Wargaming, the studio behind World of Tanks is suing a Chinese studio over their Project Tank game. Wargaming says that Beijing Gamease Age Digital Technology and Changyou.com have released a game that is "disturbingly similar" to World of Tanks.
Wargaming claims that the companies "copied the plot, theme, dialogue, mood, setting, pace, and character of World of Tanks, in addition to copying specific features, items, tanks, and artwork." The company also says that Project Tank also infringes on a patent they hold for "dynamic battle session matchmaking in a multiplayer game."
Changeyou has written on the Gamebox website that they are being "bullied by Wargaming."
Without seeing any of this reported evidence, it's hard to say who is in the right here or not.
(via Polygon)
Wargaming claims that the companies "copied the plot, theme, dialogue, mood, setting, pace, and character of World of Tanks, in addition to copying specific features, items, tanks, and artwork." The company also says that Project Tank also infringes on a patent they hold for "dynamic battle session matchmaking in a multiplayer game."
Changeyou has written on the Gamebox website that they are being "bullied by Wargaming."
"(Wargaming has) recently launched a series of underhand actions against Project Tank, including using their connections to shut down our Facebook page, over PT's purported infringement' of their intellectual property rights.
"Continuously sabotaged by Wargaming, Project Tank and Gamebox have never intended to pose a threat or compete at any platform with World of Tanks. The graphics used in Project Tank are our efforts to reconstruct WWII battle scenes. We feel truly shocked and bullied by Wargaming, a giant company of the gaming industry who is apparently “threatened” by a closed beta phase browser game aiming to provide a cheaper, fairer, and more accessible war game to players around the world."
"Continuously sabotaged by Wargaming, Project Tank and Gamebox have never intended to pose a threat or compete at any platform with World of Tanks. The graphics used in Project Tank are our efforts to reconstruct WWII battle scenes. We feel truly shocked and bullied by Wargaming, a giant company of the gaming industry who is apparently “threatened” by a closed beta phase browser game aiming to provide a cheaper, fairer, and more accessible war game to players around the world."
Without seeing any of this reported evidence, it's hard to say who is in the right here or not.
(via Polygon)
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