Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

"Oh, by the way, I heard that some companies seem to be making moves to collectively take down Yostar Electronic Entertainment."

"Huh? Where did you hear that from?"

“Several of my friends who are business owners in the film and television industry, as well as several friends who are business owners of companies that manufacture electronic products, mentioned during a previous gathering that they seem to be planning to file a class-action lawsuit against Youxing Electronic Entertainment.”

"Oh? Could you tell me more about it?"

This topic piqued the interest of several shareholders, who gathered around to listen attentively.

The initial reason was that the rapid expansion of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment affected the sales of many electronic products, and those electronic product companies were already dissatisfied with Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

Then Yuxing Electronic Entertainment started its large-scale crackdown on trash game companies, which attracted another wave of hatred.

Ultimately, the catalyst that led to the multiple parties wanting to file a joint lawsuit was the impact on the film and television industry.

Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has proven its strength through its own game engine, allowing it to shine in the film and television industry as well.

Some film and television industry bosses lost face as a result. There are many nouveau riche in the film and television industry who value face more than making money. They couldn't swallow their pride after being humiliated by Tukarev's bet.

Finally, the parties reached an agreement and have begun preparing materials to launch a joint lawsuit against Yuxing Electronic Entertainment.

The content of the lawsuits is... all over the place, ranging from industry monopoly to patent monopoly, technology monopoly, and shameless suppression of the industry. In short, they are determined to make things difficult for Youxing Electronic Entertainment and leave you with a lot of headaches.

"This is really interesting, can we join in?"

One of the shareholders asked with great interest.

Their company, Hongguo, should also be considered a victim. If they could join in, they could also invest some money and participate in the lawsuit.

"Of course, I've already started making contact."

"Alright, then count us in. This Youxing Electronic Entertainment really needs to be suppressed. The key is that this guy doesn't know what's good for him and doesn't even accept our investment."

"That's right, but speaking of which, what do you guys think of Myron's mobile phone business?"

"I'm not optimistic. In fact, I think Myron should step down. The computer business he recommended has turned out like this, and he bears the biggest responsibility. We should consider putting a new, obedient guy as CEO."

"That's what I think too..."

"I also……"

Several major shareholders secretly contacted each other and began plotting to kick Myron out of the company that originally belonged to him.

Chapter 292 Enemies and Friends

When November arrived, a very unexpected piece of news suddenly came from the United States.

A class-action lawsuit, spearheaded by several large companies and involving many smaller companies and individuals, has opened in California, USA.

The defendant is Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, and the lawsuit covers a wide range of issues, including antitrust lawsuits, technology patent restriction lawsuits, and image infringement lawsuits.

All the lawsuits were filed together, and the initiators even filed a joint lawsuit, which shows that Youxing Electronic Entertainment has indeed offended some people.

The main initiators were several film and television company owners in the film and television industry.

They were the first to express their dissatisfaction with the use of Unreal Engine in film and television development.

A company that doesn't have any lawsuits can hardly be considered a big company.

No matter what you do, good or bad, there will always be people who want to cause you trouble; this is something that cannot be avoided.

Zhu Youxing was prepared for this. Since competitors couldn't defeat you head-on, they would try to take you down through other means.

So when Matsuhashi Minoru reported this matter to him, he simply let Matsuhashi Minoru handle it.

Having learned from their previous experience, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's legal department is now very strong.

Among them is a legal advisor to two presidents and several well-known patent and copyright lawyers.

Zhu Youxing is a very generous employer, while these lawyers are all about money. They especially like commercial disputes that don't involve morality, as they can make money and gain fame at the same time.

In Zhu Youxing's previous life, the legal departments of companies like Nintendo and Disney were known as the strongest on Earth because they had suffered losses in this area before, and then spared no effort to strengthen it.

Having learned from the experiences and lessons of his predecessors, Zhu Youxing naturally wouldn't slack off in this area.

These companies just want to slow down Youxing Electronics Entertainment's pace, or better yet, kill it outright. Why did they have to idly do film and television special effects, creating enemies for themselves?

However, while making enemies, it also creates allies.

When Tukarev learned of this, he did not discuss it with Zhu Youxing, but instead used his connections and relationships to cause trouble for those film and television companies.

He now has a deep partnership with Youxing Electronic Entertainment, especially since he sees the potential of those video game IPs. If he can obtain filming rights in the future, he might be able to make a lot of money, so he is even more reluctant to let Youxing Electronic Entertainment run into problems.

Moreover, it would be a bit cold-blooded of me not to do anything. Zhu Youxing had helped me a lot before, and although it was a mutually beneficial thing, I should remember this kindness.

Without Zhu Youxing, he said he might quit the film and television industry and go back to Russia to raise pigs.

Detroit Film Group, which also benefited from Unreal Engine, was naturally willing to help Yostar Electronic Entertainment.

Using his influence in the film and television industry, he managed to persuade at least a few hesitant film and television companies to drop the lawsuit, and even started recommending that they use Unreal Engine.

This is truly a money-saving marvel; honestly, only a fool wouldn't use it.

Meanwhile, there was another man named Hunter, who was originally Tukarev's rival. However, instead of following the others to sue Takeyusei, he contacted Matsuhashi Minoru, hoping to obtain a license to use the Unreal Engine.

If he could obtain authorization, he was willing to lobby some people to reduce the number of enemies of Zhuyouxing.

Zhu Youxing will naturally reciprocate the kindness shown to these people.

They pledged to Detroit Films to provide more detailed and customized special effects services over the next ten years, aiming to improve the effects while reducing costs.

Accepting Hunter's request, a ten-year licensing agreement was signed, with the price matching that of Tukarev: $50 million for ten years, payable annually. Furthermore, the company would be considered a premium partner, just like Tukarev, and would receive the best after-sales service.

As for Tukarev, this already close partner, Zhuyouxing, was even more generous.

We can start talking about film adaptations now, such as a Pokémon animated feature film adaptation.

TV Tokyo just happened to lack a channel for film promotion, and Takeyusei only needed to make the connection, which would be equivalent to helping both parties improve their strength, making it a very worthwhile deal.

The legal matters were left to Minoru Matsuhashi and the legal department. After giving back to those who had shown goodwill towards Yusei Electronics Entertainment, Takeyusei returned to focusing on the development of video games.

This is my job.

Even though the lawsuit may seem overwhelming and distracting, it actually had no impact on the development team.

The game continued its production and release as scheduled.

The series includes action-packed games, ball sports such as soccer and basketball, as well as Dragon Quest VI and Mario Land 3.

These games all launched in November, and each one is expected to sell well over 500,000 copies, with Mario and Dragon Quest easily surpassing one million in sales.

During this period, several exclusive third-party studios of Youxing Electronic Entertainment also developed a number of high-quality games.

Everything produced by Yuxing is guaranteed to be of high quality.

This phrase has gradually become popular.

Because the games released by Zhuyouxing to date only have different target audiences, but there has never been a game that everyone dislikes.

Even games that are third-party games available on their consoles are of high quality. Players can buy them without hesitation. There are no bad games, only games that don't suit your taste.

This is truly terrifying.

This is like a film company producing only critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies—that's almost impossible.

The video game industry was a completely new industry, which subconsciously made people feel that the success of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment was a matter of course, without any questioning of it.

If this were in other industries, some people with vivid imaginations might actually come to the conclusion that Zhu Youxing was a time traveler.

However, most of the games developed by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment recently are lighter and have a shorter development cycle, generally only requiring one or two months to develop a game.

With multiple studios working together, producing five or six games a month is no problem at all.

The reason we are only developing short-cycle games now is because most of our staff have been reassigned to develop games for the GS1 and GBA consoles.

Meanwhile, development kits for the GS1 and GBA were also distributed to the most loyal first-party game studios.

This will allow them to familiarize themselves with the new game console system and prepare for the development of new games for the new console.

When the console is released, we aim to launch with more than twenty games to satisfy the appetites of the vast majority of players.

Chapter 293 Nothing Can Defeat Us

"Your Honor, based on the evidence from multiple sources, we believe that Youxing Electronics has infringed upon our company's image and character. The dragon image in their Dragon Quest game is a very well-known image of our company, but it has been misused without our knowledge. Therefore, I believe that Youxing Electronics should immediately cease the sale of Dragon Quest, compensate us for all the sales revenue that should belong to our company, and also stop the infringement and guarantee that it will not use any dragon image as a character in the game again."

"Hmm, that sounds reasonable."

"Your Honor, I object. First of all, the dragon image owned by the opposing company is different from ours."

"Please, Yusei Electronics Entertainment, don't try to argue your point. Your dragon image is exactly the same as ours, with a pair of not-so-large wings and a huge, sturdy lower body. In fact, besides your Dragon Quest infringing on our dragon image, the image of the Charmander that grows up in your Pokémon game also constitutes infringement!"

The lawyers on both sides argued their points forcefully, and the lawsuit lasted for more than half a month without any results.

One side possesses the so-called dragon image because they once filmed a movie about a legendary dragon.

This would normally be completely untenable, but now they're going to attack them en masse. Anything that could cause even the slightest trouble for Youxing Electronic Entertainment, they'll launch a full-scale lawsuit against.

For the elite legal team at Youxing Electronic Entertainment, victory was only a matter of time.

Today, Yuxing Electronic Entertainment's lawyers have found decisive evidence.

"Your Honor, after our company's extensive covert investigation, we have finally obtained a shocking piece of information: this film company that claims to control the dragon image actually only has the filming rights; it has no way of preventing anyone else from filming the same character!"

As the lawyer spoke, he produced a document from about ten years ago.

The copyright license for the dragon image is clearly stated on it.

Around the time this film company was planning to produce a movie featuring a dragon, in order to avoid potential lawsuits at the time, they applied for public copyright for the dragon image with the copyright office in advance. This means that anyone can use the image for anything without any restrictions.

This gives the company an inherent advantage when making movies featuring dragons.

However, they probably never imagined that more than a decade later they would shoot themselves in the foot, and instead be caught in a compromising situation by another group of lawyers.

There is no reason to infringe on the copyright of an image.

So when this crucial evidence was presented in black and white, the lawsuit came to an end.

Immediately afterwards, the second lawsuit began.

That was an antitrust lawsuit filed by another film and television special effects company.

They believe that Unreal Engine, developed by Yuxing Electronic Entertainment, has a tendency to monopolize the market. If this is not curbed, it could have a significant impact on the United States. Therefore, the best solution is to release the source code of Unreal Engine so that anyone can develop their own film and television special effects software using the source code.

This behavior is undoubtedly cutting off the engine of Youxing Electronic Entertainment's future development. If the other party wins this lawsuit, it will definitely affect Youxing Electronic Entertainment's future development.