When Medea went to work the next morning, he found that the matter had reached a point where even 1 million US dollars couldn't solve it.
This was because since last night, all the media in the United States had started to report on this incident. In just one night, it was as if everyone in the United States knew about this news. Even the homeless people lying on the roadside also knew about this matter from the newspapers that had been blown to the ground.
For a time, the entire United States seemed to be discussing Hasbro's tyrannical behavior.
When Medea went to work, she could feel the disdain and contempt of her neighbors as they pointed at her and whispered among themselves.
One must know that Medea lived in the wealthy district of Rhode Island, and all his neighbors were rich people from Rhode Island. If these rich people thought of him like this, what would the ordinary people of the United States think?
The result came quickly. Hasbro's headquarters soon received reports from all over the country. Some young people were filled with righteous indignation, pointing at Hasbro's stores all over the country and cursing. At the same time, Hasbro's employees began to suffer all kinds of pressure. For example, people often pointed at them behind their backs, insulted Hasbro, and then scolded them as well.
At this time, according to the calculation of the public relations department, if they wanted to spend money to calm down the public opinion, the cost had risen to about 5 million US dollars.
Medea didn't dare to delay and immediately reported this matter to the president and asked for an immediate appropriation. However, the president was in a difficult position. As the president, he could directly mobilize funds below 1 million US dollars, but after 5 million US dollars, it was not within the scope of his authority.
Moreover, the president was about to retire. According to the original plan, he would transfer the president's position to Medea in the second half of this year, so the president had basically handed over all the daily affairs to Medea.
He did this to train Medea, and he didn't want to get involved in any related responsibilities.
After all, as long as he didn't do anything, he wouldn't make any mistakes.
So as the president, he directly threw this matter to the board of directors and let the board of directors have a meeting to discuss it. The problem was that to hold a board meeting, it required a lot of procedures, and most of the directors needed to be present, which required a lot of time.
Anyway, the earliest Hasbro's board meeting could be held was the next day, so Hasbro still couldn't do anything and couldn't interfere with the media.
"President, why don't we issue a notice to clarify the facts?" The secretary asked cautiously.
"Clarify the facts!" Medea sneered, "What is there to clarify? What do we need to clarify? Tell me that we've never issued a ban? "
"Yes, in that case …"
"If that's the case, we'll have lost. We'll have bowed our heads to the Daqian, and the Daqian will have achieved their goal. From then on, their products will appear on all channels without any scruples. Our biggest advantage will no longer exist!" Medea shook her head. So far, she still felt that there was no big problem.
As long as Hasbro remained silent, the storm of public opinion would soon pass. Hasbro was very experienced in this. Previously, there had been a storm of public opinion against Hasbro, but Hasbro had still managed to get through it by pretending to be dead!
And this time, it was actually just a small matter, and it wasn't a problem between the public and the big companies, but a dispute between companies. The public wouldn't feel too empathetic.
In the past, there had been disputes between companies that caused an explosion in the news, but the public didn't really care. After all, they liked to see a dog-eat-dog between capitalists.
So, Medea felt that as long as they pretended to be dead this time, they could get through it. After all, there were too many successful examples like this.
But Medea didn't expect that the storm of public opinion this time would be much fiercer than any previous one.
First of all, Medea was wrong about one thing, because the anger of the people this time was far more serious than Medea had guessed.
There were indeed many similar cases in the past, but they were all fights between companies. When one side was weaker, they would cry in front of the media about their misfortune and then scold the other side. It was indeed a good show of dog-eat-dog.
But this time, it was different because the Daqian didn't bite Hasbro at all. Instead, he chose to kneel in front of Hasbro's door and let Hasbro go.
In the eyes of the public, this was already very embarrassing, helpless, and extremely pitiful. The Daqian could be said to have taken advantage of the word 'pitiful'.
At the same time, the media began to analyze and came to the conclusion that there was no competitive relationship between Warcraft and Hasbro. This wasn't a normal business competition at all.
This was because Warcraft was a computer game, while Hasbro was selling toys. The two were in two different industries. Hasbro didn't ban Warcraft for competition. It was very likely that they didn't like Warcraft, so they banned it along the way.
This kind of overbearing behavior aroused the public's anger. So, Medea was wrong about this.
This was like a fight between two heroes. Although the strength of the hero was far stronger than his opponent, if the opponent chose to fight to the end and was defeated in the end, then the audience wouldn't pity the defeated opponent. After all, he was the one who wanted to fight to the end.
But if the other opponent didn't want to fight at all, and instead knelt in front of the opponent during the duel to beg for forgiveness and let go, and there was no hatred between the two sides, then the opponent was simply an innocent and pitiful person. You would be a heartless villain if you killed the other party.
On the other hand, Medea was wrong about Jia Yapeng's methods.
Hasbro was reluctant to spend money, but the angry Boss Jia spent tens of millions of US dollars, making all the media's bones go soft.
So, that night, a very explosive video instantly appeared on the screen of all the TV news programs. It was the video of the Blizzard Entertainment employees who went to beg for forgiveness and were beaten up by the security guards.
This video faithfully recorded the scene where the employees of Blizzard Entertainment ran over to beg for forgiveness. Their posture was the lowest. As a result, a group of ferocious security guards rushed over. After a while, they immediately drove people away with sticks. Finally, several Blizzard Entertainment employees were beaten until their heads were full of blood.
After the video was broadcasted, all the major television stations stated that it was a video taken by a reporter by chance. Now, the reporter was being tracked by an unknown force and was hiding in a secret place, not daring to come out. They could only send the video to the television stations.
When such a video was broadcasted all over the United States, and it was broadcasted on primetime news programs, it was easy to imagine what kind of terrifying effect it would have.
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