"Xiao Li, come on, you must play Legend with me today."

A colleague from the company said to Xiao Li.

"Don't, I'll still play landlord fighting, at least, it's free."

This man named Xiao Li already knew that his friend was playing Legends, and it looked quite fun, and he wanted to try it too. It's a pity that there is a fee for Legends. Although this fee is not very expensive, Xiao Li always feels too cheatful for games that charge money. So, in normal times, Xiao Li always goes on the Internet and plays chess and cards.

"Hey, don't blame my brother for not informing you, from today, the legend announced that it will be free forever."

"What, it's free."

"Exactly, come on, I'll share the client with you, and you can install it yourself."

When Xiao Li heard that it was forever free, he was immediately interested.

In fact, Xiao Li has long wanted to play online games, a lot of friends, every time they meet for activities, they discuss how to play the game from time to time, where to play equipment, and how to pk. At this time, Xiao Li is the most depressed. Because, he didn't know what their discussion was, so much so, he stood there in a daze for many activities.

In order not to be out of the group, now I hear a friend say that the legend is free forever, so why not play it. So, from the friend share, directly copy the legendary client, and immediately kill into the game.

"Lao Wang, come to the legend, it's free now."

"Brother, what news are you watching, let's play the free legend."

"Beauty, why don't you take a game with you?"

After the legend was announced to be free, it caused a huge response in the domestic online game industry. Countless game lovers have entered the legend for a while. And, because this is the first free-to-play RPG online game. One pass ten, ten pass hundred, everyone wants to let their friends into the game and play with them.

At least, when they came in, they were all rookies, and they taught them on the side, and they still had a feeling of being masters.

The small one is free, and the repercussions caused by it are so great that Chen Tianqiao did not expect it. In this way, Shanda Network has achieved very good results without spending much advertising. Because, this kind of free game, he is more attractive than private servers. At this time, a large number of private service investors were eager to jump off the building. I finally spent money to buy the source code, and I spent money to rent a server for another year.

The server usage fee is not high.,It's high in the legendary private server source code.,That's millions.,Now it's a grand legend for free.,No one plays the ghost.。 Even if you go straight in and send the level to level 40, you won't have much to play. What do you think, there are many people in official uniforms, although the upgrade is a little slower, but we have time.

Become a master in the official uniform, that's enjoyable. In a small private server, even if you fight all over the private server, it's not much fun. Because the number goes on, and there are only a few people. Moreover, those people are also up and down. It's a shame that someone spent money to buy equipment before, and they didn't want to find someone PK.

Didn't you see a large number of people, wearing top-of-the-line equipment, running around there, just to find someone to pk. You didn't see it.,There are only a few players in the whole area.,Just a stand-alone game to pick up all kinds of bosses.。 Jun didn't see it, the dragon slaying knives were thrown on the ground like garbage, and no one picked them up.

Who would dare to play such a private service. The depressed private server member player scolded the private server for a while.

The equipment that I bought for a few hundred dollars is now worthless. What's even more hateful is that not many people come to play. If the private service investor continues to open, it will lose money. With a ruthless heart, just shut down the server. Since then, the insecurity of private service has been completely reflected.

In response to this, Shanda also seized on these loopholes. Above the media, from time to time it is reported in large numbers.

What, you're playing private. You have a lot of money, today you rush into it, tomorrow he will shut down the server. If you don't believe it, you go and try. With such poor service and such a discredited game, do you dare to play it? It's better to come back and play official uniforms, at least, Shanda Company is still a game company for Chinese people, and those private servers may be opened by the Koreans themselves. On top of that, the legend now doesn't cost money anymore and has been declared free forever.

All kinds of circumstances directly caused the popularity of the legend. At such a speed, there is almost a fantasy westward journey that surpasses the Tang Dynasty network.

However, the Tang Dynasty network is not in a hurry.

Ethereal Journey and Fantasy Journey to the West, Tang Dynasty Network has absolute confidence. Later generations have proven that although the main popular games in the market are still free-to-play games. However, turn-based games like Fantasy Journey to the West, due to the excellent community gameplay, become more popular as they get older. Every year, the number of his games has increased quite a bit.

And then there's the ethereal journey, which is a first-class good game. Now in the market, there is a saying that if you want to play classic games, you have to play ethereal. If you want to experience it, play Legends. Therefore, the free of legends does not have much impact on the Tang Dynasty company. On the contrary, for a large number of Korean games, it can be fatal.

The game from the Korean agent is basically a routine. Upgrading to fight monsters and the like, such a mode is also available in the legend. You might as well play Legends, anyway, Legends is also free. As a result, many other gamers suddenly ran into the legend again. This has also directly caused the phenomenon that no one can play Korean games anymore.

This phenomenon has suddenly made Korean game companies anxious, including Chinese game companies that have returned from South Korea. It's just that it's useless to be in a hurry, they can't change it so quickly if they want to, and besides, after you finish changing it, the market will already be scraped by the legend. Fortunately, since most of the domestic games have good plots, and many gamers have a better feeling for domestic games. Although it was influenced by the legend, the impact was not as great as that of Korean games.

However, that's it, it's already been greatly affected.

They are thinking about whether the next game will also be charged for props? Although they have never implemented this charging model, but now Shanda Company's Legend and Bubble Hall have started a generation of game systems. If you can't make a classic like "Ethereal" in your own game, who will play if you charge for it?

It's better to be generous and implement forever free, and open the door of the game to all players. In this way, ordinary players will see it and enter the game. As soon as the number of players increases, the money will naturally roll in. For today's Internet companies, they have gradually understood the importance of users.

Regardless of whether the user is paid or not, the most important thing is to bring them in.

…… After the legend became free, he has continued his craze, but Shanda's lawsuit with Actoz is still unfinished. Because it involves cases from both countries, and because it involves the emerging industry of the Internet, how can the Singapore Court of Arbitration say that it will fight a lawsuit like a domestic case. A lot of preparatory work in front of it dragged on for more than a month. It was not until all the preparations were made that the Singapore Court of Arbitration brought the two companies to court.

Of course, in the beginning, it was not in the form of a hearing, but in the form of mediation.

Because, for them, it is very difficult to hold a court session. In many places, there is no law to follow, and the court is to judge the case according to the law, and there is no way to follow it. Even if he kills someone, if the law does not write that murder is a crime, then the court cannot pronounce a sentence, and this is the law. If you can seize the loopholes in the law, it is also a business strategy.

Don't scold this for being shameless. Those who don't know how to be flexible will end up dooming. If you can save yourself, shamelessness is shameless.

How many of them are good names in the business world?

Don't say it, Singapore's mediation is really dramatic.

On the one hand, Actoz saw that Shanda Network directly abandoned Actoz and created the era of free-to-play games alone, and for a while, the game became popular. But looking at himself, now he is caught in a lawsuit, but he can't get any fees. While I am in a hurry, there is no way, after all, money is earned in a grand pocket. Such cases, they could not be clearer. At least a year and a half, and if it is longer, it is possible to play for ten or eight years.

If Shanda wants to delay, they really can't help it. You know, now Shanda is biting your private server incident, and Actoz can't make a perfect explanation for the private server incident. For example, prove that you didn't leak it.

Therefore, they are very happy to mediate in Singapore.

Seeing that the goal has been achieved, Shanda is happy to stop.

No matter how you say it, your side has signed a contract with Actoz, and the contract is written in black and white, and no one can escape. In a few months, the term of Legend's agency is approaching. If this continues, Actoz will be ruthless, bite the expiration of the contract, and take back the agency, and Shanda will probably be very difficult.

Seeing the mediation, the two parties sat up and negotiated together.

At this time, Actoz agreed to continue to renew the contract with Shanda, and the share was the same. But how could Shanda Company agree, you made a legendary private server and almost killed Shanda Legend. If I hadn't been smart, the legend would be over by now. If you divide it into 3:7, how can it be so easy?

Besides, the current legend is no longer the original legend. Although in many places, the legend is the same as the original legend. However, the most important charging model is that he has now become free forever. Even, I can publicize that the current legend is not an agency, but an independent research and development of Shanda Company.

Of course, Shanda may lose this point in a lawsuit. But if you lose, you lose, and I will send a team to fight a lawsuit with you for three years. Three years later, we lost, so we compensated according to the compensation standard for the cost of the infringing game.

If you don't understand, you may be optimistic about compensation. However, if he really understands, he knows that this compensation is very famous, and he has no standard.

Because, no one can see or touch the interests on the network.

Just like the later generations of Tencent and 360 fought so hard, the court only sentenced 360 to pay 400,000 yuan to Tencent. The most ridiculous thing is the lawsuit between Pingguo and Microsoft. The two companies fought for several years, and in the end Apple won, however, Microsoft only paid $1 in infringement fees.

Of course, news such as admitting infringement must also be published publicly.

However, there are many infringement cases on the Internet. I'll admit it, I'll admit it, I've made money anyway.

As the saying goes, hooligans are not terrible, but if you are afraid that hooligans are educated, it depends on whether you are hooligans or not. You're a hooligan, and you're a scoundrel who understands the law, ok, then you've won. You're not a hooligan, and you don't know the law. I don't know how to exploit his loopholes, then, you stand aside.

With such an advantage, Shanda Company was willing to stop there, and threw out a sentence and set the division plan at 1:9.

In the face of Shanda's fierceness, Actoz was depressed. However, they obviously won't agree to the 1:9 sharing plan. And, resolutely. Finally, under the mediation of the Singapore Court of Arbitration. The two parties renewed the contract for another two years, and the share ratio was set at 1. 5：8。 5. The reason why Shanda Company will agree is that it feels that this share is acceptable and acceptable to Shanda Company. Second, Shanda is an agency after all, and it has signed a contract with Actoz. If he provokes Actoz, he will cling to the contract, even if he admits that the source code was accidentally leaked by an employee, he will take back the legendary agency.

When the time comes, Shanda will really have no way out.

Besides, Shanda didn't want to present himself as a completely unreasonable hooligan. Because everyone knows that the legend is the agent of Actoz to Shanda, although you can dominate it now. However, Shanda will continue to move forward in the future. You can't rely on a legend to eat, if that's still the case. Which game company will dare to represent the game to you in the future?

All things considered, Shanda still nodded in agreement.

It's all going on in secret, and no one in the outside media knows about it. When Chen Tianqiao revealed the preliminary plan to Chen Jia, Chen Jia nodded and was satisfied with the plan. Now for Shanda, it not only solves the problem of private service that cannot be solved by later generations, but also greatly reduces its own royalties.

With such a beautiful business war, I am afraid that after it spreads, it will be a textbook for the battle for hegemony in the commercial sea. However, Chen Jiayi thought that there was another threat that had not been removed, that is, Actoz also had a Legend 3. It has not yet started to act as an agent in China, if this lawsuit is resolved. Then, Actoz will immediately send the Legend 3 as an agent to Guangtong.

Legend 3 and Legend are actually pretty much the same. Faced with Actoz's back-up moves, Chen Jiayi was ready. said to Chen Tianqiao, "Actoz Company, the headquarters still needs to make some arrangements, you can deal with them first." ”

After speaking, Chen Jiayi said to Liu Sichen of Tang Dynasty Venture Capital, "Inform Tang Dynasty Quantum Fund and prepare for action"

(To be continued)