PUBG exec contemplating 'further action' over Fortnite Battle Royale similarities

[Chazore]

LudicrousSpeed said:

Chrizum said:

Disagreeing with you is a cheap cop out?  Come on now.

AAA studio or indie makes no difference to me. I disapprove of blatantly copying a game or its assets (like Limbo of the Lost copying Oblivon, or Legend of the Titan being a cheap Chinese rip-off from Overwatch). Fortnite adapting PUBG's game mode is more akin to Crash Team Kart Racing being a nod to Mario Kart to me. Is it original? No. But who cares? If a genre is succesful, other devs will make their own versions of it. Can't see anything wrong with it.

It seems Blueholes main gripes are the use of PUBG in marketing the Fortnite BR, and there are a couple deeper seeded, potentially shady aspects from their point of view. There was a company rumored to be trying to buy Bluehole earlier this year. Turns out Epic owns a very large share of that company, like almost 50%. Also, Bluehole worked with Epic with UE4 to allow games like PUBG. So Epic literally took Bluehole's work with UE4 and made a carbon copy clone of their game. Easy to see why Bluehole would feel a little ribbed by it. Your example would be more applicable if Naughty Dog were working with Nintendo to make changes to a Nintendo game engine and then Naughty Dog released CTR, and then later Nintendo released Mario Kart.

I mean, in every entertainment industry you have people copying one another. This is a pretty blatant copy though. This is like.. Paladins vs Overwatch levels of copying a game. I was shocked when I bought the Paladins Founders Pack that someone was legally able to pull that off, it's literally Overwatch with a small unique twist in the power up system in game. Fortnite BR is a straight up ripoff of PUBG with the small unique twist of building stuff.

But yeah, those deeper issues for Bluehole, it's easy to see why a small studio would take offense to that.

It's not hard to see why, but at the same time you have that other crowd that sees them as "crying" and why no one should care. This is all it takes for the excuses to build up, meaning Epic will have to be as blatantly obvious as EA to get people to notice in what is going on.