I read this a few days ago on Kotaku. In the comments for that one, people also pointed out WoW assets and a few others. Freaking despicable. To anyone interested you should look up that article, it has more insight, into what was taken and how the TL head felt about it. No offense at all Jim. It just fills in more of the story.

Apparently they ripped some resources from WoW as well. Pretty disgusting. But frankly I think Apple is worse than they are for allowing this kind of thing to happen.

Ask yourself: would this game have ever gotten on Steam, PSN, or XBLA? No freaking way. And even if it somehow did, it would have been taken down immediately once Runic contacted them.

Lol

It actually looks like its been taken down now.

Ah its Limbo of the Lost all over again....

Fuck this Zynga wannabe, and at the same time, fuck Zynga as well.

Ah, the Evony and Limbo of the Lost school of game development.

Are these developers really so dense that they think no one is going to notice assets pulled from two extremely popular games?

nothing wrong with taking a few points but to just straight up rip from anothers work is just wrong on all levels

Torchlight was an original game?

China has no remorse about pirating, bootlegging, stealing ideas. They have shops over there that sell nothing but bootleg videos.

This is what ALL IOS games are. How is this all of a sudden wrong? Gameloft I guess can get away with it?

So they took a game and made it better (to them anyway) what is the issue...
Before someone says "well they are turning a profit on it" I will point out that even gaming sites such as this shamelessly borrow other articles from other sources all the time (Kotaku being the main one) and I wonder if the editors here are getting paid and handing out a fee everytime they quote another source.

I think the issue is the fact they did not credit their source material more than anything. And the reality is this is a biproduct of an open market- unless you enjoy the restrictions of certain groups (PSN, Live, steam).

I love the people defending this shit. Good for an 'lol'.

This is defendable?!?!

Christ people

JohnApocalypse, there is a difference between making a game around someone elses idea or genre that is well known, and stealing art assets. That's what is at question here.

@Samuraidino Not even close. I doubt this game would have the best ending sequence ever.

@Michael:
Typical capitalist apologist view: if you can do it and it makes money, it is automatically justified and ethical. Yet the capitalist in you should remember the importance of protecting your company's IPs from infringement...

And there is nothing ambiguous about this stealing. They literally stole art resources like monster models wholesale.

Well someone has to release a new Torchlight since Runic can't be bothered.

@jinx there is nothing defendable about this, however, this has nothing to do with Capitalism.

If a single mom can make $7398, just imagine how much Octomom could make!

On the subject of Armed Heroes,"get your own art, you lazy thieving bastards!"

An IOS game that is a ripoff of a popular game?! You get the fuck out of here!

Oh they responded:

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=144793

laughable at best.

lol they compare their monsters to WoW's monsters... but their monsters being ripped off from *Torchlight* was the main accusation.

Oh, and this is rich:
"Runic Games had also learned a lot from other excellent games, including Fate by WildTangent released in 2005."

They basically say Torchlight ripped off pets from Fate. Except Torchlight's lead designer is the same guy who developed Fate. He totally ripped himself off!

Whoa, and I didn't hear about this bit:


Originally Posted by tbaldree View Post
We unzipped the IPA. (which is easy - it's a zip file! )
There is a sound manifest.
The sound names are verbatim the same as ours.
In fact, it even includes the misspellings -
How's that?

Notice things like
ordrakdie.wav
- that's our game's end boss.

Or how about

mechdwardeath1.wav

which we misspelled in our package files ( supposed to be mechdwarfdeath1.wav )

Anyone with a copy of Torchlight, a copy of WinZip, and a download of Armed Heroes can trivially verify this.

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