Chapter 22: The Millionaire
"Team leader, team leader, something happened!"
Capcom headquarters, [Resident Evil] game group office area, Capcom Matsumoto Saburo, who was testing the PC version of "Resident Evil: Revelations", hugged his laptop and hurriedly broke into the office of the team leader Ono Masayuki.
Ono really frowned and said, "Matsumoto-kun, don't be reckless all the time, what happened?" ”
"Team leader, look!"
Saburo Matsumoto put the laptop on Ono's desk and pointed to the dialog box that popped up on the laptop screen.
"Share the download link and send equipment?"
Ono really got up from his chair all of a sudden, and his face changed slightly: "Oops! ”
As he spoke, he picked up his laptop and said to Saburo Matsumoto: "Matsumoto-kun, you go back to work first, and I'll go to the president!" ”
"Oh, okay!"
Watching Saburo Matsumoto return to the office area, Ono also hurried to the office of Capcom President Hiroki Chomoto.
After last night's meeting, Capcom exerted its strong influence, not only closing the download channel of the Japanese version of the game through the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, but also deleting many advertorials recommending the game on the Internet through public relations.
The head of Capcom's American branch has also reported to the US police, and in a few days, the download channel of the English version of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" will also be closed.
Who would have thought that as soon as they made a move, the other party would play such a trick.
When Ono entered the president's office, Hiroki Kimoto was talking with Norika Fujiwara, the director of the marketing department.
Seeing Ono really come in with a solemn face, Qiao Ben Hiroki said, "Ono-kun, what's wrong?" ”
Ono was indeed fortunate and said: "President, the other party has a new move, you see! ”
Ono put the computer in front of Hiroki Kishimoto and Norika Fujiwara.
Sure enough, as soon as they saw the content of the dialog box, Hiroki Chomoto and Norika Fujiwara also changed their faces.
Qiao Ben Hongshu said with a gloomy face: "It seems that our previous work has been in vain, and I am afraid it will be difficult to stop the circulation of this game from regular channels." ”
It is important to know that in Japan, it is illegal to deliberately download or buy pirated products, and if they are caught, they will be punished with heavy fines.
But this kind of thing is usually rare, and even if you do use pirated products, as long as you don't find direct evidence from the copyright protection department, basically nothing will happen.
In particular, pirated download links like this spread through communication software, the servers where the source files are stored are generally in China, and there is no possibility of blocking them at all, unless the Chinese government departments also join the ranks of cracking down on pirated games, otherwise Capcom is a dumb loser.
Hiroki Kishimoto looked at Fujiwara Norika and said, "Miss Kika, what is the Metropolitan Police Department saying now?" ”
Fujiwara Norika said: "The Metropolitan Police Department said that it is still investigating, and the other party opened an account with Citibank, which needs to be investigated by the United States." Unless we have first-hand evidence of the money laundering in this account, and then ask Citibank to freeze this bank account through the FBI, there is nothing we can do with each other. What's more, it will take a month or two for this kind of thing to go through the process, and if the other party takes a handful and leaves, I'm afraid it will be ......"
Hiroki Jomoto's brows tightened, Capcom has not encountered such an embarrassing situation for a long time, although this game does not have much impact on Capcom's revenue, at most it is a little more effort to reformulate the follow-up plan of the "Resident Evil" series of games, but this kind of thing is really like eating a fly, which is very disgusting.
"Baga, if I find out which studio did it behind the scenes, I will definitely make them look good!"
Hiroki Qiao scolded, looked up and said to Fujiwara Norika: "In that case, Miss Jixiang, then you will be responsible for finding the studio to crack this game, 50 million yen, and you must hand in the cracked version of this game within half a month!" ”
Fujiwara Norika and Ono Makoyuki glanced at each other, lowered their heads and said, "Hi! ”
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Yang Lin didn't know how angry the president of Capcom was at this time, at this time, he was sitting leisurely in front of his laptop, watching the funds in his bank account skyrocket.
Since the launch of the Golden Bullet Sharing campaign, downloads of the PC version of Resident Evil: Revelations have skyrocketed.
And the reputation of this game has also been known to more and more players over time.
In particular, after Capcom publicly stated on its official website that it was a copycat game, it caused an uproar among players.
The quality of copycat games is still above the original, how can this teach those genuine manufacturers to be embarrassed?
Players who have never played the PC version of "Resident Evil: Revelations" are curious about what kind of game this is, and it can actually force the genuine manufacturer.
Those who have played it have recommended it to their friends and become self-paying trolls for the game.
Especially in China, since there are no piracy restrictions, many game fans immediately noticed this so-called copycat game.
After experiencing the quality of this copycat, domestic game manufacturers were scolded by game fans. Look at people, a stand-alone game of this quality only costs fifteen yuan, and domestic games will only use online games to cheat players out of money. In recent years, except for the "Fairy Sword" series, the "Ancient Sword Strange Tan" series, and the FPS "Glorious Mission" jointly developed by the Giant Group and the military, there is not even a single domestic stand-alone game.
Perhaps because of this comparison, more than half of the players who are used to playing free stand-alone games choose to pay.
In less than a week, the Chinese version of "Resident Evil: Revelations" has been downloaded more than 100,000 times, 60,000 people have chosen to pay, and Yang Lin's profit has reached 900,000 yuan.
In foreign countries, the Japanese version has reached 40,000 downloads, of which more than 30,000 are paid users, the English version has exceeded 60,000, and there are 40,000 paying users.
In less than a week, the funds in Yang Lin's bank account officially exceeded one million US dollars, and he had to go to the magic capital and use his real identity to open an account at the UBS branch in China.
Yang Lin then turned the funds in Citibank around the stock market through a series of dazzling money laundering methods, and finally transferred all of them to his UBS account.
In just over ten days, Yang Lin had changed from a penniless poor boy to a millionaire, and he had finally seen the power of this magical matrix system in his brain.
As for how much money he can make next, Yang Lin didn't bother to think about it, anyway, he had already made a decision, in order to avoid Capcom from going completely crazy and finally attracting the attention of the FBI, in another week, he would immediately evacuate.
Anyway, this account was also bought from a gangster organization in California through the "Immortal Birds" group, and they were all email contacts, so let the FBI check it.