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Riot Games is filing lawsuits against publisher NetEase over its 5v5 mobile shooter Hyper Front, which Riot’s lawyers allege is a clone of their shooter Valorant. (opens in new tab)<\/span> Riot’s filed suits in several countries’ legal systems, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil, and Singapore, seeking to stop NetEase from distributing Hyper Front and asking for monetary damages.<\/p>\nValorant has an in-development mobile version of its own, though no release date has yet been announced. Rumors have said 2024, though no evidence for that has been forthcoming.<\/p>\n\nSpeaking with Polygon (opens in new tab)<\/span>, a lawyer for Riot Games said that \u201cAll of our creative choices are mirrored in NetEase\u2019s game” and that “\u201cWe don\u2019t think that changing the color of a character ability or slightly modifying the visual appearance changes the fact that it\u2019s copyright infringement.”<\/p>\nRiot’s no stranger to copyright lawsuits. It has previously sued over alleged clones, ripoffs, and knockoffs of both League of Legends and spinoff Teamfight Tactics. Its parent company Tencent has also won lawsuits in China around League of Legends copies. It’s embroiled in one right now, in fact\u2014a US judge just told them to take it to the Chinese court system. (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/p>\nThe comparisons Riot makes in the UK lawsuit documents are extensive, including screenshots of maps, characters, weapon skins, and other trinkets. There are even comparisons of in-game weapon statistics and performance. Riot says that an initial complain prompted some changes by NetEase, but did not go far enough.<\/p>\n
Riot’s lawyers emphasized the global nature of the games industry in justifying the several lawsuits across multiple countries.<\/p>\n\n\n
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(Image credit: Riot Games and NetEase)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRiot Games is owned by Tencent, a somewhat-larger and more far more well-known Chinese media company, and users on social media were quick to accuse Tencent of hypocrisy. Tencent’s own Ace Force, for example, was accused of copying Overwatch’s aesthetics and gameplay when it launched in 2019, while Tencent’s geolocation-based mobile game Let’s Hunt Monsters was accused of being a clone of Pokemon Go.<\/p>\n
The legal outcome here is very much unclear: Don’t count NetEase out though. It’s a big tech company and includes lots of divisions not just in East Asian countries, but recently expanded into Europe and America with the acquisition of Detroit: Become Human developer Quantic Dream.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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