PUBG Makers Start Suing Over Copyrights And Frying Pans (Jim Sterling) - General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpKkvMf3j9s

sounds like somebody is a bit butthurt that fortnite is more successful

nah this is against Rules Of Survival

It was Fortnite BR's announcement that sent BlueHole off-the-rails on wanting to sue competitors.

To be fair though, that's not because of the game being a battle royal game though, since it used PUBG directly in it's marketing material whether it holds any grounds is up in the air, korean shit could be different for all I know, I'm not a lawyer, but they aren't going to sue people who make battle-royal games, Just people who attempt to make a carbon copy of the game God forbid bluehole be the first to make a match-three game though

Bluehole should throw themselves into a black hole

But games since at least TF2 has frying pans? Kinda dumb for the PUBG creator to think it's possibly their idea.

And then even then games as old as Unreal had them modded in as joke melee weapons, its the least original idea ever

That's funny i'm pretty sure tf2 owns the frying pan now, i mean the golden one might as well be the most expensive item ever.

The original Fable had a frying pan as a unique, useless weapon.

It's likely more the specific combination of it being a frying pan that also acts as ghetto armour. Something almost no other game with a pan has done, making it a somewhat novel creative idea that could potentially be protected. But that pan isn't the centre of the entire thing, RoS and Knives Out are almost 1:1 copies of PUBG with the exact same game loop, suspiciously similar art direction, some assets that did appear to be too similar to be a coincidence, etc. Bluehole aren't out of order to be attempting legal action against blatant copies of their IP. And PU himself doesn't have an issue with imitator games so long as they aren't cloning the PUBG experience and attempt something new (Fortnite with it's more slapstick combat and building system for example is trying something new, that Isles of Nyne shite youtubers were paid to play goes for a Sci-fi aesthetic and more fast paced gameplay loop, etc.)

I think you people are missing the point; of course individually any one of these comparisons is frankly absurd. No game can wholly copyright the use of frying pans as weaponry or knockoff energy drinks as consumables; however, the sheer volume of these kinds of "coincidences" is what gives the company's legal complaint weight. Unless you're telling me that it's all one big coincidence. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109677/87497947-fbfd-412b-b675-c650300958a1/image.png If you showed most people this image sans branding and phone controls, they'd probably say "That's PUBG, right?"

Dude frying pans as melee weapon have been a thing long before fucking PUBG. Left 4 Dead 2??

Considering how insanely generic PUBG looks its kind of impossible for any open field modern shooter to not look like pubg

https://www.wikipunch.com/images/1/1b/Wipwok.jpg It's just a pan, what's the worst that could happen?

By that logic the DayZ or ARMA devs could make a case against PUBG

The difference between those and Rules of Survival are very, very obvious, what a non-sequitur.

The things that they have in common is what this is all about. PUBG doesn't own the rights to an entire genre of games, it isn't even anything close to the first battle royale game. H1Z1?

Which ones which https://survivethis.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/dayz_survivors.jpg https://www.instant-gaming.com/images/products/1358/screenshot/1358-3.jpg https://media.wnyc.org/i/1200/627/l/80/1/dayz.jpg https://icdn7.digitaltrends.com/image/pubg-4k-04.jpg https://www.gamepur.com/files/images/2014/pubg-wiki-guide.jpg https://cdn4.areajugones.es/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-2-810x400.jpg https://www.dsogaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DayZ-standalone-feature-672x372.jpg https://www.rockpapershotgun.com//images/14/feb/dayzd/dayz_5.jpg

I wonder when they are gonna claim they invented the shrinking playfield for anti-camping and to keep the action moving or some bullshit excuse next. I actually want to see that because then they would basically be going against Ubisoft with Shootmania all the way back in like 2013 with its Royale gamemode which did that and I don't think they want to do Ubisofts lawyers like that. I just don't understand how a company can have enough pride in a frankengame pieced together from multiple sources and ideas (which is technically fine) that they would so regularly claim to own/have created many of them (The not so fine part). It's like grade school level behavior. It's basically a focus group project designed to ride a wave of currently popular fads as hard as possible, you think they would just be happy with that and stop opening their mouths and try and make their game a better example of its kind instead of a messy joke.

I bet you ten cents (heh) that it's some Tencent stooge looking for a quick buck.

dayz or knockoff probably dayz Dayz That one weird arena game with the spastic announcer Dayz pubg pubg pubg dayz dayz

at least it wasn't a wok.

The point is that most people would have a very hard time telling them apart, because they are very similar. This entire thing becomes especially silly considering "player unknown" / Brendan Greene talked about imitating the look and feel of ARMA as much as possible during the early development of PUBG

Very good you read the image links.

lmao it really isn't that hard to differentiate them if you know even a tiny bit about the games. I mean, unless you're legally blind, then I could see it being hard. Of course the games on the surface level "look the same", that is going to happen to things that use realistic visuals. There's only so many ways one can render a M16 and keep it looking real. But "looking realistic" isn't why PUBG Corp/ Bluehole/ Tencent have tried taking legal action. I know it's a popular thing to hate on currently popular games on this forum, but in this case they might actually have a case against some of the blatant clone mobile games. If they don't, it gets thrown out of court and life continues like nothing happened.

I actually didn't, you snob. Though I reverse image searched the 4th image to find the name afterwards (The Culling btw)

I'm not hating on PUBG, I play it every day. I'm saying the company is making a dumb move.

Regardless of the point at hand, Sterling's constant narcissistic, know-it-all holier-than-though attitude makes it difficult for me to listen to him, regardless of how valid his points are. The dude is just way too full of himself.

That's literally his persona.