Chapter 85: The fallout from losing the case, other game studios: drop dead!
Did losing the lawsuit matter?
No!
What mattered?
What mattered was that the little penguin's head had been smashed open, and its two little flapping wings had been snapped!
Unbeatable at Nanshan had lost its perfect winning record!
The myth of its hundred-percent win rate had been shattered.
It even had to apologize publicly!
And it had been crushed on grounds of infringement and plagiarism, requiring a public apology.
As for the consequences...
Hiss.
It went without saying that this lawsuit would become a template for other small game studios and midsized game companies to use against Penguin!
Perhaps game companies that had previously lost would sue Penguin again after hearing the news.
If every one of them did that, good grief, Penguin would practically have no games left!
Penguin would cry itself to death on the spot!
Losing the lawsuit and paying eight million in damages were only the least of the problems this defeat posed.
A whole host of subsequent issues needed handling and resolving.
Every single one had to be handled carefully, or else...
It could very well turn into something serious!
For Penguin, those were the most serious concerns!
So when Presiding Judge Cao Liqiang announced the verdict, Chen Chao and Kong Hao were agonizing over how to explain themselves when they returned.
This verdict...
There was simply no way to account for it!
Chen Chao was struggling to keep his composure and said quietly,
"Fuck, once word of this lawsuit gets out, the two of us will probably have to switch careers!"
Kong Hao took a deep breath, then let out a heavy sigh.
"Whether we switch careers isn't up to us anymore. After the way we handled this case, who would