The sales of the same price of a certain platform game with the game are very different
Red Star News reporter | Luo Mengjie intern Li Shuangshuang
Editor| Pan Li
At 2:00 a.m., a large number of players were still active in the team hall of the mobile game "Peace Elite". Among them, the escorts under the banner of "upper score" and "accompanying chat" account for two-thirds. After randomly selecting a team to enter, the owner indicates that the room is "playing with the boss (ordering users)", only 30 yuan can enjoy an hour of VIP treatment, and "play with wheat, talent, steel gun, can score, all good materials can be given to the boss." The reporter asked the other party whether there was a service platform or a related team, and the other party said that it was an individual to accompany the play, all relying on integrity to receive orders, "After adding WeChat, you can first pay half of the deposit, and then end the payment after the service is over." ”
Through the investigation, the Red Star News reporter found that the current game accompaniment market is mainly divided into two categories, one is the "official" escort group that relies on the platform, organized and scale, and the other is the private personal accompaniment through WeChat and QQ. The former can be retrieved on major accompaniment apps or e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Pinduoduo, and the latter requires players to find and identify themselves on game or social platforms.
Mr. Mu, who is engaged in the incubation of the Internet play studio, told the Red Star News reporter that due to the low entry threshold of the play market, and there are more players in the market, the payment methods are also diverse, "In order to avoid being deceived, it is recommended that the player and the player try to choose a team with the official platform as the background." Otherwise, once a dispute is encountered, it is difficult to get properly handled. ”
In this regard, Fu Jian, a lawyer at Henan Yulong Law Firm, said that game accompaniment belongs to the service industry, so it is supervised by the market supervision department and the industry and commerce department, and is supervised by the consumer association for service quality, "whether it is an orderer or a player, in the process of accompanying the game, if you encounter unreasonable requirements, you can complain to the market supervision and management department, and if the circumstances are serious, you should promptly notify the public security organs or file a lawsuit with the people's court." ”
Play platform:
There is an unreasonable commission, but also to assess the amount of orders
Game accompaniment, that is, the person who accompanies the player to play the game in the game, can get paid according to the time of companionship or the agreed service provided to the player. It is understood that in 2016, the domestic play market was mostly limited to Taobao, YY, Tieba and other places. However, with the advent of popular mobile games such as "Glory of the King", "Peace Elite" and "Yin and Yang Division", the escort industry has also ushered in an upward period, and has begun to tilt towards independent platforms with social and payment functions.
After a period of barbaric growth, some of the accompanying platforms have gradually shown a deformed development trend. In 2021, some media have successively exposed that many domestic escort apps have illegal services such as pornography and naked chat, and even the use of multiple accounts to spread vulgar and soft pornographic information, induce minors to participate in accompanying play, and induce player users to place orders. In response to various chaos, on September 7, 2021, the relevant state departments interviewed some of the accompanying platforms. Soon, 7 companion apps such as Fawn Play, Bixin, and Coco Ciri were removed from the app store indefinitely. Many studios that used to focus on accompanying play have also been closed or transformed.
"I used to be a companion on the Bixin APP, but later due to the large number of users on the platform, I had to leave Bixin to find another way." Dabai, a 19-year-old playing practitioner, told Red Star News that two years ago he had registered as a companion god of the mobile games "Glory of the King" and "Peace Elite" on the Bixin APP, and could receive 2-3 orders a day at a unit price of 15 yuan per hour. According to Dabai, since then, there have been two major categories of technical accompaniment and entertainment accompaniment in the accompanying market. For players with needs, female accompaniment, as well as games with good avatars and good sounds, are the first choice.
A dispatch link in a play club
In the Spring Festival of 2022, through the recruitment of Douyin netizens, Dabai became a member of a play club. "Every day, you have to crouch in front of WeChat and pay attention to whether there is any dispatch information at any time." Dabai said that after joining the club, all the dispatch information is released in a WeChat group, requested by the boss of the order, and the accompanying play to be received will be auditioned in the group one by one, "Each escort uses voice to introduce their own dan, KD, and specialties, etc., a bit like the ancient emperor's concubine." Da Bai said that due to the lack of monks and porridge, and most of the bosses will have additional needs, some non-characteristic accompaniment often does not have a single pick-
Shop prices and the price of the game to play at the end of the hand
In addition, Dabai also said that during the period of cooperation with the club, the most difficult thing for him to accept was the unreasonable commission of the club. "In the past, in Bixin, the accompanying play withdrawal platform would extract ten percent of the handling fee, but now the club will ask for nearly half of the remuneration for accompanying the play, and even evaluate and punish." For example, Dabai said to reporters that its current unit price of play is 30 yuan per hour, but after completion, the club will draw half of the service fee, and the monthly club will also be assessed according to the amount of orders received by the accompanying play, calculated according to the minimum monthly standard of 5 singles, and those who do not meet the standard will either deduct 10-50 yuan or be kicked out of the club.
The final price of the game that takes orders in the platform store
Ms. Si, the manager of Yuekui Guangyu Studio, told reporters that since the successive rectification of the accompanying play platform last year, many accompanying play practitioners have begun to choose to rely on channels such as Douyin, Kuaishou, Taobao, Salted Fish, WeChat Public Account, and Pinduoduo to solicit customers, so there have also been many unreasonable drawing problems.
According to relevant sources, the price list of a large-scale escort group on a certain platform in the game "Light Encounter" is 5.68 yuan / 30 minutes of customer orders, to the head of the group for 2 yuan, 11.88 yuan / 60 minutes of customer list, to the head of the group of 4 yuan, after calculation, the type of store draw reached 6 ~ 6.6%.
Ms. Si mentioned in the video the unreasonable commission
Ms. Si gave an example that the blind box quotation of her play studio on the A store is 11 yuan per hour, but the quotation of the same type of store on the B platform is a blind box 1 hour 16 to 25 yuan a single, "The platform play service gets the salary after 3 hours, which is similar to the salary we get for 1 hour of play with the store." Obviously an unreasonable draw. ”
Red Star News reporter learned that according to different service requirements, the "light encounter" game per hour pricing ranges from 3 yuan to 35 yuan, of which the more popular "white bird number" is more than 30 yuan per hour, the reporter found in the relevant comment area that the unit price of a platform store "white bird number" is as low as 4 yuan / 15 minutes, and there is no subsidy.
Personal Accompaniment:
Relying on integrity to take orders, it is easy to encounter bad debts and run orders
Compared with the unreasonable commissions that have to be faced when relying on the accompanying platform to take orders, some individuals who do not have a service platform and related teams behind them seem to be much freer. In this regard, Wu Yang, a play practitioner, said that it was "not reliable". Wu Yang said that after the rectification of the accompanying play platform, most of the accompanying players have broken away from the shackles of the platform's dispatch, but they have also increased the transaction risk.
In the team hall of the mobile game "Peace Elite", when the reporter randomly selects a team to enter, the homeowner indicates that the room is "playing with the boss (ordering users)", and only 30 yuan can enjoy one hour of VIP treatment. When the reporter asked the other party whether there was a service platform or a related team, the other party said that it was an individual to accompany the play, all relying on good faith to take orders, "after adding WeChat, you can first pay half of the deposit, and then end the payment after the service is over." ”
In this regard, Wu Yang, a practitioner of accompaniment, said: "Without a platform as an intermediary to bear risks, it is difficult for the escort group or individual to rely on online social platforms to ensure the integrity of users. Especially individuals, it is easier to encounter users who run orders and pay accounts. Wu Yang said that he once took over an order from the Xingyao Duan position to the King Duan position alone through Douyin, and the two sides agreed to pay one-third of the deposit first, and then pay the final payment after success. However, after the other party completed the agreement, it directly blocked it and there was no news.
A voice accompaniment player Kokura who did the substitute ranking in the fifth personality game also told reporters that he had a similar encounter. "I once left the e-commerce platform to privately take over an order on behalf of the agent, and the first cooperation was very smooth, but when I cooperated for the second time, the other party defaulted on the single fee on the grounds that the pocket money had not yet arrived, involving an amount of more than 1,000 yuan." Kokura said that in many of the orders he received, he also encountered a user posing as a minor, "He used the fact that the minor could not recharge as an excuse to let the escort buy props in the game through the intermediary he introduced and give them to him, and then lied that he would transfer money to the companion through other platforms." But in fact, several roles before and after are this user, and he did not transfer money to the accompaniment as agreed, so we lost more than 2,000 yuan. However, due to the fact that the amount involved in the case was not enough to file a case, in the end, Kokura could only admit that he was unlucky.
Through the investigation, the Red Star News reporter found that the current accompanying play market is mainly divided into two categories, that is, relying on the platform, organized and large-scale "official" escort group, and private personal accompaniment through WeChat and QQ social networking. The former can be retrieved on major accompaniment apps or e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Pinduoduo, and the latter requires players to find and identify themselves on game or social platforms.
"Due to the low entry threshold of the accompaniment market, there are many accompanying play practitioners in the market at present, and the payment methods they rely on are also various." Therefore, it is inevitable to be deceived, it is recommended that the accompanying players and players try to choose a team with the official platform as the background. Mr. Mu, who is engaged in the incubation of the Internet play studio, told the Red Star News reporter that the official, large-scale play group pays attention to long-term development, but also pays attention to its own credibility, once the dispute between the play and the consumer will be coordinated from it, and help to solve, "but the independent, private player is difficult to distinguish its credibility, so after the dispute with the consumer, the two sides can not coordinate can only be reported to the police." ”
Gamers:
The phenomenon of cheating money and running orders occurs repeatedly
It is understood that game accompaniment is a subdivision industry in the middle of the e-sports industry, that is, between platform operators and consumers. Because there is no clear unified supervision of functional departments, there is no unified pricing standard for the unit price of accompanying play in the market, and there is a lack of official complaint channels for consumers and practitioners in communication. According to the Beijing News, the supervision of the accompanying industry platform is weak, and the practitioners are mixed, which eventually leads to the industry's suspected ambiguity, eroticism and other gray attributes.
On Sina's consumer service platform Black Cat Complaint, the reporter searched with "accompanying play" as the keyword and found a total of 2410 related cases, and the black cat complaint platform searched for "game accompaniment" with 602 results. In the complaint content in March 2022, there were many complaints against the game companion platform, involving issues such as suspension, recharge, refund, and false publicity of the accompanying software. In addition, some users also complained about the game to play with fraudulent money, running orders, etc.
"I've been tricked by playing with you." Netizen Xiaoxi told the Red Star News reporter that she had selected a male to play with according to the evaluation and voice on a certain platform, and placed 3 orders in a row. But after playing two games together, I found that the accompanying technology was not good, so I wanted to return the last order, "He told me that the platform could not be refunded, only I could return it on WeChat, let me go to the platform to confirm the receipt and evaluation, but after I followed his operation, he deleted me." ”
In addition, on Douyin, Red Star News reporters also retrieved that many players had publicly published statements about being cheated by accompanying play. One of the female players said that in order to get the avatar frame of the God of War duan position in the game "Peace Elite", she specially found a private escort to play a thousand yuan order, and also paid half of the deposit in advance, but in the end, the escort not only did not complete the task of the God of War, but also did not return the deposit to her, but said that the deposit had been paid for its labor fees, and there was no refund.
What the lawyer says:
Game accompaniment belongs to the service industry
It shall be subject to the supervision of the market supervision department and the industry and commerce department
Fu Jian, a lawyer at Henan Yulong Law Firm, said that game accompaniment belongs to the service industry, so it is supervised by the market supervision department and the industry and commerce department, and is supervised by the consumer association for the quality of service, "whether it is an orderer or a player, in the process of accompanying the game, if you encounter unreasonable requirements, you can complain to the market supervision and management department, and if the circumstances are serious, you should also promptly notify the public security organs or file a lawsuit with the people's court." ”
Lawyer Fu Jian told the Red Star News reporter that consumers should be carefully screened when ordering the accompanying service, especially when ordering private orders, they should determine the price and the content of the accompanying play in advance, and once they are found to be deceived, they should stop the loss in time, and if the suspected fraud funds are large, they should immediately notify the public security organs. At the same time, game accompaniment practitioners can also take necessary legal measures in accordance with the law when facing different problems.
"If it is a contractual problem, the accompanying practitioner can apply for arbitration or litigation to resolve it." Although the employee and the platform may not have signed a written contract, in fact, the labor relationship has arisen, and the employee may request to sign a labor contract while retaining the evidence of service for the platform, and may apply for arbitration or file a lawsuit in accordance with the Labor Law for damage to their own interests. Lawyer Fu Jian said that if it involves issues such as serious nature, damage to personal safety, privacy and property, the accompanying practitioners can collect evidence and report to the public security organs for handling. If you encounter problems in industry norms, you can also reflect the situation to the market supervision department or the industry and commerce department through the government website.
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