Companies Sue at the Same Time

One month later.

The lawsuit between Starfield and Qisheng came to an end, with Qisheng ordered to pay Starfield ten million yuan.

In response to the result, Starfield posted a video about Qisheng Game's plagiarism and its victory in court.

As soon as the video went up, it drew the attention of countless players.

[Serves them right. A trash company like Qisheng that only knows how to plagiarize should just go bankrupt already.]

[You can say that again. All they do is plagiarize and stitch other games together. They don't have an original idea of their own.]

[I remember Bicycle Simulator copied Racing Simulator, and Mengjia Game Company never recovered after that.]

[Exactly. If you ask me, they should go bankrupt. Qisheng is a cancer on the gaming industry.]

Popular comments from players and netizens kept pouring in, and the related topics soon began trending.

Perhaps Qisheng's conduct lately had been too shameless, because hardly any players came forward to take its side.

Meanwhile, at Mengjia Game Company.

Liu Jiameng froze when the video appeared in his feed.

Starfield had won!?

Back then, Mengjia Game had made Racing Simulator, which had brought the company instant fame and quickly secured it a substantial place in the gaming market.

But Qisheng's copycat game had come too quickly. Before they had even emerged from their celebrations, Bicycle Simulator had begun taking Racing Simulator's market for itself.

Even more infuriatingly, because Qisheng had copied their Racing Simulator, its gameplay and optimization were somewhat better.

It then hired online trolls to smear their Racing Simulator, prompting players to compare the two and switch to Bicycle Simulator.

As a result, the market for their Racing Simulator had gone straight to Qisheng's Bicycle Simulator.

They had sued Qisheng too, but Qisheng was not only one of Shencheng's major taxpayers; online opinion had not been on his side at all.

And their Racing Simulator had not yet fully developed its market. Revenue had fallen short, leaving them without the money to compete with Qisheng for online public opinion.

On top of that, Qisheng had held the home advantage in the Shencheng lawsuit, and they... lost.

Now, after seeing that Starfield Game Company had actually won, he noticed the trending topics and felt a surge of excitement.

If I ride this wave of public opinion around Starfield, wouldn't I have a chance!?

At the thought, he grew extremely excited. His fingers trembled as he tapped on his phone, then opened a password-protected file.

It contained the evidence they had used to sue Qisheng back then, which he had kept to this day.

Recalling the look Qisheng had given him and the expression on its face when he lost the lawsuit, he tightened his grip on his phone.

He looked up at his game company outside... no, it probably only counted as a small studio now. He gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

Sue!

He would take Qisheng to court again.

With Starfield Game's momentum behind him, he would make Qisheng pay the price it deserved.

That afternoon, a video appeared on a short-video site.

[Can you still win this time?]

[@Qisheng Game Company]

The account that posted it was called Mengjia Game Company. The video consisted of several photos listing the similarities between Racing Simulator and Bicycle Simulator from a few years ago, as well as their core gameplay. The final photo showed a court complaint.

As soon as the video went up, it caught netizens' attention.

No one had expected another company to take Qisheng to court after Starfield.

Perhaps Mengjia had set an example, because several more companies followed, posting videos about their own lawsuits. Each video said that Qisheng had plagiarized and stitched together games they had made, profiting through unfair competition.

The news instantly blew up across the internet.

After all, Qisheng was the top dog in the gaming industry-or rather, it used to be. Starfield was about to take its place.

Its status and scale were far beyond anything companies like Mengjia could match, yet these companies had all sued Qisheng within a few short days. How could anyone not be shocked?

[Qisheng is really finished this time. I didn't expect so many companies to sue it at once.]

[Qisheng is ruthless. So it got this big by plagiarizing.]

[If Qisheng loses, does that mean it's finished for good?]

[Actually, yeah. The compensation for one plagiarized game equals the profits it made over all those years. If it copied that many games, wouldn't it have to pay until it's bankrupt?]

[I've got my biscuits ready. The gaming industry has been lively these past couple of days.]

While people online were discussing the many game companies suing Qisheng together, Starfield posted a video.

In a bedroom, Xiao Dingdang sat in a chair with his legs crossed, scrolling through Douyin.

He had to start his work livestream in a little while. His following had grown considerably lately, and he had joined the ranks of top-tier streamers.

It wasn't just him. Da Sima and the other four who had played online together back then were all top-tier gaming streamers now.

He opened the short-video app and scrolled casually until he saw a video about Qisheng.

Multiple game companies are suing Qisheng at once!?

Xiao Dingdang's mouth fell open when he saw the video. It really was unexpected; he had never imagined something like this would happen.

Then he thought about the Bicycle Simulator record he had worked so hard to set, and he understood.

Qisheng had brought this on itself. Now that something like this had happened, hardly any players would take its side.

Qisheng's games had alienated people, and the company didn't take ordinary players seriously at all.

Players couldn't do anything to Qisheng in its games, but on the internet, countless ordinary players could tear it apart.

Especially when something like this happened, ordinary players were already making their voices heard. The comments under videos everywhere were full of people blasting Qisheng.

Xiao Dingdang smiled and stopped paying attention to it. Instead, he browsed his personalized recommendations: beauties in black stockings with long legs.

He scrolled through one video after another, and his body and mind immediately relaxed.

He had been playing Minecraft constantly during this period. It was a lot of fun, but even that could get a little tiresome after too much.

So scrolling through videos was his time to unwind.

His finger swiped, and the next video appeared on his phone.

[Let players truly experience the thrill of the battlefield - PUBG]

The video showed people holding guns and weaving through a hail of bullets.

Bullets whizzed past the characters' cheeks one after another. Their metallic warheads seemed to strike Xiao Dingdang, Zuo Zixuan, right in the heart, making his breathing quicken without him realizing it.

This... what is this!?

He didn't know why, but when he saw the video, his heart couldn't help fluttering.

It was as if fate itself were telling him that he had to play this game.