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Plagiarism is common in the video game world. As we told you a few days ago, his latest status starred The Walking Dead: The SurvivorsThe new mobile installment of the zombie series. When this issue was released, it was not known if it was intentional on the part of the developer studio or if it was a bug. Well, today’s study confirmed that it was an accident and made an apology and took action on it.
Weeks after the official launch of The Walking Dead: The Survivors, launched a promotional campaign for the game that included images of art from the game which invited users to try it. What caught our attention is that there are ads on Instagram that contain a picture Resident Evil 2 Remake Changed with characters The Walking Dead: The Survivors Users were quick to identify and report the alleged plagiarism.
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The Walking Dead: The Survivors Stolen by accident
Several days after this happened, Skybound Entertainment, the company that owns the IP that gave the license to Elex studio to develop The Walking Dead: The Survivors, Issued for Character Book كتاب A statement about this situation in which he asserted that the promotional image was indeed real and was not any kind of homage as some users believed, but that Capcom art was incorrectly used.
However, Skybound Entertainment, on behalf of Elex, admitted that she did not do it intentionally, but that it was an accident. This happened because an outside advertising agency was asked to do the art for the ads and unfortunately the studio didn’t properly monitor the stolen art and allow it to reach the masses, so it could have been an oversight.
As a result, the art was quickly removed from the platforms on which it was shown, but it did not go unnoticed, and eventually the studio and Skybound Entertainment offered an apology and confirmed that they had already taken stricter measures to prevent this from happening. happen again.
Effective immediately, Elex has put in place new policies and processes to ensure higher levels of accountability in the future. To this end, we have withdrawn the relevant art from all channels and will not use it in the future. We understand that this situation will appropriately lead to further scrutiny of Our future additional marketing and we hope to restore your trust through actions that match these words.”
Capcom has not provided any comment on this matter.
In case you missed it: The artist claims that Capcom stole his images and used them in their games.
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