Taiwanese anime fans have uncovered plagiarism of truly staggering proportions in the Chinese language MMORPG “女神ONLINE ～NORN SABER ONLINE～”, by “developer” Chinese Gamer International. It looks as though just about every single element of the game, from CG to sprites, and even TV commercials, is tainted with plagiarism.
Sadly, it seems the uniquely Chinese approach to copyright we have come to be familiar with is not restricted to the mainland…
In terms of the breadth and brazenness of its plagiarism, Norn Saber Online is undoubtedly in a class of its own:
(Originals are on the right)
Even Minamike is not sacred…
The actual game:
Even their opening comes from another title:
Original:
Norn edition:
Is there anything they won’t copy? No, because even their advertising is copied:
From a deodourant ad:
The Norn effect:
Will anything be done about this most egregious abuse of the original works, or is Taiwan merely on a similar footing to China after all? Though at least Taiwanese anime fans have exposed this debacle…
Hey, Taiwan might consider having their own Anime Industry with that kind of art, not bad.
From what I’ve gathered, it’s common for this kind of thing to occur; the plagiarism I mean. You see, so long as the “image” is different, you’re somehow able to “bypass” copyright laws. Obviously as we see in these posted images, they ARE ripoffs. I don’t appreciate this fact one little bit; but the games themselves at least are tolerable, (If you can get past the heavy misuse of the English language, God-awful customer support, their lust for US Dollars, (Or other currencies), AND the way they just plain run the games….) All in all, it’s not so bad.
If anything, these MMOs do their job right: Making us laugh at all the “replicated” material. Oh, and leveling up. That’s fun.
So, to the Anonymous of 2-20-2011, think a tad more carefully before you troll another user simply posting the facts.
Signed, Mr. Zard
so if they have the same pose its plagiarism? lol your stupid
Those who can, create. Those who can’t, make shoddy replicas.
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Damn, someone must really suck at imagining different ways to draw angles and perspectives…
Epic indeed…