Hey guys playing WoW is impossible, not because it’s hard, but because it’s a waste of time.
No way! That spaghetti code would only hold back any new game.
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sssshhhh, you will blow their minds with that one.
China is about as communist as I am 24 year old healthy male. I am soon 50, and lets jsut say I am not winning any body building contents in this part of the"metaverse" or most any others any time soon.
they play a slick game. but they are more capitalistic than the US. I don’t know what chinese for laissez faire is…but the chinese sure as hell do.
Yes they desperately want the source code to a game engine from 2001 that can’t do simple tasks properly
I can honestly say that I don’t care much one way or another. This is a question for Activision / Blizzards lawyers. However since copyright protection is not really enforced in China, I doubt even they will get answers.
I’ll answer you in detail, OP
WoW’s source code is not valuable to them, neither is the server code. The art assets and ideas, for sure but the rest of the tech is archaic. At most bot developers would benefit if they leaked it (???), which would suck but hardly be a crisis. I assure you.
WoW’s server and source code was already released to the public years ago by reverse-engineering to make emulated servers. It’s there and crusty if you want it, but I’d have to ask why?
Tencent would be absolutely daft to use code from WoW, and it began development before the deal went bad.
Not to mention Tarisland is a mobile game first and a PC game second, so they would have to make everything work on phones.
Are they using the bad deal into an opportunity for their mobile/pc game? Yes, it’s a smart time to advertise their fisher price WoW clone. Is it going to replace WoW in China? Absolutely not. It’s a cheap looking MMO that looks like hundreds of others they have available… for phones. Not to mention their PC MMO WoW clones that already exist.
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You mean the chinese stole someone elses intelectual property? thats new…lol
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Some how I doubt they’re using 20 year old tech to launch a new game.
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Tarisland looks similar to World of Warcraft.
TARISLAND STOLE DEMONHUNTERS!
World of Warcraft looks similar to Warhammer.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STOLE DEMONHUNTERS!
So, really you should be mad at Metzen for stealing the IP of Drukhari Mandrakes and Drazhar from Games Workshop…
…but you’re not.
You’re just hopping on the bandwagon of fake outrage.
And if it matters to you so much that they borrowed the idea of a dual blade wielding elf who casts immolation aura then it should matter to you equally as much that WoW stole the idea of a long haired tattooed demon elf dual wielding blades and immolating with his daemonic baelfire…
…but again, it doesn’t.
If you cared about some made up sanctity of IP infringement you would be OUTRAGED that Saurfang’s BFA armor looks like Grimmskulls. You would be SICKENED that Tier 7 Warlock armor is based off of Horus Lupercal. You would be CRYING YOUR RAGE TO THE HEAVENS because the new Bolvar looks exactly like Vulkan, right down to the flaming hammer.
…but again, you don’t care about any of that.
Just CHINA BAD!
Which it is, but lets not pretend you’re actually offended by fantasy IPs copying each other.
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You know what I think you’re right.
I’m reading your points and I’m thinking am I actually upset with the reverse scenario… I guess I’m not.
I really don’t like the Chinese government and that is definitely biasing me right now.
Good job on forcing me do some inner reflection
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Oh, no don’t worry.
China really is bad.
Like… really bad.
For things MUCH worse than IP infringement.
Don’t misunderstand… I don’t feel bad about it. You’re just right about my motive.
I dislike any government that takes away human rights and freedoms… Yes I know we’re supposed to respect other cultures but screw that
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Gou dan (gul’dan) in chinese means “dogs balls”, so they probably won’t copy him at least.
On the contrary I think they must
The tainted blood of gou dan means something much more terrifying
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The conversation between the two newscasters at the end of the report on this amusement park/copyright infringement in general is interesting. The newswoman is clearly bemused as she asks her colleague about the potential for Chinese reform on the issue of copyright; to paraphrase, he mentions that the Chinese government blames the Americans (and it sounds like the the Japanese were blamed, as well, going by the spoken dialogue–the park was using Doraemon and Sanrio characters in addition to the Disney ones, after all) for these transgressions, saying that licensing characters from them is too expensive and the economy of China comes first, so they will do what they must in order to save money. He says that, because the Chinese government considers themselves to be blameless in regard to the unauthorized use of copyrighted properties, reform is unlikely.
This clip appears to be rather old, so things may or may not be quite the same as they were back then, but it was worth taking a moment to watch. Thanks for sharing.
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I mean that’s the same reason why Russians hack everything… They are never to blame
of course they are, they just reskinned all the wow assets and coding they could retain and built chinese wow.
Ya think???
I’m not sure what part of any of this indicates I’m outraged or offended by this game lol? As said I have no personal stakes, all I’m interested in is if the community also feels based off the trailer that some assets were directly pulled from WoW, not inspired by, but like legit taken directly from the games files or something. Idc really if they were or weren’t it just seemed like an interesting thing to discuss overall and how it connects with the fact WoW shut down over in China. Overall I just find it to be an interesting story / theory lol.
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