How big of a rip off is this game?

[BrotherVT]

Of course cause riot would be so willing to let other people steal their stuff right? Riot would most likely not give them a licensing agreement to take their property and use it as their own.

Most games use the same concept and sometimes even the same looks as other games.
I don't see how this has become such a big issue for you.

Like, okay, it's a Cloth Armor from League of Legends. Whatever. Most players have already stated that it doesn't bother them - just bothers only YOU.
Whether or not they got permission is actually none of our business - nor is yours - as this is between the two companies.
Riot's League of Legends is similar to DotA - so does that make it copyrighted without permission?
They used the same type of mapping - very similar types of weaponry and armory - usage of potions and such.
As stated - the game Defense of the Ancients (as being DotA) was originally developed by Eul in Reign of Chaos.

Two of the developers partnered up with League of Legends in order to complete their game.
However, do you know if they got permission from Eul to use the same map concept?
Copy Infringement does apply here if you're going to argue it's not. Eul was the creator of the map.

As for Maplestory, oh damn - they used a useless piece of equipment from the game to use as a useless quest item in this game. Oh well.

[ArchangelZero7]

also game devs. team up literally all the time to help each other out. chances are if theyre co-oping theyd give some sort of permission for certain things :P its called, teamwork

[Kayshah]

According to this all MMOs should prolly pay copyright to Blizzard. Faulty logic is faulty. I refuse to play a C9 shaman unless they pay that, ofc they stole the shamans from WoW !!

[Sidoh]

many mmorpgs out there steal ideas from each other. luna online had ideas and images that there used in other games too. its not like this is the first game to do so. another game i used to play had its images and emotes stolen from others. funny thing is..these games all came from either chinese or korean originals. btw...blizzard steals ideas from others too o.o so whoever argues riot games and blizzard doesn't steal things...99% of the gaming industry has no original material. /end story.

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not even original franchise games like mario or pokemon are original ideas...they recycle old concepts and just add onto them...and the developement team is never the same for each game. if you can have plagiarism on your own work from using ideas from your old works...recycling your own ideas in a new game also makes it huge rip. so i guess that means the entire gaming industry should just be burned to the ground then for the OP's happiness >.>

[ArchangelZero7]

or no money for original material :/

[Codawg211]

Pong. Eh, board games anyone?

[Kkrazymen]

I personally dont care if they use same pics as other games really only thing i hate is that some random items has the same pics as like other items for exemple SoT has the same pic of a random beast dropping item or a plant one dont really remember exactly but still not big of a deal

[lights022]

Lol I did not even know those images were copied. Never played any of those games. :c

[R22468667]

Learn this acronym: PAC= Public Access Code. This game has it, you can do the research on it if you have so much time. In order to be copyright infringement, there has to be a copyright purchased and in place; which is not the case here.

[viri09]

I want to say that If it was copy-righted.. Then I'm pretty sure after all this time they would have been sue'd, by WOW, LoL, and Maplestory.. It is a quite large game and I'm sure the other gaming developers have kept up with their competition if it was copy-right infringement. r2 would have been sue'd long before this..