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The post shows that a picture of the game character adjustment released by Honor of Kings on April 14 and the promotional poster of NetEase
Subsequently, the Honor of Kings’ supplier Hangzhou Fullspeed Network announced: “We have taken notice of the online discussion in regard to the promotional designs. On April 14, the column announcement picture designed by our company for the Honor of Kings may be similar to other product announcement maps. The company is urgently investigating the situation of the design’s creation and will provide a complete explanation as soon as possible.”
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This is not the first time that the Honor of Kings has been suspected of plagiarism. Previously, the game’s derivative “Code: Zero Three” was found to have copied Genshin Impact’s promotional poster, which used material from the latter’s game Cider Lake.
After that incident, the company issued an apology the next day, saying that the overlap was caused by the outsourced company in charge of designing the post. Tencent
In early April, statistics website Sensor Tower released a report in which it tallied the global revenue of mobile games in the first quarter of 2022. Tencent