Chapter 53 Neople's Warning
Chapter 53 Neople's Warning
In the living room of the Samsung Medical Center's ward, the TV was broadcasting a live broadcast of a South Korean special delegation arriving in Kabul and holding talks with Taliban representatives.
It has been nearly a week since the negotiations. The reason why the live broadcast of the talks was rebroadcast on TV news is that in the past two days, the incident of the Korean Bundang Spring Church members being kidnapped in Afghanistan has once again become the focus of attention in South Korea.
The reason for this is that a reporter suddenly revealed a piece of news that a week ago, when the South Korean special delegation went to Kabul, they brought a total of 7000 million US dollars, which was the ransom 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 delegation, but because they received a sufficiently generous ransom.
Once this news was exposed, it immediately caused an uproar in public opinion, and opinions on the Internet became polarized almost overnight.
Some people support the South Korean government's approach, believing that the safety of the hostages is the most important; others believe that this is a waste of taxpayers' money; and some have begun to condemn the Bundang Spring Water Church, believing that they are destroying local religious beliefs by arranging for their members to preach in Afghanistan.
There are all kinds of opinions, but the vast majority of people still do not approve of the government spending money to redeem people. They believe that such an approach not only wastes taxpayers' money, but also insults the national dignity of the Republic of Korea.
In front of the TV, An Rushong was sitting on the coffee table, looking at the laptop screen in front of him with relish. He was browsing the forum section of the Yahoo website, where there were more than a dozen red posts, most of which were about the hostage incident.
Compared to the reports on TV, the real comments from netizens on the Internet are more direct and heated. In the popular posts, many people directly asked the kidnapped people to die, and the curses were extremely harsh.
Of course, in addition to the posts about the hostage incident, there was one post among the popular posts that An Rushong was most concerned about.
That was a statement released by Neople, a famous Korean game company.
In this statement, Neople announced that it will be committed to combating illegal cheating, including permanently banning the accounts of cheating users and taking legal action to investigate the legal responsibilities of cheating developers. In addition, the game officials will regularly update the game's anti-cheating components, etc.
In a nutshell, Neople is ready to fight the plug-ins to the end.
This statement was released in the early hours of yesterday morning. Less than thirty hours have passed since then, and there are already nearly 170,000 comments under the post.
An Rusong took a quick look and found that most of the comments were cursing the game officials, that is, Neople. Some people said that Neople was meddling in other people's business; some people said that it could not control plug-ins, which led to an unfair gaming environment; some people said that they were blocked even though they did not use plug-ins, etc. It was very lively.
In fact, An Rushong had long known that Neople would not allow the plug-ins for "Dungeon & Fighter" to become so rampant, and the penalties for blocking plug-in users had long been made public.
But the real problem is that capital is all about making money, and Neople, as the official company of the game, naturally belongs to the category of capital. Therefore, when operating "DNF", Neople's first consideration is not whether the game is fair, but whether it can attract the largest number of players and make more money.
The biggest harm that cheating does to games is that it destroys the balance and fairness of the game. If the same cheating cheat appears in a competitive game, such as CS, its destructiveness to the game will be magnified because it will directly discourage a large number of players who do not use cheating and have better skills.
However, in the game "Dungeon & Fighter", the flooding of the underground fire plug-in has not been resisted by 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 levels, the emergence of this plug-in has attracted more players to the game to a certain extent.
Because of this, although Neople has been clamoring to ban plug-in users and use legal means to crack down on plug-in makers for some time, these clamors are just thunder and rain. Most of the plug-in users who were banned were automatically unblocked after two to three weeks.
After all, plug-ins are still a very new thing in today's Korean game market. Neople is not sure what impact the emergence of plug-ins will have on the company's own interests, so they are still waiting and watching. The announcement they issued is just a formality.
At the same time, the reason why Neople issued such an announcement is because the Dihuo plug-in is currently too popular. After entering mid-to-late August, the number of monthly paying users counted by Zhao Chenghao alone exceeded 20.
20 cheat users, what does this mean? You should know that in the announcement released by Neople last month, the number of concurrent online users of the game "Dungeon & Fighter" in South Korea had just exceeded 20.
In addition, the spread of the Dihuo plug-in in Japan is even faster, and at present, it has even shown a trend of surpassing the number of Korean users.
Therefore, An Rusong suspected that if Neople waited for a while and confirmed that the plug-in had little impact on the balance of the game, they might come up with plug-ins themselves. In order to be on the safe side, An Rusong had suggested to Zhao Chenghao that he should find an opportunity to build a service station in the Philippines and transfer all the plug-in business there. At that time, even if Neople really took legal action, they would not have to worry about being implicated.
Zhao Chenghao readily accepted his suggestion.
Not to mention that the two sides have already started comprehensive cooperation, even if there is no such relationship, Zhao Chenghao will not refuse this suggestion. You know, the current income of the Earth Fire plug-in is too lucrative, it can continuously provide Zhao Chenghao with cash, which is a fat enough cash cow.
There were footsteps coming from far away outside the corridor. An Rushong, who was browsing the posts, didn't pay much attention to it until the footsteps seemed to enter the door. He looked up and saw Zhao Chenghao with a plaster arm walking in from outside. Behind him, there was a young man with a rat-like face.
"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 in, he greeted him impatiently, "This is Rusong, one of us."
"Brother Rushong!" The young man was very good at dealing with things. He took two quick steps, stood opposite the coffee table, bowed 90 degrees to An Rushong, and said with a smile on his face.
"This is." An Rushong also stood up, bowed slightly in return, and at the same time extended his hand to the other party while looking at Zhao Chenghao and asked.
"Park Sangxi, you can just call him Shangxi," Zhao Chenghao introduced casually.
"Oh, hello," An Rushong shook hands with the other person, and they knew each other.
"Brother Rusong, hello," Park Sang-hee bowed and shook hands with him, then quickly invited him to take a seat, saying, "Brother Rusong, please sit down."
An Rusong thought the other person was just Zhao Chenghao's younger brother, so he didn't pay much attention to it. He bent down and sat back on the sofa. Just as he was about to continue reading the post, he heard Zhao Chenghao say, "Shang Xi is my friend. He is a seaman in Ulsan and usually does some head business."
At this point, he patted the seat next to him and motioned for Park Sang-hee to sit over there: "Didn't you say before that you wanted to hire some Russians? Just ask him, he often deals with Russians."
The so-called "running across the sea" actually means smuggling. Don't think that there are no smugglers in South Korea. On the contrary, there are many people in the country who make a living from this business.
As for the "human head", it means assisting in smuggling, assisting people from foreign countries to smuggle into South Korea.
This business was even officially supported in the past. Of course, it mainly helped North Koreans to smuggle into South Korea, which was high-risk, but it was subsidized by the government and non-governmental organizations.
In the years before An Rushong was reborn, there were many "human traffickers" who helped people smuggle into South Korea. The South Korean police mostly turned a blind eye to this because South Korea's population was declining rapidly and the country needed this extremely cheap foreign labor.
After hearing what Zhao Chenghao said, An Rusong was a little speechless. He turned his head to look at him, then looked at Park Sangxi, and said after a while: "Brother Chenghao, what we need to hire is someone who has outstanding abilities in the field of computer software, a so-called programmer, and a good programmer. Such a person is unlikely to appear on the list of stowaways."
"Ha!" Zhao Chenghao laughed loudly, then pointed at An Rushong and said, "I didn't expect there are things you don't understand."
"Brother Rusong," Park Sang-hee also interrupted with a smile, "I don't know what you mean by programmers, but if you want to recruit some Russians, then maybe I can really help."
"Oh?" An Rushong was puzzled.
"Wait a minute!" Zhao Chenghao stopped Park Sangxi who was about to speak, "I have to tell him about this, so shut up!"
After stopping Park Sang-hee, Zhao Chenghao said, "Rusong, don't you know that our Republic of Korea has signed a 90-day 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 through various channels,” Park Sang-hee added, “and then went from here to Japan, Thailand, and Singapore.”
(End of this chapter)