On March 23rd, the dispute over character plagiarism in Tencent's "King of Glory" and NetEase's "Yin Yang Master" games continued to escalate, attracting the attention of game players.
On the evening of the 22nd, as "King of Glory" announced on Weibo that "legal measures will be taken to seriously retaliate," "King of Glory" and "Yin Yang Master" made it to the hot search. The Weibo post "King of Glory" is aimed at the fact that earlier, "Yin Yang Master" claimed to have sent a lawyer's letter to "King of Glory".
Character image similarity leads to controversy
On March 21st, NetEase's well-known game "Yin Yang Shi" suddenly launched a challenge on its Weibo account, accusing Tencent's "King of Glory" of plagiarism in character images.
According to "Yin Yang Master", "Although we are going to become the God of Wealth, Xiao Wang has also made a lot of money, right? Don't you really consider hiring a more original and inspirational art? It's not appropriate to keep sneaking out on your own. How did a good god become a spiritual young man? Did you not obtain genuine high-definition resources? If you want to collaborate, please contact the sweeper directly. Yin Yang Master is an authentic original game, not a material library!" It seems to suggest that the characters in "King of Glory" have plagiarized.
From a follow-up perspective, the core of this controversy is that the character design of the game character "Da Siming" in "King of Glory" has certain similarities with the character "SP Shen Qi Huang" in "Yin Yang Shi", so the latter believes that the former is suspected of plagiarism.
Comparison in two character games. The left is "Yin Yang Master", and the right is "King of Glory". The pictures are sourced from the internet
The sudden "challenge" in the field of "Yin Yang Master" quickly sparked heated discussions among a large group of players.
On the evening of March 22nd, the official blog of NetEase's "Yin Yang Master" mobile game announced that it had sent a lawyer's letter to Tencent's "King of Glory".
The lawyer's letter stated that Tencent, without NetEase's permission, released materials in the game "King of Glory" that were suspected of infringing on NetEase's game "Yin Yang Shi", including the game character skin "Li Bai · Broken Moon Sword Heart" that was suspected of infringing on the game character "Susanobu" in "Yin Yang Shi", and the game materials of "Da Siming" in "King of Glory" that were suspected of infringing on the "SP God Qihuang" in "Yin Yang Shi".
The dispute between both parties continues to escalate
Later on the 22nd, "King of Glory" officially responded through Weibo.
According to Honor of Kings, in response to a series of malicious actions in certain games today and in the past, including but not limited to:
1. Repeatedly posting false content defaming our side through official accounts, attempting to gain attention;
2. Publicly release commercial incentive tasks through official accounts, guiding creators to create malicious pull and trample video content at a suspected price of 20 yuan per item;
According to the plagiarism standards of certain games, they have been repeatedly suspected of plagiarizing our popular characters.
King of Glory stated that it has collected fixed relevant evidence and will seriously retaliate against all means of hitting porcelain.
The reporter noticed that some players who support "King of Glory" have also released some material images to prove the plagiarism in "Yin Yang Master".
In fact, as a branch of the cultural industry, various forms of plagiarism are not uncommon in the gaming industry.
Although there is a dispute between the two sides over "who plagiarizes who", a legal professional told reporters that judging "plagiarism" from a judicial perspective is not a matter of "first sight", and the determination of specific cases is often quite complex.
In addition, some gaming industry insiders told reporters that with the increasing prosperity of the gaming industry, game investment continues to grow. Many small and medium-sized game manufacturers, in order to save costs, often choose to "plagiarize" materials from popular games and extract materials from other games for their own use through "unpacking".
The reporter learned that many large companies currently implant a large number of hidden watermarks in game materials to prevent direct theft of their popular game works, and use this as evidence for future rights protection.
