"Li Xuan." Qi Boyuan pushed the door open hastily, "Something happened."
Li Xuan was writing the code for "Reverse Track" and looked up when he heard this: "What's wrong?"
Qi Boyuan looked extremely upset: "All the major app stores we used have removed Yi Yu from their shelves."
"Take it off the shelves?!"
Li Xuan subconsciously glanced at his watch. It had been less than ten hours since "One Corner" was released last night. "What's the reason?"
"The production team of Nothingness Island reported it for plagiarism." Qi Boyuan felt like he was talking in his sleep and handed over his phone. "The negotiation records between me and the application platform, as well as the plagiarism evidence they received, this is from one of them, the others are almost the same, take a look."
Li Xuan took it with a livid face. At 7:17 this morning, the download volume of the new version of "Yi Yu" had just reached a small peak, and the App Store received a report of infringement.
The app store was accused of plagiarizing the thousand-year-old treasure tree in the 1.3.1 version of the game "Nothingness Island" last week, and attached comparison pictures, asking the app store to remove it from the shelves. Just looking at the pictures, they are indeed exactly the same.
"This is really crazy, the fake is suing the real one! I sent them so many letters to report "Nothingness Island", and every time they replied that there was no substantial similarity with me, and did nothing at all. Now they have removed us from the shelves..."
These software malls are also not willing to work without profit. Generally, they will not take any report of plagiarism until the court makes a ruling. This time, they responded within a few hours. Qi Boyuan also knew who was behind the scenes. He pounded the table in frustration and lowered his voice at the end.
"What's the matter with plagiarism?" Li Xuan asked. He remembered the building of Manshu Dongxue, but he couldn't personally monitor every update of Void Island. "Are you sure they are the same?"
"Yes..." Qi Boyuan gritted his teeth, "I just contacted the software store to ask for verification. There is a hidden map in the update of "Nothingness Island" last week. The player needs to reach level 50 and have 10 million gold coins to open it. The thousand-year-old treasure tree is in that hidden map... The conditions are very high, and no real player should be able to meet them. I judge that they probably took screenshots with an internal account after the update last week and posted them in the game forum. There were no keywords, so they sank quickly and no one noticed it. Now they are digging it out as evidence... Moreover, the channel package they submitted can indeed prove that... Li Xuan, this is a trap..."
"I still don't understand this is a setup? Art resources are the easiest to be identified as plagiarized." Li Xuan sneered, "So now it's a broad daylight event, and our artists' brains are connected to theirs, and we can draw the same thing?"
Qi Boyuan also knew that there must be a traitor in this situation: "I have asked them to investigate."
"Who should check? Tell the art team to come in and see me immediately."
The news that "Yi Yu" was removed from the shelves had spread throughout the company, and everyone was in a panic. Several art directors' faces turned pale when they came in.
"Speak, one by one. Do you need to wait for me to ask?" Li Xuan suppressed his anger, "Who drew this?"
"I..." The thin boy in the middle raised his hand. He was taciturn, but his skills were good. Chu Tianheng always spoke highly of him. "I drew it, Brother Xuan... But, it's not my Brother Xuan, it's really not..."
"What do you mean? Why are you shaking? Hold it back! Stop talking nonsense here! I haven't done anything to you yet, but you are such a loser that you deserve to be hung on the wall." Li Xuan pointed at him, "Where's Chu Tianheng? If you can't explain clearly, let him speak."
"The team leader went to find Wang Tian..." The boy was obviously frightened. He couldn't speak clearly and sobbed. "At that time, the planner suggested adding this. It also matches the theme of our winter update. I drew a few versions, but he always found faults. Later, he made a sample for me and said it was his idea... Brother Xuan, this is the schematic he gave me."
While handing over the chat records, he explained to Li Xuan, "He said it was his own idea... Wang Tian has some artistic skills and likes to show off. This is not the first time. The team leader knows about it. You can ask him later. As soon as the incident happened today, the team leader went to find Wang Tian..."
"Wang Tian didn't come?" Li Xuan lowered his eyes and glanced.
“No.”
"Okay, stop crying. You're giving me a headache." Li Xuan thought for two seconds. "Arrange the operation department to issue a notice to explain the delisting. No matter whether it's 'Void Island' or the software platform, they are not innocent. Now they definitely don't dare to jump out and say that we were delisted because of plagiarism. Go and make up some other excuse to make it sound better... The official website and WeChat public account can still be downloaded normally, right? Remove it from the shelves immediately for rectification. It will be back online within an hour after the rectification is completed... Okay, get out. I'll talk about your handling later."
"Brother Xuan..." Such a big thing happened, and the boy was really panicked. He had never had such a big mistake since he started working. He didn't dare to move after hearing what Li Xuan said, and the other artists had no choice but to follow him.
"Alright, alright. I'll edit the notice, you guys go ahead and do your work, hurry up and revise it." Qi Boyuan pressed his eyebrows, pushed the man out, and closed the door. "I'll call Chu Tianheng and ask him to go back to the company first. We should call the police to handle Wang Tian's case..."
He was worried again: "Will it be useful to call the police? He didn't bite him to death on purpose. It's hard to say whether the case will be accepted or not. At best, he will be asked to pay compensation..." He angrily cursed: "What a useless piece of shit. He looks like a decent person... I don't know how much benefit your adoptive father gave him..."
"Call the police first. No matter how it's handled, action must be taken."
Li Xuan sat back at his desk with a cold face. "After the rectification is completed, you should immediately go and talk to the platform. The entire platform must be back online in three days at most. They must have taken advantage of it and can't stand up straight... If it doesn't work, after getting the police receipt, make a big fuss about it. We won't suffer any loss in public opinion. Yuanxin is shameless. The platform can't just do business this time."
"That Wang Tian should have been fired long ago! I remember you criticized him in the last meeting. For the losses in the past few days, he should at least..."
"Forget it, go write the announcement!" Li Xuan frowned.
Qi Boyuan sighed, turned around and was about to go out when his and Li Xuan's cell phones rang at the same time.
"Why is 'Nothingness Island' suddenly updated at this time? There wasn't even an update announcement."
Qi Boyuan was stunned, standing by the door and muttering to himself as he opened it. He had originally just clicked a few times casually, but his expression gradually became serious and then incredulous.
"This..." He swallowed and subconsciously looked at Li Xuan, whose face was ashen. He knew that Li Xuan must have discovered it as well.
Of course, he should be the one who can see the problem most easily.
"Void Island" updated seven city maps at one time. From the city layout, most of the new gameplay, and even the props functions, they are extremely familiar.
All of these contents, gameplay, and even rules were planned and laid out in a rough framework before Li Xuan started working on "Against the Tracks", in preparation for the gradual update of "One Corner" in the next six months to a year.
Except for the art resources, everything else is exactly the same.