World of LordCraft Rips Off Blizzard's Franchise?
It name itself sound way too familiar to be legal.
Someone get Blizzard on the phone. Just in name alone, World of LordCraft should indicate where the roots of this online PC game truly lie. While WoL isn't exactly an MMORPG, it clearly borrows heavily from Blizzard's offline fantasy-based RTS franchise... right down to the Alliance and Horde factions. Oh wait there's a Demon Legion thrown in there too. How original.
A video provided on the game's website actually looks somewhat promising--at least for a few seconds until a horrible, echoing voice-over spoils the show. "Build an unprecedented castle, " the video promotes. "Never surrender your freedom."
Without showing actual gameplay, the promotional video offers various animations on building a kingdom, and screenshots depicting Heroes of Might and Magic-style battles. On a whole, WoL is an isometric, flash-based, browser-based PC game with city building and RTS traits.
WoL is also absolutely free to play.
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JonathanDeane So other then the name, there is nothing even resembling WoW? A quick name change will fix that and everything will be fine lolReply -
zerapio > It name itself sound way too familiar to be legalReply
It should read: "Its name itself sounds way too similar to be legal"
/extends right arm forward :) -
mianmian When you look at their website, you will find many similar elements of WoW.Reply
A region in map called "The Barrens".
"Drums of war...." in the trailer.
And the races in Alliance/Hord are: human, elf, Dwarf, orc, troll,Tauren -
dextermat This game looks awesome.... that what i would of said 15 years ago lolReply
Looks like AOE
That's why it's free -
Honis Yes, because WoW and Warcraft were the first game to have any of those things and was the first strategy ever to be based on lore creatures...Reply
If it's a free game let them name it World of iCraft for all it matters. -
CoderDunn I remember reading somewhere that this game is owned by they same bunch that made Evony >.>Reply
Edit: Found it http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-27679-Vancouver-Video-Game-Industry-Examiner~y2010m2d7-Evony-is-back-at-it-again-World-of-Lordcraft -
cloakster Since its free i truly doubt any legal action is going to be taken. 99% of Blizzards profits come from the online component of WoW so in no way is it taking profits from Blizzard.Reply