Call To Arms

[Remdul]

Hi fellow FH fans and FH players!

As you might have heard of, very recently a commercial game was released titled "Army Rage" (www.armyrage.com), which consists of a large amount of assets (weapons, vehicles, textures, sounds etc) taken from Forgotten Hope 2 without our permission. The publisher "Yacuba Games" and developer "Tuyasoft" are thus illicitly profiting from the creativity of the Forgotten Hope developers. We have evidence documented here: http://www.fhmod.org/armyrage/

We have contacted the CEO of Yacuba Games (Delzar Khalaf), but he has generally ignored our requests. From the onset he has responded with denial in spite of obvious evidence, then falsely claimed it was removed. In a new version released a few days ago, they have tried to cover up more of our material in an apparent attempt to hide their origins.

As of now, we are in contact with various service providers to have "Army Rage" taken off-line, but this may take some time, and in the mean while, unwitting gamers may spend their money on a game that eventually may be shut down. We're hoping to inform them that, for now, "Army Rage" is an unsafe investment.

So, the FH team needs your help. We ask you to post comments, e-mails, reviews, tweets, youtubes, reddits, slashdots; in your own wording and to your own discretion, what you think about this matter. We hope that, as result, no informed gamer will waste their money on the cheap knockoff title that "Army Rage" strives to be.

Please note that while Yacuba Games and Tuyasoft are engaging in illegal activities, we will NOT accept personal attacks on individuals involved with these companies. Do not attempt anything illegal. Shame them, expose them, let them know how you feel, but remember that "two wrongs do not make a right". Keep things honest and respectable.

Some links to get you started:

http://www.armyrage.com
http://yacuba.com
http://www.facebook.com/yacubagames
http://twitter.com/yacubagames
http://www.youtube.com/yacubagames
http://www.tuyasoft.com

pr@yacuba.com
info@tuyasoft.com

http://bg.linkedin.com/pub/delzar-khalaf/b/259/8b6
http://bg.linkedin.com/in/viktorpetrov
http://bg.linkedin.com/in/marinamarchovska

Delzar Khalaf
CEO

Yacuba Games
T +359 894 302 602
F +359 2 489 43 73
E d.khalaf@yacuba.com
W www.yacuba.com

/Remdul
On behalf of the entire, past and present, FH team

PS: If you recognize any material in "Army Rage" that was taken from other games or mods, please let us know! If you think you have found evidence of illegal activity by parties involved with "Army Rage", do not hesitate to contact us: martijn AT bytehazard DOT com

[Musti]

*grabs a pitchfork
Sure!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av-R0jBCnyE
Aren't those "ough" (being hurt)sounds at 0:50 actually from original BF?
If yes, they might have EA on their asses.

[Godall]

Emasculate them!

[Kwiot]

I wouldn't spend even 1 cent for this crap game... Looks like a browser shooter... On the other hand, I wonder if they gather bigger community of players than FH2... 

[THeTA0123]

MG42 model, no Doubt. thats from FH2.

The no 4 seems also from FH2...as i see the same flaws in the design i pointed out before

Seeing as they also allow clans with tags like SS and HH and shit


ooh god

They should be crushed

Just like this fellow
http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=14676.0

[Wilhelm]

I am very impressed with the way you present the evidence, Remdul!  Informative and professional! 

Let's hope we can get this issue resolved before more people waste their money.

[Surfbird]

Can't believe it, fuck those morons up ! Incoming rageposts on their videos. Destroy them !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9yWeqXZlo

Comment on this video especially please and give the others commenting about the same thumbs up. It has most views by far and is probably the first one people are going to watch.

[CologneSky]

Wow! Hope you can close them down asap. Ideally get some kind of retribution..

Wouldn't it be most effective to escalate this to EA and get their legal department on them?

[VonMudra]

Rabblerabblerabble!

[TASSER]

This is shocking, I can't wait to squash these guys.

On the flip side, hopefully this will bring some publicity to FH.

[Tuco]

[:| Hi]

What a bunch of flaming cunts. (And not in the good way)

[Torenico]

Wow, they shall be crushed.

[flyboy_fx]

*Dusts off AK47* Never knew I would have to use this over a video game, but the time has come...

[Paasky]

I went through the videos wiht most views in http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=army+rage and either thumbs up'd previous comments or commented myself. I urge everyone to do the same.


I also sent a question about this to mailbox@cynicalbrit.com Although I did make care to ask about the general issue, and not mention FH directly, so it wouldn't look like advertising:

Hi,

Recently, a free-to-play WWII MMOFPS (although I fail to see how max 24 players on a server is an MMO) was released called Army Rage. However, after the first gameplay footage started to come out, people started noticing similarities between it and games/mods from the Battlefield franchise, going as far back as BF1942.

One of the mod devs started digging further and noticed most of the art assets had been lifted from a variety of WWII-themed games & mods.

My question is: what sort of real life copyright do mods actually have, and how would a mod team go about claiming copyright infringement and shutting infringers down? What about monetary compensation?

- Paasky


ps. for more info, a dev has made a comprehensive comparison: http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/armyrage/