After thinking about it all afternoon, Little Ma suddenly slammed his hand on the table.
"Got it!"
Pony Ma immediately called over the person in charge of the QQ live streaming platform.
"Mr. Ma, you wanted to see me."
"Zhang Wei, you've been with the company for quite a while now, haven't you?"
"Yes, Mr. Ma, I've been with the company for over ten years."
"Well, you're a veteran employee. I'm entrusting you with the QQ Live platform this time because I trust you. I hope you can live up to my expectations."
"Understood, Mr. Ma. I will definitely find a way to break the ice as soon as possible!"
"I have an idea here, see if it works. When we first started the QQ live streaming platform, it was mainly for the game League of Legends, right?"
"That's right, Mr. Ma, we're here to reclaim the right to speak about League of Legends live streaming."
"Hmm, so what do the audience like to watch?"
"Viewers definitely want to watch streamers who are both skilled and entertaining."
"That's right. So if we change the odds of the matchups so that the streamers on Panda TV lose every game while the streamers on our QQ Live platform win every game, and even if necessary, ban some of the best League of Legends streamers on Panda TV for a few days, how would the viewers choose?"
"Oh... Mr. Ma, won't this affect the fairness of the game?"
"We only reasonably suspect those players of using cheats. After checking and finding no problems, we will naturally unban them. How does this affect the fairness of the game?"
Zhang Wei's eyes darted around.
Yes, what does this have to do with the fairness of the game? Besides, I'm just a streamer on the QQ live streaming platform. How the game is operated has nothing to do with me.
Besides, this was Mr. Ma's idea himself, how could we refuse it? That would just be asking for trouble.
"Okay, Mr. Ma, I understand. I will cooperate fully."
However, when Pony Ma told the operations director of League of Legends about the plan, he was met with strong opposition.
"Mr. Ma, you absolutely mustn't! Fairness is the foundation of competitive games like this. If the fairness of the game is compromised, the game will soon be doomed."
"How could it affect the fairness of the game? It's just a modification to a few individual game accounts; it won't affect everyone."
"Mr. Ma, this kind of thing can't happen once. If it happens once, it will happen again. If the first account is modified, countless accounts will be modified afterward."
"No, I swear."
“Your oath is useless. I still stand by my point of view: this kind of thing cannot happen once. If you insist on carrying it out, I will resign from my position as the game director of League of Legends.”
Ma snorted coldly, "The company will keep running no matter who's gone."
"Threatening me? Then you can just leave. Tencent doesn't need an employee like you who doesn't follow orders."
"Hmph! Stubborn fool!"
After saying this, the League of Legends game director slammed the door and left.
Next, Pony Ma personally took over as the game director of League of Legends and issued this order.
Soon after, PDD and others who were streaming League of Legends on Panda TV suddenly found their accounts banned.
This left them completely bewildered. What was going on?
Then they filed an appeal, and the response was given within three business days.
After waiting for three business days, Tencent's response was that the account was suspected of using third-party tools, so it would be banned for a week.
This infuriated PDD, who immediately launched into a tirade against Tencent in his livestream.
TX wasn't going to take this lying down either, and immediately sent PDD a lawyer's letter.
Upon receiving the lawyer's letter, PDD panicked and rushed to find Lin Chen.
"Mr. Lin, help! TX is going to send me to jail!"
"What's going on?"
PDD told Lin Chen about what had recently happened.
Lin Chen felt increasingly uneasy; there was clearly something fishy going on.
So Lin Chen picked up the phone and called the people at Riot Games.
"Please check these accounts for any unusual activity."
"Okay, Mr. Lin, I'll send it to your email in a bit."
As the largest shareholder of Riot Games, Lin Chen soon received an email from the company.
Lin Chen opened it and took a look. There was nothing wrong with it. Everything was operating normally, and there were no abnormalities.
Then, Lin Chen made another phone call.
"These accounts seem to have no problems, so why were they banned?"
"Mr. Lin, I just checked as well. These accounts were banned by the super administrators in the Chinese region. It's possible that Tencent did this without authorization."
"Then go and warn Tencent that if they continue to arbitrarily modify game content and affect the fairness of the game, then they should give up on this exclusive agency."
“Okay, Mr. Lin, I understand. Tencent really went too far this time. Fairness is the soul of this game. How could they do such a thing?”
Soon, Tencent received a warning email from Riot Games.
It is said that during the testing process, Riot Games discovered that several accounts were banned in the Chinese region without any apparent abnormalities. They demanded that Tencent immediately unban the accounts and provide a reasonable explanation, otherwise the exclusive distribution rights would be revoked.
When Pony Ma received the email, he was speechless. With so many players worldwide, how did Riot Games discover the issue with these accounts? Could it be...?
Little Ma suddenly remembered the former game director of "League of Legends" who had left the company. Could it be that he was the one who reported him?
Damn it, is this guy up to something? He's already quit and he's still pulling this stunt.
There was no other way; compared to dealing with Lin Chen, the exclusive distribution rights for "League of Legends" were undoubtedly more important.
Soon after, the official League of Legends account released an announcement stating that there had been network fluctuations that caused an error in the detection program, resulting in the wrong banning of several accounts. The accounts have now been unbanned, and the account holders have been compensated with 2,000 game coins.
PDD and his friends' accounts were unbanned, but when they saw the announcement, they started cursing again.
Two thousand game coins are useless. They're only worth about two hundred RMB. After being banned for so many days, all we big streamers can earn is two hundred RMB?
Aren't you being a little too insulting to us?
Netizens are curious: how much money do you streamers earn?
When the topic of income came up, PDD immediately changed the subject. This is something he avoids talking about with his fans, since everyone has moments when they feel unbalanced.
However, one of the streamers was so angry from cursing Tencent that he blurted out something.
"Who are you trying to fool with two hundred yuan? I make at least a hundred two-hundred-yuan sums a day during my live streams..."
However, as soon as he said it, he immediately realized he had misspoke, coughed, and changed the subject.
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