Villain’s Programming - Chapter 287
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Episode 287: It was a huge hit
Yang Ha-seong said with an expression that said he could not believe it.
“A hundred… a million.”
Dojun answered with a bright smile.
“A million in China alone. Wow, it really is China.”
“Sir, this doesn’t make sense. How can a million people access the game in a country where it’s not even sold?”
“Well, that’s because people in China play Dogma Warriors, right?”
Yang Ha-seong asked, beating his chest as if he was frustrated.
“Didn’t you release it?”
“There’s a way to play it even if it’s not released, right?”
Yang Ha-seong blinked and asked.
“Are you talking about illegal copying?”
“yes.”
“But it’s locked to prevent illegal copying?”
Dojun said, wagging his finger.
“China’s hacking technology is the best in the world. I thought they would be able to break through to this extent.”
“Well… Then shouldn’t we block access from China right away? If we continue like this, unlocked versions might be distributed all over the world.”
Dojun said, shaking his head.
“CTO, do you remember that? I told you not to block access from China.”
CTO Yang Ha-seong, who was thinking carefully about Do-jun’s words, asked with surprised eyes.
“Surely you did that on purpose? Did you know this would happen?”
“yes.”
“Can you please tell me why…?”
Do-jun answered while looking at the people in the ‘Black Cat’ studio looking at himself and Yang Ha-seong.
“To make ‘Gae-ma-musa’ the most popular game in China. This is the result. Of course, we have taken measures to prevent illegal copies from operating in other countries.”
“No, when did you do that?”
“Do you remember which SHIELD we use?”
“Ah! GUARD CAT’s GAME CAT!”
Although not a console version, the PC version was using GAME CAT by GUARD CAT as an ANTI-HACKING solution.
“Okay, for more details, please contact GUARD CAT ‘Annie’.”
After saying that, Dojun went into the CEO’s office and logged onto the ‘Chinese Community’ site.
‘It’s just as I thought.’
[Have you ever tried ‘Musa’? Haa, I can’t help but sigh. It’s so much fun.]
‘In China, the name ‘Gae-ma-mu-sa’ is censored, so Chinese gamers call it ‘Musa’.’
The word ‘musa’ is used in so many places that I couldn’t bring myself to designate it as a banned word.
Dojun started reading the posts and ‘comments’.
– Oh, I tried it and it was really fun.
– That’s right. They say the development of ‘Ssangryong’ has been discontinued, so when will China make a game like ‘Musa’?
– Chinese games are always like this. Soccer and games will never surpass Korea.
– Have you all tried ‘Prince Youngyo’? Isn’t that fun?
– LOL ripoff game. You know how the more famous it gets, the more embarrassing it gets?
– Honestly, I don’t think ‘Prince Youngyo’ is bad. I played the PC version and it was okay. But if you have time to do that… I recommend playing Musa. Because it’s more fun.
– But is that true? The will of King Taejong of Tang. He said not to touch Goguryeo? Is that a lie?
– Shh. Don’t say things like that. You might get caught.
Dojun smiled brightly after reading the comment. It was because the ‘Chinese gamers’ were moving as he wanted.
‘I think the strategy of bringing the flow of the PC version of Prince Youngyo to Gaemamusa worked well.’
In fact, this was a nearly impossible operation. It was impossible to sell Gaemamusa to China, but Gaemamusa had to defeat ‘Wangjayeongyo’.
‘But this community gave me a solution.’
There were a lot of torrent game files being shared in the gaming community. 2012 was a time when illegal file sharing was still prevalent in Korea.
If Korea was like that, then China was no exception. It was a time when paying for genuine products felt like foolishness.
Dojun had an idea. Dojun had no intention of making money as a ‘dog groomer’ in China anyway.
‘Since it has come to this, I thought it would be better to distribute it on a larger scale in China.’
As Dojun had thought, the PC version of ‘Gae-ma-musa’ was distributed all over the world, and the next day, an illegal version was released in ‘China’.
Dojun immediately looked into the reactions of users in the community.
‘Most people said it was fun, but they didn’t know what it was saying because it didn’t support Chinese. That’s why it wasn’t downloaded very often.’
Dojun thought, this is it. Dojun immediately contacted Minmay and told her to translate ‘Gae-ma-musa’ into Chinese and distribute it secretly.
And the results were right before our eyes.
[‘Prince Youngyo’ Sales Report]
[30% decrease compared to the previous week]
Sales actually decreased compared to before the PC version was released.
Dojun clenched his fists in a good mood, but at the same time he felt worried. He thought that maybe his fate had changed again because of this.
“Morning Star, how about the black tree?”
“okay?”
I was worried that there might be changes to ‘Black Tree’ due to the decline in sales of Prince Youngyo, but my worries were unfounded.
‘What is the reason? Isn’t this also different from the original fate? Could it be because there was no Prince Yeongyo in 2012?’
He thought about it, but he couldn’t figure out the exact reason. However, Dojun felt that he needed to check the ‘range’ of how far he could move.
“Whew. Let me think about this slowly.”
Dojun got up from his seat. It was because he heard that an important guest had arrived.
Dojun opened the door to the CEO’s office and approached the person who was coming in and hugged him.
“Director Miyazaki, welcome!”
* * *
“Congratulations, sir.”
Dojun laughed heartily at Miyazaki’s words.
“Why should I be the only one congratulating you? Congratulations to Director Miyazaki too.”
The success of Gaemamusa was also a great event for FromSoft in Japan. This was because Gaemamusa’s general producer was Hidetaka Miyazaki, and it was a joint production with FromSoft.
Dojun paid 30% of the ‘net profit’ he earned from ‘Gaemamusa’ to ‘From Soft’. Miyazaki distributed 20% of that money to his employees as incentives.
Naturally, FromSoft was in an uproar.
– I guess this project was truly blessed.
– It wasn’t the project that was blessed, but FromSoft. Don’t you remember? During the Fukushima earthquake, our employees and their families were all safe thanks to the workshop, right?
– They say it’s all because of Chairman Hwang Do-jun. Do you know that the real owner of our company is Hwang Do-jun? They say that he also forced the workshop.
– Oh! I heard that story too. At first, I thought it was weird because the major shareholder was Korean, but after watching him, I realized he was an amazing person. He even had his wedding at the White House, right?
The success of Gaemamusa gave FromSoft employees a sense of pride in the company and a sense of accomplishment for the game’s success.
Naturally, loyalty to the company also increased.
Miyazaki, who had told Dojun about the Fromsoft story, asked him casually.
“Oh, sir. I heard that ‘Dotop Electric’ was a huge hit in China?”
“Oh, did you hear that?”
“Yes. As far as I know, I heard that he made as much money as a dog groomer… … .”
Dojun answered, scratching the back of his head.
“Where is that my money? It’s JM-SOFT’s money. And JM-SOFT’s largest shareholder is CEO Minmay.”
“Haha. I know. But I met with CEO Minmay last time, and she didn’t seem to think so. And there was a rumor that JM-SOFT was going public?”
JM-SOFT has achieved tremendous growth every year since its establishment. It is now considered one of the top three IT companies in China, along with Baidu and Alibaba.
“Yes. That’s why Minmay was already worried. Should I list on the NASDAQ in the US or in Hong Kong?”
“Oh, wherever you go, you’ll make a ton of money.”
There has been a lot of talk about JM-SOFT’s market cap, but it is believed to be at least 50 trillion.
“As you know, I have a lot of debt.”
“Hahaha. Are you talking about the money I borrowed for Apple stocks? Oh, the world is so unfair. I want to take on that kind of debt. Sir, Apple’s stock price has gone up several times since then. If I had known it would be like this, I would have invested in Apple back then.”
That was right. After the success of the iPhone 4S and Siri, Apple was making huge sales and earning more money than it had in its previous life.
Compared to that profit, the ‘light’ that Do-jun gave off was now nothing.
“Haha. It’s not too late now. If you buy Apple stocks, they will definitely go up. Buy them thinking you’ll hold them for 10 years. They’ll probably go up 10 times.”
Miyazaki’s eyes lit up at Dojun’s words.
“Thank you for the good information. Well then… please look at this with those eyes.”
Miyazaki took a document out of his bag and handed it to Dojun.
“What is this?”
“I would like to create a new game with the experience I gained while developing Gaemamusa.”
When Dojun opened the document, the name of the game was written in front of it.
‘oh my god!’
Miyazaki said in a confident voice.
“Dark Souls. I plan to make it into a trilogy.”
* * *
Dojun thought back to his meeting with Miyazaki a week ago while going to work.
‘Dark Souls! Finally! Can I see a true Souls-style game?’
Do-jun shouted as soon as he saw the ‘Dark Soul’ plan.
“I will give you all the support you need. Please complete this game.”
Miyazaki returned to Japan with a moved expression.
‘By the way, back then I was so excited that I told you to do it no matter what. Is that okay? Isn’t this something that changes fate?’
“Morning star.”
“Are you okay there?”
After Morning Star leveled up, the world she lived in became larger. In addition, creatures that had not been there before appeared, and birds were one of the representative examples.
“Really? What about Copycat?”
Dojun chuckled.
‘Copycats live there now.’
It wasn’t bad. I was always a copycat who would sit by the monitor and act like I had seen everything in the world, but in ‘The World of the Morning Star’, I felt like I was wandering around and living.
‘Just call me when you need me.’
Dojun told the real reason he called Saetbyeol.
“Morning Star, how about the black tree?”
“There are no noticeable changes?”
Dojun’s eyes lit up after hearing Saetbyeol’s answer.
‘There’s no change even though Dark Souls is in development? Is it really okay for other people to change fate, not me?’
Dojun went straight into the office.
“good morning.”
Dojun entered the CEO’s office after being greeted by the employees.
Dojun immediately entered the Chinese community.
[The ‘Gae-ma-musa’ Problem, Is This Okay?]
[We must prevent illegal copying.]
[The numerous ‘Gae-ma-musa’ videos uploaded on YouTube are giving young people a wrong perception of history.]
Dojun has been closely observing the ‘Chinese community’ for some time now.
‘If things continue like this, YouTube will be blocked soon. Well… even if it’s blocked now, it’ll be later than in my previous life.’
In the previous life, China had ‘search term censorship and control’. Naturally, ‘Google’ opposed this, but it could not defeat the Communist Party.
Eventually, Google withdrew all of its businesses, including search and YouTube, from China in 2010.
‘This life, I haven’t been censored that much because of you. The reason is probably… the Lehman Brothers incident, right?’
The Lehman Brothers crisis had a huge impact on the Chinese economy. The Chinese government had no time to focus on anything else while trying to deal with the impact.
‘But now that the Lehman Brothers crisis has more or less settled down, they’ll start censoring again like they always did. And the Gaemamusa is just a good excuse.’
Dojun immediately contacted Larry Page and told him to prepare for the imminent censorship by the Chinese government.
‘The problem is… after YouTube disappeared from China.’
The video market, including YouTube, was a market with enormous value.
‘It’s okay if I don’t capture this market, but if I leave it like this, there’s a high chance that Baeksent will dominate this market.’
Dojun thought back to the Chinese ‘video’ companies that had been famous in his past life.
‘The problem is that if I move now, more pieces of fate will appear and the black tree may grow bigger.’
Dojun thought deeply and then thought of ‘Dark Soul’.
‘It was okay for Miyazaki to move. Then, isn’t there a way for someone other than me to take over this market? And someone very close to me?’
There was just the right person. A trustworthy and capable Chinese man.
‘Minmay!’
The problem was how to get Minmay into the ‘video’ market without interfering with it.
Dojun thought about it for a moment and then contacted Minmay.
“Minmay. By any chance, could you please tell me about the Chinese censorship situation through your father?”
* * *
Dojun entered a large building on Teheran-ro and went up to the 12th floor.
[Fun Gate]
Dojun chuckled.
‘Have you moved for the third time already?’
Thanks to Cross Warrior, ‘Fun Gate’ has grown so much that the company has moved almost every year.
‘Now we have over 200 employees.’
When Do-jun entered the ‘Fun Gate’, many people welcomed him.
“No. Who is this? Aren’t you the major shareholder of our company?”
Jaemi Gate representative Jeon Yun-hyeok greeted Do-jun by hugging him.
“Senior, how have you been?”
“I’ve been doing well, except for the fact that I’ve been bored since you don’t come here often.”
Jeon Yun-hyeok looked completely different than before. He looked neat and sophisticated, like the CEO of a company with sales of 500 billion won.
It wasn’t just Jeon Yun-hyeok. The developers who developed ‘Cross Warrior’ with Do-jun were now executives of the company and welcomed Do-jun.
Dojun shook hands with each of them and then entered the president’s office.
“Fight!”
Minmay was there. Dojun shouted in surprise.
“Minmay! What are you doing here?”
The answer was given by Jeon Yun-hyeok.
“Well, I came to see you because I’m the publisher. My contract with Cross Warrior has ended, so I need to renew it.”
Dojun looked at Jeon Yunhyeok and Minmay. The two were laughing happily.
‘Originally, the atmosphere should not be good when renewing a contract, but it’s not like that for these two.’
It couldn’t be otherwise. Just a few years ago, Minmay was working with Jeon Yunhyeok’s company to develop ‘Cross Warrior’.
Jeon Yun-hyeok also had no intention of leaving it to anyone other than Minmay, and Minmay only wished for the success of ‘Cross Warrior’.
In addition, there was ‘Do-jun’ between the two. In fact, there was no reason for noise since Do-jun was the major shareholder of both companies.
Minmay and Jeon Yunhyeok immediately signed the contract renewal documents.
“I just came to find out, I didn’t know it was this kind of day.”
Minmay smiled at Dojun’s words.
“That’s fate. Hey, by the way, I’m so pissed.”
“why?”
“I was going to show up all of a sudden and surprise you… … .”
“Okay. I’ve been surprised enough already.”
Minmay said with a smile, crossing her arms.
“Okay. There’s still one thing that’ll really surprise you.”
“Anything to surprise me?”
Minmay said with a grin.
“Fight. What you told me last time. Wasn’t it a test?”
“What test… … ?”
“The Chinese censorship control situation. Well, I also found out about it through my father and was surprised. And I thought deeply about why Sabu said that.”
Dojun pretended not to know anything about Minmay’s words.
“I have no idea what you are talking about?”
Minmay raised the corners of her lips and placed a document on the desk.
“Really? Then, should I cancel this?”
Dojun was surprised when he saw the document Minmay uploaded.
‘What? A contract for the takeover of Biri Biri?’
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