Chapter 53 Neople's Warning
In the ward living room of Samsung Treatment Center, the TV screen showed a live broadcast of the South Korean special mission delegation arriving in Kabul and holding talks with representatives of the Taliban.
Nearly a week has passed since this negotiation. The reason why the live broadcast of this negotiation was replayed on TV news is because in the past two days, there have been incidents related to the kidnapping of members of the Bundang Seonsu Church in South Korea in Afghanistan. It has become the focus of attention in South Korea.
The reason for this is that a reporter suddenly exposed a piece of news, saying that a week ago, when the South Korean special mission delegation went to Kabul, they brought a total of US$70 million in funds. The funds were ransoms given to the Taliban.
In other words, the reason why the Taliban agreed to release the hostages in batches was not because they accepted the persuasion of the special mission delegation, but because they received a sufficiently generous ransom.
As soon as this news was exposed, it immediately caused an uproar in public opinion, and opinions on the Internet became polarized almost overnight.
Some people agree with the South Korean government’s approach and believe that the safety of the hostages is the most important; others think it is a waste of taxpayers’ money; some even begin to condemn Bundang Quanshui Church, believing that they arrange for their members to go to Afghanistan to preach. It is destroying local religious beliefs.
Ling Ling Zong Zong, you can say anything, but the vast majority of people still do not agree with the government spending money to redeem people. They think that such an approach is not only a waste of taxpayers' money, but also humiliating. The national identity of the Republic of Korea.
In front of the TV, An Rusong was sitting on the coffee table and looking at the laptop screen in front of him with relish. What he was browsing was the forum section of the Yahoo website. Most of the more than a dozen popular posts were It's about the hostage situation.
Compared with reports on TV, the real comments from netizens on the Internet are more direct and heated. In the popular posts, many people directly told the abductees to die, and the curse words were extremely unpleasant.
Of course, apart from the hostage incident posts, there was one post that An Rusong paid the most attention to.
That was a statement issued by Neople, a famous Korean game company.
In this statement, Neople announced that the company will be committed to cracking down on illegal plug-in cheating. Its specific measures include: permanently blocking the accounts of plug-in users, and using legal means to pursue plug-in developers the legal liability of the person. In addition, the game official will regularly update the game anti-cheat components and so on.
In a word, Neople is ready to fight to the end with cheats.
This statement was posted in the early hours of yesterday morning. It has been less than thirty hours until now, but there are already nearly 170,000 comments below the post.
An Rusong browsed briefly and found that most of the comments from netizens were criticizing the game official, that is, the Neople company. Some people say that Neople is nosy; some people accuse it of not being able to control plug-ins, which makes the game environment unfair; some people say that they have been banned despite not using plug-ins, etc. It is very lively.
In fact, An Rusong had known for a long time that Neople would not allow cheats in "Dungeon and Fighter" to proliferate like this, and the punishment for banning users of cheats had already been made public.
But the real problem is that capital is all about making money. As a game official, Neople naturally falls into the category of capital. Therefore, when operating "Dungeon and Fighter", Neople's first consideration is not whether the game is fair or unfair, but whether it can attract the largest number of players and make more money.
The greatest harm caused by plug-ins to the game is to destroy the balance and fairness of the game. If the same cheating plug-in appears in a confrontational game, such as a game like CS, its destructive effect on the game will be amplified, because it will directly discourage a large number of players who do not use plug-ins and have better skills.
However, in the game "Dungeon and Fighter", the current proliferation of underground fire cheats has not been resisted by too many players. After all, this plug-in only reduces the difficulty of passing the level, and its damage to the balance of the game is not obvious.
On the contrary, because it reduces the difficulty of passing the level, the emergence of this plug-in has attracted more players to the game to a certain extent.
Because of this, in the past period of time, although Neople has been clamoring to ban plug-in users and use legal means to crack down on plug-in producers, these clamors are only louder than rain. Most of the banned plug-in users are automatically unblocked after two to three weeks.
After all, in today’s Korean game market, cheats are still a very new thing. Neople is not yet sure what impact the emergence of Dihuo cheats will have on the company’s own interests. Therefore, they Still waiting and watching, the announcement sent out is just a show.
At the same time, the reason why Neople issued such an announcement is because the Dihuo cheat is currently too popular. After entering mid-to-late August, the monthly paying users counted by Zhao Chenghao alone exceeded 200,000.
200,000 plug-in users, what is this concept? You must know that in the announcement released by Neople last month, the number of simultaneous online users of the game "Dungeon and Fighter" in South Korea has just exceeded 200,000.
In addition, the underground fire cheat is spreading faster in Japan. At present, there is even a trend of overtaking the number of users in South Korea.
So, An Rusong suspects that if Neople waits and waits for a while and determines that cheats will not have a big impact on the balance of the game, they may have to come up with cheats themselves. Just in case, An Rusong has already made a suggestion to Zhao Chenghao, asking him to find an opportunity to build a service station in the Philippines and transfer all related plug-in business there. By then, even if Neople Company really uses If they take legal measures, they don't have to worry about implicating themselves.
Zhao Chenghao readily accepted his suggestion.
Not to mention that the two parties have now begun comprehensive cooperation, even if there is no such relationship, Zhao Chenghao will not refuse this suggestion. You know, the current income from the Dihuo plug-in is so generous, it can continuously provide cash to Zhao Chenghao, and it can be regarded as a fat enough cash cow.
There were footsteps coming from far and near outside the corridor. An Rusong, who was browsing the post, didn't pay attention. It wasn't until the footsteps seemed to come through the door that he raised his head and saw Zhao Chenghao walking outside with his arm in a plaster. When he came in, behind him was a young man with the eyes of a deer-headed rat.
"Come in," Zhao Chenghao seemed to be very familiar with the young man. After he entered the door, he walked straight to An Rusong and sat down. When he saw that the young man did not follow him, he He greeted patiently, "This is Rusong, one of our own."
"Brother Rusong!" The young man was very knowledgeable. He took two quick steps and stood opposite the coffee table, walking towards An Rusong. He made a ninety-degree bow and said with a smile on his face.
"This is." An Rusong also stood up and bowed slightly in return. At the same time, he stretched out his hand towards the other party and looked at Zhao Chenghao and asked.
"Park Sang-hee, just call him Sang-hee," Zhao Chenghao introduced carelessly.
"Oh, hello," An Rusong shook hands with the other person, indicating that they knew each other.
"Brother Rusong, okay," Park Shangxi bowed his waist to shake hands with him, and then quickly asked him to take a seat and said, "Brother Rusong, sit down."
An Rusong He just thought that the other party was Zhao Chenghao's younger brother, so he didn't pay much attention to it. He bent over and sat back on the sofa, and was about to continue reading the post when he heard Zhao Chenghao say: "Shang Xi is mine. My friend, he is a seafarer in Ulsan, and he also does some head business.”
At this point, he patted the seat next to him and motioned for Park Sangxi to come and sit down: “Didn’t you say you wanted to hire someone before? Are there any Russians? Just ask him. He often deals with Russians. "
The so-called "running the sea" actually means smuggling. Don’t think that there are no smugglers in South Korea. On the contrary, there are many people in this business in the country.
As for "head", it means assisting people from abroad to sneak into South Korea.
This business was even officially supported in the past. Of course, it mainly assisted North Koreans to smuggle into South Korea. It was high-risk, but there were subsidies provided by the government and non-governmental organizations.
In the era before An Rusong was reborn, there were many "human smugglers" who helped people smuggle into South Korea. The police in South Korea mostly turned a blind eye to this because South Korea's population was declining rapidly. , its country needs this kind of extremely cheap foreign labor.
After listening to Zhao Chenghao's words, An Rusong was speechless. He turned and looked at the other party, then at Park Sangxi, and after a long while he said: "Brother Chenghao, what we need to hire is someone who is good at computers." People with outstanding abilities in the software field are so-called programmers , and he is a good programmer. It is almost impossible for such a person to appear on the list of stowaways."
"Ha!" Zhao Chenghao laughed, then pointed at An Rusong and said, “I didn’t expect that there are things that I don’t know how to do.”
"Brother Rusong," Park Sang-hee also added with a smile, "I don't know what programmers you are talking about, but if you want to recruit some Russians, then I might really be able to help."
"Oh?" An Rusong was puzzled.
“Wait a minute!” Zhao Chenghao stopped Park Sang-hee who was about to speak, “I must tell him this kind of thing, so shut up!”
Stop him Park Sang-hee and Cho Sung-ho said: "Rusong, don't you know that the Republic of Korea has a 90-day mutual visa-free agreement with Russia? As long as the procedures are complete, any Russian can come here without a visa and then go to other places from here.”
“Yes, so in recent years, many Russians have entered the country through various channels. Come here,” Park Sang-hee added, “and then go to Japan, Thailand, and Singapore from here.”
(End of this chapter)