According to Gadgetendency, the game Krafton is targeting is Free Fire, which is also a survival game with a gameplay similar to PUBG: Battlegrounds – the game has just been officially released as free. In a report from Reuters, Krafton claims that Free Fire, formerly known as Free Fire: Battlegrounds, is a PUBG clone. The company said that Garena Online – the unit responsible for Free Fire – copied some aspects of their game, such as the structure, equipment, items and maps.
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Krafton thinks that Free Fire plagiarizes a lot of PUBG content |
The company behind Garena called Sea Ltd started distributing Free Fire in 2017 through the App Store and Google Play Store. Krafton added that, in 2021, the game Free Fire Max was also pirated. Krafton says that in just the first three months of 2021, Garena made more than $100 million from this plagiarized game.
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In addition, in December 2021, Krafton announced they had asked Google and Apple to no longer host the Free Fire game in their app stores, and asked these companies to suspend sales and compensate all including the revenue that PUBG lost because of Free Fire’s copying behavior.
It is worth noting that recently, Apple removed from its store a large number of applications that clone popular games. In fact, one of the pirated games even charges an annual subscription fee of $30.
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