Originally Posted by Blas_Eir

You are actually contradicting yourself, check the RO and darkages sprites, they are similar, but that doesn’t mean that they are stolen.
About the selling graphic engines, those CAN be sold to others companies, along with the sprites.


“Your "living proof" link only proves my point, since the Chinese are counterfeiting masters.”

That’s just an opinion, and if what you are saying is true and the game has stolen the graphics, it’s been over a year, do you seriously think anything can survive that long without being sued?


“Ragnarok Online has been one of the best mmorpgs around, with tons of actual fans etc, I really hate to see it being bastardized by another cheap company trying to ripoff the game...”

You should post some kind of evidence that hasn’t been proved wrong before flaming.
It seems that you just aren’t reading what I am posting, and just are flaming because you are bored.

Read this again:
“If you still don’t believe that there is nothing illegal going on after reading all the proof, think about Gravity and all the other companies, do you seriously think that nobody from all these companies have realized that they are stealing from them when the game has been announced for over a month? (And all the letters from the fire boys)
Do you seriously think that they wouldn’t do anything to stop them?
Trust me, if they would be doing anything illegal they would already sued IGG. They aren’t stupid.”

Originally Posted by Kris

Wow, they literally ripped off Ragnarok Online's sprites (Sniper and Knight, from the header). Well it's IGG, so no wonder.

Edit:



(RO's sprites)



(Ragnarok Online sprite)

Yay, Priestess fighting an Argiope...


(RO's)

Originally Posted by Kris

Yeah I think so too...



Pretty sure I've seen those trees somewhere else. Probably in Sword of Mana or Seiken Densetsu 3.

Edit: Yep, Sword of Mana:



Same tree, different color.

Originally Posted by Stranger

I never said it was going to suck, I'll give it a whirl.

The point is, why is a COMPANY like IGG ripping sprites? And yes, they are RIPPING, no inspiration.

There are some minor edits to the sprite, but in many MANY areas you can see IDENTICAL pixel placement (Mid region including the gloves, shoulder pads, chest, AND most of these colors are IDENTICAL to the RO's priest)

I used to be a Pixel Artist, which pixels are placed by hand to form sprites, images, etc, there is NO way to accidentally make these identical.

They merely edited existing RO sprites, recolors etc.

As for the trees, you'd have to blind to say its not ripped, they just modified the colors, that's all their doing here, is modifying them.

Originally Posted by BLUEmorning

a side-by-side comparison



and I changed the opacity of the rip-off one and overlayed it on top of the orignal RO female priest sprite, a perfect match lul.

Originally Posted by Pikko

I'm getting pissed off with this. We should make a petition.

Even more screenshots are being posted and it's just more stuff being ripped off of RO... and I love RO. ):

They're making it look like complete shit.
So, we already know that the characters are ripped...


But they are also copying other things... such as the RO items & interface...