On March 11th, the new soul-like hacking and slashing work “Bleak Faith: Forsaken” developed by the small team of Archangel Studios was released on Steam. The big problem is that many mod animations in the game have been pointed out to be completely plagiarized from FromSoftware’s masterpiece “Elden’s Circle”.
In just a few days since the game was released, there have been many discussion forumscharge Archangel plagiarized images of the Ring of Law andevidencemany combat actions are almost carved out of the same mold, and there is even a Boss “Abyss Watcher” module that is very similar to the Valkyrie “Marenia” in “Elden’s Circle” that players are familiar with.
As we all know, many games will mostly draw inspiration from other works, but still make differences in special effects and action tone, but the plagiarized animation elements questioned in the game in “Bleak Faith: Forsaken” are almost like Directly apply the motion elements of “Elden’s Circle” through the DSAnimStudio editor.
In the face of accusations from many players, Archangel Studios quickly responded, stating that some animations in “Bleak Faith: Forsaken” were indeed purchased from Epic Marketplace (Epic Marketplace), which is specially designed for Unreal Engine developers by Epic Games. while the developer providing the component PersianNinja It was removed by Epic Games following this plagiarism incident.
The platform operator Epic Games responded to Archangel Studio: “Under the Market Distribution Agreement, each Market seller represents and warrants that they have the proper rights to upload their content. However, like any hosted third-party content store, Epic cannot independently rights to such item elements, and Epic provides no warranty to purchasers of the content.”
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As promised here is an update on the animation asset issue. We have heard back from the escalation team at Epic which was as follows:
“Pursuant to the Marketplace Distribution Agreement, each Marketplace seller represents and warrants to Epic that they have
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For a small team of only 3 people, it is not surprising to buy components in an online store, but this component plagiarism incident also exposed that platform vendors really cannot ensure that the developers who sell components are not stealing materials from other sources, just like other Like brick-and-mortar online shopping malls, everyone can buy fake products.
Although Epic’s response was not satisfactory to Archangel Studios, they also apologized to the players and thanked the player community for their reminders. They will delete all problematic components and continue to fix bugs and balance issues in subsequent updates.
“The team would like to thank everyone for bringing this issue to light,” Archangel Studiosexpress: “The use of stolen and sold component assets is not allowed, and we hope that other independent creators will never be caught in a similar situation. Such component markets are an important resource for development teams, especially those with limited budgets. We hope that Platforms can establish proper review and approval processes to provide development teams of all sizes with verified assets for use in upcoming game projects.”
Developed by the small team of Archangel Studios, the new soul-like hack and slash game “Bleak Faith: Forsaken” was launched on Steam on March 11.