"The best way is to make them stop and change their words!" Minori Arakawa had been in the United States for a long time. After the initial panic, he quickly came up with an idea. "It's useless for us to refute the rumors. The only way is to make PETA admit that they're wrong and that our game doesn't involve animal abuse. Only then can we stop this wave of rumors."
"Make them change their words? Slap themselves in the face? How is that possible? "Yamauchi questioned instinctively.
"President, the people from the United States are different from us Fusangpeople. We Fusangpeople value our reputation as our lives. We would never do something like slapping ourselves in the face. However, the people from the United States are different. They only have money in their eyes. As long as we give them enough money, PETA will change their words! " Minori Arakawa shook his head and said disdainfully, "Any animal protection organization is the same!"
"If money can solve the problem, that's the best solution!" Yamauchi nodded. It seemed like he had agreed to this plan. Boss Jia's expression changed immediately. "No, this plan is definitely not possible!"
"Why?" Yamauchi asked. "Does Mr. Jia think that they will reject our request or even take the money and not do anything?"
"That's one of the reasons. If someone behind them hired them to smear our reputation, they will most likely reject us."
"But that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that once we spend the money, these animal protection organizations will know that we are weak and can be bullied. I'm afraid that they will come looking for trouble from time to time. If that happens, we will never have a day of peace!" Boss Jia said with a frown.
"It's okay. At most, our game won't involve animals in the future!" Yamauchi shook his head and said casually. "The most important thing right now is to settle this matter. We have to get the Pokemon sales back on track. Otherwise, President Jia and we will all suffer a huge loss!"
"Arakawa-kun, contact this animal organization immediately. Tell them that no matter who hired them to smear our reputation, as long as they're willing to change their words, we'll pay them double the amount … Hmm, but the amount can't be more than two million USD. Otherwise, there's no way we'll talk about it!" Yamauchi ordered Arakawa Shin without asking for Boss Jia's opinion.
This made Boss Jia's expression turn cold. Although Yamauchi was very friendly to him before, he still didn't take him seriously.
Thinking of this, Boss Jia decided not to say anything. Since Nintendo had already made up their mind to do this, Jia Yapeng would be wasting his breath no matter what he said. He might as well watch them die.
One day later, good news came from Nintendo. After receiving 1.5 million USD from Nintendo, PETA actually agreed. Then, they started a series of dazzling operations.
First, Nintendo released an explanation letter to all media outlets. It explained in detail that Pokemon were not animals, but magical Pokemon. Moreover, all the actions in the game would not cause any physical harm to these animals. At the same time, they invited PETA to visit Nintendo's headquarters to learn more about the situation.
Therefore, PETA happily agreed and sent a representative to visit Nintendo's headquarters for a day. In the end, they came to the conclusion that it was a misunderstanding. Pokemon really did treat animals well. They were not enslaving the Pokemon. Instead, they were treating the Pokemon as friends. The entire Pokemon game promoted the idea that Pokemon were the friends of humans. It was a beautiful concept full of animal protectionism.
After that, PETA withdrew all of their advertisements and personally sent an explanation letter to all of their members, explaining the situation.
It was undeniable that PETA was quite skilled at slapping themselves in the face. Not only did they not feel any pain, but they were also able to slap themselves in the face. They were able to slap themselves in the face, making everyone feel extremely comfortable. They were able to create a unique style, and they were able to create mountains of gold and silver. Even Boss Jia could not help but sigh when he saw this. There were still experts in US.
When PETA came to visit that day, Boss Jia also went to visit them. After they left, Yamauchi proudly said to Boss Jia, "Jia Jun, look, the problem was solved so easily. Money really is omnipotent. The United States are all bastards!"
"President Yamauchi is wise!" Boss Jia flattered lightly and then stopped talking.
During this day, Boss Jia also understood why he was angry about this. After all, Nintendo was the one who did this stupid thing, and it had nothing to do with him, Jia Yapeng. In the future, PETA would be blackmailing Nintendo, and not Jia Yapeng.
In a way, this seemed to be a good thing. After all, Boss Jia was going to have a falling out with Nintendo sooner or later. In the future, with these animal protection organizations, it seemed to be a good thing for them to cause trouble for Nintendo every day.
What happened in the future proved that Boss Jia indeed had a good eye. Although both the host and the guests were happy, the second time was less than a year later. After Nintendo released an animal related game, PETA came again and started to attack the game.
Nintendo was helpless and could only continue to pay money to settle the matter.
In the end, PETA shut its mouth. At the same time, many animal protection organizations in the United States started to criticize Nintendo. At most, there were more than 20 animal protection organizations that came to cause trouble for Nintendo. These animal protection organizations saw the possibility of making money from PETA, which was making a lot of money.
As the saying goes, "What the monk can touch, I can't touch."
If PETA can make money, why can't I make money too? Are you discriminating against animal protection organizations?
In any case, all kinds of animal protection organizations came to Nintendo and secretly hinted to Nintendo that they only needed to make a deal with PETA and they would be able to spend money to solve the problem.
However, at this time, Nintendo also reacted and resolutely refused to give money. As a result, the entire United States was agitated, and the game's sales plummeted. A game that was originally expected to be a big hit was completely ruined.
After that, the same story repeated several times, messing up several Nintendo games one after another. In the end, when Nintendo reviewed and created games, they could only treat animal-themed games as a forbidden zone. They required their game companies not to involve animals, and they were not allowed to abuse animals in their games.
The game companies were helpless. In the future, the animal protection organizations would treat Goblins, Slimes, and other traditional monsters as animals that needed to be protected. They wouldn't even be able to defeat monsters in the game. If one dared to fight monsters, it would be considered animal abuse, and the animal protection organizations would come knocking on the door.
In order to avoid this trap, many game companies had designed many unimaginable mechanisms. As a result, these mechanisms led to the serious decline in the sales of game cartridges.
After a long time, Nintendo reacted and revoked the ban on animal related games. Then, they treated the animal protection organizations' words as nonsense and ignored them.
It was only then that Nintendo realized how correct Mr. Jia's suggestion was. Yamauchi regretted it every time he thought about it. However, it had already led to the loss of many players and game companies.
Therefore, from a certain point of view, this PETA incident was a great help to Boss Jia!
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