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Edited by Icthus at 2017-7-14 03:11
The truth is that Moonton published a couple games earlier (Magic Rush & ML:5v5 MOBA) and Riot is suing them for how similar they are to LoL. Moonton is reluctant to acknowledge that those earlier games were blatant knockoffs, so they posted a response that has frustrated some of the community. What is frustrating lots of people are the "fake news" and "scam" accusations that Moonton made in their statement, when it is such a simple matter in the US to retrieve the lawsuit documents yourself from publicly available sources. I'm not sure if that is how things are done in China, but here one can just look up the casefile yourself, see that there really is a lawsuit, and even read the brief ourselves and laugh at how similar Magic Rush was to LoL.
The real crime, to me, is the terrible English in the statement ;) Moonton apparently has no English writers on staff that can translate a statement well, or that understand how the american legal system works (or that you can't sue a youtuber for voicing their opinion on the internet?!).
Given what seem to me to be some fairly obvious copyright violations, the likely result in my opinion is that Moonton will be fined for several violations in those earlier two games. Riot is seeking $150K per violation, so we all hope that the fines will not be too severe. One of the ironies to me is that Moonton has made a BETTER LoL clone (if it is a clone) than Tencent themselves. It would be sad to see a company taken down for making a *good* knockoff of a game; then for players to have no alternative but to play a *worse* knockoff made by the parent of the copied game!
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