this is why you dont cater to the chinese market as a western company. eventually there will come to be a copy of your work that is owned by an affiliate of the chinese state govt and you are left hanging out to dry. wonder how the lawsuit will go? my guess, not that great. historically, trying to take china to court over copyright infringement laws that dont exist over there doesnt work out.
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A Chinese company would copy Blizz whether Blizz catered to the Chinese market or not. They might as well make some money off the deal.
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Looks like a very crappy ripoff, it is not even a MMORPG.
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Got curious so decided to Google.
By the Titans they didnât even try. As soon as it loads you hear a slightly modified âLegends of Azeorthâ, the factions are Alliance v Horde, characters include Varian, Sylvanas, ect.
Itâs awesome how blatant it is.
I do like how they decided to keep the some of the Alliance characterâs names, but totally effed up the Horde ones. Sylvanas is Azshara, Grom Hellscream is âHellstreamâs Warsongâ. They didnât even try and just called Gulâdan âOrc Warlockâ lol
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True, cruddy ripoff is crummy, but while itâs a crummy ripoff, it IS rather blatant in ripping off Blizzâs IP. A lawsuit isnât misplaced here I think.
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I need chibi Gulâdan in my life.
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Thats not a ripoff, that is the next expansion and update to the game. We all have phones after all right?
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OMG, they are not even trying to hide it.
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That looks fun
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Welcome to collateral damage. Government sanctioned copyright infringement and ip theft in China a byproduct of Trumpâs one man trade war. lol
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I appreciate your patriotism but that has been wrong for years. The USA no longer has the factories needed to manufacture these components since weâve started buying them for far cheaper from overseas. Why manufacture here when you can buy overseas for pennies on the dollar?
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Youâre right actually. What I more meant was we can find an alternative to China. They donât even have to be as big. The countries of Mexico or Egypt could meet a lot of the industrial demand China previously met for our economy.
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How do we know Blizzard didnât copy from them?
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Fair point. As someone who works in an industry that deals with a lot of import v domestic, Iâd really rather we still had the capability to be way more self sustaining, but it is what is is.
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Sylvanas is Roleplaying Azshara though, looked at gameplay video and they name swapped.
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That run animation makes me hate him a little less.
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Lol really?
They do know this is futile right?
Copyright laws donât really exist in China. Unless itâs a BLATANT rip off, they are very lax. And by blatant ripoff, they mean it. Unless it was a direct MMO with very similar graphics, itâs not going anywhere.
China is much more lax with what they consider âFair Useâ than the US. While video game knock offs and such are not normally covered under it, any company who does this is well versed enough they can finagle their way into using it to their advantage.
Thereâs a reason 90% of these cases go nowhere in China, because China prohibits them from going anywhere, because the companies know what to do to tell the Chinese Government that the US company has no standing.
People think China is our friend in the WestâŚthey hate us and I lived there for 2 years and they aid we are naive.Go there and you can buy a knockoff of everything.
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you know this was a problem with China forever though, right? Like theyâve never enforced copyright laws. There are plenty of countries that do this, itâs just China is the largest.
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