Blizzard sued Chinese company for blatant plagiarism WarCraft

On August 16, Blizzard Entertainment filed a lawsuit in a California court alleging that the game, Glorious Saga, “copied nearly all of the Warcraft games and related products”. This is a free mobile game of the strategy genre released by Sina Games (China) globally, with a monthly revenue rating of tremendous.

In a lawsuit filed with the court, the father of World of WarCraft asked the court to stop the “infringing and causing serious and irreparable damage to Blizzard and its business.” “, according to Polygon.

In addition, Blizzard proposed a compensation of $ 150,000 for each violation, as well as the defendant must bear the costs of lawyers and the costs incurred during the lawsuit.

According to Blizzard’s allegations, most of the Sina Games developed by the game have borrowed elements based on famous brands such as Yu-Gi-Oh !, Naruto and especially WarCraft. The company also emphasized that the game Glorious Saga of Sina Games is only one of many cases of signs of copyright infringement of Blizzard. Game development studios in mainland China often try to copy the character image design in Blizzard’s titles like Warcraft or World of WarCraft, which are globally popular and loved by many Chinese gamers. .

Create characters in Glorious Saga and Illidan Stormrage in World of Warcraft

In the case of Glorious Saga, the game illegally used Warcraft names like Jaina Proudmoore, Gul’dan, and Malfurion. Not only that, shaping characters in Warcraft Illidan Stormrage, Grommash Hellscream, Malfurion, and Gul’dan were also used illegally.

” All the animations of monsters, animals, mounts in infringing games are copied from Warcraft, ” Blizzard pointed out in the lawsuit. ” Weapons, amulets and other items are blatantly borrowed from Warcraft. Similarly, Warcraft’s sound effects and soundtracks have been copied intact .” Blizzard’s lawyer also accused the icon of Glorious Saga of even plagiarizing the cover design of the Battle of Azeroth expansion of World of Warcraft. According to Blizzard, the copying of Sina Games is “intentional and intentional”.

This is not the first time Blizzard has sued another company for violating his intellectual property.   The company has a long history of copyright lawsuits, such as a dispute with Valve (DOTA 2) or a counterfeit game of Overwatch in 2017.

In fact, with many famous game brands such as Overwatch and Warcraft, it’s not surprising that Blizzard has always been considered a favorite object (?!) To game manufacturers in China … plagiarism. Most of Blizzard’s famous game series such as Warcraft, Overwatch always have copied versions in the country of billions of people, with images, character designs and gameplay are blatantly “borrowed”.

As for Sina Games – this is a subsidiary company specializing in game development and distribution, under the software and technology corporation Sina Corp. In China, Sina Corp is one of the technology corporations with “blood” when owning Sina social network.

Refer to Polygon