At first I saw this game , I thinking like you and just download. After I read more comment here , I regret what I've downloaded but I'll try to play
I don't care about the assets or the gameplay. The names are all taken from World of Warcraft and this is not a Blizzard licensed game, so either they change all the names or the game should be shut down.
I just noticed the game has been out since September 2014 on the European AppStore and all the screenshot and text in the AppStore page are in Chinese. Nonetheless, looking for "Azeroth" finds this game. They may have used Chinese to "hide" from Blizzard. Don't know why they choose to come out with English names and screenshots in the US AppStore, though :/
A lot of the graphical effects are taken straight from KR; The start screen, most of The UI's-- the characters are just poorly traced KR sprites. This games is 0% original in every aspect.
WoW! This is one star game based on TA users vote and 3th in Hot New Games. I need to download it to see why is so bad with my own eyes lol.
Shame on you 国产山寨麻烦别来丢脸好吗 Please, don't shame our country any more, Azeroth team. Building a game from scratch, and create your own new stuff are the basic rules to make a game. We might not be the best, but we have and will "NEVER" copying even one single texture from other games, and we believe that is the fundaments to make some differences.
All you had to do was pull up Kingdom Rush in the App Store and compare it with is and you would know your reply is unnecessary . This straight out rips assets. The game is nothing but ripped assets. No original work at all.
it's not about the country it's about license and even if you say you make the game from scratch, your design ideas cannot be literally the same as ironhide's, considering your game is released years after the first kingdom rush lol
Sorry for the bad English but you have misunderstand what we posted. We are not the developer of this so called "Azeroth" S****. Just feel angry to saw this game posted in TA. The reason we mentioned country is because of the bad reputation of "Chinese Ripoff Game", and this "Azeroth" has made it worse. Within this we agree that, license is the buttom line that no one should across.
I understood what you meant and I feel bad you get lumped in. Its not like people don't copy things here in the US either, but its just the past that makes people think the term 'rip-off' is associated with Chinese culture. I've no doubt you have honest developers too, but as we all can agree- this is not one of them. And to all the copyright infringement talk; it definitely seems like copyrighted material, but we will let the courts decide. In the meantime, I was thinking we should all download it, then give it one star. However, that might give it even MORE attention. So if you have not downloaded, please don't. You will only raise the visibility of a game that is mediocre at best namely because of the art it has copied.
Promise I'm not trolling here and I don't normally rush to defend such blatant attempts to mimic other styles, nor do I condone any attempt to profit in what is a seemingly deceptive manner, but on the other hand, so many styles we consider original, when you break them down, aren't that original, just some more distinct than others. Where do you draw the line on what's original and what's inspired and who determines and enforces that line, you, Apple, some government agency? If Apple took a hardline on this kind of thing, we'd see a lot fewer apps, and the screening process would take forever.
Wow the bone dragon they didn't even bother to modify at all from kingdom rush Why is it that China has zero, a complete absence of, originality? The one impressive thing that comes to mind is how identical the style is to kingdom rush. It's like they got the same artist. If you look at one of the updates in July, u can see that they "increased entertainment". Sounds like it was a drag until that special update. No he means "Kingdom Hush"
Whats wrong with you all acting like this is the First Game being copied? Heroes charge and the others are also all a copy, but they are all still well received here. Just because this Game didnt try to conceal it as much does not make it worse than all the other blatant copies.....
The problem here is that the source material that this is copying is well liked and the source studio is thought of highly. If this was a blatant copy of a game that was only alright and it IAPed you to death it might be considered differently, but this is not that game. This is a game trying to profit in the laziest way possible. This isn't a homage to a great game. This wasn't inspired work. This is just lazy so so developers trying to score quick cash on a poorly implemented game using others ideas and art. Total lack of originality.
I think he means that certain art assets in the game have LITERALLY been copied, pixel-for-pixel, by this Azeroth game. If people were just talking about similar art-styles, I'd join you in asking where this line should be drawn, but in this case it's fair to say it's a blatant rip-off.
+1 to this. I personally think they actually ripped at least some content. The menus songs and some of the character audio sounded exactly the same so this IS more of copyright infringement then just shameless copying with little originality. The conversation shouldn't really be about how China has little originality, it should be about whether they actually copied content directly from Ironhide or not. And honestly its something I cant confirm and I already deleted the game. Even aside from all that, the game itself is nothing to write home about. It uses previous formulas and doesn't even do it particularly well so.....yea
Great game, don't know what the fuss is about, there is nothing ripped off, next you will be saying street fighter ripped off king of fighters, there heaps of similar games like clash of clans types. People will get over this lame matter like always, Besides, just shut up and take my money.
