{"id":153203,"date":"2022-12-09T21:42:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/riot-is-suing-netease-over-what-its-claiming-is-a-valorant-clone\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T21:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T21:42:58","slug":"riot-is-suing-netease-over-what-its-claiming-is-a-valorant-clone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/riot-is-suing-netease-over-what-its-claiming-is-a-valorant-clone\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot is Suing NetEase Over What It’s Claiming is a Valorant Clone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valorant developer Riot Games is suing NetEase over its game, Hyper Front.<\/p>\n

According to Polygon, a filing at a UK court claims that Hyper Front is a \u201ccopy of substantial parts of Valorant\u201d. Riot claims there are a number of similarities, including characters, maps, weapons, weapon skins, weapons stats, and charms. <\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our creative choices are mirrored in NetEase’s game,\u201d said Riot Games’ lawyer, Dan Nabel. \u201cWe don’t think that changing the color of a character ability or slightly modifying the visual appearance changes the fact that it’s copyright infringement. It’s like that old saying, ‘You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Valorant is a free-to-play first-person shooter that pits two teams of five against each other, much the same as Hyper Front.<\/p>\n

The claims that NetEase did make changes following a complaint from the company, but the result is much the same, with only minor cosmetic differences to differentiate them.<\/p>\n

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Riot essentially wants the courts to force NetEase to shut down Hyper Front while also claiming \u201csubstantial\u201d damages, however, they did not specify a figure. The lawsuit has been raised across various territories including UK, Germany, Brazil, and Singapore due to the territorial nature of copyright law.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t want to rely on one particular market to have this issue resolved,\u201d said Nabel. \u201cNetEase is a global publisher, as are we. We want them to know that we take the matter very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n