iOS Torchlight clone is actually just Torchlight, cloned
By Jess Colwill on July 16, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Apple’s iPhone App Store – you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Some ‘innovative businessmen’ decided to make a Diablo- or Torchlight-styles action RPG for the iPhone but decided, apparently, that audio and visual assets were too much trouble and, as such, have just lifted them directly from Torchlight.
Armed Heroes Online steals so thoroughly from Torchlight that the voice of one of Runic’s technical artists, who supplied the sound effects for a joke weapon, actually appears in Armed Heroes. Runic’s president, Travis Baldree called the guys out on Twitter but is yet to hear a response. While he says other games have stolen bits and pieces before, this time is different, “It’s not like they took one thing because they were running short on time. They took everything.” Baldree has also provided a handy little gallery providing side-by-side comparisons. It is, all in all, pretty disgusting.
Source: Kotaku
Torchlight II is four times bigger than Torchlight
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So Android has a user piracy issue, iOS has a developer one? lol >.>
That does suck though.
wow, they need to burn
nothing new here.
I hope they sue, and win lots.
I’m surprised someone was stupid enough to try that.
I thought this sort of thing wasn’t suppose to happen on the IOS because Apple checked everything before it could be released? a QA sort of thing.
cyrinno,
how many times have you seen scam apps on the istore… apple even lets through apps which crash on loading. Their QA which they harp on about at each developers conference boils down to a big lie IMO
Normally I’m not a fan of suing people over IP/copyright enforcement but in this case they really should sue for copyright infringement as this is what copyright was meant to stop in the first place.
If they can get away with such obvious copying then that could set a precedent for many more identical copies to come (not that game clones don’t already exist).
It was only a matter of time, if you’re developing for Apple you run the risk of wanting to steal other peoples ideas and pass them off as your own. They clearly just forgot the candy coating…
on a side note i’m amazed that you can play torchlight on your phone
They should really be contacting the apps store to have it deleted