Mobile Legends Dev Lost Lawsuit to Riot Games / Tencent – Close to USD $3 Million
In the case of Riot Games / Tencent against Moonton with regards to League of Legends & Mobile Legends, the results are in. Almost USD $3 million at stake.
Mobile Legends Dev Lost Lawsuit to Riot Games / Tencent
Tencent Holding, the parent company for League of Legends developer Riot Games, has been awarded a whopping 19.4 million Chinese Yuan (RMB) in the case against Moonton, the developers of Mobile Legends. This amount is equivalent to about USD $2.9 million.
Last year, Riot Games first sued Moonton (Shanghai Moonton Technology Co.) in the Central District Court of California. Unfortunately, it was dismissed on grounds of forum non conviens, which basically means that another jurisdiction or court could hear the case more conveniently. For this, it would be the court in Shanghai.
This was then proceeded with Tencent, a Chinese company, launching a new suit against Mobile Legends there instead. This lawsuit was a non-disclosure and non-compete lawsuit.
According to Dot Esports, It was being said that Moonton was originally supposed to pay Tencent roughly 2.6 million RMB (about USD $388,000). The court however ruled that this original settlement, a number reached by Moonton, was incorrect.
It appears that Moonton’s owners used a valuation based on how tax authorities calculate value, rather than one based on book values which made it insufficient for settlement. The figure was then raised to 19.4 million RMB.
It’s no surprise that many people, including the companies involved, that Mobile Legends seems to be eerily similar to League of Legends. There were plenty of assets that seemed to be either a carbon copy or completely ripped from the game as well. But it wasn’t just Mobile Legends as Riot Games even brought another game, Magic Rush: Heroes, into the lawsuit as it included several playable characters that are very simlar to some champions in League of Legends.
Image credits: Dot Esports
That might not be the end of if it for Moonton as according to Dot Esports, Tencent’s China-based mobile MOBA King of Glory is joining forces with Riot and Tencent to sue Moonton for an additional copyright infringement case as well. We’ll have to wait and see how this develops.
Source: Dot Esports
Pokdepinion: GGWP Moonton
F****** garbage news.
A salty ml player lol
Lol james martin why so salty?
Tencent should stop throwing lawsuit against Moontoon since Moontoon has its own Copyright and Moontoon revamped their work so that they won’t be having issues. Tencent only sued Moontoon because their Game became more Famous and they fear that no one will play their game anymore. If they do that to Moontoon, the Creators of “Defence of the Ancients” must throw them a Lawsuit as well. They also copied the game mechanics. They just changed the few. Tencent should halt.
If tencent will shut down moonton…then they SHOULD REFUND all mobile legends players’ expenses. And I mean every player should get a refund because they bought diamonds with real money.
Err, you guys do realize this is last year’s news, right? ^^
moonton did really copy lol even lol wild rift even the lock skill
And some heroes also been copied by moonton too
Ryze (from lol:his ult is wait three or four seconds to teleport an allies to another collection
Luo yi(from mlbb):her ult is wait three seconds and teleport to another location(similar to league of legends)
Yasuo:after u use three times of your first skill(third time of your first skill will knock up the enemies)it goes to the enemies and emerald three blow
Saber:knock up an enemies and deal three blow to them
Lock skill league of legends
When they put league of legends wild rift announce trailer the have show to lock skill and moonton coppied it!!
League of legends old heroes is usable unlike mobile legends is completely unusable all op heroes are coming out and make them unbalanced and they did not fix the lag