"Xiao Zhang, haven't you cracked it yet?" In an ordinary three-bedroom house, there are more than a dozen computers, and seven or eight young people with hair like a chicken's nest are sitting in front of the computers and typing on the keyboard. The questioner was a middle-aged man in his thirties, in a suit and leather shoes, and he frowned, and the pervasive smell of sweat in this room made him feel uncomfortable.

A young man of twenty-six or seventy years old had bloodshot eyes, tiredness written on his face, and he said without raising his head: "How can it be so fast? I don't know what encryption algorithm is used by this mythical group's crystal source century, we have cracked it for more than a week before we barely cracked it to the core, and it is estimated that it will take another week to completely crack it. ”

The middle-aged man said unhappily: "Doesn't this studio of yours claim to be able to crack any game, like those games of large international game companies, it only takes a few days to get the game, why does it take so long for this Chinese game?" Could it be that the mythical group also uses the latest anti-theft technology? ”

The young man's hand left the keyboard, and he looked at the middle-aged man and snorted coldly, "Why don't you crack it?" The encryption algorithm of this game is something we have never seen before, so how easy is it to crack it from scratch? Not to mention what, even if you find out the top hackers, they may not be faster than us! ”

The middle-aged man said anxiously: "Xiao Zhang, please crack it faster, and after a while, the pirated copies will flow out for a few dollars." In this way, I will add another 200,000 to the amount of the agreement we reached, and reward 10,000 more for each day in advance, do you think it will work? ”

When the young man heard more than 200,000, he gritted his teeth and said, "Boss Li, please rest assured, I have been working tirelessly for the past few days to crack this game as soon as possible!" ”

When the middle-aged man heard the young man's reply, his heart relaxed a little, and said, "Xiao Zhang, then you will do it as soon as possible, I will definitely fulfill my promise and never break my promise!" ”

As he spoke, he couldn't bear the smell of the house anymore, and left straight away.

At this time, a young man who looked very immature ran over and asked, "Brother Zhang, who is that person, he looks so rich, and he has paid so much money for us to crack the game of Jingyuan Century as soon as possible." ”

The young man surnamed Zhang's face sank, "Xiao Qian, don't ask what you shouldn't ask!" ”

Xiao Nianqing didn't seem to be very afraid of this young man surnamed Zhang, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhang, just tell me about it, I promise not to talk nonsense." ”

The young man surnamed Zhang said helplessly: "I'll tell you, that Boss Li's identity is the owner of a construction company......"

Xiao Nianqing said: "Why does the boss of a construction company want us to crack the Jingyuan Century?" ”

The young man surnamed Zhang glared at Xiao Nianqing and said: "Originally, I didn't know the true identity of Boss Li, but later when I was chatting with a friend of mine, I accidentally learned that he was actually an employee of Tencent, and that construction company was simply a front!" ”

Xiao Nianqing opened his mouth and said in disbelief: "Why does Tencent want us to crack the Jingyuan Century?" And Tencent's strength is much stronger than the outside, if they crack it themselves, it won't take much time at all, right? ”

The young man surnamed Zhang snorted and said, "Tencent is a big seller of this game from the Eyered Myth Group, so I came up with a way to use piracy to reduce the sales of Jingyuan Century." As for what they didn't do it themselves, they asked us to crack it, because Tencent also knows that Lu Dao cherishes feathers, in case this incident happens in the east window, it will be a big blow to Tencent. ”

He said in a low voice: "That's why Tencent found us, otherwise it wouldn't have come to us with a bunch of materials, and with the technology of our studio, it will take at least a month to crack the Crystal Source Century." But I'm not going to let them get what they want, and after this vote, I'll shut down the job, and then everyone will split the money and go their separate ways to see how they can find us! ”

Xiao Nianqing opened his mouth wide in astonishment, and said in fear: "Brother Zhang, are we breaking the law by doing this?" ”

The young man surnamed Zhang comforted: "It's okay, Xiaoqian, now we have so many pirated games and pirated software in Huaxia, and I haven't seen that one arrested, you can rest assured." ”

……

"What? There have been pirated copies on the market, and the sales of Jingyuan Century have plummeted?! When Li Haoyu heard the news from Xu Xin, the director of the customer service department, his first reaction was that he couldn't believe it, the game of Jingyuan Century is a cryptographic algorithm that will be used after twenty or thirty years, and even if it is cracked, it will have to be at least two or three months later, and even if there is piracy, it will not affect sales too much.

Why did piracy appear at the peak of sales?!

"Do you know where the piracy comes from?" Li Haoyu patted his chest and calmed his anger and asked.

Xu Xin's voice was also very helpless, "I don't know what to do, I just received feedback from a few players just now to know that the pirated versions of Crystal Source Century have begun to appear on the market." ”

"Director Xu, I know what I said, please give me feedback as soon as possible."

After Li Haoyu hung up the phone, he dialed Liu Yong's phone, "Director Liu, there have been pirated game CDs of Jingyuan Century on the market, do you know about this matter?" ”

Liu Yong's voice was very solemn, and he said: "I have already learned from the message sent by Director Xu just now, chairman, the sales of the game Zijingyuan Century in Huaxia are estimated to drop a lot." ”

"I know how to say," Li Haoyu said bitterly: "So we have to be prepared to deal with it, Director Liu, this is going to trouble you to make a plan." "Since getting the super game editor, Li Haoyu has been smooth sailing, and he has established the mythical group all the way, and has a lot of influence in the game industry in China. This is the first time he has suffered a setback in business, I don't know who is cracking the encryption algorithm of Jingyuan Century in a quiet way, these people are not ordinary.

Liu Yong said solemnly: "Chairman, please rest assured, I will come up with a plan to deal with the impact of piracy as soon as possible." Well, now that many people don't know that there has been piracy in the Crystal Source Century, I think the price can be adjusted to 100 yuan per copy, and the last large-scale sale can be carried out before piracy is rampant. ”

"You can do this, Director Liu has worked hard for you."

After hanging up the phone, Li Haoyu thought about it and called his second uncle Li Yuanhang again, "Second uncle, it's me, Haoyu, piracy has started to appear recently, so from now on, the game discs of Jingyuan Century need to be burned a little less, and the number of 100,000 copies per month should be maintained." ”

Li Yuanhang did make a lot of money in the sales frenzy of Jingyuan Century this time, and now he heard that there were pirated games, and he was still quite sorry in his heart, but he also knew that once there was piracy, there would be no more pomp and circumstance before, and nodded and said: "Haoyu, I know that I know Lu Dao, I will arrange it immediately." Haoyu, now you can still hold on alone, right? Why don't you call your sister back to help you share the burden? ”

Li Haoyu refused with a smile, "It's still not okay, my sister finally had such a good rest, and now that I'm going to Europe to play, how can I disturb her and her brother-in-law's interest?" Second uncle, I can still handle this matter, you can rest assured. ”

Li Yuanhang only mentioned this, and he was relieved to hear Li Haoyu say that there was no problem, and hung up the phone after chatting with Li Haoyu for a few words.

In the next half month, the pirated game discs of the crystal source century and the pirated download links of the Chinese hard disk version appeared like weeds after the rain, and the sales of the crystal source century in China plummeted from hundreds of thousands per day to only 50,000 or 60,000 copies per day, a difference of more than ten times.

Li Haoyu posted a Weibo post on his Weibo, calling on gamers to support the genuine version: "It has been more than a month since the launch of Jingyuan Century, and the sales in Huaxia have reached 13.5 million copies, and I am here to express my sincerest gratitude to all players who have purchased the genuine game on behalf of the 156 employees of Starry Night Studio." The crystal source century you are playing is completed by all the people of Starry Night Studio after more than a year of hard work, please support the genuine version, your support is the driving force for all of us in the mythical group to continue to move forward! ”

As soon as this Weibo post was released, it was retweeted tens of thousands of times and commented on thousands of times in a short period of time.

"Support the genuine! Support the Myth Group! Support Starry Night Studios! ”

"I used to play single-player games when I always played pirated versions, but this time it's a game produced by the Myth Group, I have to support the genuine version anyway, the first time a domestic stand-alone game has such a good sales result in the world, I'm a Chinese and honored!"

"In the past, Huaxia's stand-alone game makers were more than piracy, this time we can't be like this, I decided, this month I only eat one steamed bun for breakfast, save money to buy genuine!"

"Support the genuine and fight piracy!"

After Li Haoyu's Weibo post, Jingyuan Century's sales increased slightly, but then fell into a downturn again, and sales continued to decline. Rao is the mythical group has taken various measures but has not been able to recover the previous sales situation, and the sales of genuine copies per day are only less than 3,000 copies, and the sales cannot even earn back the cost of burning.

"Piracy is really the biggest obstacle to the development of Chinese games and software!" Li Haoyu looked at the increasingly bleak sales data, lowered his head and smiled bitterly.

Xiao Yu suddenly said at this time: "My dear master, I know that there is a technique in the Dao that can prevent the disc from being cracked. ”

Li Haoyu was shocked and asked, "Xiaoyu, why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

Xiaoyu said aggrievedly: "But this kind of technique must be opened to the fourth permission to use it, wow, it's useless if I say it." ”

Li Haoyu was dumbfounded.