gu Shaoqing must be able to understand his meaning, so Qu Su feels that it is not good for him to cause trouble. .

And when Qu Su saw Gu Shaoqing's WeChat message, he had already driven home, washed up, lay down on the bed and was about to sleep.

Knowing that Gu Shaoqing's studio has released a new game, Qu Su is also happy for him, but...

In the end, Qu Su struggled again and again, and still typed a line of polite formulas on the phone.

In fact, he doesn't know how to deal with it is the best way, but he just thinks that at least it won't embarrass Gu Shaoqing too much. In the current situation, it should be better for the two of them to reduce the number of meetings.

After sending the WeChat message, Qu Su fell asleep, while Gu Shaoqing on the other side stayed up almost all night, he was almost devastated.

Not only because of Qu Su's affairs.

Gu Shaoqing actually fell asleep for a while, but was woken up by a phone call from Che Ziyu at around two o'clock in the middle of the night.

At that time, he was very irritable, and he wanted to start talking when he answered the phone, but Che Ziyu said first: "Our game has been pirated."

Hearing this, Gu Shaoqing suddenly woke up as if he had been poured into ice water. He was taken aback, and quickly asked, "Which website? How long has it been out?"

"It's an old forum dedicated to sharing pirated games. Now several websites have reproduced it. It is estimated that pirated resources will spread all over the Internet within two days."

Gu Shaoqing was silent for a while. Because the games they made were stand-alone, they were sold using a buyout system. Users only need to pay once to download forever. In other words, as long as they pay more than a dozen yuan, everyone can get The complete installation package of the game, and as long as the installation package is cracked, the free game can be shared with anyone.

Although their studio also took this situation into consideration and wrote a multi-level anti-cracking protection program in the installation package, but now it seems that it is still impossible to prevent.

In fact, Gu Shaoqing also imagined the situation of being pirated. After all, stand-alone games in China are the hardest hit areas of piracy. It is only a matter of time before a slightly famous game is released.It's just that he didn't expect that within two hours, someone had cracked it and posted it online.

He said, "Let's issue a lawyer's letter first."

"I've already posted it, but you also know that this kind of website is the most disgusting. It specializes in guerrilla warfare against us. As soon as we talk about it, it will be deleted, and it will be put on the shelf again in two days." Che Ziyu said, "Some even are more arrogant. , just ignore it."

"You have to post it if it's useless." Gu Shaoqing rubbed his forehead wearily, "Let's see their response first. If it doesn't work, we can only file a lawsuit."

"Are you kidding me? If we go to court, we will have to spend a lot of manpower and material resources, and we may not get anything in the end." Che Ziyu's voice revealed disbelief, "Haven't you heard that barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes? We have no advantage against them.”

Gu Shaoqing was a little annoyed: "Then what do you think we can do now? We can't hack their website, can we? Even if it is hacked, it's useless. Now the resources have been circulated. As long as one person downloads the pirated version, it can be passed on to countless others. personal."

Che Ziyu naturally understood this truth. Piracy is like the spread of a virus, and it is impossible to stop it. He was silent for a while, and then cursed loudly.

He said: "The person who posted on that forum just replied to me, saying that his copy was not a pirated copy, but that he spent money to buy the genuine version to share with everyone. What kind of disgusting face is this? If it wasn't for the network cable, I would have killed him... ..."

Gu Shaoqing was very calm when he heard this. He was silent for a while, and said: "Now we can only minimize the loss. You can send the lawyer's letter. I... I will think of a way."

"What else can I do?" Che Ziyu smiled wryly, "There is no other way now, we can only hope that there will be a few more genuine users who are willing to spend money to download, otherwise we will really lose everything."

"How are sales going now?"

"It's better than expected, but it's just the beginning. Tomorrow, several game anchors we have previously appointed will conduct a live broadcast promotion, and soon other platforms will also upload demo videos. By then, as long as the game becomes popular, There are many people who search for pirated copies."

Gu Shaoqing hummed, and said, "We will claim compensation from those websites based on the downloads multiplied by the unit price of the game."

Che Ziyu's attitude towards this matter is obviously very negative: "Even if this lawsuit can be won, we don't know how long it will take. By then, our team will be disbanded. What kind of luck do you think we are? If you encounter this kind of thing as soon as you return to domestic distribution, I think it’s better to go overseas in the future.”

Hearing what he said, Gu Shaoqing's voice suddenly sank: "Don't talk nonsense."

In the end, their studio sent a lawyer's letter all night, but it still had little effect.

Gu Shaoqing stayed up all night, and contacted a familiar lawyer at dawn. After chatting for a few words, the answers he got were not optimistic.

Unwilling to give up, he checked the information on the Internet and called one law firm after another.

Near noon, Gu Shaoqing received a call.

He thought that the lawyer he contacted in the morning had a reply, and happily pressed the answer button, but what he heard from the receiver was a voice that he did not want to hear.

"I heard about your new game being pirated."

Gu Shaoqing said coldly: "So what."

"You are just a small studio, what kind of disturbance can you cause? As long as you say a word, I will naturally have a way to defend your rights for you."

"I won't go back." After saying these four words, Gu Shaoqing hung up the phone neatly.

At noon, he saw that Qu Su's circle of friends had been updated, and just like what he said last night, he promoted the new game of their studio.

Qu Su didn't pay much attention to games, so he probably didn't know about the accident. Gu Shaoqing stretched out his index finger and gave his friend circle a little heart.

He thought silently in his heart, it took several years to have enough confidence to meet Qu Su again, and even dare to try to pursue him. Now, he really didn't want to end up running away.

The author has something to say:

This is probably the only career description in the book...

Refer to the piracy and rights protection incidents of the domestic mobile game "ICEY"