Rebirth of the Internet: Starting from Games

Chapter 294 Ask Century Interactive Entertainment to Die

On January 1, Blizzard and The16 officially announced a strategic partnership.

The agency rights for World of Warcraft in China will be exclusively represented by Ninetowns Interactive Entertainment established by Blizzard and The[-]. World of Warcraft will be available to long-awaited players in the middle of this year.

As soon as the news came out, World of Warcraft players celebrated, players of other games watched the show, and players of the Century series shared the same hatred.

Other online game manufacturers remained silent, and small-scale companies did not participate. Large-scale companies, such as Ding Lei, Chen Tianqiao and others, according to their understanding of Chen Hao, this guy has always been a master who does not suffer losses. There must be changes, so It is also planned to remain unchanged in the face of ever-changing circumstances, and it is best to take action after the dust has settled.

The announcement did not mention Century Interactive Entertainment at all. It is obvious that Blizzard wants to deal with the dispute with Century Interactive Entertainment coldly.

The aunt can bear it, but the uncle can't. Since Blizzard has Alzheimer's disease, Chen Hao can only let it have a long memory.

At the same time as the announcement was issued, in addition to the carnival of World of Warcraft players, some short articles about the internal conflicts between Blizzard and Century Interactive Entertainment appeared from time to time.

First, some media broke the news that employees of the Blizzard World of Warcraft project team often visited the Heaven and Earth Room located in the west annex building of the Great Wall Hotel when they were working at Century Interactive Entertainment.

Later, news leaked out that Blizzard used the name of the martial arts world to raise the price and put forward unreasonable demands, which was opposed by Century Interactive Entertainment.

For a time, all kinds of gossips emerged one after another, true and false, making it difficult to distinguish, and slowly began to develop in a direction that was unfavorable to Blizzard.

Seeing that the foreshadowing was almost done, Century Interactive Entertainment immediately took a drastic step.

The ten-day period has arrived, and Blizzard is "playing dead". Century Interactive Entertainment's official website published an article written by Chen Hao himself, "whipping the corpse" to explain the whole story of the Blizzard storm.

"My Heart Is Turning to the Bright Moon"

"Since receiving the agency rights for World of Warcraft, the entire Century Interactive Entertainment, including myself, has been very excited. For this purpose, we specially established Tianji Game Studio composed of players who love Blizzard games. As of now, the studio has more than 200 employees.

Century Interactive Entertainment has always acted in accordance with the contract process signed by both parties. In actively preparing for the public beta of World of Warcraft, it even went beyond expectations.

In the past two months, the weekly working hours once exceeded 60 hours, and some employees even used their vacation time to catch up. Everyone has only one purpose, and that is to make World of Warcraft available to everyone as soon as possible.

As the source version of World of Warcraft continues to change, it requires the continuous cooperation of all Tianji Studio staff to make simultaneous modifications and updates.

We also try our best to meet the reasonable or unreasonable requirements of the staff sent by Blizzard.

There are more than 20 game copywriters and translators, with a total of 150 million English words, and the number of translated Chinese words is close to 400 million.

World of Warcraft version iteration record, 76 times.

There are 32 dubbing personnel, and the total dubbing time is 1024 hours.

A total of 50 hardware engineers have been invested in server debugging, which consumes more than 2 hours of work.

The cumulative investment exceeds RMB 3 million.

From software to hardware, from translation to dubbing, from publicity to promotion, in all of this, we can ask ourselves, we have tried our best.

There are many problems, but we still have no complaints, just because of our love for Blizzard games and World of Warcraft.

Unfortunately, Blizzard did not take these things seriously and took them for granted.

After discovering the world of martial arts, the other party believed that the world of martial arts might pose a threat to World of Warcraft, and proposed to Century Interactive Entertainment to sign a supplementary agreement, the content of which was impossible for Century Interactive Entertainment to accept.

Everyone knows what happened next.

I would like to declare once again that Century Interactive Entertainment is unwavering in its determination to defend its own rights and interests.

<divclass="contentadv">Finally, I wish World of Warcraft will operate smoothly in China in the future.

All media are welcome to reprint and disseminate.

Century Interactive Entertainment, Chen Hao"

At the end of the article are two pieces of information, one more explosive than the other. The first piece of information is that Chen Hao posted the receipt for filing a lawsuit in Beijing, officially taking Blizzard to court.

Sued Blizzard for unilateral breach of contract, demanding repayment of various fees and liquidated damages previously paid, exceeding RMB 4 million.

Especially the last piece of material is a recording of a phone call from Mike Mohan that night.

As soon as the article came out, it spread through various online and offline media, and even the entire Internet circle heard about it.

When everyone read the article and listened to the recording, the truth came out.

The public opinion was one-sided. Those pseudo-Warcraft players who usually jumped for joy disappeared instantly, and the real Warcraft players were speechless in front of the irrefutable recording. Especially the content of the supplementary agreement was simply outrageous. This situation, especially for the people of China, reminds them of the painful past.But today is different from the past, the times are different, wake up!

The majority of netizens set off a frenzy of public opinion.

"The share is 51%. The monthly card charging mechanism is cancelled. Why doesn't Blizzard grab it? How old is it? They are still playing unequal treaties."

"I also paid all the money in one lump sum in advance. Regarding the operation, promotion, and publicity plan of the World of Warcraft Chinese server, everything is based on the decisions of Blizzard. Especially the last one, my family, who knows? It can be snatched, but it is still proposed What kind of agreement?"

"You missed the most critical point upstairs. Blizzard requires Century Interactive Entertainment to hand over user information. Damn it, this information contains important private information such as name, contact information, home address, ID card, etc. Who does Blizzard think it is? It wants What do you want to do with this information? It can only be said that Blizzard is playing a big game behind it. It’s scary to think about it. I’ll stop here and say this. I’m afraid I’ll be invited to drink tea.”

"Blizzard has finally exposed the lion's open-faced face. It's too ugly to look at. He doesn't care about anyone's shit or farts. Is he really the boss of the day? I wouldn't be used to it if it were Chen Hao! Century Interactive Entertainment In addition to ensuring its own interests, Bo is also protecting the interests of our players."

"As soon as the World of Martial Arts came out, it was obvious that Blizzard was intimidated. Is it so unsure of its own World of Warcraft? Haha!"

"In the past two years, whether it is games, operations or benefits, Century Interactive Entertainment's players have been very discerning. We have noticed all kinds of free services and benefits. I am here to support Century Interactive Entertainment!"

"I used to think that Century Interactive Entertainment was superior to Blizzard. Now I solemnly apologize. In fact, it is Blizzard who is ignorant."

"This situation reminds me of a real case that happened in my hometown. A man and a woman talked about marriage. The marriage was engaged in the witness of the parents of both parties. The bride's gift was collected, and both parties just needed to get the certificate and hold the wedding.

After they got married in advance, the woman's family suddenly changed their mind and demanded that the woman's name be added to the property and the bride price be doubled, otherwise they would sue her QJ.As a result, the man’s family definitely disagreed with this temporary price increase. As a result, the man was immediately locked up, and it turned out that the woman had found a new love. All I can say is to ask the husband to die, to alert the world, and let us realize that the world is dangerous. "

"What I said above is good. It was exactly like this at that time. Please die and refuse Blizzard games. Let's start with me!"

"Rejecting Blizzard games starts with me! +1, stay in formation downstairs!"

In just one hour, the number of comments below the article exceeded [-], and the number is still rising rapidly.

After Chen Hao issued the announcement and saw that it had achieved the desired effect, he issued a death order to Qian Jun of the Ministry of Justice, telling Beihai that your uncle must win the case.

After Qian Jun learned about the situation, he said that the case was very simple. It was a unilateral breach of contract. It would take time to win the case, but the complication was that the other party was a foreign company and there were difficulties in enforcement.

Chen Hao heard the subtext. Even if the lawsuit was won and the other party was determined to act rogue, there was a high probability that the money would not be returned.

"It's okay. Compared with money, justice is more important. In addition to domestic, foreign and international arbitration chambers, get a copy from all places where lawsuits can be initiated. You have been focusing on this matter recently. We must spare no effort to do things that disgust Blizzard! "

"As for the money, I want it if I can, or I can't get it back. I, Chen Hao, can still afford to pay for it."

In fact, the one who was most hurt by this incident was not the World of Warcraft players, but all the staff of Tianji Studio who are both Blizzard players and employees.

This incident was the biggest blow to them. The most important thing for him next was to stabilize the morale of the army.

After all, he has worked with these people for a while and they are all good comrades!