"These Hua Xia people are unreasonable!" Monk Park, the chairman of the ONG League and the CEO of CJ Electronic Entertainment, looked at the lawyer's letter sent by the Daqian and angrily threw it aside.
In Monk Park's opinion, this lawyer's letter was completely unreasonable. He had spent money to organize the competition to promote his game. Not only did he not want to give him any prize money, he even dared to sue him. This was simply unreasonable!
However, after his anger subsided, Monk Park began to think of a solution.
In fact, the solution was very simple. The other party had already made it very clear in the lawyer's letter. As long as Monk Park's OGN registered with the International Federation of Electronic Entertainment and completed the verification process, the competition could be held normally. The Daqian would also not charge any extra fees for using the game.
However, Monk Park was not willing to register.
In fact, at the beginning, Monk Park and the GJ behind him also wanted to go through the formal procedures and register. After all, registration did not cost money.
However, after understanding the cost of registration, Monk Park was not willing to do so.
Although registration itself did not cost anything, and after registration, they could use all the games under the federation for free. Furthermore, professional players could receive salary subsidies and other benefits.
However, registration did not come without a price.
First of all, the registration of the competition did not guarantee success. It still needed to be reviewed by the federation. If the federation did not pass the review, everything would be in vain. Monk Park, or rather, all Koreans, did not like the feeling of their fate being in the hands of others.
Secondly, once they joined the federation, the control of the competition would no longer be in the hands of the CJ Group. This was because the federation would send a few inspectors to supervise the entire competition process to see if there were any violations of the federation's regulations.
At the same time, the federation's regulations stated that once the inspectors found a problem, they had the right to stop the competition immediately until the problem was solved. This meant that the life and death of the competition was in the hands of others. There was no way Monk Park would like it when the entire competition process was under the control of an emperor.
Lastly, and most importantly, the federation also had to audit and supervise the financial income of the competition. Then, 5% of the total income from the competition would have to be handed over to the federation.
Take note, this was income, not profit.
In other words, even if you spent one million yuan to organize the competition and only earned nine hundred thousand yuan, you would still have to hand over forty-five thousand yuan to the federation.
This rule seemed very unreasonable. What right did a union have to charge fees?
However, the Union's explanation was irrefutable because the fee collected by the Union was for the Union's daily expenses. More importantly, it was used to subsidize all the pro players under the Union.
After all, a pro player could receive a subsidy of at least 10 USD per month. If there were tens of thousands of pro players in the future, the monthly expenditure would exceed hundreds of thousands of USD.
If no one paid, the Alliance wouldn't have the money to subsidize these pro players.
As a result, all of the pro players agreed with the Alliance's rule. Otherwise, where would they find their own subsidies? Although all the subsidies of the Federation were paid by the Daqian, it was clearly written in the contract that the money was borrowed from the Daqian and would be returned to the Daqian in the future with interest.
After all, the World eSports Federation didn't belong to the Daqian. It belonged to all esports players … Yes, that was what was written in the Union's constitution.
Of course, all the accounts of the Union had to be publicly published every month, so that everyone could freely check the accounts. On the surface, it was absolutely fair and open.
However, if you asked Monk Park to hand over five percent of the competition's income to the Union, it would be strange if Monk Park would agree. No matter how small a mosquito was, it was still meat. The competition might not make any money, but you still want to take my money. That was too much.
And if he were to make money, damn, wouldn't he lose even more money?
Absolutely not!
Thus, Monk Park decided to ignore the World eSports Federation. After all, the Union was controlled by a group of Hua Xia people. He didn't have to pay the Hua Xia people!
Thus, Monk Park directly ignored the Union and started to organize OGN. He was still in the process of establishing a club when the Union's lawyer's letter appeared.
After thinking about it calmly, Monk Park decided to throw the lawyer's letter into the bin and pretend that he didn't see it.
Unfortunately, Monk Park's ignorance wasn't enough. After realizing that there was no response from the lawyer's letter, the World eSports Federation directly filed a lawsuit with the Korean court. They demanded that CJ Group stop their infringement and that all of OGN's competitions be suspended.
"Don't worry about them. The Republic of Korea's court will protect the interests of the Korean people!" Monk Park encouraged his subordinates.
That was the truth. The Republic of Korea's bad temper was well known. The court quickly accepted the lawsuit. After all, they still had to keep up appearances.
Then, the case's review period dragged on for seven days. Then, they entered the evidence investigation phase. That was even longer. According to Korean law, in order to ensure the fairness of the case, the evidence investigation could last for a maximum of twelve months.
In other words, the court could use the 12 months to investigate the evidence. As for OGN, as long as the evidence wasn't completely investigated, they could do whatever they wanted. It wouldn't affect them at all. This was why Monk Park dared to ignore Boss Jia.
The Korean people's court was very strong when it came to protecting their own people. Especially when the opponent was the Celestial Empire that used to ride on their neck.
This made Boss Jia very angry. He knew that the Koreans would be shameless, but he didn't expect them to be this shameless. When Boss Jia boarded the Wandering Earth to the United States, he was so angry that he couldn't stop cursing.
"Tell them that if they don't register, they will lose the right to participate in WCG forever!" Boss Jia threatened.
In fact, Boss Jia's threat was quite effective. The Koreans still cared about the right to participate in WCG. After all, they were famous because of this world championship. They couldn't possibly refuse.
However, Boss Jia underestimated the shamelessness of these Koreans. These Korean players who participated in the OGN tournament went to the International E-Sports Federation to register as professional players. Then, they went on to sign up for other international tournaments.
According to the rules of the International E-Sports Federation, as long as a professional player didn't win a national competition that belonged to a specific country (they usually didn't have the right to participate in these competitions), but won an international competition, they could still qualify for WCG.
In other words, these Korean professional players' path to WCG was not cut off. On the contrary, these professional players who were still playing OGN could still receive a monthly subsidy from the International E-Sports Federation.
Boss Jia was so angry that he almost had a heart attack. Ever since Boss Jia transmigrated, he had never been treated like this!
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