On April 22, NetEase's game "Painted Traveler in Time and Space" angrily attacked Tencent's "Glory of the King" poster plagiarism on the hot search.
On April 21, "Painted Travelers in Time and Space" released an official Weibo post and @ King glory, accusing it of plagiarism. "Bao, the last time your new product used other people's materials, you said it was a supplier's problem, this time is also it?" Make so much money to ask for an original designer, I look at it painfully! ”
As soon as the news came out, it triggered a heated discussion. As of press time, the microblog has received 89,000 comments and 792,000 likes. Some netizens commented on the plagiarism of "Glory of the King", "Can't say that it has nothing to do with it, it's exactly the same", and some netizens joked that this is "the battle between NetEase's concubine and Tencent Prince", and they have coaxed "fight".
According to the screenshots posted by the official micro of "Painted Traveler in Time and Space", the column announcement map released by "Glory of the King" on April 14 this year has certain similarities with the activity announcement map released by "Painted Traveler in Time and Space" on June 27 last year.
In the afternoon of the same day, the "Glory of the King" supplier full speed network official micro response said, "Our company has noticed the network discussion of the page design, on April 14, our company designed for the glory of the king of the column announcement map and other product announcement maps may have similar situations, the company is urgently investigating the actual situation of the design creation, will make a complete explanation as soon as possible." ”
On the morning of the 22nd, the full-speed network released a statement in response, saying, "After verification, our art designers did not copy third-party materials when designing and creating, and the creative ideas and inspiration came from and referred to the promotional materials that have been released by the glory of the king." ”
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that "Glory of Kings" has been caught in the plagiarism storm. In June last year, some users reported that the "Glory of the King" Yao- Meet the Divine Deer Skin Exclusive Personality Action "Deer Spirit Dance" copied the "Yin and Yang Division" "Goldfish Ji" dance.
In this regard, the king glory operation team issued a statement saying that after a serious investigation of the "Deer Spirit Dance" action design company - Animo Animation Design Studio, it was confirmed that its employees had borrowed from the original dance of @Foot Taiji in the process of producing the "Deer Spirit Dance" action. On July 28, 2017, Foot Tai-hime created the dance for "The Yin-Yang Division" "Goldfish Hime's Dream".
The glory of the king said that it had sincerely communicated and apologized with the original author of the dance movement, Foot Tai Himekata. The animation studio's actions violated the cooperation agreement, and the breach will be dealt with seriously in accordance with the contract.
In addition, in October last year, the "Glory of Kings" IP derivative game "Codename - Zero Three" was also suspected of copying Mihayou's game "Original God", and its official poster was suspected of using the picture of "StarFall Lake" in Mihayou's "Original God".
CodeName - Zero Three said in a subsequent statement that after investigation, the incident was confirmed that the employees of the poster producer Shenzhen Whale Wisdom Interactive Entertainment Culture Co., Ltd. used unauthorized picture materials in the process of undertaking the production of the poster, and the game party did not take the acceptance and release seriously when it was repaired, and the game party will deal with and pursue the production company's breach of contract.
According to public information, "Glory of Kings" was officially launched on November 26, 2015, and still has a strong ability to absorb gold. Sensor Tower announced the top 10 global mobile game revenue in March 2022, of which Tencent's mobile game "Glory of kings" attracted $272 million in the global App Store and Google Play, ranking first in the best-seller list, an increase of 5.8% over the same period last year, and revenue from the domestic iOS market accounted for 96.6%.