Uhhhhh, how is this game not copyright infringement?

[Zeeman26]

I'm sorry, but i only had to watch the trailer to be fairly certain this game stole a LOT of assets. A huge amount of the mechanics and animations seem to be straight up copies of Breath of the Wild. The paraglider, the weapon animations, even the landscapes and ruins seem to be right out of Hyrule. And the giant worm monster in the trailer seems to be the Worm Boss from Fortresscraft Evolved, down to the exact same attack animation.

I would say DON'T buy this game for two reasons, 1. DJArcas, the guy who made Fortresscraft,is a very hard working one man developing team and stealing his assets is shameless. and 2. As soon as Nintendo sees this game it is going to get banned and the company sued into the ground, they dont play around.

[Sekyi]

you are not the first to say it.
also this is a topic discussed so much and long..

they are transparent about what they do.
they bought MOST assets to make this Game, and on some stuff you can't just put copyright anyway
their going to put own assets and also change if the community wants.. so..

its a game that has much stuff mixed togetehr, in good way.
all assets was said to be bought.. since Nintendo is fast about these stuff.. why its still here then.

[Dreamer Zetsuna the Sleepy]

bc zelda invented ruins, cell shading, n' weapon animations /sarcasm. Ppl seriously gotta learn how copyrights work lol. It's not called a paraglider. So nintendo cant attack. Same with the monster cubes. They're not pokeballs, nor red n white. They're also open about the art style being botw inspired. Ya cant copyright art style. The mc is custom so that's automatically better XD If similarities are copyright say goodbye to mobile games, shooters, n' almost ALL indies.

[Boboverlord]

If Nintendo did nothing on Genshin Impact, it won't do anything to this game either

[Sekyi]

Originally posted by bobsingularity:

If Nintendo did nothing on Genshin Impact, it won't do anything to this game either

ye that game would have already shut down.. but its going to be there.

there is nothing you can do if you use Assets wich are similiar to assets(or the same) as you could buy for your games..

and Art STyle on its own is somethign else to o:D

[mad viper]

this is not a U.S company with a lawyer behind every bush and blade of grass , its a company in japan , probably following rules and laws according to japan.it could be worse it could be china , they ignore all copyrights and patents , you can buy a replica of almost anything thats made , china is probably selling iran a knockoff of a f16 right now claiming its real...

[Lonedog]

Any game made with Unity for example has assets any developer can use if they buy them and you see LOTS of unity games using the same assets, being inspired by something is how game developing works.

[Walker]

Well, this is the thing you should not too worry about.
Other copyright owner will take action if they really think it is illegal.

[Raven]

I see this topic a lot, and to be honest, many of you need to learn the difference between patents and copyrights. This game is no where near a copy right infringement. Most of what you guys are talking about fall under the realm of patents, and pending on the patent, people are free to use them. Patents have 20 year life span anyway, after that any one is allowed to use said method/technique/style. Pokemon clones can be made now because pokemon's patents expired, although they are probably looking into ways to revamp and renew them, but thats a totally different topic.

edit: its 4 am, now I'm trying to remember if patents are 20 years or 70. Its one of the two. Regardless, what you guys are mainly complaining about are patent issues, copyright would involve plagerizing story/music/content/art (as in literally line for line the same character/content)/etc. but things like styles/mechcanics/coding/etc. fall under patents. And patent regulations are a pretty big grey area in a lot of ways, unless the people who want to challenge the lawsuit can produce sufficient evidence that their technique is "stolen" its really not worth the effort.

[Sinpox]

Originally posted by Zeeman26:

I'm sorry, but i only had to watch the trailer to be fairly certain this game stole a LOT of assets. A huge amount of the mechanics and animations seem to be straight up copies of Breath of the Wild. The paraglider, the weapon animations, even the landscapes and ruins seem to be right out of Hyrule. And the giant worm monster in the trailer seems to be the Worm Boss from Fortresscraft Evolved, down to the exact same attack animation.

I would say DON'T buy this game for two reasons, 1. DJArcas, the guy who made Fortresscraft,is a very hard working one man developing team and stealing his assets is shameless. and 2. As soon as Nintendo sees this game it is going to get banned and the company sued into the ground, they dont play around.

very short example, i can paint a copy of Mona Lisa 1:1 like the original and can sell it as long i say its drawn by me and not the original artist.
Since there are still differences that i cant "copy" from him its still a own work. because i havent just taken the original and scanned it and printed it.

[Zeeman26]

When I said copyright infringement I was mostly concerned about the straight up clone of the worm boss from fortresscraft evolved. Thats a very small development team who works very hard on the games he makes, and the worm is obviously from his game. If he sold the asset to them thats one thing, but if he didnt that is pretty inexcusable. Nintendo is rich, copying from them is lame, but not terrible morally. Stealing from a hard working one man development team is wrong though

As for the zelda and pokemon stuff, I know thats not copyright, but it does seem to be in pretty poor taste. No, Zelda did not invent ruins and cell shaders, but the assets for a lot of things are almost identical, as well as the attack animations.

[Dreamer Zetsuna the Sleepy]

Thing is we need games to borrow from each other. That's how they grow n' evolve. All popular games today borrowed from something. A lot of fantasy borrowed from DnD. Nexomon followed pokemon n' is a pretty fun game. Bc monster catcher genre needs competition. The only real scum is chinese mobile devs who directly rip assets from franchises to the point of using the same name.

[Shin'iri]

Originally posted by Sekyi:

you are not the first to say it.
also this is a topic discussed so much and long..

they are transparent about what they do.
they bought MOST assets to make this Game, and on some stuff you can't just put copyright anyway
their going to put own assets and also change if the community wants.. so..

its a game that has much stuff mixed togetehr, in good way.
all assets was said to be bought.. since Nintendo is fast about these stuff.. why its still here then.

Where are you getting this information from? Is this your speculation or did you see an article that most of us did not?

To say "All assets were said to be bought." is very unlikely. To say such a thing is saying that they now have ownership of a design that was created elsewhere. In other words, they now have controlling abilities over what it is used for. in their game or other games of different companies. I am telling you from experience that Nintendo is so stingy with any proprietory assets they act very quickly to secure them when infringed upon.

I think you are very confused about what you are stating in the comment I am responding to.

[Shin'iri]

Originally posted by Sinpox:

Originally posted by Zeeman26:

I'm sorry, but i only had to watch the trailer to be fairly certain this game stole a LOT of assets. A huge amount of the mechanics and animations seem to be straight up copies of Breath of the Wild. The paraglider, the weapon animations, even the landscapes and ruins seem to be right out of Hyrule. And the giant worm monster in the trailer seems to be the Worm Boss from Fortresscraft Evolved, down to the exact same attack animation.

I would say DON'T buy this game for two reasons, 1. DJArcas, the guy who made Fortresscraft,is a very hard working one man developing team and stealing his assets is shameless. and 2. As soon as Nintendo sees this game it is going to get banned and the company sued into the ground, they dont play around.

very short example, i can paint a copy of Mona Lisa 1:1 like the original and can sell it as long i say its drawn by me and not the original artist.
Since there are still differences that i cant "copy" from him its still a own work. because i havent just taken the original and scanned it and printed it.

You hit the nail on the head with that example.

What you fail to realize or at least neglected to mention is that coding or digital media are a lot different than a physical painting.

Not saying that you did but if someone used that metaphor for coding then they would be saying "It wouldn't matter if I used the same code and put by me in captions because I was the one physically typing it out." which is wrong because coding characters are all alike depending on your geographical location. If you take the coding or you copy exactly the coding for Nintendo's character Mario and slapped a different set of colors on him it would still be infringement because the code aspect is the same.

What if you took the same coding and you altered the build, shape, size and, alter certain aspects keeping with the overall look of a Nintendo Character? Would this be an infringement? No, because all of those alterations and changes altered the code from the original character to a new different character.

In essence, you used the code as a foundation to create your character and built off of it.

[mad viper]

Originally posted by Zeeman26:

When I said copyright infringement I was mostly concerned about the straight up clone of the worm boss from fortresscraft evolved. Thats a very small development team who works very hard on the games he makes, and the worm is obviously from his game. If he sold the asset to them thats one thing, but if he didnt that is pretty inexcusable. Nintendo is rich, copying from them is lame, but not terrible morally. Stealing from a hard working one man development team is wrong though

As for the zelda and pokemon stuff, I know thats not copyright, but it does seem to be in pretty poor taste. No, Zelda did not invent ruins and cell shaders, but the assets for a lot of things are almost identical, as well as the attack animations.

who copied what? where? that worm looks like a clone in a movie called tremors , dune also had one that looked like that, starwars also had one , the guy didnt invent that worm he also copied the idea...

[Kou]

unless the assets are EXACT copies (and not paid for), there's nothing wrong here