Chapter 404: On Being Scammed for Playing Online Games 28

A 13-year-old boy, addicted to the game "Tower of God", swiped his parents' credit card for a total of 50,000 yuan. It is reported that the family is in financial difficulty and 50,000 yuan is all the family's savings...

A 27-year-old white-collar worker, addicted to the card-drawing game "God Messenger", recharged tens of thousands in just a few days, maxed out his credit card, and had no money to eat, and fainted in the street...

A 6-year-old child, addicted to the game "Tower of God", did not want to go to school...

In just a few days, several games under Star Superman were trending on the search due to negative news, and attracted the attention of many netizens.

Many experts and scholars have begun to deeply analyze the harm of mobile games and have given many suggestions.

Many parents left messages, believing that games are the source of evil and a spiritual poison that harms children.

Games need to be banned, and it would be best if they were directly prohibited.

Public opinion showed a one-sided trend, and the Starman Company seemed to be a wall that everyone pushed down, and everyone could step on it to express their dissatisfaction.

The best way to deal with conspiracy and trickery is to be open.

Jiang Lan directly held a press conference and accepted interviews from all walks of life.

There were a large number of reporters on the day of the press conference. In addition to some well-known media, some reporters from small channels also sneaked in.

As expected, there were many reporters who were bribed by Shengshi and other game companies lurking there, and Jiang Lan could only deal with them as they came.

"Hello, Mr. Jiang! I'm a reporter from Southern Media Group. What do you think about the impact of mobile games on teenagers?"

Jiang Lan cleared his throat and held the microphone to a suitable position.

"Many years ago, television was also called poison that affects teenagers."

Jiang Lan paused and continued, "When I was in junior high school, my parents also called computers poison. Times are progressing, and poison may not necessarily be poison." "

Hello, Mr. Jiang! I am a reporter from Xigua Entertainment. What do you think about the problem of elementary school students spending all their family savings playing games designed by your company?"

Jiang Lan smiled, "What do I think? Of course I think it's normal."

"First of all, Starman Company has returned all the money to the other party and locked all their related mobile phone numbers. From now on, this child will no longer be able to continue playing any games under our company's name until he reaches adulthood. The block can be unblocked."

After Jiang Lan finished speaking, the reporter began to ask again.

"Mr. Jiang, do you think that competing with each other in recharging games is a bad guide for teenagers?"

"I don't think teenagers are that fragile. They basically have the ability to think independently and know what to do and what not to do."

"Mr. Jiang, please answer my question directly, thank you!"

Jiang Lan glanced at the reporter who was asking the question, and basically confirmed that this guy was one of the bribed ones.

"I think there is nothing wrong with teamwork, mastering skills, and including some values. If you have to compare, I think comparing skills is much more powerful than comparing krypton gold."

After Jiang Lan successfully handled this question, other questions followed.

"Mr. Jiang, card-drawing games are highly addictive. What do you want to say to these players who recharge their accounts?"

"Games are just games. Players should focus on reality and live a good life first before satisfying their hobbies."

Jiang Lan looked around and asked, "Any other questions?"

"Mr. Jiang, your explanations are all evasive. Don't you have anything to say about the topics that parents are most concerned about?"

Jiang Lan was also amused. You asked the boss of a game company about the problem that parents are dissatisfied with the game. Are you kidding me?

"Reporter, what do you think I should say?"

"Mr. Jiang, don't be angry. I'm just speaking on behalf of the parents. Because mobile games do affect the health of young people, I know you are a civic-minded entrepreneur and I believe you can understand the parents' painstaking efforts."

Jiang Lan turned around, picked up a stack of documents from the table and showed them to everyone.

"Dear journalists, this is a charity project I have used 70% of the profits from my business in the past few years. It includes public elementary schools, women's assistance, and child aid."

Jiang Lan put down the documents and said loudly, "Don't talk to me about social responsibility. I, Jiang Lan, have stronger social responsibility than 99% of people. Who among you can donate 70% of your income, and then talk to me about this topic."

The female reporter still asked relentlessly, "Mr. Jiang, donating money is a good deed, but the adverse effects of games still exist."

"Then should I close the business right here? Only by letting so many employees go hungry with me can you satisfy your idea?"

Jiang Lan raised his voice. "All games under Star Man Company have the function of setting up a blacklist. If teenagers have inappropriate gaming behavior, they can all contact customer service to resolve it." Jiang Lan

stared at the reporter in front of him and said word by word: "I don't care who asked you to sabotage me. I, Jiang Lan, am upright and fearless."

"By the way, you are from Coffee Entertainment, right? From now on, I and all the games under my name refuse to cooperate with Coffee Entertainment."

The female reporter looked flustered. "Mr. Jiang, this is not right."

Jiang Lan ignored her and went straight to the point.

"The answers to the questions related to today's press conference are just an appetizer. Now I will bring the real main course. Starman is about to launch an online game with virtual reality technology..."

As Jiang Lan spoke, the lights at the press conference dimmed instantly.

A huge screen appeared behind her, showing the concept drawings of various products.

"This is to use computers to generate interactive three-dimensional dynamic scenes, and create a virtual information environment in multi-dimensional information space. That is, we can really feel the world in the game and really enter the world of the game..."

Thanks to Shengshi Group and its competitors, who spent a huge amount of money to buy water troops for Starman to find hot searches, the press conference for solving problems turned into a product launch conference in seconds. Killing two birds

with one stone, not only can it solve the problem, but it can also preheat the product.

It attracted such a large amount of traffic, and it was worth it for her to argue with these messy reporters for so long.

There is no way, people are very vulgar and like to watch melodramatic quarrels.

Without Jiang Lan's previous foundation, the content behind would not have attracted much attention

. The reporters at the scene were also confused. The plot in their minds was not like this.

Especially the reporters who came with a mission. They had a lot of things to say, just waiting to escalate the situation and mess up the press conference.

What is the situation now? How did it become a product press conference?

Then should they continue with the following things?

If they continue, it seems a bit out of place.

If they don't do it, how will they report to the boss later?

This Jiang Lan, why is he so unconventional!