my return 2002

Chapter 284: Everyone's mouth is full of gold, accumulating and destroying bones

Under the vigorous promotion of Penguin, QQ Farm has indeed achieved good results. The number of users exceeded 12 within one hour of its launch, even surpassing the original results of YY Farm.

This made Xiao Ma overjoyed, and on the phone, he called the QQ farm project team, no, it should be the person in charge of Pengda Network, and praised him a lot.

Of course, many netizens also expressed their dissatisfaction with QQ Farm’s almost comprehensive copying of plagiarism. The main audience of the farm game is white-collar workers and students. It solved their dissatisfaction with penguinism.

"As expected of a penguin, he really knows how to copy. Except for the stickers, he moved YY Farm over here basically intact, and even had the nerve to change the name to QQ Farm."

"Did the people upstairs forget how penguins got their start? They still expect penguins to produce original works?"

"Penguins are too disgusting, right? Even if you want to copy them, you should get snacks, okay? People grow cabbage, so you can grow cabbage instead. Can you be a little creative?"

Penguin has always had a bad reputation in the Internet circle. On the one hand, it is plagiarism. On the other hand, it has done too much business. Portal websites, e-commerce, instant messaging, and games all have a foot in it. Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. After a long time, it is inevitable to make enemies on all sides.

In addition, Penguin has been tirelessly pursuing the "bringing doctrine". As long as it is good for others, it is your own. There is almost no innovative content, and netizens' perception of Penguin is getting worse day by day.

In the past, when QQ Dugu was seeking defeat, netizens had no choice but to use QQ. Now that YY is available, netizens are not used to this fat penguin anymore.

Of course, Brother Xiao Ma doesn't care about these accusations from netizens, he's used to them being mild.

What really worried him was Shen Lang's reaction.

Brother Xiao Ma looked at Zhang Zhidong nervously: "Is there any action on Shen Lang's side?"

Zhang Zhidong shook his head: "Not yet."

Brother Xiaoma glanced at the clock and it was already twelve o'clock at noon. It had been three hours since the release of QQ Farm, and there should be some movement. For Shen Lang's possible condemnation statement, announcement, or even a lawsuit, Brother Xiaoma All countermeasures have been taken.

However, Shen Lang didn't move at all, instead it made brother Ma's heart pounding.

"Isn't this Shen Lang holding back something bad?"

Hearing what Xiao Ma said, Zhang Zhidong couldn't help becoming nervous. While talking, Zhang Zhidong's phone rang suddenly, and he was startled when he saw the number.

"Well, it's me. There's something going on at YY? What? Didn't you say you're going to sue us? Has it been updated?"

Before Zhang Zhidong hung up the phone, Xiao Ma immediately logged in to YY, and then clicked on the YY farm icon. After a few seconds of jumping to the webpage, an update package popped up, and the automatic installation started.

But what puzzled Xiao Ma was that the update package was very small, and it was installed in the blink of an eye. If he hadn't been staring at it, he might have ignored it. Obviously, the update was very small.

Brother Xiao Ma immediately opened the update notice, and frowned when he saw it.

At this time, Zhang Zhidong had already hung up the phone, leaned over to the computer, and asked with concern.

"What's updated on YY?"

Brother Xiao Ma looked at Zhang Zhidong suspiciously: "Stealing vegetables? What do you mean?"

That's right, the update announcement only shows a small function. In the previous YY farm, friends could only help watering and weeding, but this update opens up a function of stealing vegetables between friends.

Brother Ma turned off the update notice, tried it out, and found that this stealing can only be done after the friend's crops are ripe, and the stealing is only a small part, and the player who is stolen will not lose all the harvest.

"Should we copy and move this function?" Zhang Zhidong asked.

Brother Xiao Ma frowned: "Such a small update, just three hours after our QQ farm went live, do you think it's a coincidence, or is it aimed at us?"

Shen Lang hadn't moved all this time, which made brother Ma very uneasy. Judging from Shen Lang's previous methods against Zhou Hongyi and Xiong Minghua, Shen Lang was definitely not a good opponent. The more he hid it, the more it showed that Shen Lang was accumulating energy.

Brother Xiaoma had to be cautious.

Zhang Zhidong also felt that something was wrong, he looked at Xiao Ma and waited for him to make a decision.

Brother Xiao Ma was caught in a tangle. On the one hand, he had copied everything for this purpose. Leaving a small update here would be tantamount to deception. On the other hand, he was worried that this update was a bait thrown by Shen Lang, and he was just waiting for him to take the bait.

"How about this, let Pengda make the function first, don't update it for now, wait and see for two days." Brother Ma gritted his teeth.

Zhang Zhidong felt reasonable after thinking about it: "Okay, let's do it this way."

However, what Xiao Ma and Zhang Zhidong didn't expect was that the small update of YY Farm soon caused a wave of "stealing vegetables" all over the Internet.

If it is said that the interaction of watering and weeding friends on YY Farm can only play 10% of the social attributes of this game, then the opening of the stealing function will immediately increase the social attributes of this game to 200%.

In business, many companies will provide their products to users for free trial. During the trial process, as long as users do not feel that the product is too difficult to use, most of them will choose to pay for it, because once people get something, they lose it. It will feel very painful, as long as the money spent is less than the pain of losing, it can prompt users to pay.

Similarly, when there is no function of stealing vegetables at the beginning, even if the user does not "collect vegetables" on time, it only causes a little vacant time of the farm land, but the income remains the same.

However, since the "stealing food" function is available, this income will be reduced because the food is not collected in time.

Although YY Farm is just a virtual game, but because YY magnifies the social attributes, the user's sense of substitution is also magnified, so naturally it cannot bear the pain of such loss.

Many players even took notes and began to record the maturity time of their crops, and then set the alarm clock to remind themselves to harvest the vegetables on time.

But even if you go to collect the vegetables like this, you still can't escape the claws of the vegetable thieves. There are always a few vegetable thieves who just steal a handful before you.

What's more interesting is that some friends I know in real life will quarrel because the other party stole my food, and some even have a bad temper and directly fight.

There are even some professional vegetable thieves. Since the update of the vegetable stealing function, some players don’t even grow their own vegetables, they just steal other people’s. Some players ignore the update and don’t even know there is such a vegetable thief Function, so that there are only a few wool left, a few hours of time wasted in vain, and there are no tears left.

Just one day after the "stealing food" function was updated, YY Farm's simultaneous online users increased from 200 million to 550 million, nearly three times, and the stickiness has also become higher. Many users hang up almost 24 hours a day.

At the same time, the popularity of "stealing food" has also caused a wave of heated discussions on the Internet. Players are having fun, and some psychologists have also come to catch the heat, publishing many analysis articles similar to "Why Stealing Food Is Popular".

Among them, there are many celebrities who criticize the behavior of "stealing vegetables". Among them, Sina blog and QQ diary have the most similar articles. Wonderful.

However, this time they have kicked the iron plate.

"I'm so weird, isn't it just stealing a dish from the Internet, how can it be morally corrupt? I've been a law-abiding and helpful person for decades as the co-author, and just because of this is the conclusion for me?"

"Hehe, I just want to say, fuck your uncle, what kind of shit? I'm usually as tired as a grandson in the company, and I finally have a small game that can relieve stress. Why can't I play it? And it's dark inside? "

"Don't say anything, I canceled it. I used to think that bloggers have their own opinions. In the end, they are at this level? Why are they not as good as me? I am under a lot of pressure for postgraduate entrance examinations. What's wrong with finding a pastime online? I don't really Why did you scold me for nothing if you went to steal something? Is there something wrong?"

Compared with Sina blog and YY log, where celebrities speak nonsense, the YY log is much more peaceful, and some bloggers have a wave of enthusiasm for stealing food, but most of the bloggers on YY log are recommending "stealing food" , Some bloggers also summed up some rules of stealing food, how to steal more profits, how to make friends angry, the comment area is very lively, and bloggers have a great time interacting with fans.

On the one hand, YY Farm and YY Log are two brothers of the same mother and compatriots, and the bloggers should show some face; close to the lives of ordinary people.

With this wave of rhythm, the traffic of Sina blog has dropped a lot. Many celebrity bloggers have deleted their previous articles, but they can’t recover. A certain transformation has been made, but the effect is not good in a short period of time. No matter when fans are this thing, there will inevitably be a lot of stupid fans.

This also allowed YY Log to take advantage of this trend to pull down Sina Blog in one fell swoop and become the No. 1 in the mainland blog industry. Although the user data gap between the three companies is not large, in fact, whether it is user stickiness or revenue data, YY Log is Both killed the other two in seconds.

In just one day, Xiao Ma didn't expect that the update of such a small function as "Stealing Vegetables" would cause such a qualitative change. This made him very regretful, and he knew that he should have followed up immediately.

Although QQ Farm updated the "stealing food" function immediately after, however, QQ Farm has lost nearly one-third of its users. What's more, the voice of crusade against penguins on the Internet has become more and more intense.

Netizens are not blind. YY Farm has updated the "stealing vegetables" function on the front foot, and QQ has also updated the "stealing vegetables" function on the back foot. If this is not plagiarism, they will not believe a word when they say it.

Now that Penguin plagiarized it, even Nanshan Pizza Hut could not save its reputation.

Penguin's stock price fell sharply that day, and the market value evaporated by more than one billion in just one day.

Penguin City, Penguin Headquarters.

Brother Xiao Ma's office was filled with smoke, and there was a cigarette case on the table. After smoking half a pack of cigarettes, Brother Xiao Ma let out a long sigh.

"Sure enough, I fell into Shen Lang's tricks!"

Zhang Zhidong comforted with a bitter face: "But no matter what, since the update of the vegetable stealing function, the data of QQ Farm has stopped falling, and netizens are also cursing, and they will still log in when they should log in."

Brother Xiaoma was not so optimistic. He knocked on the table and said, "All mouths make money, accumulate and destroy bones. Shen Lang is an obvious conspiracy. If we don't follow up, after the update of YY Farm's food stealing function, QQ The farm has no living space, we follow up, not only the netizens will condemn, but the kid has another piece of evidence of our plagiarism, and if it accumulates to a certain extent, we can't argue with it."

Zhang Zhidong's heart tightened: "Then what should we do now?"

Brother Xiaoma analyzed: "If my guess is correct, that boy Shen Lang definitely has more than just the card of stealing food, and will definitely continue to release various updates in the future. We can't be led by the nose like this. !"

"You mean, update the content yourself?"

"That's right, only if the updated content of QQ Farm is different from that of YY Farm, can we completely remove the hat of plagiarism!" Brother Xiaoma firmly said.

Zhang Zhidong was a little worried: "But, after all, Pengda is just a small project team that has just been assigned. Can they undertake such a heavy task?"

Hearing what Zhang Zhidong said, Brother Xiao Ma also had a headache. Penguin seems to have no original genes. No matter what he does, as long as it is an innovative product, it basically fails. On the contrary, there are products with mature templates on the market, and they can even be made. Even better than the original.

Brother Xiaoma gritted his teeth and said, "Let Pengda recruit people by himself, and tell them that if they can make quality updates in the future, they will give their team a certain option reward!"

Brother Xiao Ma has already dared not send people from the inside of the penguin. What if the people who go there are those who have no idea and only copy, wouldn't it add to the chaos?

When Pengda Technology heard it, there is such a good thing?I immediately agreed, which is equivalent to starting my own business, so I must play my life.

So the management of Pengda Technology immediately started recruiting and recruiting a group of fresh blood.

However, how can it be so easy to be original?On the one hand, when they made QQ Farm, they basically copied the underlying code of YY Farm and made some modifications on the basis of the above because of the tight schedule.

Now I have to update it myself, at least I have to understand the underlying code logic of others, right?This sorting out will not take a short time.

In addition, they also need to maintain the current operation of QQ Farm. Under the huge traffic stack of QQ, the number of users of QQ Farm is not a small number, and it is increasing every day. People who can really invest in the development of new functions are actually not not much.

Moreover, YY Farm will not give them enough time to do research and development. Only a week after the release of the "stealing food" function, YY Farm has carried out another update.

(End of this chapter)