The glory of the king rushed to Weibo hot search, but this time because of suspected plagiarism.
Glory of kings was exposed as suspected of plagiarism
On April 21, netease game "Painter in Time and Space" released two similar pictures on its official Weibo, one of which is the brand material recently released by "Glory of the King", and some netizens said after reading it that "in contrast, the glory of the king feels like it is copied, but it is ugly."
It is understood that the picture suspected of plagiarism is a video cover released by the official account of "Glory of Kings" on Bilibili on April 14.
Judging from the two pictures released by the traveler, whether it is the layout layout, color collocation, icon design, the glory of the king is excessively similar to the material of the traveler, and the release time of the two is nearly 10 months, which is difficult not to think of whether the designer is referring to the material reference of the traveler.
Subsequently, "Glory of the King" quickly rushed to the top of the Weibo hot search list.
As the heat of the incident is getting higher and higher, netizens have also come to eat melons.
There are players who call for the positive and positive of the travelers, watching the hilarity and asking for benefits, and many users said that they were not surprised that such a thing happened to Tencent.
In this regard, the king glory supplier @ full speed network responded, and said that "our art designers in the design and creation, there is no act of copying third-party materials, creative ideas and inspiration are derived from and reference to the glory of the king has released the promotional materials." ”
However, this response was not recognized by netizens, and in the more than 4,000 comments of the official micro, most netizens still had doubts about whether they were plagiarized.
But as of now, the glory of the king has not been further stated to explain.
Not for the first time
It is reported that this is not the first time that "Glory of kings" has been involved in a plagiarism scandal, and in recent years, there have been many cases of plagiarism and infringement of other people's works.
In October 2021, after the release of its suspense trailer for the new IP game "Codename - Zero Three", the player found that its material used screenshots of the game "Original God", and later its supplier issued a statement that there was indeed unauthorized material used.
In June 2021, "Glory of the King" was questioned due to the personality action of the game hero's new skin, and the king team explained that it was due to the plagiarism of the employees of the personality action production company (outsourcing) to the "Yin and Yang Division" mobile game "The Dream of Goldfish Ji". The dance is the original work of "Foot Taiji", after netizens found out, Wang Zhifang urgently modified the relevant movements.
In April 2020, the promotional video of "Glory of the King" Hero Yao had a problem very similar to the work of the painter "Sugizawa", and after being discovered by netizens, the King Glory Project Team urgently withdrew the material and apologized to the painter.
As a part of the cultural industry, games should respect and revere originality. With the continuous improvement of the player's sense of originality, there is no longer tolerance for borrowing and plagiarism, and "Glory of the King" as a national game, it is really not right to have such incidents many times.
Tencent's most gold-absorbing mobile game
"Glory of the King" can be said to be Tencent's most gold-absorbing mobile game.
Sensor Tower store intelligence data shows that in March 2022, Tencent's "Glory of kings" attracted 272 million US dollars (equivalent to 1.75 billion yuan) in the global App Store and Google Play, ranking first in the global mobile game best-seller list, an increase of 5.8% over the same period last year. Revenue from China's iOS market accounted for 96.6%, and overseas market revenue accounted for 3.4%.
In addition, Tencent's PUBG Mobile (combined with Peace Elite revenue) ranked Second on the list with nearly $200 million in revenue. Among them, 56.4% of the revenue comes from its Chinese iOS version of "Peace Elite", and the US market accounts for only 9.5%.
Tencent also said in its 2021 annual report that the company is cultivating key IPs in a more in-depth and comprehensive way. For example, new games, animations, and movies are developed based on characters from Honor of Kings. After the release of the new version, the company believes that it will benefit from the launch of more new games.
According to the financial report, last year, Tencent's revenue increased by 16% year-on-year to RMB560.1 billion. Revenue from value-added services increased by 10% year-on-year to RMB291.6 billion. Driven by games such as "Glory of Kings", "Call of Duty Mobile Game" and "Tianya Mingyue Knife Mobile Game", game revenue in the local market increased by 6% to 128.8 billion yuan, game revenue in the international market increased by 31% to 45.5 billion yuan, and social network revenue increased by 8% to 117.3 billion yuan.