Chapter 274: Communication launches CS, Pony Ma

While *The Return of the Condor Heroes* crew was filming, the final box office for *I Am Legend* was finally out.

A total of 530 million.

On set, Wang Jinghua was telling Chen Mo this news.

The two were discussing some matters regarding Momei Company when they suddenly saw a familiar face walking over from not far away.

"So this is what a film crew looks like."

Pony Ma walked in, his expression very curious.

In the past, he only watched finished films on TV; he hadn't expected there to be so many staff members and machines on a filming set.

It was quite interesting.

"Pony Ma? Why are you here?"

Chen Mo hadn't expected to see Pony Ma on set either.

"Oh, Mr. Ma told me in advance that he would come to find you these two days. I forgot to mention it."

Wang Jinghua suddenly remembered.

"It's okay. I came just to see Mo, and by the way, to tell you that I'm about to launch CF. This game is my biggest trump card right now."

Pony Ma smiled mysteriously.

CF had a higher investment than Xuanwu and Speed Drifters.

He even poached several internal programmers from gunfight games to help develop CF together; it could be said that the cost was huge.

As long as this game is launched from the Communication Group, it will definitely be very popular among teenagers.

Chen Mo wouldn't doubt this.

He knew how popular CF was.

"You arrange these things; I won't get involved."

Chen Mo was busy filming, so the decisions and development of Communication could be planned by Pony Ma himself.

"Hehe, Mo, is filming fun?"

Pony Ma rubbed his hands, looking like he was eager to try.

"What, you want to try too?"

Chen Mo couldn't laugh or cry.

"I'll just make a cameo; just give me a role as a passerby."

Pony Ma was actually quite excited.

A well-known corporate boss making a cameo in a martial arts drama—this point would be quite fun if it got out, and maybe it could even be a unique promotion for *The Return of the Condor Heroes*.

Chen Mo found the director and really arranged a role for Pony Ma.

He played a junior uncle in the Quanzhen Sect, with only one line, and his screen time was only a minute or two.

The entire crew felt it was quite rare.

Now, Communication Penguin's development momentum was very good; many people no longer used foreign chat software and switched to Penguin chat.

So everyone knew the Communication Group.

They hadn't expected the boss of such a famous big enterprise to come here to make a cameo in a role.

It was only because of Chen Mo's relationship; if it were any other crew, they might never see such a spectacle in their lifetime.

……

Two days later, CF went into public beta nationwide.

After CF went online, it immediately triggered the peak of the Communication game craze.

Originally, various gunfight games were very popular, and plus CF was a direct replica of CS, which was a very hot shooting game globally.

On the first day of launch, the number of registered players broke one million.

Plus, CF's interface was simpler and easier to understand than CS; as long as you had a Penguin account, you could play.

This made CF have even more players.

For a competitive game, the most important thing is having many people; CS might take several minutes to match a game, while CF could match successfully in almost a second.

This also caused many players to flock to CF.

However, while the CF game triggered a craze, there was more and more public opinion about Communication replicating other games.

Quite a few media outlets even started attacking directly.

"Is it borrowing, or blatant plagiarism?"

"Does Communication Games have any original games?"

"Original game players demand Communication to stop service immediately."

"Caught in game controversy, what actions will Communication Group take?"

The reports from major media outlets on this matter plunged the Communication Group into a storm of public opinion.

Comments on the internet about Communication games were also polarized.

"Strongly demand Communication to close the game and apologize to the game company."

"Do you really treat foreign games as grandfathers and yourself as a grandson? Does domestic gaming bother you?"

"I support Communication anyway."

"Is plagiarism justified?"

"They are just capable of making games popular; I just like playing Communication games."

Because Communication games had a large audience, there were more netizens supporting Communication, but there were still many players accusing Communication of blatant plagiarism.

The news about the Communication Group was making a huge noise.

……

"Brother Mo, Uncle Chen is a major shareholder of the Communication Group. Has the Communication Group's stock been affected during this time?"

Xu Xiaofeng was scrolling through her phone; now, whether it was newspapers or Weibo, the hottest thing was the public opinion news about the Communication Group.

According to the current level of public opinion, the Communication Group's stock should have been affected.

"Maybe."

Chen Mo thought for a moment, didn't pay much attention to this matter, and lowered his head to continue reading the script.

Not only did he not care, but Chen Fu didn't care either.

Now Chen Fu had too many industries under his investment; even if the Communication Group's stock was affected, it wasn't a big deal—at most, he would lose some money.

What's more, the person who should be anxious was Pony Ma.

Pony Ma would definitely find a way to solve the current problem.

Uh...

Xu Xiaofeng almost bit her tongue.

Looking at Chen Mo's indifferent appearance, she felt she had asked this question in vain.

"That's not right, Brother Mo, look!"

Xu Xiaofeng looked at her phone, and her eyes suddenly lit up again.

She handed the phone to Chen Mo.

I saw a new hot search on Weibo; the topic displayed was that the Communication Group had bought the rights to CS.

Not just CS.

Even the rights to *Crazyracing Kartrider* and *Audition* were bought together.

"Mr. Ma is amazing. If the Communication Group bought the rights to these games, then Communication Games is making legitimate games, and others can't say Communication is plagiarizing anymore."

Xu Xiaofeng was stunned.

It is estimated that everyone was stunned; they hadn't expected Pony Ma to have this kind of operation.

"Pony Ma is indeed that Pony Ma."

Chen Mo was also amused by Pony Ma's flashy operation.

Since everyone questioned Communication for plagiarizing games, the Communication Group directly bought the rights to all the games and turned their own games into legitimate ones, so everyone had nothing to say.

After all, these games were officially authorized games.

Even the copying was done in a fair and square manner.

Others couldn't blame them even if they wanted to.

With the copyright issue resolved, investors who were still worried that the Communication Group would have problems bought the stock one after another, and the Communication stock, which was still fluctuating in the stock market, increased rapidly.

As a major shareholder, Chen Fu's assets also increased rapidly.

It was just like how Chen Fu didn't care about the decrease in shares; he and Chen Mo didn't pay much attention to the increase in assets.

For them, money was just a string of numbers now; there was no need to care about it at all.