{"id":26687,"date":"2022-12-13T23:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T04:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=26687"},"modified":"2022-12-13T23:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T04:03:41","slug":"riot-games-files-lawsuit-over-alleged-valorant-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/riot-games-files-lawsuit-over-alleged-valorant-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Riot Games sues NetEase over alleged Valorant copy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developer of <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/valorant\/\" title=\"Valorant betting guide\">Valorant<\/a>, Riot Games, is suing a Chinese technology company, NetEase, for infringing the copyright of its popular esports title. <\/p>\n<p>Riot Games claims that the NetEase mobile title, Hyper Front, features similar maps, weapons, characters and charms to its FPS title.<\/p>\n<p>Hyper Front was released earlier this year, and it was not long before players noticed the similarities that the two games shared. <\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t NetEase\u2019s first alleged copy of another game, as the company has also been accused of developing titles that are clones of PUBG and <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/fortnite-battle-royale\/\" title=\"Fortnite betting guide\">Fortnite<\/a> in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Riot claims that the development of Hyper Front began right after Valorant Project A was revealed worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>Riot Games lawyer Dan Nabel accepts that Hyper Front does has some modifications on the Valorant model, but says it does not exempt NetEase from copyright infringements. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can put lipstick on a pig, but it\u2019s still a pig,\u201d Nabel said, when referring to the minor changes to the colours, maps and character abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Riot has already filed lawsuits in the United Kingdom, Germany, Brazil and Singapore in order to stop NetEase from distributing Hyper Front.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit includes screenshots of the game\u2019s maps, characters, weapons and other factors that are supposed to infringe on the copyright.<\/p>\n<p>Riot Games has been planning to release a mobile version of Valorant in 2024, which could be another reason as to why the developer is going after Hyper Front so aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>NetEase should be wary of Riot Games, which has not been shy about taking other developers to the courts over potential copyright infringements.<\/p>\n<p>Riot sued Shanghai Moonton, which develops Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, after claiming the company was copying <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/league-of-legends\/\" title=\"League of Legends betting guide\">League of Legends<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riot Games has alleged that Chinese game developer NetEase has infringed on the copyright of its popular esports title Valorant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":25797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,174,61,1150],"class_list":["post-26687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-league-of-legends","tag-netease","tag-riot-games","tag-valorant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26701,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26687\/revisions\/26701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}