Chapter 149 Catfish's Counterattack

152. Maoyu's Counterattack

When Xiao Wang and Tang Wen were discussing Maoyu, Maoyu's CEO Lao Ma frowned and asked his thirteen generals: "Why don't we acquire a game?"

"Lao Ma, you think too much. Our Maoyu's weakness is social networking. Do you think anyone will use Maoyu accounts to play games?" General Manager Jin Jian said speechlessly.

Senior Technical Director Xie Wei shook his head and said: "MQ now accounts for more than 70% of the Chinese game market. Even if we Maoyu acquire a game, we don't have their channels to promote it."

The other eleven people also nodded in agreement. Maoyu's strength is payment, and its weakness is obviously social networking. If you are going to copy games like MQ to do social networking, then the previous Shengfang Network is an example.

There are too many companies that died on the road of MQ copying. The patent protection period of just a few months is the best production cycle in MQ's view.

Once the protection of the patent rights expires, it will be too easy for MQ to reap the fruits with its powerful social network. Take Shengfang Network, the earliest, largest and most profitable game company in China.

Shengfang Network spent a lot of money to buy games abroad, but after a few months, MQ moved them to its side "as is" using social software.

Chen Qiao of Shengfang Network was so angry that he cursed, but what could he do? MQ, which has hundreds of millions of people in social networking, is so awesome.

Gradually, MQ company started social games. No one else in China can do this alone to divert traffic from social networking to their own games.

So what Lao Ma said about defeating MQ by making games is like a dream.

"How about? Let's make a chat function on Maoyu Payment?" Lao Ma said suddenly.

"Open a chat function on the payment software?" Technical Director Xie Wei was stunned.

"Yes, that's it. We will attack them by surprise, so that we can catch them off guard." Lao Ma shouted excitedly, as if he had seen the day when MQ was squeezed out of the chat software.

Regarding hearing from Xiao Wang that Maoyu was going to develop a chat software. Tang Wen could only give Lao Ma four words.

"Digging one's own grave"

Payment software is originally a very private thing. If the chat function is added, it will give people a sense of insecurity, just like the time and space of Tang Wen in his previous life.

Maoyu who took this step may suffer huge losses. If all this needs to be recovered, the funds required will be very large.

On the other hand, MQ not only has taxis, bicycles, and external payment entrances, but also grasps the minds of consumers. From time to time, MQ payment can randomly reduce a certain amount.

So Tang Wen is very pessimistic about Maoyu this time. Looking at the previous arguments between Maoyu and MQ, it is also because of Lao Ma's disdainful ideas.

In other words, Maoyu's Lao Ma is a mouth cannon player, and the things he comes up with are getting more and more annoying. This can be seen on the forum of Weiwei.

Recently, many netizens have said that Lao Ma's routines are getting fewer and fewer. Since the Singles' Day, there have been endless loopholes of obvious increases and hidden decreases, and full reductions.

Take the example of a hidden price increase. A product that originally costs 100 yuan is first raised to 200 yuan during an event, and then you are given a discount of 50 yuan. The event also gives you a discount of 30 yuan, a total discount of 80 yuan.

But you need to pay 120 yuan to buy something that originally costs 100 yuan. The extra 20 yuan is the handling fee of Maoyu, and the merchant is of course happy.

As for coupons, it is even more deceptive. What is 100-20, 200-50. When you choose, you will find that the event price is 98 yuan, and you are still 2 yuan short. There is no way to make up the order.

At first glance, the lowest price is 30 yuan, but in fact, the cost price of this is less than 10 yuan for the inventory, and they have made a profit of dozens of yuan from you.

Especially the cross-store discount recently launched by Maoyu, which is even more interesting. People who make up the order will find that you are always a few dozen yuan away from the next discount.

What to do to save money? Keep making up. In the end, you will find that you have unknowingly bought thousands of yuan when you only wanted to buy a few hundred yuan.

This is the so-called coupon loophole. The stores recommended to you by big data are all those with small differences in price. If you go to find something with similar unit price yourself, you will find it.

"This store does not participate in the full discount, and the category is different." So it is said that routines have been in people's hearts since ancient times.

Maoyu has played a lot in online shopping, but social aspects have always been its weakness. The unwilling Lao Ma plans to use Maoyu payment to test the waters this time.

Maoyu did it right away, and it took a week to optimize Maoyu payment. For the first time, the chat function was opened on the Maoyu payment APP. The funniest thing was that a function that Maoyu points can view photos was opened.

It was this function that made Maoyu suffer a big loss.

It is well known that Maoyu's Maoyu points are based on your consumption level. If you spend enough on Maoyu. Then your Maoyu points will be higher.

But this time Maoyu opened a function for male users with 700 points to view strangers' photos, and female users can view them for free, which made the public very unhappy.

Because generally men who shop on Maoyu online usually spend around 300-650. But this time, Maoyu has opened a function that allows people with 700 points to view photos of strangers, and girls can view them for free, which is a bit suggestive.

Although the photo function of Maoyu requires you to upload it yourself, this kind of disguised distinction between users is a bit unbearable for ordinary people.

Then the trend on the Internet began to change drastically.

"Maoyu transforms into a "cat bustard" and pimps out the payment software."

"A cat fish for rich people."

"No one with money deserves to see the photos."

"The cat-fish who transforms into a rich man's matchmaker."

Self-media on the Internet have begun to join in. In order to test the new functions of Maoyu, some self-media even borrowed the mobile phones of rich second-generation people to reveal the secrets to everyone.

A video on the BX original video website testing Maoyu payment went viral and was played more than 100 million times in just one day.

Even Tang Wen clicked on the video out of curiosity.

"Hello everyone, I am your favorite test ape." A wretched bald head appeared in the video and smiled.

“As we all know, Maoyu has updated the function of viewing photos of strangers by paying points. Now your favorite test ape will reveal the secret to you.”

After speaking, the bald man took out a mobile phone, shook it at the camera and explained: "Dear viewers, this is the mobile phone I use myself. I don't usually spend much on Maoyu, maybe more than a thousand yuan a month. . The current Maoyu score is 600 points.”

After introducing his mobile phone, he took out three more mobile phones and started introducing them one by one.

First, he picked up a domestic rice-only mobile phone and introduced: "This is the mobile phone my dad usually uses. The Maoyu score is about 350 points."

"In order to make this test fair and just, I will also take out my wife's, ahem, your sister-in-law's mobile phone to test it together." After that, he took a pink phone from the hand of a woman next to him. Fruit 5.

Then he picked up the last and newest Fruit 5th generation mobile phone and said with a lewd smile: "I borrowed this from a rich second-generation friend. His Maoyu score is 780. He is a real consumer boss." . If you don’t buy hundreds or thousands of dollars a day, you’ll feel uncomfortable all over.”

After the introduction, the bald head started his own test.

First, he picked up his father's rice phone, opened Maoyu Pay and clicked to view the strangers recommended by the system. After clicking, a message pops up on the phone.

"I'm sorry, your Maoyu points are not enough. Please keep working hard."

The bald man pretended to be regretful and said: "I also want to work hard, but I have no money. Okay, let's get down to business, let's take a look at the profile picture of the stranger that Maoyu recommended to my dad, who has a score of 350."

I saw him pick up the phone and start sliding down, while mumbling explanations.

"Why are these all blank avatars that come with the system?" After scrolling through a whole page, Baldhead gave up. The Maoyu system recommended for his father’s mobile phone are novice users who, like his father, had not set up avatars.

"As you can see, what are the strangers recommended with 350 points? Let's move on to the next account, which is your favorite tester's mobile phone. Pay attention to the 650 points."

In order to prove that there was no fraud, Bald opened Maoyu Pay on his mobile phone. It clearly stated that Maoyu Pay points were 650 points.

After proving it, the bald man rubbed his hands deliberately, then clicked to check on the stranger.

"I'm going to throw a hammer at him, why are the avatars recommended to me all by a bunch of otakus? What the hell is this two-dimensional guy? What the hell is this Shamate guy? Hey, there are actually women?"

After clicking the avatar, the bald man yelled: "Mother Diurei, you scared the baby to death."

After some scrolling, the bald head came to his own conclusion: "Among the approximately 600-650 male users, Maoyu generally recommends men who have the same hobbies as you. The number of women is very small. Ahem, please draw a picture. The main point is that the quality is not good.”

"According to what I just checked out of the 100 users recommended by the system, there are a total of 3 female users among them. The proportion is quite speechless." The tester said depressedly.

"Next, let's test my wife's phone." After that, he picked up his wife's phone and started to check it. After flipping through it casually, he frowned.

"I found that the boss of Maoyu, this bad old man, is very bad." The bald man raised his phone to make the content in the video clearer.

"As you can see, I used my wife's 600-score rewinder to check the people recommended by the system. Here you can see that basically all the recommended male users are posting personal photos."

After the bald head randomly clicked on a few users and entered, there were either big gold chains and watches, or people showing off steering wheels or real estate certificates.

"No, I have to let this prodigal old woman uninstall it immediately." The test ape went to find his wife to negotiate with him in anger.

After a while, the test monkey came back again, and the effect of the "bruise and swollen face" slapped by his wife was perfect.

"Ahem, viewers, your favorite test ape is back. After my disdainful efforts to resist, your sister-in-law finally agreed to uninstall Maoyu. Let's do the final test." "Make-up" on the face The test ape picked up the last rich second-generation mobile phone and clicked on Maoyu.

"As you can see, my second-generation rich friend paid 780 points, and now it's time to witness the miracle." The bald man smiled lewdly and clicked to check on the stranger.

"My mother-in-law, there are so many beautiful girls." The test ape burst into tears all over the floor.

The bald tester raised his hands with difficulty. The girls recommended on the mobile phone of the rich second generation were all girls showing off their breasts, waist lines, and long legs.

"Haha, you have become more capable." The wife of the tester appeared "appropriately" and grabbed his ears and pulled him away from the computer. The tester waved his claws at the phone in the air, pretending to be reluctant to leave.

Then the video ended here. It was precisely because of this video of the tester that Catfish has now become a software that is despised by the whole network.