Riot Games appeals smartphone game 'Mobile Legends' as a pakuri of 'League of Legends'



Riot Games, which develops and operates the popular

MOBA game 'League of Legends (LoL)' all over the world, has brought the game 'Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB)' for smartphones to the court as a league of Legends pakuri. I'm complaining.

Riot Games sues League of Legends ripoff Mobile Legends: Bang Bang --Polygon
https://www.polygon.com/23064347/riot-games-league-of-legends-knockoffs-mobile-legends-bang-bang

League of Legends is a free-to-play MOBA game played in countries around the world, including Japan. In addition, the smartphone version of 'League of Legends: Wild Lift' was also selected as the best iPhone game in 2021, and is highly evaluated in both the PC game market and the mobile game market.

MLBB, which Riot Games claims to be a pakuri game, is a game developed by Moonton Games, a game development company based in China, and iOS and Android versions are released for free.



According to the explanation on the distribution page, MLBB can select characters with various abilities in MOBA games where you can enjoy 5v5 team battles. In addition, it is appealing that gorgeous voice actors such as Rie Kugimiya and Kana Hanazawa are in charge of Japanese voice.



Riot Games claims in its complaint that many elements of MLBB's user interface, character design, skills, and accessories are LoL's pakuri. The image below shows the 'Zack' that appears in LoL on the left side and the 'Glue' that appears in MLBB on the right side, and Riot Games has many features such as body shape, body color, and nail shape. I point out that I am doing it.



In addition, there was an example that MLBB carried out a campaign with similar contents to LoL, such as 'If you carry out a pool-related campaign in LoL, a pool-related campaign will also be carried out in MLBB.'



Furthermore, it is said that the imitation of LoL by MLBB extends to 'material for promotion'. For example, in the image below, the left side is the League of Legends: Wildlift promotional material and the right side is the MLBB promotional material, both of which have yellow text and blue handwritten text on a black background.



In addition, Riot Games has filed a lawsuit in 2017 for games made by Moonton Games such as MLBB as LoL's Pakuri, but has been dismissed by the court. During the 2017 proceedings, MLBB's official Twitter account claimed that 'Mobile Legends is a smartphone MOBA game that we developed independently.'




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