Recently, the parent company of "League of Legends", Fist Games, filed a complaint against Mu Hitomi Technology in court, strongly accusing the other party's game "Endless Showdown" of suspected plagiarism, and claiming that the other party copied the content and promotional materials of the "League of Legends Mobile Game" and provided evidence of suspected plagiarism.
Plagiarism incidents in the game industry have been endless, but there is another mystery behind this plagiarism incident. On the surface, this lawsuit is a conflict between the fist and Mu Hitomi, but in fact, this is a round of battle launched by Tencent against ByteDance's involvement in the game industry, and as for Mu Hitomi Technology, it seems to have become a chess piece in the eyes of the two giants. Even Mu Hitomi Technology and Tencent are also deeply related.
Speaking of this, we have to talk about the origin and development of Mu Hitomi Technology, the original team of Mu Hitomi Technology is also the same as the Lancet of the "Border" team, which is a former employee of Tencent. After leaving Tencent, a new studio was established in 2014, which is now Mu Hitomi Technology. And in 2016, they launched their first game, Endless Showdown.
But at that time, "Glory of Kings" swept the country. Their new tour was almost a pebble to Glory of Kings, so they took a different path, changed the game's marketing target, and began to focus on overseas markets.
Tencent's overseas promotion of "Glory of Kings" is also painstaking. However, the culture is different, foreigners do not seem to be cold to the Chinese style of "Glory of the King", "Endless Docking" is also very clear that there is no way to compete with Tencent in China, so it is directly surrounded from overseas, and with the national legends and heroes of various overseas countries, targeted localization creation. Seized the market opportunity and interrupted the expansion of "Glory of Kings". It quickly won a number of overseas player users, became the overseas version of "Glory of the King" and even topped the revenue list in Southeast Asia and other places many times, and ranked among the TOP10 in 58 countries and regions.
I am more fond of the localized and diversified "Endless Showdown". This makes Mu Hitomi's "Endless Showdown" a stumbling block for the implementation of the overseas version of "Glory of the King".
You should know that Glory of Kings is a localization of other games, while "Endless Showdown" is exported to domestic reprocessing export. In the case of a shortage of foreign moba mobile games, quickly shot, thus successfully winning the blank market.
And this lawsuit is also a long history, as early as 2018, fist company in the United States launched a lawsuit against Shanghai Mu Hitomi Technology, but it was ultimately not resolved. Therefore, with the help of the parent company Tencent, he launched a lawsuit against Mu Hitomi. Under the home field advantage and the buff bonus of the legal department, Mu Hitomi Technology eventually lost the lawsuit and was finally sentenced to a penalty of 19.4 million yuan in compensation. It is understood that the judgment is based on the lawsuit filed against Mu Pupil Technology on the grounds that Xu Zhenhua, the main creator of Mu Hitomi Technology, violated the non-compete agreement.
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After this lawsuit, the plagiarism storm has also come to an end, the glory of the king still dominates the domestic market, and Mu Hitomi Technology is also making a lot of money overseas.
Of course, Tencent is not idle, allowing "Endless Showdown" to seize the overseas market. Later, the "League of Legends Mobile Game" was also launched.
In 21 years, Mu Hitomi was also hit by ByteDance, who also wanted to enter the game industry. The acquisition was completed for $4 billion. After being acquired, Mu Hitomi Technology will naturally be more inclined to the domestic game market. So with the help of ByteDance, I am ready to enter the domestic game industry.
It is understood that Mu Hitomi had conducted a game test called "Peak Showdown" on a small scale at the end of last year. There are even rumors that the application for the game version number is also very smooth.
For Tencent, the size of Mu Hitomi is too small and does not pose a threat, and byteDance behind it is the real giant. So it's more like a game between giants.
Therefore, this time the fist game once again sued Mu Hitomi for plagiarism, which is no longer like a matter of rights protection, but more like a secret confrontation between the two giants behind it. Of course, as a player, you can only watch the tiger fight from the other side, who do you think wins this lawsuit?