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PUBG creators are suing Garena Free Fire for plagiarism

PUBG creators are suing Garena Free Fire for plagiarism

One of the first video games to adopt the . mode battle royale she was pubg. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Released on July 30, 2016 onwards, other titles came into the shooting games category, among them, free fire, which was released in August 2017 for mobile devices.

According to information from TechCrunch, the developers of pubg They had sued the authors free fire. Crafton Company will sue Garena to copy your battle royale It will require the address to be withdrawn from App Store s google browser Play Store as a copyright claim.

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The lawsuit is also against Free Fire MaxThe game is an improved version of the original title that hit digital stores during 2021.

This is not the first time that there has been such demand between the two organisations. According to the developers pubgAnd Garena Copying the basic elements of the game, and in the first accusation it was agreed to Garena It is not authorized to sell or distribute games that infringe the copyrights of Crafton.

Now, after circulating free fireAnd Crafton He would also sue google browser s An appleThis is because companies earn money with every download.

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PUBG doubles the number of its players

after pubg will become a title ‘Free to play’, title developed by Crafton He increased the number of his players.

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The shooting video game has doubled its user base, making a huge recovery, peaking at 667,399 concurrent players during last Wednesday January 12th, the title’s free-to-play launch date.

Although this number is still far from the historical maximum of 3 million 236 thousand concurrent users, the numbers are an important boost to the game’s future, averaging nearly 300,000 players in the past two months.

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