Chapter 123 Hacker Invasion
Early February, Tianba Community.
After a long investigation and evidence collection, Tianba Studio officially released a statement in the community regarding suspected match-fixing by some GAL professional players and club staff.
The statement mentioned that after investigation, it was confirmed that 7 players and staff were suspected of match-fixing, and three of the staff members had been transferred to relevant departments for handling due to serious circumstances.
The remaining four players will be punished with permanent bans...
Let’s not talk about the three staff members for now.
Among these four players, there is one who is very special. Although he was also banned, he was not killed by Tianba Studio. He can still broadcast "Star Emperor" live and comment on related competitions.
This was his "reward".
If he hadn't taken the initiative to report it, Chen Ba might not have been able to find the remaining few people. This could be considered as a meritorious service to atone for his sins, not as a result of which he would not be deprived of a chance to live.
The problem of match-fixing has been solved.
Although the problem has not been eradicated completely, in the short term, after this lesson and deterrence, the competition environment will be much cleaner.
But in addition to match-fixing, there is another problem that needs to be solved as soon as possible.
Match broadcasting rights! In order to expand its influence, the previous GAL League gave away match broadcasting rights for free.
But as the game becomes more and more popular and the number of viewers increases, it can no longer be given away for free and the broadcasting rights must be sold.
The country is thundering.
Although Pili and Pili are not as influential as Tigerfish and Dousha in terms of live broadcasting, they are rich. Dousha is so poor, how can they afford to buy the broadcasting rights?
Abroad, it’s still Twitch.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to these two platforms, you can also watch live broadcasts of GAL League games on the game client, Tianba official website and Tianba Community APP.
But the experience is much different...
Especially the Tianba Community APP, every time I watch the live broadcast, it is as stuck as PPT, the signal is extremely unstable, and the audio and picture are not synchronized.
“It’s time to upgrade the APP.”
Chen Ba sighed.
When we first made this APP, we didn't spend any money at all. We just outsourced it to someone else to make it, mainly for the convenience of players to browse the community forum anytime and anywhere.
As time goes by, it is indeed time to upgrade the Tianba Community APP.
This time we still outsourced it.
It's not that no one in the studio knows how to do this, it's just that no one is free to do it. Even if there is no development work on the game "Love Advisor", we still have to spend time porting the mobile version of "Shennong Continent".
That’s right!
"Divine Grace Continent" is going to have a mobile game.
Compared to the console version and PC version, the mobile version undoubtedly has a lot of streamlined content, and there is no so-called professional version.
Of course, the core gameplay is still there.
In the mobile version of "Land of Divine Grace", you can also lock your perspective on the NPC and follow the show like watching an anime.
However, the mobile game is in a worse situation. The original tens of thousands of NPCs have been reduced to more than a thousand, a decrease of 90%.
Moreover, these NPCs are distributed in different maps, with a maximum of dozens of NPCs on the same map.
"Why?"
Some players have raised questions, wondering if there are too few NPCs in the mobile version? Who would be happy if 90% of them were cut at once?
Chen Ba also gave an explanation for this.
The mobile version cannot handle so many NPCs appearing in the same scene. Taking the Royal Capital as an example, there are thousands of NPCs living in the Royal Capital in the PC version.
In this case, even a slightly weaker CPU on the PC cannot handle it and the game will lag.
If we don't reduce the number of NPCs when porting to mobile devices, how will the game be stuck if we rely solely on the mobile phone CPU? I'm afraid it will be difficult to walk! I have to say that this is the most reasonable way to port. If we don't reduce the number of NPCs, it will be difficult for mobile devices to run the game "Shenneng Land" smoothly.
But then again…
The mobile game version has been cut to this extent, so the fees are naturally much cheaper. It is impossible to sell it at the same price as the PC console version.
The mobile game version is only 12 yuan.
Compared to the PC version which costs 68 yuan, and even 40 or 50 yuan after discount, it is really too cheap.
This also led to the mobile game version selling well, with nearly 50,000 copies sold in the IOS store. It is difficult to count the Android version, but the number is about the same.
"Oh no, Brother Ba!"
Just as Chen Ba was calculating how much revenue the mobile game version could earn for the studio, Zhong Shengwei hurried over and reported an emergency to him.
The studio was hacked! To be more precise, the studio's computers were hacked, and some confidential files and data were at risk of being leaked.
"Hackers?"
Chen Ba, who heard this term for the first time, was shocked and said, "No? Where did these hackers come from? Why did they target us?"
“I don’t know!”
Zhong Shengwei said with a headache: "The opponent's technology is too strong. He comes and goes without a trace. We can't track him at all..."
This is as it should be.
The people at Tianba Studio may be good at game development, but it is wishful thinking for them to defend against hacker intrusions.
And another point is that they never thought about hacker intrusion at all and did not take any precautions in advance, so it was normal for them to be succeeded.
When Chen Ba received the message, the hacker had stopped the attack and disappeared.
“The documents were leaked.”
Xiao Lu said with a sad face: "Damn hacker, he formatted my E drive before leaving."
"What's in your E drive?"
Seeing Xiao Lu crying so sadly, Chen Ba frowned and said, "Think quickly, are there any important documents stored in there?"
"There's no important information, but there are a lot of Steam games in the E drive, as well as the subscription wallpaper of Little Red Car."
Chen Ba: “…”
Too lazy to pay attention to this guy, he turned to Zhong Shengwei and asked, "What about other computers? Did the same thing happen to them?"
"No!"
"I checked it out. Apart from some files of the Love Staff, there are no other problems."
Love Staff? When Chen Ba heard this word, he immediately had a bad feeling in his heart.
Could this hacker come here for a new game? When he saw that Tianba Studio hadn't even made a demo, he was immediately furious and formatted Xiao Lu's E drive? "It's very likely!"
Yang Dong, who was hastily awakened from his nap, gave an analysis after learning what happened: "There are some whistleblower experts and uncle parties on the Internet, and their sources of information are not very formal."
Generally, they are game diggers! The so-called game diggers dig out new version content from game files, and then leak it after a little analysis to attract fans' attention.
Game companies really hate this kind of people.
After all, it’s a new version update, and they are still thinking about how to promote it and how to tell the players, but the news about the new version has already spread everywhere.
But this behavior is okay.
After all, these diggers usually dig "local game files", and few people would have evil intentions and invade game companies.
However, there are also some whistleblowers whose sources of information are very problematic. The information they have, such as the scrapped game projects, the progress of game development... may not be obtained through formal channels.
How did that come about?
One is an internal leak, where an insider gives him the information in advance. It is said that it is difficult to guard against a thief in your own home even if you are on guard day and night.
Another type is illegal intrusion, which involves obtaining some secret data or information through hacking methods, and then reselling it to specialized whistleblower bloggers.
"It's clear that we are being targeted."
Yang Dong pondered and said, "It should be that after the new game was announced at the Neon Game Show, some people became interested in our new game, so what happened today happened."
"As for the formatting of Xiao Lu's E drive, it didn't seem like a way to vent his anger, but more like a prank..."
"mischief?"
Xiao Lu's eyes widened as he said, "You deleted all of my precious wallpapers and games, and you call this a prank?"
“That’s enough!”
Chen Ba stopped Xiao Lu from complaining and said, "Since he didn't touch the key files, it means he knows his limits and is afraid that we will expose him."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"Pay more attention to the news in the gaming industry these days to see if any whistleblower has suddenly revealed any information about "Love Advisor."
Without a doubt.
"Love Advisers" is kept highly confidential. Whoever leaks the information at this time and the information is highly accurate will be the most suspicious.
certainly!
The hacking may not have been done by the whistleblower, but by someone else who also bought the information.
But no matter what, this is the best way to find the murderer.
"Do you want to report it?"
"never mind!"
Chen Ba waved his hand, indicating that the matter should be handled in a low-key manner for the time being and there was no need to make a big fuss about it.
He planned to find a professional company to upgrade the studio's firewall and security protection, and see if there would be a second time.
If something like this happens again and the upgraded firewalls and security measures don't work, he'll have to consider reporting the case to the police and let professionals handle it.
Except for the internal employees, no one outside knew about the hacker invasion of Tianba Studio.
Chen Ba was waiting, waiting for a certain whistleblower blogger to leak relevant information about "Love Staff". But after waiting for a few days, there was no movement.
Just when he was wondering whether the hacker had leaked the relevant information, he received an anonymous email in his mailbox.
"What do you mean?"
At first, Chen Ba didn't realize where the email came from and almost deleted it as spam.
But when he accidentally glanced at the content of the email, he suddenly became interested.
This is from a hacker.
In the email, the hacker frankly admitted his mistake and said he was just too curious about the new game.
He promised Chen Ba that he would not leak what he saw to others. Not only that, he also suggested that he could help Tianba Studio when needed.
Of course, this is conditional.
He wanted to take a look at the underlying core source code of "Divine Grace Continent" or "Star Emperor".
"Dream on!"
Chen Bahui was too lazy to reply to this person. This was simply too outrageous. After invading their studio, he wanted to get their source code for free with just a simple apology? How could this be possible!
What's more, what's wrong with hackers? Hackers can't do anything to "Shennong Continent" and "Star Emperor"?
If he could get the core code himself, would he send this email? He must have tried it, but got nothing! Thinking of this, Chen Ba seemed to feel that this was not a simple hacker intrusion.
They look like hackers, but who knows which animation company is behind them!
No need to guess.
"The Land of Divine Grace" has stirred up such a storm in the animation industry that those animation companies must want to make a copycat cracked version of "The Land of Divine Grace".
The result was failure.
It was precisely because of the failed copying and the fact that the game could not be cracked that this hacking incident occurred and the emails left by the hacker occurred.
"Come on!"
Chen Ba was not at all panicked about this.
Hackers are scary, but what can a hacker gain from hacking into Tianba Studio? He can get nothing except sabotage.
New game leaked? It's leaked, so what game company hasn't been hacked? It's not a big deal, at most we can just publicize it in advance! As expected.
When Chen Ba rejected the hacker's proposal, a lot of information about Tianba Studio's new game "Love Staff" was soon leaked to the Internet.
Even the original painting was leaked.
Xiao Lu and Zhong Shengwei were extremely anxious, but Yang Dong told them not to worry and let them reveal information if they wanted to. Anyway, apart from these original paintings, they could not get any more valuable information.
In a sense.
What they can reveal is only a very small part of the entire game. What use can a few original paintings have?
As long as the source code is not leaked.
During the Neon Game Show, part of the gameplay of "Love Adviser" was already revealed, and the content disclosed by these whistleblowers is just to help hype up the game.
As for the impact? The biggest impact is that everyone knows the development progress of "Love Advisor", which is actually not as fast as Brother Ba said.
Based on the timeline, I'm afraid that during the Neon Game Show, this game didn't even have a "New Folder"!
The players were quite calm.
Especially fans active in the Tianba community did not find this revelation strange or surprising at all.
"Brother Ba draws cakes, isn't that a traditional craft?"
"The owner of Tianba Haoyuan said you are right. The second phase of houses has not been completed yet!"
"The hacker who hacked into Brother Ba's computer is not very smart! What else did you expect to find besides the empty new folder?"
"Don't be so mean, I found a few original paintings, so I did gain something..."
"Why don't the hacker brother hack into the Star Emperor server and give everyone 1 million Originium?"
"Is there a possibility that... even if I give you one million Originium, you still can't spend it?"
That's exactly right! When Chen Ba first saw someone on the forum suggesting that hackers invade the Star Emperor server and give everyone free Origin Stones, he was a little panicked.
But he changed his mind.
What are you afraid of? Although Star Emperor is an online game, it does not rely on in-app purchases. Is it useful to modify the source stone?
No matter how many Originium you have, whether it's one million, ten million, or even one hundred million, it's useless if you can't spend it!
So, is Star Emperor the safest online game in the world? Even if the server is hacked and the game is temporarily shut down, players can still find ways to earn gold!
After all, you hacked into the game server of "Star Emperor", what does it have to do with Xianyu Digital? No matter how powerful the hacker is, can he still modify the price of the graphics card? Sorry, I'm late (end of this chapter)