Chapter 529: Reconciliation

When Mr. Tao heard Effie's tone, he seemed to have room for maneuver, and immediately came to his senses.

"Of course! I'm here with sincerity. Our wingers and Facebook have never been rivals, they should be complementary, you make efforts across the country, and we do the local market. Now that Ogilvy has been acquired by Facebook, and the agency rights of those games are in the hands of Facebook Games, then we will take these battle functions offline as soon as possible. In fact, in order to show our sincerity, at the moment when I set off from Hangzhou to come to the magic capital, the battle area has been taken offline on the winger game platform. ”

Effie was a little surprised, I didn't expect the wingers to be really determined, the lawsuit hasn't been fought yet, so they "surrendered"?

Of course, although she can't understand it, she can also understand how sad the life of these wingers is after being "bombarded" by Yu Wenfei during this period of time.

'It's good, I do see the sincerity of the winger. Effie nodded.

Seeing that things were going well, Mr. Tao was even happier, and he hit the railroad while it was hot: "We will also issue a formal apology on the official website of the winger, apologizing for the winger for infringing on the rights and interests of Facebook Games." But what about compensation...... Mr. Ai also knows that the winger is just a small website, and that ......"

As he spoke, he grimaced.

"Does Tao always want to reconcile with us out of court?" asked Effie with interest.

"Yes...... Yes...... , I think it's better not to go to court. No matter who wins or loses, it doesn't look good on the face. Mr. Tao said sincerely.

Although she didn't agree with his words, Effie also knew that it didn't matter if she didn't fight a lawsuit or not, as long as she could achieve the set goals.

"Then let's do it, I'll give Mr. Tao two choices. The first one, as you said, take down the relevant infringing functions, apologize on the official website, and compensate Facebook for five million economic losses!" said Effie with a finger raised.

Mr. Tao was anxious when he heard it, what's going on?

When I was sued by Ogilvy for the first time, I only claimed 2 million, why has it become 5 million now!

He was about to open his mouth to ask a rhetorical question, but was stopped by Effie.

"Don't worry, I know that Mr. Tao is meaningful to five million. But you have to know that Ogilvy is Ogilvy, Facebook is Facebook, and it tells you a fact, that is, the cost of hiring a lawyer for this prosecution alone is far more than five million. ”

Mr. Tao was immediately dumbfounded, he inquired, the lawyer representing Facebook this time has a lot of background. Global Law Firm, specially invited from the capital, this law firm, the background is amazing!

Presumably Effie is not lying, five million may not be enough for the lawyer's fees.

"The second option, which is also to take the infringing function offline, we can do without compensation, but ......," Effie added.

As soon as he heard that he could not pay compensation, Mr. Tao immediately came to his senses, and he hurriedly asked: "But what? Mr. Ai said that as long as we can do it!"

"But it is not enough to apologize on your official website, you must make a public apology in the Hangzhou Daily, and your attitude must be sincere enough. Effie said with a smirk.

That's ...... It's a little uncomfortable.

If you do what Effie said and apologize publicly in the newspaper, wouldn't everyone know that the winger was indeed infringing, this face would be too embarrassing.

But Mr. Tao thought about it, no matter what, it's better than losing the lawsuit, both apologizing and compensating!

Isn't it just an apology?

Apologizing once is the way, twice is too, it doesn't matter!

He gritted his teeth, "Okay! Just do what Mr. Ai said! I'll call our company's lawyer and we'll sign a settlement agreement!"

This is called "a soldier who surrenders without a fight".

Yu Wenfei just invited a big law firm with a strong background, and then guided the public opinion offensive, and the winger game couldn't resist anymore, so he agreed to all the conditions proposed by Effie.

The punishment of the winger is not very serious, but it is a model, and presumably no Internet company will dare to blatantly "borrow and imitate" Facebook's things in the future.

In fact, Tao always said one thing very right, that is, it really went to court, whether it won or lost, it was not good for both parties.

The winger is naturally losing and losing, there is nothing to say, as for the Facebook game, on the surface, he won the lawsuit and hit his goal, but in fact, the hidden danger is not small.

Because it is likely to offend the judicial system.

This time, the judicial system in Hangzhou was forced by public pressure to slap itself in the face, but don't forget, the national judiciary is one, and when there is anything that needs to be litigated in the future, especially when you go to other places, when you encounter an ambiguous situation, it is estimated that you will suffer.

Therefore, Fang Zhiyan gave a suggestion early on, that is, to exert pressure in advance and force the other party to admit defeat.

Reconciliation is the best solution.

Now everyone is happy, Facebook has got the result it wants, the wingers haven't lost too much, and the court doesn't have to face the dilemma.

............

They were all happy, but some were upset.

Pengcheng, Tencent headquarters, Brother Xiaoma's face is so gloomy that he can drip water.

"Platform modification, is it too late for two days?"

Tencent has advertised here, saying that the QQ game platform will be launched in three days, and the QQ pop-up window has been bounced to users several times a day!

Now netizens across the country know that Tencent is also going to be a game platform, and many people are looking forward to it, after all, the QQ user base is really large, and it is convenient to use it if it is bound to the game platform.

However, Facebook Games' acquisition of Ogilvy, appeal, and Yuwen Fei's long article to guide public opinion, this set of combination punches not only knocked the winger down, but also made Tencent stupid.

Why did the winger be sued, isn't it because the online battle function of CS, Warcraft, and Interstellar games has been launched.

Obviously, if the Tencent game platform is launched, it will soon appear in the list of defendants......

This...... Too unlucky!

If the opponent is Ogilvy, then Tencent may not care too much, and the normal launch is that if you really want to fight a lawsuit, then you will fight.

But now the opponent is Facebook!

After Facebook opened its first round of financing, it has become the largest and most influential Internet company in China by market capitalization, and it can be said that it is famous.

Now that Facebook has a huge amount of cash, its boss is famous, and it has hired a law firm with a strong background, no one wants to face such an opponent, and Tencent is no exception.

"What should I do?"

This is the question that many executives ask Xiao Ma.

"Platform redesign! Remove the battle function!" replied Pony through gritted teeth.

There is no way, Tencent at this time, in front of Facebook, is not worth mentioning, but at least it is not a heavyweight player.

Everyone is doing socializing, one is strong social and one is weak social, QQ emphasizes one-to-one, Facebook emphasizes one-to-many, and different types and styles are different.

It stands to reason that Tencent started so many years earlier and should have done better than Facebook, but the founder of Facebook was too powerful, and it only took more than half a year to catch up with Tencent.

However, Tencent is not very envious, because in the field of online instant messaging, QQ is still the boss, and there is no opponent who can challenge its leading position at present.

Brother Xiao Ma once said that the stickiness of strong social interaction is definitely greater than that of weak social networking!

In other words, although the momentum of Facebook's rise is very strong, if it continues to develop like this, Tencent will not be weaker than Facebook in the future.

Because Facebook's model is relatively easy to replace, maybe a new website will pop up next year and the year after, and it will steal Facebook's traffic.

But Tencent's QQ is difficult to replace, and the longer users use it, the more inseparable they are from it!

............

In order to avoid trouble, Tencent could only reluctantly cut the battle function, but the advertisements were all out, and there were only two days left, and it was too late to revise the platform.

As a result, on this day, many QQ users received a pop-up ad again.

"Dear users, I regret to inform you that due to some technical problems, the launch of the Tencent game platform has been postponed. We will notify you separately of the specific launch time......"

This matter has become a joke in the Internet circle for a while.

Although Tencent said it was a technical problem, everyone knew it, and the thing was obvious, this was the fear of being sued by Facebook Games, so I went to modify the version function again.

............

As soon as the winger matter was settled, the representatives of the owners of those chain Internet cafes also found Effie.

This matter is easier to solve, Effie just demonstrated the newly developed Internet café cashier management software, saying that as long as the bulk purchase of genuine games, not only can you give a very low price, but also provide free software that is better than all the Internet café management software on the market, and will continue to provide upgrade and maintenance services in the future.

The condition she put forward simply shocked the Internet café owners, this business can definitely be done!

Not to mention anything else, but as far as Internet café management software is concerned, it is not cheap on the market at present, in fact, there is no cheap commercial software!

And this set of management system developed by Facebook, just looking at the demonstration, is too powerful in terms of function, such a good software, it is actually provided for free?

It is equivalent to saying that the money paid to buy genuine games is on the Internet café management software, and Facebook Games has compensated everyone back!

What is the purpose of Facebook Games?

When the bosses asked this question, Effie said very sincerely that it was to work with everyone to regulate the Internet café market......

Of course, everyone understands that this is just a scene.

When the contract was actually signed, an inconspicuous supplementary agreement stipulated that the Facebook Internet café management software had the right to automatically install the official Facebook software for all Internet café computers, including but not limited to Facebook, Facebook game platform, etc. Moreover, cooperative Internet cafes are not allowed to artificially delete these software.

For this protocol, everyone didn't pay much attention to it, originally, like Facebook, which is currently a web version, and there is no software. Even if there is software, if you don't install it automatically, the network management will have to install it manually, because there are a lot of people who use it.

As for the Facebook game platform, it is also one of the must-have software for Internet cafes.