"Huh? What? There are also plug-ins in Three Kingdoms Online?"

When he heard the news, Huang Hongbo, the boss of Huayi Company next door, was shocked.

Originally, he had been involved in a plug-in storm recently, and the reputation of the Stone Age declined, which made Huang Hongbo feel a little uncomfortable. However, when he heard that Bomi was also in the same situation as them, Huang Hongbo's heart felt much more relaxed.

This is a very typical mentality of not worrying about being weak but not being uneven. As long as others are not better than me, I will be OK.

"Yes, Mr. Huang." said the manager of the operation department. "We only learned about this news today. It is said that the matter is very big. Many players are scolding on the forum. It seems that there is a copying hook that can copy the equipment on the players. The number of some top-quality equipment immediately increased, but now I don't know what it has developed."

"real?"

Huang Hongbo's eyes lit up.

"How did Bomi handle it?"

"This... we are still waiting and watching, it seems that there is no news yet." When the operation manager reported this, it was less than 10 o'clock in the morning, and Bomi's announcement on Three Kingdoms Online had not been released yet.

"It's very troublesome." Huang Hongbo said with the experience of those who have experienced it. He tumbled his lips and then calmly sat back into the chair.

It's quite troublesome.

As for Huayi himself, they are just Chinese agents and have no R&D capabilities. They appeared plug-ins in December last year, and they were going crazy.

The plug-in was quite gentle at the beginning, and it was an automatic auxiliary plug-in, which could help players find monsters automatically. When fighting monsters, add blood to release skills according to the settings...

Players just need to hang up.

The gameplay of the Stone Age itself is relatively simple and boring in the later stages. The biggest experience is to constantly upgrade and fight monsters to gain experience and raise babies.

The experience value in the later stage is simply outrageous. Repeating daily labor is a burden in itself, so when this automatic auxiliary plug-in comes out, it does not arouse the vigilance of Huayi Company.

According to Huang Hongbo's idea, if there is an auxiliary plug-in to help players reduce repetitive physical labor, this should be a good thing, right?

The most troublesome problem is that

This kind of plug-in script has cultivated a lot of gold-making studios.

In the cash-making studio, there may be only 3 to 5 people, and then buy dozens of machines and open hundreds of accounts to hang up the machine at the same time.

Because there are plug-ins, the gold-killing studio only needs to watch it. Moreover, these accounts can automatically kill monsters, which can be faster than players manually grabbing...

Over time, inflation quickly occurred due to the overflow of output.

This principle is actually easy to understand. Originally, relying on manual combat, it may have earned 8 babies a day, but now, with the intervention of automation and gold studios, the daily game output has become 80 babies.

Then the baby's price will naturally drop.

When goods are not valuable, inflation will naturally occur.

Moreover, it turned out that in the era of manual combat, it took 20 hours for players to manually upgrade. Now, because of automatic plug-ins, they can hang up when they go to bed at night, so the upgrade speed will naturally increase.

Therefore, auxiliary plug-ins have brought two disadvantages to the game:

First, inflation. This thing is inevitable in games with free trade.

Second, quickly consume the life of the game.

This is also easy to understand. In 2001, for you, the lifespan of the game was maintained by two things.

The first one is level. The original level limit is level 80. Then when the player reaches level 80, he will naturally lose the motivation to pursue. When the player lacks a sense of purpose, he will easily lose it.

The second is combat power, which was mainly pets during the Stone Age.

Both of these things can be quickly obtained by plug-ins, so the lifespan of the game is naturally shortened.

It was originally planned that this game could operate for 10 years, so the numerical system of the game was designed based on a 10-year life cycle. Now it only takes 2 years to complete it at once, and the game life will be greatly shortened.

But it is also difficult to ban plug-ins.

In other words, the Stone Age has missed the best opportunity to ban plug-ins.

In December, this type of auxiliary plug-in appeared. Because it had no impact on the company's financial report, it also introduced many players and gold-making studios because of the plug-in. Therefore, the revenue in the Stone Age actually increased.

Therefore, the boss Huang Hongbo didn't care, and even regarded the plug-in as a good auxiliary product, turning a blind eye to allow it to exist.

This is also easy to understand. When the cash-making studio comes in, a few people directly manage hundreds of accounts. Then players who originally didn't like repetitive labor can now play this game because of the existence of plug-ins.

Moreover, plug-in is hang-up 24 hours a day, which is actually a good thing for games that charge card fees.

Originally, players might only spend 8 hours on the game every day, but now they can spend 24 hours on it. The consumption of point cards has suddenly increased by 3 times. Naturally, the corresponding income in Huayi has also increased a lot.

Moreover, it is actually quite difficult to crack down on plug-ins. On the one hand, Huayi Company is an agent and lacks R&D capabilities. If you want to fix the program, you have to ask programmers from the island country to come and help, let alone react quickly to crack down on plug-ins as soon as possible.

On the other hand, the Internet is an emerging industry, and the corresponding regulatory system is not yet mature and there are no good regulatory methods and ways.

If you sue the police station, people want to arrest the person but don’t know where to arrest him.

Internet crime is a pretty easy thing at this time, and it has several characteristics:

With remote control features, you don’t know where the plug-in is.

Concealment, because the Internet is a virtual process, sellers selling plug-ins may only see one name, and it is also more troublesome to track down.

So in general, unless you can get the address of the person directly when you report the case, people don’t know how to help you and how to arrest the person, and they will end up leaving it alone.

For these reasons, Huang Hongbo did not attack the plug-in as soon as possible, and he did not have the ability to attack.

So I have always let it exist.

Who knows that the plug-in is profitable and becomes more and more ruthless as it is done.

Just one month after the copy hanging appeared in Three Kingdoms Online, that is, in February, there was a copy hanging in the Stone Age.

In December last year, auxiliary plug-ins appeared in the Stone Age called swt.

Later, in January, a plug-in made by reko3 appeared, and the acceleration function appeared in this plug-in.

And now, there is even a copy function.

The most mainstream plug-ins are SAT and Wanyu. SAT is made by a Stone Age enthusiast. The author is called Walking in the Rain, but he is just doing it for convenience. His original good intention is to provide convenience to players and make boring games fun, so there is no charge.

Due to his limited strength and the fact that Walking in the Rain did not make a profit, he was gradually defeated by another person named Wan Yu.

Wanyu's team has made plug-ins very efficiently and has activated the charging function, which is 28 yuan per month.

With the Stone Age game, the plug-in team made a lot of money.

Now that inflation is quite serious in the Stone Age, the boss of Huayi is helpless and can only turn a blind eye.

Now that he heard that there was something wrong with the Three Kingdoms Online, Huang Hongbo's face only had a little color.

...

Not only did the boss of Huayi Company gloat, but the grand Qiao Tianchen couldn't hide his happiness when he heard the news.

The so-called peers are enemies. As long as the opponent is in trouble, it will be beneficial to me.

Shanda has been in a state of dying since Legend was launched for more than half a year. It has been in a state of dying. It is said that it is not profitable, but it can still bring millions of revenue to the company every month.

But you have to say profit, after deducting the cost, the remaining profit will be quite thin.

The main reason is that there is the roadblock of Three Kingdoms Online.

To a large extent, the players, pictures and game fluency of the Three Kingdoms Online are all over the world, so the number of players in the legend has never been able to snowball with the word-of-mouth effect.

It can only barely maintain a steady growth, but the growth rate is very slow.

So far, the total number of Shanda Legend players is less than 200,000, and the number of online players is not even 10,000.

So the city-grabbing battle that I originally wanted to play could not even be played on a large-scale team battle.

Now legends have become very Buddha-like. The most important reason why many players choose to play legends is-

"It's so heartless to play Three Kingdoms online. I'm tired of playing with legends for a while."

The gameplay of this game has many similarities with the Three Kingdoms Online, so it naturally becomes the drainage ditch of the Three Kingdoms Online.

When players are tired of playing, they come to the legend to relax, and then return to the Three Kingdoms online when they are tired of playing.

So many times, online players' remarks make Qiao Tianchen irritate himself.

They said "Legend of Blood" is the spare tire for "Three Kingdoms Online".

He has always been as arrogant as Qiao Tianchen, which is unbearable.

But if he can't bear it, he can't do anything. He can't go to the physical network cable, right?

Moreover, it is not realistic to unplug the network cable. Other people's servers are scattered all over the country, and it will be exhausted to get this.

Now there is finally a thrilling good news -

"Three Kingdoms Online has been plug-in, and the plug-in is still very serious."

Copying is already a very serious plug-in, which directly affects the game balance and leads to players' resentment.

If it is left to ferment, the game will surely collapse soon.

...

However, soon, news came from Three Kingdoms Online.

"The official of Three Kingdoms Online just issued an announcement that the plug-in has been blocked, and the relevant players who use plug-in have been blocked. In the official announcement, it is said that Bomi will still hold him accountable and investigate it to the end and capture all the criminals in one place. It is said that the official attitude is very firm, saying that he has zero tolerance for plug-in."

Huayi's operations manager said.
To be continued...