Rex is an avid fan of video games. In the past, he could only play by himself. After meeting a group of friends who like to play video games through the school's BBS, they would often hang out together.
After working, the time to get together and play video games became very rare.
Everyone has their own work to be busy with.
At this time, a friend first recommended him to play a game called "Angry Birds", "You can play two levels of this game when you are at work."
Rex initially played the installation package sent to him by his friend, which was a so-called pirated version.
Of course, this kind of online behavior is basically irresponsible.
After being exposed to it, Rex found that he couldn't play two levels at work because he would play all the time when he got home at night.
Especially suitable for playing while watching videos.
If he plays while at work, he will forget that he is still at work.
Fortunately, it's not too difficult, and I cleared all the levels in about two or three days.
It's just that there are a few levels that can't get a three-star rating.
Because he had a good impression of the game, when Riot Games later released the Christmas DLC, Rex purchased the genuine game through bank transfer.
At that time, the Riot Games community had already had a certain degree of discussion among game enthusiasts.
Buying the Christmas DLC will also give you a verification code, and that verification code can also be used to register a community account.
Rex didn't pay much attention at first and only went up to take a look occasionally.
Later, he discovered that the Riot Electronics community was fun and the users spoke nicely.
All kinds of imaginative discussions are endless, and there are also big guys who make fan games.
Take "Angry Birds" as an example. There is a big boss who uses this background to make his own levels and then gives them to everyone to play for free.
(The concept of fan games can be traced back to the MSX architecture jointly released by Microsoft and ASCII in 1983.
Like Comic Market, Neon’s semi-annual fan convention, focusing on fan books and fan games, has been open since December 1975. )
There is also StarCraft 1. Blizzard also set up a map editor function for it, but in terms of use, it is far less convenient than the map editor of Warcraft.
That is to say, the threshold for using the map editor of StarCraft 1 is too high.
But there are many great masters in the electronics community who can't stand it. There are always masters who know how to use this thing. In StarCraft, maps edited by oneself are often released.
Then he added an exaggerated title: "If the human race can beat the protoss on this map, I will eat the monitor on the spot."
Later, Rex would watch the Riot Electronics Community every day before playing games or doing other things.
The Riot Electronics community has almost become a part of his spare time.
When he got home from get off work as usual, Rex turned on his computer and entered a familiar website address.
First, go to the Angry Birds section to see if any of the big guys have made new maps.
I only saw one post pinned to the top:
"Shameless Yahoo!, its own gaming community has no interesting content, it only copies content from our community."
Then there are a large number of screenshots, which also have timestamps and special annotations for grammatical errors.
Grammatical errors are the most obvious manifestation. The other party's plagiarism has no gold content at all. It is a complete copy and paste.
"Yahoo! There is no lower limit. As long as there are more than 50 replies to a post on Riot Electronics Community, they will plagiarize it to their own community.
This is not only an infringement of the Riot Electronics community, but also a shameless plagiarism of our users’ creations!
...
We chose to sue Yahoo and take legal measures to safeguard the interests of the community and our users. "
Rex immediately became angry after reading it carefully, mainly because he had seen many of the posts and even replied to them.
The evidence provided by Riot Electronics Community is also very convincing, and it is obvious that the transfer was organized.
Because they are all posted by the same person.
If it was a spontaneous act, at least the poster’s account would be changed.
Rex originally had a Yahoo Game Community account, but after registering, the content on the Yahoo Game Community was far less interesting than the Riot Electronics Community.
So he didn't use it much.
After reading Riot's official statement, he immediately ran to the Yahoo gaming community and moved the post intact.
Just a change in the title: "Shocking! Yahoo! The latest invention in gaming will benefit all users!"
Rex learned a lesson before posting and knew that if he directly reflected Yahoo plagiarism in the title, the post would be deleted.
After being in the Riot electronics community for a long time, he also learned how to use clickbait.
The post quickly exceeded 100 replies and became the most popular section in the entire forum.
“Yahoo actually did such a thing!”
"This is too shameless."
"No wonder I thought this content was much more interesting these days, but it turned out to be plagiarism!"
“I’m ashamed of Yahoo!”
"As an Internet company, they go against the spirit of innovation."
"The brother upstairs is right. He is not cool anymore, or he has stopped being cool since the day he went public."
Users on the Yahoo Gaming community viewed the news largely negatively.
Yahoo does not and will not PUA its own users, so it will not let users speak for him even when he clearly did something wrong.
Yahoo doesn't have this ability. In the future, the big PUA manufacturers will probably be pig factories. Playing games is like working part-time, and they still pay to work in pig factories.
Rex saw that his reply had such a big response in the Yahoo gaming community, so he ran back to the Riot Games community and posted a post.
The following responses are all:
"We should bring our friends from the Yahoo gaming community over."
"Since they recognize the bad behavior of Yahoo's gaming community, they should not use Yahoo's products."
There are trolls from Riot Games, and there are also users who think so spontaneously.
Public opinion fermented quickly, and comments on this matter could be seen in almost all online forums that day.
After the incident, Zhou Xin greeted Bill Gates and asked him to help contact some media resources. The next day, he published a column on the matter and condemned Yahoo.
Zhou Xin wanted to build a comprehensive momentum to encircle and suppress Yahoo's behavioral public opinion field.
The bigger role is to promote the Riot electronic community and make users who don’t know Riot have similar feelings: How much fun would it be to have an online forum that even Yahoo plagiarized?
“The user who copied Riot Electronics Community content is suspected to be an official member of Yahoo Gaming Community”
This post is the second time Riot Games has posted about this matter on its forum.
After the matter fermented on the Internet across the United States, a small number of people believed that this was a spontaneous act by users.
How do you judge that this is Yahoo's official behavior?
A small number of Yahoo fans defended Yahoo in this way, including a few similar remarks in the Riot Electronics community.
Fortunately, Riot Games has been prepared for this.
