{"id":154031,"date":"2022-12-10T20:07:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T20:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/riot-sues-netease-for-its-alleged-valorant-copy-hyper-front\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T20:07:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T20:07:58","slug":"riot-sues-netease-for-its-alleged-valorant-copy-hyper-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/riot-sues-netease-for-its-alleged-valorant-copy-hyper-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot sues NetEase for its alleged Valorant “copy”, Hyper Front"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Riot Games is suing NetEase for “substantial” damages over the similarities between its cooperative shooter Valorant and NetEase’s mobile title, Hyper Front.\n<\/p>\n

Polygon reports that the argument – filed in various countries right across the world, including the UK and Germany, due to varying copyright law – maintains free-to-play Hyper Front is “a copy of substantial parts of Valorant”, including its “characters , maps, weapons, weapon skins, and charms”.\n<\/p>\n

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Whilst player data for Hyper Front is currently unknown, Polygon points out that the Google Play Store says it has over a million downloads and almost 50,000 reviews. And whilst Hyper Front is currently unavailable in the US, where Riot is based, it is playable in many other territories where a mobile version of Valorant is currently in development and expected to release.\n<\/p>\n

The filing includes several screenshots that Riot alleges show how Valorant’s “creative choices” are “mirrored in NetEase’s game”.<\/p>\n

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Riot says NetEase has modified Hyper Front when it raised its issues privately with the company, but maintains that the copyright violation persists and now wants the game shut down.\n<\/p>\n

“All of our creative choices are mirrored in NetEase’s game,” Riot lawyer, Dan Nabel, told Polygon. “We 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’. ”\n<\/p>\n

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