Remember, not long ago, a player Arena of Valor has spoken out accusing League of Legends of stealing ideas from their game. Specifically, this player claimed that League of Legends took the concept of the Moonlight Tribe skins from Arena of Valor and turned it into Blood Moon. Of course, this could very well be a post intended to create “bait” and who knows, it might be a League of Legends player trying to poke fun at Arena of Valor players.
The content of this accusation is as follows:
“I can’t believe it!!!
A big company like Riot Games would actually go and copy ideas from another game? Before, we *** thought Arena of Valor was copying LoL? No!! It’s actually LoL that is the copycat, copying everything from the smallest details to the largest. Blood Moon skin? It’s just a copy of the Moonlight Tribe set from Arena of Valor. Just typical trash game copying another trash game like a fool.”
After Arena of Valor, recently, a post in the Free Fire community also caught the attention of many players. Although these two products seem unrelated, players still brought them into the debate. Specifically, a player posted in a Free Fire community group, claiming that League of Legends had stolen copyright images from “Free Fire”. The details of this accusation are as follows:
“The character on the left from Free Fire was launched in 2017. Meanwhile, the reworked champion Akali from League of Legends came out in 2018. This proves that LoL has copied the copyright images of Free Fire without the permission of NPH Garena Free Fire. So in your opinion, should LoL be sued or not?”.
Furthermore, the screenshot shows that this post even tagged a fanpage of Garena Free Fire, and it’s currently unclear whether the tagged fanpage is indeed the official page of Free Fire Vietnam and whether the purpose of this post was to create bait like the previous case with Arena of Valor? But with the post being shared in a Free Fire group, anything can happen, especially for the “Free Fire” players.
Of course, as mentioned, players need to be particularly cautious with posts that have a double-edged sword purpose like this, because in the virtual space of social media, anything can happen. It could even be for fame, to incite a “war”, to create bait… or it could genuinely be an intention to accuse League of Legends, all of which could become a reality.