What's wrong with this lawyer?!-Chapter 587 - 189 What’s This? Malicious Shutdown?_3

For example, if two companies are making the same type of freemium mobile games, they are irreconcilable rivals, unless one goes under; otherwise, the struggle is everywhere.

However, once the staff began speaking, the quarreling stopped.

"You are all executives of the companies, what is there to fight about? Let the consumer side speak now. Lawyer Tang, Chairman Luo, who will start?"

As soon as the voice fell, Vice-Chairman Luo hurriedly said, "Let Lawyer Tang go first."

There was not a hint of defiance in his demeanor, which made Old Tang very uncomfortable.

Nevertheless, he took the microphone in front of himself, ready to start his speech. Enjoy more content from novelbuddy

People from the major game companies were looking at him, curious to see what this Lawyer Tang, who had caused such a stir, was going to say.

Old Tang smiled and began with, "I have a few points to make. First, I believe that the shutdown of game services should be regulated, requiring registration and review..."

What the hell!

The moment Old Tang expressed his view, chaos erupted among the game companies. This son of a bitch!

Nowadays, to make a new game, getting the publication number approved is already a big problem, and here you are suggesting that service shutdowns should also be subject to review? That’s just nonsensical, oh no, worse than that!

For a moment, Director Fang even thought that this Mr. Tang had already made arrangements with the regulatory authorities and was simply putting on an act. However, upon seeing the interested looks from the officials, it appeared that no discussion had taken place.

What did you mean by that, rushing to speak favorably on behalf of the authorities?

Soon someone else said, "No, this is absolutely unacceptable. Director Fang has just said that the shutdown of game services is our own business. Why should there be a review? Are you saying that a game that clearly cannot be operated must still be forced to continue?"

"Companies are meant to make a profit; this is not possible!"

The leadership of the regulatory department interjected, "Lawyer Tang, please explain your reasons."

Old Tang spoke calmly and steadily, "I think that comrade must have a problem with his ears. I did not say that it required approval, nor did I say that you should operate at a loss. What I mentioned was to conduct a legitimacy review."

"There are many reasons for a game shutdown, which I personally classify into subjective and objective reasons..."

Old Tang began to lay out his opinions. These could be addressed on a case-by-case basis, but regulations must be general in nature.

He never meant to cause the gaming industry to falter.

Games shutdowns occur due to objective reasons like the expiration of licenses, copyrights ending without agreement, and so on—essentially cases where it’s impossible to continue operations without breaking the law.

In such cases, Old Tang believes that the compensation should favor the game companies upon shutdown.

For subjective reasons, it depends on the situation. Some are indeed losing more money with each day they operate, and you can’t force them to continue. Such shutdowns are also legitimate and can be slightly biased towards the companies.

And within the subjective reasons, Old Tang coined a term.

"Malicious shutdown?" Director Fang looked stunned. What... What’s all this? I’ve heard of malicious wage claims, but now shutdowns are malicious too?

"Lawyer Tang, what do you mean? What is a malicious shutdown? How is our shutdown malicious?"

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Upon hearing this, Old Tang said, "I have a preliminary concept of malicious shutdown. It refers to those games that could continue to operate without any legal impediments and are not operating at a loss, but are shutdown simply because the revenue does not meet expectations, disregarding the interests of the players."

"I believe that in compensation, we need to favor the players in such cases and actively involve consumer associations to establish a well-developed public interest litigation system..."

Old Tang never considered himself a sage, especially since he had never been involved in this area before. His suggestions might not be perfect, but having checks and balances is always good.

Nowadays, the situation where big companies start and axe projects is too common. Sometimes, game project teams want to continue operating, but if they don’t meet the assessment criteria, they are cut off...

If this is hard to understand, take this example: there are many online novel authors who abandon their stories for various reasons, some due to objective factors, while others simply because the revenue doesn’t meet their expectations and they abandon the work abruptly.

They expected a masterpiece but ended up with an average thousand subscriptions per chapter, felt dissatisfied, and then cut it off, leaving the readers who had been following along extremely frustrated.

This isn’t to say that the book wasn’t making money, just that it didn’t meet their own standards, and so it was cut off.

I feel like if I keep talking, the boomerang will come back to hit me... cough cough, anyway, that’s the gist of it. The term should be called... malicious abandonment?

"Honorable leaders, what do you think? Is this something we should consider?" Old Tang looked around at the others as he spoke.

Director Fang furrowed his brows, feeling somewhat unable to cope with the blow dealt by the opposition, because the review being proposed and what he had in mind were two different things entirely.

You game companies still have the right to shut down services as you wish; there is no issue there. But the compensation after the shutdown will be linked to your reasons for the shutdown.

And before you decide to shut down services again on a whim, you’ll have to consider the pros and cons. It’s not about having the freedom to shut down services whenever you want.

Vice-Chairman Luo was looking down, much like the students who didn’t want to be called on during a classroom Q&A session with the teacher... Don’t pick me, don’t pick me...

The leader of the regulatory department nodded and smiled, "I think Lawyer Tang’s suggestion is quite good. What else do you have in mind?"

"Additionally, regarding the compensation for game items and characters, there needs to be a quantitative standard. I personally believe this can be linked to the rarity and difficulty of obtaining these characters and items, combined with a legitimacy review of the game shutdown, to determine the proportion..."