Has anyone ever gone on their phone, or on facebook, or app stores and noticed ads for a game that looks suspiciously like LoL? I have seen a few ads for games like "magic rush." I have no idea if riot okay'd this, but i just wanna make sure this gets out there and is known about by riot. Has anyone else seen stuff like this? (sorry if this is the wrong board, wasn't 100% sure where to post this one)
CheftoniFTW1 votesWhenever there is success, there will always be copy-cats or people jumping on the band-wagon. As far as I understand this, it's not illegal to have something similar, but it is illegal if they are downright copying.
I understand what your saying, but frankly it kinda did look like down-right copying, for example, some of the "towers" used are identicle to champions like lucian, or pulsefire ezreal
Exeliph1 votesI have never actually played the game, im only going off of how to ads make the towers look and how the towers are used.
DrCyanide1 votesI didn't see anything on their Google Play page that looked like a direct copy cat.
Daen1 votesLeague of Angels is probably the biggest offender, it seems like this Magic Rush game is definitely taking elements but not necessarily direct plagiarizing.
That being said, a lot of these duplication companies are based in China where copyright laws basically don't exist. There's not really much Riot can do, from a legal standpoint, and it'd probably be a waste of resources to pursue a lot of these companies unless it got significant enough to take a sizable chunk of their profits.
Zelrus1 votesPlayed a few hours, and other then some small visual differences, the first 6 Heros I got are literally ashe, ryze, lyona, Lucian, Janna, and ziggs. Skills and all are WAY too similar. Not a bad game though.... Just feels like riot should have done it first