China Rips Off Team Fortress 2

[spoot-smeg]

well it is a copy of the game that I wouldn't mind but the rocket launcher model is identical in every way to the one in tf2 there is no difference between the 2 launchers at all

 

[Hungry Donner]

Are there videos for all of the other classes as well?

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

More details and discussion here.

When I first saw it, I thought "This is hilarious!"

Then, after delving into the details, I thought "I want to play this."

I wish someone would take some of the models, especially the Pyro, who looks like pure awesomeness.

 

[AetherWolf]

lol it's funny when China does it but if anyone else does everyone get's pissed...<.<

Well, if you know My Life As A Teenage Robot; China is sort of like Killgore in this regard. They try so hard, but fail so horribly. I mean, just look at that video, it's like they didn't even bother covering it up. It's so hilariously fail.

lol yeah it's worse than Chinese Gundam...<.<

Oh, Chinese Gundam...

IT'S AN ORIGINAL ROBOT K GAAAIIIZZ.

 

[aba1]

China pritty much owns the united states with debt at this point so it sorta evens out PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

 

[Flailing Escapist]

Lol, that DOES remind me of Hitler.

Also, why do firefighters have rocket-launchers?

To fight fire, of course.
You've never heard the saying "fight fire with rockets"?

 

[Sleekgiant]

Will there be hats though?

 

[redisforever]

Actually, looks like fun.

 

[Jegsimmons]

That's pretty standard fare for here. (China... I live here/there, whatever).
Couple things: very little Mao propaganda here (disregarding his face on the currency, you see more Mao portraits on T-shirts at a university campus in the west than you do here). TF2 isn't banned, it just isn't well known. The only AAA titles you see marketed here are games like COG (half the studio's based in Shanghai, what do you expect), so the product awareness of western games is really low. (Unless it's something by blizzard, in which case they have leagues for that shit).

Also, I'm not sure if this actually constitutes intellectual property theft because they haven't repackaged TF2 as their own product, they've just ripped it off. Doesn't make it okay... but *shrug*

I look at stuff like this with the attitude of "well at least they're playing something cool" (you should see the garbage developed as original IPs here... It's shameful.
Also, don't forget, the average income of an urbanite here is roughly $614 USD/month. That's not a lot of cash. It's not like most of the market here can afford to by any of these titles, so it's not like Valve would actually be losing money in the Chinese market, because there isn't a market here for games over $3.00.

Oh, and one last thing...
Most of the the people you talk to have never heard of Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen. I've been told by some colleagues/students that there's no way the Nazi's could have killed 6 million Jews and Romani... They just don't know it happened, so copying Hitler isn't offensive here (he may in fact be more honoured than Mao.
Salamm

...thats fucked up.

hey wait a minute....didnt Mao cause the death of 40-70 million people during his rule?
yet hitler killing 6 million jews is too much too believe?
.....
man i take my freedom for granted.

 

[SilentCom]

No propaganda of Mao Zedong? Nope. Can't be Chinese.

OP: They all look like fire fighters....

Haha, I was thinking the same thing. I was sort of expecting another team-based, class-based online shooter but this isn't just another one. This is almost exactly the same as TF2...

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

Will there be hats though?

It's a modern Chinese game, of course there'll be stuff to buy via an in-game store. =p

 

[Baneat]

It's using the Source Engine and I bet it's proveable that the rocket launcher is derived from the official one..

If it's using the Source Engine and is for profit, then either Valve authorised it (LOL) or they're straight-up stealing.

 

[Souplex]

It actually looks better than TF2.

 

[likalaruku]

Not only does originality not exist; it never did. Everything is a ripoff od something. Just accept it.

 

[blankedboy]

I love how everyone's blaming China instead of the game's devs. Hehe.

 

[ThisIsSnake]

They also don't know about the Balkans, Rwanda in 94, Darfur, etc. My guess is that if they focused too much on mass murders/genocide outside of China, they'd have to talk about the 60 000 000 000 that M-o killed during The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Single party authoritarian states don't encourage intro/retrospection...
And this is off topic.
Salaam

I think that might three too many zeros.

OT: OK so it looks like the red and blue teams from TF2 have united under adolf hitler, who is now a firefighter and is leading them to war against greys?