Ono is the leader of the game development team for the Resident Evil series and one of the veterans of Capcom, and he looks to be about forty years old and polite.

He lifted the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said: "I believe everyone has heard about it before, this PC version of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" was uploaded to the Internet at about two o'clock this afternoon, and after it was discovered by our employees, it took us about six hours to test it. As it turned out, the game was based entirely on our original 3DS version, but in terms of graphics, sound, and playability, it was a top-of-the-line game, not inferior to the likes of Crysis, and it also used a captcha fee for only 1,000 yen. ”

The room fell silent, and everyone gasped in unison, as a well-known company that has been immersed in the game industry for many years, these Capcom executives knew very well how much it would cost to develop such a game.

The unit price is 1,000 yen?

This is which local tyrant has nothing to do and burns money to play!

Even according to the sales of the original "Resident Evil: Revelations", the unit price of 1,000 yen may not be able to recover even half of the cost, not to mention facing an anti-piracy lawsuit from Capcom.

Norika Fujiwara, director of the marketing department, said: "What about the PC version we are working on, can it surpass it?" ”

Ono did show a hint of embarrassment on his face, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's difficult!" ”

Norika Fujiwara's brows furrowed.

When the 3DS version of Resident Evil: Revelations was released, Capcom was ready to develop versions for XBOX, PS3, PC, WiiU, etc.

Now the development of various versions is in full swing, but this PC version of "Resident Evil: Revelations" suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and suddenly disrupted the rhythm of Capcom.

Even if the police finally seized the download link of the pirated PC version of "Resident Evil: Revelations", it has already had an impact in the circle of game fans, and if the PC version launched by Capcom is not as good as this knockoff, it will be a slap in the face.

Rio Morimoto, director of Capcom's legal department, asked, "Can you find out which studio developed it now?" ”

Ono shook his head and said: "We are sending people to investigate, and there are only a handful of studios that can crack and transplant such a game, even in the world, and perhaps the top cracking teams in the world, such as skidrow, reloaded, and razor1911, have such capabilities." But what about their motives? This kind of thankless job is not like the work of these money-eyed cracking teams! ”

Morimoto Leo nodded, turned his head to the president and said to the president, Hiroki Kyomoto: "President, I suggest that you report it to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department immediately, and let the police contact the major forums and network disk providers to delete the download links of pirated games." At the same time, the company must issue an announcement to clarify to players the fact that this game pirates the 3DS Resident Evil Apocalypse. ”

Qiao Ben Hiroki nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

"Wait!" Ono was indeed lucky: "President, I'm afraid this is not enough. ”

"Why?" The people present focused their eyes on Ono Seyuki.

Ono said: "These download links are not limited to us in Japan, they have appeared on websites in the United States and China, and there are also patches in Chinese and English!" So we have to file a claim for copyright protection with the copyright authorities in both China and the United States. The United States is fine, but it's a big deal to go through the procedure, and it's only a matter of ten days and half a month, and the problem is China's ......."

Speaking of China, the faces of everyone present suddenly changed.

China's single-player game market is not small, but for various reasons, the Chinese government has been quite indifferent to the copyright protection of foreign single-player games.

Even though China's domestic stand-alone games have been sluggish in recent years, major foreign game manufacturers still have no way to take advantage of Chinese pirates.

In the past, they could not care about China's pirated game industry, after all, over the years, gamers in Japan, Europe and the United States have developed the habit of buying genuine games, and they have enough market to digest their games.

But this PC version of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" is different, it is simply a modified copycat, and you don't have the genuine version to compete with it, so it is natural that there will be fanatical game fans who will go to Chinese websites to download this game.

In this case, I am afraid that it will not be able to stop this game from circulating among players.

Norika Fujiwara, the director of marketing, interjected: "President, I have a solution, we have to find out who is responsible for this game as soon as possible, and then contact the studio behind the scenes and work with them." ”

Rio Morimoto, the director of the legal department, said: "But what if they don't want to? ”

Fujiwara Norika smiled coldly and said, "Since they can play cracking, we won't, right?" It's a big deal that we're not going to make our own PC version of Resident Evil: Revelations, we're looking for someone to crack this pirated game and improve it a little bit before we bring it to market! ”

Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but look at each other, this trick was ruthless enough, anyway, the copyright of "Resident Evil: Revelations" was in the hands of Capcom, and they cracked the PC version of "Resident Evil: Revelations", and they didn't have to worry about infringement.

Using genuine copies to deal with piracy is an absolute solution.

Qiao Ben Hongshu's face softened a little, and said: "Then we will do it in two ways, according to what Morimoto-kun and Miss Ji Xiang said respectively." ”

"Hey!"

……

An hour later, Capcom issued an announcement on the front page of the company's website, saying that the PC version of Resident Evil: Revelations, which appeared on the Internet today, had nothing to do with Capcom! Capcom also claimed in the announcement that the PC version of "Resident Evil: Revelations" has infringed on their company's 3DS version of the game, and they have reported to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to ask major game sites to remove the download links of the game.

Although the announcement was sent out late at night, it was quickly discovered by night owl game fans, and then the announcement was reprinted on major forums in Japan, which immediately caused an uproar in the Japanese gaming circle.

You must know that although this game has just come out, it has already attracted the attention of quite a few game lovers.

In particular, the praise of many well-known players such as Koichi Miyamoto has made this new game have a lot of popularity.

No one expected that such a product, which does not seem to be much different from the genuine version, is actually a copycat.

Now, some players who don't play this type of game are also interested.

But when they searched for relevant resources on the Internet, they found that the download links of major forums had been deleted, and some network disk providers had stopped the download authorization of the game.