Chinese Developer Steals Content From Torchlight, Gets Caught By Runic, and Reluctantly Agrees to Re
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[B]Edit: Added beta footage from Armed Heroes. (Includes stolen sounds, models, textures, etc.)[/B]
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[quote=Joystiq]
[URL]http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/19/egls-to-modify-some-parts-of-its-ios-mmo-in-wake-of-torchlight/[/URL]
Chinese developer Entertainment Game Labs will remove "some parts" of its game, [I]Armed Heroes Online[/I], the company tells Joystiq. Those "parts," it sounds like, are the ones that Runic Games is saying [URL="http://www.joystiq.com/2012/07/17/torchlight-art-found-in-ios-mmo-mmo-dev-denies-theft-against-st/"]were stolen from its Torchlight franchise[/URL]. "Players always come first," EGLS said in a statement. "There, we prefer to modify some parts of [I]Armed Heroes Online[/I] where have caused those disputes rather than go on arguing. As long as this carves out a way out of angry disputes, it will be definitely worth our efforts," the statement reads.
Despite the alterations coming to [I]AHO[/I], its developer sticks by the game, remaining defiant that any of Runic's Torchlight assets were used in the creation of its iOS MMO. "We want to make clear, if necessary, that we would like to submit the documents, files, and other materials related to the game developing to Apple to prove the originalities of the game and the efforts we devoted into the game developing," the statement says.
Runic Games president Travis Baldree contends that he's already looked through AHO's files, however, and that they're far more damning that EGLS wants to admit. "I also downloaded the app, and you can just unzip them and look at any iPhone app. And there was a sound manifest that listed all the sound files in the game, and they were verbatim all of our sound files, including our own misspellings," Baldree told us in an interview yesterday. "Our technical artist Adam Perin did voices for a sword called 'The Sword of Adam.' And it had goofy little things that he would say when you swung the sword. And those were in there [[I]Armed Heroes Online[/I]], even in one of their videos," he said.
For Runic, this solution – should it actually play out – is exactly what Baldree was hoping would happen. "We're really just trying to get the thing pulled down from the App Store and to have them use their own assets. We were a little baffled by their initial response, and we'd be more than happy to talk to them and see what's up," he said. As of right now,[I]Armed Heroes Online[/I] isn't available via the iTunes App Store, and it's seemingly been pulled by Apple following Runic's takedown request.[/quote]
Why would you think for even a second that you could get away with this. :v:
[QUOTE=Super Muffin;36881391][IMG]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2012/07/torchlightandarmedheroes530pxheaderimg.jpg[/IMG]
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Why would you think for even a second that you could get away with this. :v:[/QUOTE]
Because China produces cheap knock off replicas of everything else and seems to be getting away with it.
i dont like asia
At least they aren't being assholes about it - they're removing whatever they've stolen.
I wonder if CCP knows about that iPhone app game that stole tons of ship models and shit from Eve Online.
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Why would you think for even a second that you could get away with this. :v:
[B]Edit: Added beta footage from Armed Heroes[/B]
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They did make a TF2 rip-off right . ?
[QUOTE=Stopper;36881436]At least they aren't being assholes about it - they're removing whatever they've stolen.[/QUOTE]They were assholes originally, even going so far as to try to indicate that the Torchlight devs had stolen content themselves.
nooooooo please stop giving us Chinese a bad rep :(
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;36881411]Because China produces cheap knock off replicas of everything else and seems to be getting away with it.[/QUOTE]
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And yet THIS gets no legal attention? Crazy;
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Valve's just way too nice.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;36881509]And yet THIS gets no legal attention? Crazy;
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Valve's just way too [b]cool.[/b][/QUOTE]
ftfy
[QUOTE=Sobek-;36881509]And yet THIS gets no legal attention? Crazy;
[img_thumb]http://www.evilcontrollers.com/evilblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/final-combat-team-fortress-2-chinese-rip-off-troy-horton-evilcontrollers1.jpg[/img_thumb]
Valve's just way too nice.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure they're using Battlefield Heroes maps as well
China has knock-offs of everything that's popular in the west, including games -- be it Minecraft, Call of Duty or Team Fortress 2.
Torchlight should be glad it wasn't just a re-skinned version of his game copied to-code.
Wait, that character model during the character creation is tier 10 Warlock armor from WoW, I wonder if the entirety of this game is stolen content.
UN sanctions unless China gets a grip on the wildly out of control bootlegging issue.
[editline]22nd July 2012[/editline]
Make it happen.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;36881509]And yet THIS gets no legal attention? Crazy;
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Valve's just way too nice.[/QUOTE]
why is Heavy Weapons Guy a massively overweight Burger King employee? and why is he standing next to Muhammad Ali and a blonde Elvis-lookin dude?
that game must be fucking trippy
[editline]22nd July[/editline]
and why is there a clown
You got the skills to make a whole damn game, but somehow can't make up some characters.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;36881509]And yet THIS gets no legal attention? Crazy;
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Valve's just way too nice.[/QUOTE]
that can't be TF2
it has clearly identifiable female characters
[QUOTE=Cone;36881572]why is Heavy Weapons Guy a massively overweight Burger King employee? [/QUOTE]
Fish stand worker
[video=youtube;2pBbOLPCjaU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pBbOLPCjaU[/video]
[editline]22nd July 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Cone;36881572]
and why is there a clown[/QUOTE]
Because he lost his job.
[video=youtube;z5eSNuQ8I2c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5eSNuQ8I2c[/video]
The rest are here:
[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1199720&p=36881819[/url]
why would you even rip off tf2
its free
[QUOTE=Fish Muffin;36881772]why would you even rip off tf2
its free[/QUOTE]
It wasn't always
and for consoles it still isn't. This probably has a console release planned.
[QUOTE=lavacano;36881798]It wasn't always
and for consoles it still isn't. This probably has a console release planned.[/QUOTE]
There's no way anyone would approve this.
[QUOTE=wingless;36882246]There's no way anyone would approve this.[/QUOTE]
its china, nobody needs to
[QUOTE=abcpea2;36882425]its china, nobody needs to[/QUOTE]
If they want it on a console like the PS3 or 360, they're going to have to.
[QUOTE=wingless;36882484]If they want it on a console like the PS3 or 360, they're going to have to.[/QUOTE]
They'll just release it for Zbox 350 and Gamestation 3.
and the popstation and treamcast
China doesn't have copyright laws. We can't do a thing sadly.
Under US copyright damages law, China probably owes us enough from copyright infringements to negate our debt to them.
Probably, except China doesn't give a fuck and also has the west by the balls. You aggravate China, you lose access to tons of cheap labour. Your economy will go down the shitter. Everyone relies on everyone these days, which is why having a single currency in Europe is such a retarded idea IMO.
[QUOTE=Pierrewithahat;36881439]I wonder if CCP knows about that iPhone app game that stole tons of ship models and shit from Eve Online.[/QUOTE]
I doubt they care. Seriously, those guy don't care about [I]shit
[/I][video=youtube;TTAcQKI3nAI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTAcQKI3nAI[/video]
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