Pubg sues fortnite

[spartaman64]

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After suggesting it might take action, the developer of PUBG has filed a lawsuit against the creator of Fortnite on the ground of copyright infringement. PUBG Corp., which is based in Korea, filed its lawsuit against US-based Epic Games with the aim of getting the courts to decide if Fortnite represents some kind of copy of PUBG. A PUBG Corp. representative told Korea Times that its lawsuit against Epic was actually filed back in January in the Seoul Central District Court. Epic Games Korea, a division of Epic Games, is the defendant.

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PUBG was seen as the No. 1 battle royale game, but a lot of attention and awareness currently is around Fortnite. Epic's game has exploded in popularity, and is reportedly a money-making juggernaut. A recent report said the free game brought in almost $300 million in revenue during April alone from its various microtransactions.

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PUBG Corp.'s lawsuit against Epic is apparently limited to Korea. We searched the United States courts database and found no results for a lawsuit against Epic from PUBG Corp. That being said, whatever happens in the Korean lawsuit could impact other parts of the world.

 

Unless they can prove that fortnite directly used assets from pubg i don't think this should be a valid case just because the two games have some similar mechanics. A company shouldn't have the exclusive rights to gameplay design eg dota shouldn't be able to sue league of legends just on the fact they are both moba games. Also its interesting that pubg only filed this lawsuit in korea and not in the US which tells me that they also believe that it will be a hard case to win and they are hoping that some home country favortism might help them win. 

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/pubg-dev-suing-fortnite-studio-for-copyright-infri/1100-6459244/

[Canada EH]

Well anyone can sue anyone for anything.

 

Oh you looked at me, I sue u.

[Dabombinable]

Considering how distinct Fortnite is from PUBG (which isn't that distinct from the majority of FPS). This probably won't go anywhere.

[Jurrunio]

Fortnite didnt copy PUBG's lack of optimization though...

[spartaman64]

3 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Considering how distinct Fortnite is from PUBG (which isn't that distinct from the majority of FPS). This probably won't go anywhere.

hopefully but i am worried that it is in south korea's favor economically to help out pubg

[D13H4RD]

Going down the drain, it seems PUBG is doing

[BurnedPriest]

We can only hope that PUBG Corp. wins, Epic is made to pay billions in compensation and consequently goes bankrupt , thus Fortnite is never played again and dies a slow and painful death.

Fingers crossed.

[D13H4RD]

6 minutes ago, BurnedPriest said:

We can only hope that PUBG Corp. wins, Epic is made to pay billions in compensation and consequently goes bankrupt , thus Fortnite is never played again and dies a slow and painful death.

Fingers crossed.

Ehhhhhh..........

 

I'd rather have this be a non-thing and PUBG actually focus on making the game better, especially in terms of performance. Good grief, it is unplayable on Xbox One (even Xbox One X) and a challenge for many mid-range gaming PCs and doesn't have the graphical quality nor the immense scale to justify the lackluster performance. Instead, they're pulling an Apple, suing anyone who dares to even have a battle royale title

 

They have a shot of being an absolute success for years to come much like how games like CS:GO and Team Fortress 2 still have high playercounts even as the latter is 11 years old. But nope, the greed has gotten to them so unless something changes, this game is probably going to be a slightly longer-term fad.

[Canada EH]

4 minutes ago, BurnedPriest said:

Fingers

I picture people doing the face of the dumb video thumbnail for......... A Phone with 4TB

which happens to be right next to your post on my screen.

 

 

BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Quadriplegic]

Meh, players might as well sue PUBG for being poorly optimised turd show.

[Canada EH]

1 minute ago, Quadriplegic said:

Meh, players might as well sue PUBG for being poorly optimised turd show.

Well they can sue.

Frivolous lawsuits are the American Dream!

[Mooshi]

1) Battle Royale existed well before PUBG was even an annoying collection of YouTube ads.

 

2) Would love to see the rights to use Unreal Engine revoked in response.

 

3) This is only further affirming my decision to view PUBG as something terrible to have even less interest in.

 

4) F these whiny jabronis.

 

[asus killer]

CEO of PUBG:

 

there can be only one, one battle royale game to rule them all, my precious. 

[TimeOmnivore]

Interestingly, Tencent, who owns Epic Games via a 40% stake, also owns 5% of Bluehole, the publishers of PUBG and is looking to expand their stake to 10%, which would make Tencent the second largest shareholder in Bluehole, right behind Bluehole's founder Chang Byung-gyu, who owns ~20%. So when you go high enough up the corporate chain of ownership, this is almost at the point where Tencent is suing Tencent (though not quite, as they don't yet have a majority share in Bluehole). I wonder how they feel about the companies they've invested in/own suing each other. Maybe Tencent will withdraw from its plans to further invest in Bluehole? A rather amusing situation all around - though it should be said that PUBG has pretty much no grounds to win this case and should probably give up at this point.

 

 

[ZcanKal]

PUBG is like most FPS player, "You obviously aren't better than me, I call hacks!"

[Crunchy Dragon]

DIdn't Bluehole try to sue Epic Games a while ago for just about the same thing?

[spartaman64]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

DIdn't Bluehole try to sue Epic Games a while ago for just about the same thing?

they said they might sue epic games but they didnt carry through with the threat at the time

[Arika]

again?

 

"oh no our game is getting beaten by a better optimized similar style, free to play game, they must be doing something wrong, so we'll sue them. Ignore the fact that they custom altered their engine that our game runs on and without them PUBG likely wouldn't exist."

 

EDIT: Also, PUBG doesnt own the BR gameplay, otherwise there would only be one RTS, one MOBA, one MilSim, one flight sim, one driving game...starting to see a pattern

 

[ScratchCat]

2 hours ago, asus killer said:

CEO of PUBG:

 

there can be only one, one battle royale game to rule them all, my precious. 

More like:

We shall face them off in a lawsuit Battle Royal ^TM©®℗ *Cue video of lawyers parachuting into a courtroom*

[Froug]

I'm guessing there can only be one Battle Royale game, a poorly optimised one?

 

Although I do find it interesting that Bluehole decided to sue Fortnite, instead of other various Battle Royale games. Perhaps Fortnite was taking too much of PUBG's limelight... I feel this is like Intel suing AMD for making CPUs or something of the like.

 

Absolutely ridiculous.

[Sauron]

In other news, id software sues everyone ever.

[Misanthrope]

Once again probing how much of a fluke PUBG was: can't use the unbelievable mountains of cash it made and use it to put forward something new and innovative. Hell even a part II. Hell even manage to get the current game not to run like shit.

 

It's easier to sue because that requires all of the money and none of the fucking creative or technical talent.

[Canada EH]

3 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

So, should id/Zenimax then sue PUBG's maker for making a FPS?

Yes they should sue. Why not.

 

 

2 hours ago, spartaman64 said:

they said they might sue epic games but they didnt carry through with the threat at the time

Well they better sue, sue sue sue sue.

 

 

[Peskanova]

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula

 

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Epic may use your trademarks, service marks, trade names, and logos used with any Product, as well as publicly released screen shots and video content from the Product, in connection with Epic’s marketing, advertisement, and promotion of the Unreal® Engine in any and all media without restriction.

For the people thinking that epic may used pubg for themselves

[Bingbear]

1 minute ago, Peskanova said:

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula

 

For the people thinking that epic may used pubg for themselves

Might be misintepreting you, if so im sorry. But it looks like that clause is for advertising the Unreal Engine, not another Epic game.