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The Clone Wars - League of Titans is China's OW Rip Off
SBFord
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The Clone Wars - League of Titans is China's OW Rip Off
Chinese game developers have no shame when it comes to cloning hit games in other regions. The latest is League of Titans, a fervent effort (if poorly executed) to copy Overwatch for mobile devices. They say a picture speaks a thousand words so we'll just leave you with this video.
UPDATE: Polygon (via Reddit where the producer writes about the game) is reporting that the company behind League of Titans claims the video was made for a tech presentation about its ability to host large scale games and that the game it created for that purpose was never meant for release.
The producer tells the reporter: the leaked images are from an industrial inside convention. We put the images out in the convention to discuss with our peers that how to learn the game design concepts from Blizzard to apply to web and mobile platform. we Prepared this technical demo to show that we can mimic the same control feeling and model in a web page. ... The video is actually recorded from a webpage. We did not expect someone secretly record the video and put on the internet. ... When the real game come out, you will see nothing relevant to Blizzard's design element. We show the video to prove our browser game design techniques and want to find someone cooperating with us on a similar game on web page.
The game is still under development and we dont want to leak more information. I can say that only certain gameplay is similar to overwatch, but we will add our own design and we want to do the web version "overwatch". We just want to explain that the role design in the video is not the real one in our final game.
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Can they go away with this?
Haha, yeh this is typical China. They innovate sometimes, but mostly just copy other countries military weapons, software and tech in general. That way they focus less on R & D and more on production.
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
but behold! A chinese company clones a title of his holy blizzardness and here we have a headline.
Who said recently that Suzie's Blizzard fanboyism never affects her way of reporting news?
not to get into politics deeply but they manipulate they're currency so they can undercut our trade deals and have advantages over American products. Free trade act -isn't Fair trade. until this gets fixed we are sol.
As you well know, you can always send tips along. We take a look at everything.
Thanks for the great feels at 5:30 am.
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i have not seen a clone as bad as this in the US. I have seen games that where based off others but this is a literal copy and paste. you know kinda like CoD has been the past few years.
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Volgore the only example I know of where Americans are doing it as well is Samsung verse Apple BUT they have been stealing each others technology and have been in court winning and losing over different things. Once Apple won a patent infringement against Samsung but didn't specifiy how they were going to pay out so Samsung sent truck loads of Nickles to the company that they had to count by hand ><
Here's to incoming foreign labour :P
Besides: half the indie scene is clones of bigger games and those are western "developpers" too afaik.
Unless you are a share holder why would anyone care about them copying the game? it makes Blizzard put more effort in to make their product better because if they don't that giant chinese market will go play the clone instead.
As far as I can see this clone isn't anywhere near as good so it's not an issue, it does however keep blizzard on their toes while normally they could get complacent.
Why join when u can skip that part completely, and go into the ruling the world part right away :P
Not like they skipped joining the developed world, they just pick and chose what exactly they want to do and what they don't want to do from the laundry list
the clone is almost perfect :P
Polygon (via Reddit where the producer writes about the game) is reporting that the company behind League of Titans claims the video was made for a tech presentation about its ability to host large scale games and that the game it created for that purpose was never meant for release.
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As if there is a clone as good as Blizzard products. People have been trying it for years with WoW.