{"id":46035,"date":"2012-10-17T10:31:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T08:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46035"},"modified":"2012-10-17T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T08:36:31","slug":"war-z-devs-copy-paste-league-of-legends-eula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46035-war-z-devs-copy-paste-league-of-legends-eula","title":{"rendered":"War Z devs copy-paste League of Legends EULA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <em>this<\/em> is embarrassing. After being accused of copying the idea from DayZ and copying the weapon interface from Crysis, War Z developers Hammerpoint Interactive have now been caught-out copying the terms of use agreement from League of Legends (and, more egregiously perhaps, totally forgetting to cover it up).<\/p>\n<p>The agreement has reportedly since been modified to remove reference to League of Legends, but not before users over on Reddit took <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/EBOr7.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">screenshot evidence<\/a> for posterity. Under the &#8220;REQUIREMENTS&#8221; section of the terms of use agreement, the text read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In installing and using the Software and playing the Game, you acknowledge that you have read, understand and agree with the terms of this License Agreement. You must also: (i) read, understand and agree to the OP Productions Terms of Use <strong>http:\/\/www.leagueoflegends.com\/legal\/termsofuse<\/strong> (the &#8216;Terms of Use&#8217;).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe the most shocking news here, though, is that <em>somebody actually bothered to read the terms of use agreement<\/em>. I mean, who does that? Not even the developers, apparently.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Games\/comments\/11jk83\/the_war_z_terms_and_conditions_copypasted_from\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45899-starcraft-ii-pro-gamer-suspended-over-lewd-joke.html\">StarCraft II pro gamer suspended over lewd \u201cjoke\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44651-bayonetta-2-wii-u-exclusivity-gets-internet-hate-machine-rolling.html\">Bayonetta 2 Wii U exclusivity gets Internet hate machine rolling<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/43353-diablo-creators-criticism-causes-facebook-drama.html\">Diablo creator\u2019s criticism causes Facebook drama<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41470-price-of-games-blamed-for-absurdly-entitled-gamers.html\">Price of games blamed for \u201cabsurdly entitled\u201d gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scandal! Controversy! Copy-pastegate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":46044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1769,1429,7233,631,7234,7235],"class_list":["post-46035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-controversy","tag-drama","tag-hammerpoint-interactive","tag-league-of-legends","tag-the-war-z","tag-war-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46046,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46035\/revisions\/46046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}