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Announcements => Announcements => Topic started by: Remdul on 07-05-2012, 23:05:13

Title: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 07-05-2012, 23:05:13
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

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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

(http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/images/give_em_hell.jpg)

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
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Musti on 07-05-2012, 23:05:56
*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.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Godall on 07-05-2012, 23:05:36
Emasculate them! >:(
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kwiot on 07-05-2012, 23:05:05
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...  ::)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: THeTA0123 on 07-05-2012, 23:05:55
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

Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Wilhelm on 08-05-2012, 00:05:00
I am very impressed with the way you present the evidence, Remdul!  Informative and professional!  ;D

Let's hope we can get this issue resolved before more people waste their money.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 08-05-2012, 00:05:40
Can't believe it, fuck those morons up ! Incoming rageposts on their videos. Destroy them !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9yWeqXZlo (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.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: CologneSky on 08-05-2012, 00:05:59
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?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: VonMudra on 08-05-2012, 02:05:26
Rabblerabblerabble!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: TASSER on 08-05-2012, 02:05:32
This is shocking, I can't wait to squash these guys.

On the flip side, hopefully this will bring some publicity to FH.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tuco on 08-05-2012, 02:05:01
(http://www.ironmill.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/angry-mob.jpeg)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: :| Hi on 08-05-2012, 03:05:43
What a bunch of flaming cunts. (And not in the good way)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Torenico on 08-05-2012, 04:05:05
Wow, they shall be crushed.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: flyboy_fx on 08-05-2012, 04:05:04
*Dusts off AK47* Never knew I would have to use this over a video game, but the time has come...
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Paasky on 08-05-2012, 08:05:17
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:
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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/
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: djinn on 08-05-2012, 09:05:13
Can I post this link on Youtube?
http://www.gamefront.com/files/21670901/OVS.rar
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kubador on 08-05-2012, 10:05:34
Since this matter went official it also should be put on the main page.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Thorondor123 on 08-05-2012, 10:05:55
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:
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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/
That's a good one.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Raziel on 08-05-2012, 10:05:43
OMFG!  :'(
I have just read this thread. These idiots' office is in Malta!! NOooooo!
Their office is just a couple of minutes away from my work place.

....registered office at Villa Seminia 8, Sir Temi Zammit Avenue, Ta' Xbiex, XBX1011 Malta.



These people are undermining my favourite mod!! (http://serve.mysmiley.net/mad/mad0054.gif)

If I can be of help please do contact me! Will disseminate this news anywhere I can! Goodluck devs!

FYI Just posted the news in the Kerbal Space Programme forum.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Harmonikater on 08-05-2012, 11:05:52
I wouldnt be surprised if there is no actual office there.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 08-05-2012, 11:05:58
Reporting from the South flank,

Will raise awareness, sir!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Raziel on 08-05-2012, 12:05:00
I wouldnt be surprised if there is no actual office there.

In half an hour I 'll confirm  (http://serve.mysmiley.net/evilgrin/evilgrin0027.gif)
I am sure there is the Egyptian Embassy near that location.

If there is an office there I will wear an FH2 t-shirt (@ von.small - When are we going to continue this competition m8) and organise a 1 man protest. [(http://serve.mysmiley.net/sign/sign0010.gif)

UPDATE:
 8) Just been down to the address mentioned above and I can confirm that it is correct
(They have a plaque on the facade saying Cyber gaming consultants)

Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Turkletoon on 08-05-2012, 13:05:16
Has anyone been in contact with EA or DICE? since they have clearly stolen from them as well. EA's black helicopters might do some good here  ;)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kwiot on 08-05-2012, 15:05:58
Why this crap game has more views on youtube than FH2 videos?  ::)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: th_battleaxe on 08-05-2012, 15:05:24
Has anyone been in contact with EA or DICE? since they have clearly stolen from them as well. EA's black helicopters might do some good here  ;)
Meanwhile, near a small fishing village not far from Beijing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjWDCX1Bdw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjWDCX1Bdw)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: fh_spitfire on 08-05-2012, 15:05:00
More YT places to raid:

official Army Rage channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/armyragegame
Official Trailer: http://youtu.be/MYVZvjkbcJY
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kubador on 08-05-2012, 15:05:18
I think that comments on officials will be deleted quite quickly.

Thumb up comments here:

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av-R0jBCnyE
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 08-05-2012, 15:05:12
Yea they delete the comments at that trailer of course :/ I will keep spamming them though, so they are busy at least :D

Also, I love the irony of that (sorry for the huge picture):

(http://s7.directupload.net/images/120508/qbu9mrm9.jpg)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: fh_spitfire on 08-05-2012, 15:05:21
I think that comments on officials will be deleted quite quickly.

Thumb up comments here:

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av-R0jBCnyE
Yes, but they can't delete in no-time, so if we keep posting them, they will be generally visible there. Just don't spam, if the last comment hasn't been deleted yet, thumb it up, instead of posting new one.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Biiviz on 08-05-2012, 16:05:49
Has anyone got Twitter to mess with them that way?

http://twitter.com/#!/armyrage
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LuckyOne on 08-05-2012, 16:05:08
Oh my god, have people no shame today? I just hope someone big like EA or Valve is onto their asses soon!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 08-05-2012, 16:05:19
They do not cease to be totally laughable, from the twitter page Biiviz posted:

"The only realistic WWII MMOFPS. Choose your side and fight!" ;D

Unfortunately I don't have twitter :/

@ Spit

I tried it several times now and it got instantly removed every time. Just a few seconds later -.- Probably there is some Asian guy pressing f5 all day and night long, deleting disturbing comments.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Flippy Warbear on 08-05-2012, 16:05:21
It seems none of the comments I've made, in various videos and in their official YT channel, have been deleted thus far.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: fh_spitfire on 08-05-2012, 16:05:13
Keep the info up also here: https://www.facebook.com/armyrage

(Warning, you may only comment once, after they delete your post, you have ban on commenting on their profile).
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LuckyOne on 08-05-2012, 16:05:12
Quote
Will the game be on Steam (a gaming platform made by Valve - which is heavily populated by a big mass of the players)?

itsmesarvan 1 day ago
Quote
Hi there,

Our plan is soon to be there :)

Can they be that stupid to try to sell it through Valve's official site?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 08-05-2012, 16:05:24
I thought that too when i read that comment. This turns out getting funny to me, because this company is just so laughably retarded :D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: psykfallet on 08-05-2012, 16:05:15
Maybe its more effective to flag the youtube videos?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Biiviz on 08-05-2012, 17:05:02
"Post a channel comment

You are unable to use this functionality because you have been blocked."

::)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 08-05-2012, 17:05:05
Maybe its more effective to flag the youtube videos?

Not a bad idea. We should do that with the official videos maybe ?

The unoffical ones should exist like they are now, so people can read the messages I'd say and exactly know what's up.

Anyway, I doubt flagging those videos will make youtube take them down.

What reason would you give for the flagging: "Infringes my Rights" -> "infringes my copyright" or "other legal claim" ?

But again - I doubt that without the possibility to give further evidence they are gonna do something about it when 2 or 3 people flag the video. We need at least 10 or 20 to make youtube-support ask/getting curious whats wrong, if anything. But it's worth a try.

Flag this one ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYVZvjkbcJY&feature=youtu.be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYVZvjkbcJY&feature=youtu.be)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Paasky on 08-05-2012, 17:05:55
@ArmyRage: "A presentation of one of the best bolt-action rifles in the game - The M1 Garand!"
:)


I am shocked, Shocked to find out a country with such stringent copyright laws & protection as China could have spawned such a game.

I also like how they're calling it an MMOFPS, with servers of up to 24 players!


Maybe its more effective to flag the youtube videos?
If you do that, only flag the videos uploaded by the official channel, don't be a dick and flag someone's legit LP or review video.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Biiviz on 08-05-2012, 17:05:48
Those who can say that their copyright has been infringed should flag them. I can't make such a claim, I haven't made any content.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 08-05-2012, 17:05:28
Yup, that's why I asked. So its up to the devs to do so.
Looks like we normal people can not flag it, without violating youtubes community guidelines, but I don't really know to be honest.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: th_battleaxe on 08-05-2012, 17:05:16
put 'other legal claim', if possible

Here in Belgium, we have the system of "burgerlijke partij". It basically means you can claim to have been, in legal terms, impaired by a crime (here plagiarism) and ask for retribution. So if a trial is to be held in Belgium, you can have a situation where not only the devs are standing against ArmyRage but also the entire FH community. That would make more then 10.000 people in support. Talk to people online, the whole community must know this!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: THeTA0123 on 08-05-2012, 17:05:30
Rabblerabblerabble!
DEY took UR MODELLS

(http://www.fearla.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/they-took-our-jobs.jpg)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Wulfburk on 08-05-2012, 17:05:00
Man i hate these guys.... spam their twitter account and official youtube videos, as well as flagging those videos as "other legal claim" (only fh2 devs)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 08-05-2012, 17:05:05
@ArmyRage: "A presentation of one of the best bolt-action rifles in the game - The M1 Garand!"
:)


I am shocked, Shocked to find out a country with such stringent copyright laws & protection as China could have spawned such a game.

I also like how they're calling it an MMOFPS, with servers of up to 24 players!

They played America the beautiful in their space rocket launch live TV broadcast. As if it weren't funny enough, their international media (CCTV 4) decided to show us some funny Youtube videos they found like the hysterical screaming Chameleon and lolcats in fucking 2012. Some people, like my Dad still regard them as credible. But that's hardly neutral.

You will become like that when bunch of smartasses monopoly your politics, tell you what to do, and dictates what you can hear and see. 100,000 stupid people aren't any smarter than 1,000,000,000 stupid people, that's the basic logic. It works in some way, but for some others, it simply don't.

The good thing is that the publisher is still based in Europe (somewhere in Bulgaria or Malta). The developers are just bunch of typical shady Chinese company working underground, coughing up shit by wasting resources and polluting the world. There are many shady companies like that, talking about controlling big ass country with population numbered second to none. Suddenly they exported dangerous low-quality stuffs disguised as the real thing. Not surprised.

I prefer to share this with my friends and all others I know of.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: RAnDOOm on 08-05-2012, 19:05:15
Lets keep on fighting!

Reply, post/like comments on youtube, lets pass the word to everyone that plays that awfull game.

Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Hockeywarrior on 08-05-2012, 20:05:19
Wow this is really pathetic! Sorry to hear this devs, but you know your community will do everything in its power to make sure this game burns in the fires of justice!

Ugh it really makes me angry, and I didn't make one damn thing in the game! I can't even imagine how you guys feel.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: djinn on 08-05-2012, 20:05:45
I already Twittered there twice with the link.
if I tweet to as many of their posts as possible so that those they are tlaking with see it, what's the worst they could possibly do to my Twitter account?

Get my account locked? Or simply block my posts?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: NTH on 08-05-2012, 20:05:35
They are number one --> http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst909_Army-Rage-is-Number-1.aspxhttp://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst909_Army-Rage-is-Number-1.aspx (http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst909_Army-Rage-is-Number-1.aspxhttp://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst909_Army-Rage-is-Number-1.aspx)
Quote on that page "The Devs have really been working hard"
(http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/GifGuide/clapping/joker.gif)

Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Turkletoon on 08-05-2012, 23:05:40
Looks like they have deleted all of the comments made to there clips. And I have been blocked to post any new ones. I think posting on youtube won't work. We need some bigger guns.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Wulfburk on 08-05-2012, 23:05:44
Yeah i was blocked too, so i posted lots of comments on other videos out of their main channel.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: HappyFunBall on 08-05-2012, 23:05:57
I'd say they are perfectly aware of what they are doing: A Chinese company, incorporating in Malta, and setting up offices in Bulgaria. This is a classic example of a company setting up specifically to do illegal business. No point in suing them in either Malta or Bulgaria either, as the money is sure to be in China (where nobody will ever get at it.)

The servers are another matter. They appear to have hired servers in  the west. They may respond to pressure. If you have the means you might consider retaining a lawyer in the same jurisdiction as the servers to write them a nasty letter. A lawsuit isn't terribly realistic, but you might just scare them into dropping their larcenous client. Alternatively, you could ask EA to do it.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Wulfburk on 08-05-2012, 23:05:36
is there the slightest possibility of EA doing it?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tuco on 08-05-2012, 23:05:34
Wouldn't hurt to contact them, their always looking for new ways to make some $$$... EA that is.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Musti on 08-05-2012, 23:05:51
LOL, EA hates when somebody uses their assets to make money. Some brave warrior has to go and poke EA's lawsuit nuke cannons. I'm 100% positive they'll do something about it.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Eat Uranium on 08-05-2012, 23:05:28
If they have any US servers, you could try using the DMCA on them.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Flyboy1942 on 09-05-2012, 01:05:35
I'm fairly certain these lazy sods never recorded which content they lifted from where, so if EA or Valve files a claim theyll have to shut down completely. That or EA will go through their game files with 5000 people and bill the manhours to this company. Which would probably shut down the game completely.

But yeah, overall this reeks of a money grab. Pay some wannabes a bit of money to collect content and hack it together fast and dirty, call it a game, spam it all over, make as much money as possible, and hightail it when people start noticing where the content actually came from.

I've been playing too much Sins:Rebellion and am currently fighting the urge to mash F8.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Steel_Lion_FIN on 09-05-2012, 01:05:03
Oh the irony:

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5196/7161389888_e1b5ed03ff_z.jpg)

SniperaceFIN is my youtube name, BTW, and used to be my ingame name, in case you didn't know.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Flyboy1942 on 09-05-2012, 01:05:57
I just had to mark that comment as "not spam" : /

Also, I flagged the trailer as spam > fraud

I can think of no better description of the fraudulent crap they're pushing out in an effort to dupe people into paying them for someone else's work.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Biiviz on 09-05-2012, 03:05:19
On the "Army Rage Official Trailer" there's a ton of deleted posts, posts marked as spam and posts neg-repped. Apparently they got tired of deleting them. :)

I, for one, downvoted all Army Rage videos and upvoted and clicked "Not Spam" on all comments regarding their blasphemy.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 09-05-2012, 03:05:34
Looks like they have deleted all of the comments made to there clips. And I have been blocked to post any new ones. I think posting on youtube won't work. We need some bigger guns.

It actually works very well. Look at the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9yWeqXZlo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9yWeqXZlo) video. Pages filled with that stuff. Tons of viewers. Just keep up the spam there. Most people are going to look that.
The official videos also work. Page 1 already disappeared cuz of massive Spam, page 2 shows a list of deleted and spam-marked comments, which feels strange to the viewers and there are not a lot of random people commentating on that video, so it will be up like that for some time at least.

Just keep spamming informative texts, being an eye catcher and indicate the problem with the game clearly, polite but with a rigorous tone and directly talk to the people, appeal for not supporting the game !

This way people realize there's no douche talking shit and take the problem seriously, as I tried with the text below.

To my pleasure some guys already copied it, but feel free to create something own. I just think that the way you present the message is very important, so the youtubers realize it's a problem and not stupid trashtalk as in 99 % of other youtube videos.

Fill your posts with content instead of "They stole from FH2" and the effect is going to be a lot better and advertising the problem on youtube is probably still the biggest weapon in the arsenal right after justice taking action.

I tried to convey the message and appealed them to not support it this way. Copy my text below or create something own, but take some minutes for it, so the problem is clear to everyone without any background knowledge. That way, youtube is the right platform to work with and if we constantly keep up the spam, we damage that company quite a lot and prevent players from supporting this game, just my 2 Cents:



IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ:

Army Rage stole tons of textures of weapons, tanks as well as several gun sounds and other stuff from Forgotten Hope 1 mod for Bf1942, Forgotten Hope 2 mod for Battlefield 2, things from the original Battlefield 1942 and some other sources.

This is a copyright infringement and this game will be taken down earlier or later. Please do NOT support this game and do NOT spend any money on it, it is most likely wasted. The law is alredy behind them, its a matter of time !
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Wilhelm on 09-05-2012, 06:05:44
This is the message displayed on Army Rage's community forums:

Quote
Welcome Guest! To enable all features please Login. New Registrations are disabled.

 ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LHeureux on 09-05-2012, 06:05:00

Ever played World of Tanks? Look in this video when he enter the tanks (4:10 in the video) :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCAg9KrSZ6k


Look in the bottom, you see the little IS-2 model showing where your tank is aiming, well it's the same as in World of Tanks :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG9ekygGPAo


Going to post this on World of Tanks forums, THAT will get alot of attention.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tuco on 09-05-2012, 07:05:23
Army Rage... terribad name.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: TASSER on 09-05-2012, 07:05:39
I tried to convey the message and appealed them to not support it this way. Copy my text below or create something own, but take some minutes for it, so the problem is clear to everyone without any background knowledge. That way, youtube is the right platform to work with and if we constantly keep up the spam, we damage that company quite a lot and prevent players from supporting this game, just my 2 Cents:



IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ:

Army Rage stole tons of textures of weapons, tanks as well as several gun sounds and other stuff from Forgotten Hope 1 mod for Bf1942, Forgotten Hope 2 mod for Battlefield 2, things from the original Battlefield 1942 and some other sources.

This is a copyright infringement and this game will be taken down earlier or later. Please do NOT support this game and do NOT spend any money on it, it is most likely wasted. The law is alredy behind them, its a matter of time !

This is very good. The only thing I would include is the link to the evidence page Remdul put up.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kwiot on 09-05-2012, 09:05:44
Have you noticed that all these soldiers movement is very similar to the Team Fortress game?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: CologneSky on 09-05-2012, 13:05:06
In a way this whole thing has a quite positive side to it.

After Army Rage is closed down, and with the attention drawn to FH2, this might bring allot of "fresh blood" from new players to FH2. This is quite a marketing oppurtunity IMHO
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Easy Eight on 09-05-2012, 18:05:58
In a way this whole thing has a quite positive side to it.

After Army Rage is closed down, and with the attention drawn to FH2, this might bring allot of "fresh blood" from new players to FH2. This is quite a marketing oppurtunity IMHO
That would be great, I don't get it how such a crappy game has more players than FH2. ???

I just watched that video on the first site and I think I've heard every sound in another game before.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: jan_kurator on 09-05-2012, 19:05:54
That would be great, I don't get it how such a crappy game has more players than FH2. ???
Because it's free (FH need battlefield to run), new, simple, unaccurate and fucking stupid. People love that
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Thorondor123 on 09-05-2012, 19:05:10
That would be great, I don't get it how such a crappy game has more players than FH2. ???
Because it's free (FH need battlefield to run), new, simple, unaccurate and fucking stupid. People love that
*pay to win

So they are actually making money with FH2, EA and Valve's content.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: RAnDOOm on 09-05-2012, 19:05:39
What other means can we use to pass the message besides posting on forums and comment on youtube videos ?

Any ideas ?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: th_battleaxe on 09-05-2012, 19:05:01
because they are actually making money with content of EA, Valve, FH2, etc, you have a damn good reason to ask for your share of the money, and if they refuse, bury them under lawsuits including plagiarism, theft, fraud and whatnot. For maximum effect each of the devs should make a separate case for their specific content
 
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 09-05-2012, 20:05:45
because they are actually making money with content of EA, Valve, FH2, etc, you have a damn good reason to ask for your share of the money, and if they refuse, bury them under lawsuits including plagiarism, theft, fraud and whatnot. For maximum effect each of the devs should make a separate case for their specific content
 

Will you pay the lawyers?  ;)

We can bring this issue for people, but for something to happen, we must just wait for Valve or EA to fire the big guns.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Ts4EVER on 09-05-2012, 20:05:58
I'm pretty sure Remdul is in contact with them. He isn't doing this the first time.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 09-05-2012, 20:05:47
I have the army rage chinese beta client (2011.8.8)
Do u need that? If u need that give me an e-mail (walter4k@163.com)
I love FH mod! I hate copyer, copyer=su*ker!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Thorondor123 on 09-05-2012, 20:05:16
I'm pretty sure Remdul is in contact with them. He isn't doing this the first time.

Gaben will handle this one personally.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: th_battleaxe on 09-05-2012, 20:05:51
because they are actually making money with content of EA, Valve, FH2, etc, you have a damn good reason to ask for your share of the money, and if they refuse, bury them under lawsuits including plagiarism, theft, fraud and whatnot. For maximum effect each of the devs should make a separate case for their specific content
 

Will you pay the lawyers?  ;)

We can bring this issue for people, but for something to happen, we must just wait for Valve or EA to fire the big guns.

No, I can't pay a gazillion lawyers who will no doubt charge way too much

as you said, it's prob the only thing we can do right now, and find more evidence. Speaking of which can someone check the Luger model they're using? If it's copied from FH1 we can get the BF 1918 crew on board as well.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 09-05-2012, 20:05:54
 >:( that client is 384mb, and i'll sleeping 8 hours, we have time difference, sorry mate.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: mopskind on 09-05-2012, 20:05:43
I don't understand..
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Malsa on 09-05-2012, 21:05:40
We should create a couple of our own youtube-videos that reveal the fraud that is Army Rage. Then mobilize and bring up the number of views and likes. Hopefully, that will get our videos far up in the search list.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: RAnDOOm on 09-05-2012, 21:05:04
We should create a couple of our own youtube-videos that reveal the fraud that is Army Rage. Then mobilize and bring up the number of views and likes. Hopefully, that will get our videos far up in the search list.

Actually thats a very nice ideia.

Anyone up for it ?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LuckyOne on 09-05-2012, 21:05:37
We should create a couple of our own youtube-videos that reveal the fraud that is Army Rage. Then mobilize and bring up the number of views and likes. Hopefully, that will get our videos far up in the search list.

Funny I had the same idea today... Just don't have the time to do it (nor am I good in making videos). But I'm sure there's someone in the community who can help!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LHeureux on 09-05-2012, 22:05:10
What needs to be done is sound comparaison videos and more precise models and textures comparaisons.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 10-05-2012, 05:05:15
To do that you need to download the ArmyRage client, which I personally refused to do. I feel disgusted.

So what I did is tweeting Remdul's page as much as I can. Because people who visit reddit, 4chan, etc are pretty much hipster and well-informed compared to silly facebook or average twitter users.

Stealing is bad, but I can tolerate people that copy (or borrow to be polite) stuff, but keep it their own. However, those who steal and make profits are the bastards and have no moral conscience. Because asking permission in first place isn't that effing difficult.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Yustax on 10-05-2012, 05:05:37
Im very disgusted and hate companies who take the hard work of other people and make it "theirs" in a product that's constructed by greed and take advantage that it officially belongs to other people. Im highly disgusted that this has reached again FH2 doors...and I hope that they will be punished financially and with all the weight of the law as possible.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 10-05-2012, 06:05:41
this is chinese website http://www.finalbattle.cn/
in chinese they call army rage is finalbattle
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: mopskind on 10-05-2012, 10:05:57
Lawl look at this website, the Panzer IV D is to the detail the same model as the africa pz iv d on mersa matruh for example..different skin though
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Eat Uranium on 10-05-2012, 11:05:58
this is chinese website http://www.finalbattle.cn/
in chinese they call army rage is finalbattle
Very unlikely that distribution in China will be affected I think.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: psykfallet on 10-05-2012, 13:05:17
All the negative comments are now removed from their videos, get everyone do to thumbs down on their videos!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Korsakov829 on 10-05-2012, 16:05:15
Talentless dogs...

When I get back on Monday, I'll see if I can photoshop some picket signs for everyone. Might even see how quick I can get banned from their forums later...
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: kettcar on 11-05-2012, 01:05:02
well see what i can do. news is in production for the german communtiy
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ShadowNick1 on 11-05-2012, 01:05:35
I posted this about it on the WaW Forums, surprised it reached this far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCAg9KrSZ6k&lc=nuEsqWdDvUt3hFY6Pm2mzV0ujA-cuYTuaDQHI9LTjQY&feature=inbox
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LtJimmy on 11-05-2012, 04:05:17
Just an idea: How about turning this into a New post of some description on the actual FH2 website. Couldn't hurt right?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: jan_kurator on 11-05-2012, 11:05:58
Post on moddb couldn't hurt too  ;)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: AfterDune on 11-05-2012, 12:05:04
Or /v/.... :o
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Thorondor123 on 11-05-2012, 12:05:34
Or /v/.... :o
Most like full of buttmad Army Rage fanboys.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 11-05-2012, 21:05:21
As someone stated, this thing is good advertising for FH2. Already seen some new people on hslan, maybe bit more than usually.

Also, googling army rage brings the "Forgotten Hope vs. Army Rage" page nicely on first page.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kubador on 11-05-2012, 22:05:53
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-VRs2T8iP0&feature=fvst

Another vid where we need to give thumbs up and unflag spam. Btw, the loading sound of Springfield is very familiar (1:48)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: CologneSky on 12-05-2012, 01:05:50
As someone stated, this thing is good advertising for FH2. Already seen some new people on hslan, maybe bit more than usually.

Also, googling army rage brings the "Forgotten Hope vs. Army Rage" page nicely on first page.

so I am "someone" know..  :(

sic transit gloria mundi..
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Wulfburk on 12-05-2012, 01:05:32
i think they are trying to change what they stealed: http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst973_Army-Rage-New-Changes.aspx
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 12-05-2012, 03:05:20
who know chinese ?

they are the army rage team

the 烂苹果 and RainbowSix is the plagiarist

http://www.bf2mod.cn/viewthread.php?tid=98103&extra=&page=2
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: azreal on 12-05-2012, 03:05:40
It says you have to log in to view that thread. Can you use Google Translate and copy the text here?
http://translate.google.com/
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 12-05-2012, 04:05:46
yes, i 'll Translate that by english , wait me
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 12-05-2012, 05:05:09
1# Rainbowsix:Fu*k you motherfu*cker, do you know what is copy, do you think all real gun in ww2 is copy the FH2?
(He is angry because I said truth half a year ago)

2# xujiajie1997:You too angry. LOL LOL LOL

3# 英明: army rage and FH2 poster is the same in game?

4# Rainbowsix:He is fool(he mean me), this is all the ww2 game, so the weapons must same.
 So i can't made the Barrel for wood, and the gun Butt for metal. If i do that this fool must say, This game is not true.
 And he said we copy the trees Texture, he think we must made a new speciesare he'll not say us copy, are you kiding me, are you fool?

5# Rainbowsix:"英明: army rage and FH2 poster is the same in game?"
We found that poster On the Internet, the FH2 found that poster on the internet, too! I bet!
And i think if i make a new poster , the army rage player will not be happy.

6# flyfire2002:we think the army rage copy the bf1942.

7# 350847184: that guy is copy heself (he is the rainbowsix's friend)

8# q541810261: Fart, this is plagiarism? this game is only Draw lessons from other ww2 games. (rainbowsix friend too)

9# 潇潇冷夜 :Do not angry(He said too the rainbowsix), Ignore him.,
they are seen all copycat, mainly the influence of the national condition,
Go your own way, Don't ignore the dog(he is rainbowsix firend too)

10# (me) :you are the plagiarist.don't personal attack
you copy the weapons texture, the architecture texture, and windmill/grave texture.
and you copy the sound of fh2 mod.

11# xujiajie1997:"(me) :you are the plagiarist.don't personal attack
you copy the weapons texture, the architecture texture, and windmill/grave texture.
and you copy the sound of fh2 mod."

I think he is right.

12# Rainbowsix:"(me) :you are the plagiarist.don't personal attack
you copy the weapons texture, the architecture texture, and windmill/grave texture.
and you copy the sound of fh2 mod."

Ok, i Respect of persons with disabilities, i 'll not personal attack.
we are not copy the fh2 model and texture , i think when i put in a real Mosque, you will shut up. You are blind, you are deaf.
the architecture texture, and windmill/grave texture is all made by us, you are sucker.
FH2 is not have DP-28 and Pershing !!!
that map is Cronicas! fh2 not have Cronicas map !!!
If you find that i'm your son, if you can't find that you are my son, DEAL???

13#  Rainbowsix:"xujiajie1997:I think he is right."

He is wrong, when you play the army rage, you will know we are not plagiarism.

14# (me):yes u win, YES U WIN, thx for you not personal attack me again, i don't want see you again, good luck.

15# Rainbowsix:{he put in a video he want change the subject}

16#  xujiajie1997: "Rainbowsix:He is wrong, when you play the army rage, you will know we are not plagiarism."
I not play that game.
but i think that game sounds like fh2,
but we know, The same thing can only have one
i keep Neutral
 
17# z695420423:rainbowsix you are too Excited, that guy mean all Modern Warfare game is copy US army(Rainbowsix friend)

18# Rainbow(not Rainbowsix): what happend???

19# laihao: don't worry,
he is suck, he is fool
Ignore him(rainbowsix friend)

20# (me):I'm not lie , that all Truth.
the FH2 team know you plagiarist the fh2,
look this!
http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=17210.0

21#/22#/23#/24# is i call the unknown truth

25# (me):let you know what is real http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1580881246

26# yudahai912: fu*k you fool(to me)

27# 烂苹果: you are maggot, fu*k you, yes we are the plagiarist. because fh2 texture is good, we can copy?
why you not copy that? hMMM?? all ww2 game is plagiarist? how funny,
the Stalker copy hl2, the valve say nothing.

28# (me):you are the thief, all thief

29# (me):You should feel sorry for this

30# (me):the war521 copy the aix, so aix is die, we don't want the fh die , do you know?

31# (me):"yudahai912: fu*k you fool"
i just say the real of this

32# (me):http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=17210.0
look this lol
Don't you feel shame

33# 烂苹果: FH is made by you?? You have no right to get the apology, you want Apology?Really funny, Do you know who are you?

34# xiaozhige84: rainbowsix be happy, Don't care
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 12-05-2012, 05:05:30
So he says fh is not made by me, Yes, he is right, but i love this mod, no no no, we love this mod,
Can i say I'm a member of the fh2 community? I want shut them up.Give me the right.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: TC_Harrier on 12-05-2012, 06:05:20
Valter, I'll be with you, as long as I figure it out.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 12-05-2012, 07:05:55
thank you  :)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tankbuster on 12-05-2012, 08:05:46
Go get them.

FH2 doesn't have Pershing , LOL
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 12-05-2012, 08:05:06
 8)

 Warning: that 's not army rage forum, that's bf2 mod public forum, don't hacker attack that, thx!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 12-05-2012, 09:05:02
Sad how most people out in internets seem to react as "Ofcourse it looks same, all WW2 games look same.". Stupid fucks can't tell difference between something being identical and similar.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Harmonikater on 12-05-2012, 09:05:58
has anyone compared the army rage and FH2 pershings?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 12-05-2012, 10:05:17
Keep on  >:( >:( >:(

35# (me):I did not curse anyone, I do not defamatory of any one.
why you have too many supporter, i'll not angry, i'll laugh, because most western countries know you are plagiarist.

36# (me):The army rage china website is 404 not found now, You even can quibble, LOL

37# flyfire2002: can you show the 3dmax for this, rainbowsix, Prove the armyrage is not copy the FH.

38# striker105:But the tiger and the pz.iv's texture is realy look same.

39# (me): yes they look same, watch the sky texture, they are same, i think they will say, "you think we copy the sky? you think we can made a new weather??"
but i think the sky texture is same, and the clouds position is same, look this http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1580881246 they used one textuce has The original author's name and date.
and this http://www.fhmod.org/armyrage/. do not say the fhteam use the game sound from Internet, no is made by they, not from Internet.

40# (me):why you delete the Negative comments on the youtube?? why you change the new model? http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst973_Army-Rage-New-Changes.aspx
yes, if you delete the copy file, That's good,and we will not be in the investigated.

41# 烂苹果:yep, i love scolded you, you don't want scolded?? leave here. we love copy, do you know? you can run to be born?
you can blow job in your mother's womb??? I do not care about the West, why you not attack the mahuateng? why you not attack the FinalCombat(a game copy the TF2)
I did not call you, I praise you.

42# harrier :烂苹果do not get excited, this game is made by you?

43# (me):LOL you are angry!
different positions , LOL.
all copy game in china is ok, LOL.
i can't get 1 cents by this game, i'll not angry, but, you are angry.
the china armyrage website is 404 not found, LOL
More people know the truth!

44# wujj123456(the bf2mod forum admin, nothing to do with this)
i don't know who you are(mean me), even if you are not made this mod, we'll not gag you, because you civilized.
But, i think why 烂苹果 personal attacks him? He has evidence and screenshot, this is the fh and armyrage's problem.
they has evidence so Free Speech.

This does not matter with our,I will not comment on, but my suggestion is
1.do not personal attacks again, if you do that again i will gag you.
2.i think talk about this in the fh2 forum or armyrage forum is better, if you like ww2 you like fh2 and armyrage,To solve the problem, not personal attacks .

45# (me):that's good, thx,but i don't know why they say this in this forum.

46# wujj123456:烂苹果, You usually like a curse, we don't care.
but this is Formal Posts, do not personal attacks be Civilized.

47# wujj123456:and sorry valter, in this forum, they like curse.
i don't know what happen with the fh2 and army rage,the army rage release in EU, if the FH2 engineer can post the evidence, i think the army rage team can't say any more.
you are civilized, so i can make they not personal attacks again.
and other hope you can distinguish the curse / discussion / against.

48# (me):yes, who don't want chinese made a good game? i think when you remove the copy files, this game will be a good game.

49# (me):made a good game friens, i just want you make a good game, i don't want you make a plagiarist game.

good luck man, to do that, even if you want copy again, but, if you copy again, i'll not support you.

50# 烂苹果:shut the fu*k up! yes, i like personal attacks you, yes, i want the admin gag me, and BAN my IP!
i don't like you, you live in the shit. i think all gamecompany copy other,too. not only me! If you are powerful, made a game show us!
you are a maggot! because we not theft your files.

51# shuo: look at yourself 烂苹果, i'm the programmer,too, but i 'll not copy other.chinese people sitting on a lot of contribution in the program on international.
the plagiarist is not allow in the world.
In china there is no legal sanction you, but in the US and EU,you are the Offenders! look the google copy the oracle just 9 lines of code. He was severely punished.
you can talk about this, but you can't personal attacks the valter.

52# (me):problem?
yes, this mod not made by me, but i'm a member of the fh2 community, I have the right to say this.

53# (me):what? i live in shit? lol, i'm not plagiarist like you. Be honest, Otherwise, the problem is serious.

54# flyfire2002 :LOL
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LHeureux on 12-05-2012, 10:05:40
This feels so strange, it's like diving in another universe, it's seeing a criminal defending himself then saying "yes it's true I killed her, but it's because she cheated on me!"

Like this website, it's like being on another planet lol : http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1580881246
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 12-05-2012, 10:05:22
 ;D LOL funny website and funny story, that't look like a strange dream. in the other planet , they talk about this too
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kubador on 12-05-2012, 20:05:58
Valter.Feu3r, I want to thank you for fighting the good fight in Chinese forums on behalf of our community.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Wilhelm on 12-05-2012, 22:05:00
Valter.Feu3r, I want to thank you for fighting the good fight in Chinese forums on behalf of our community.

Same here! Good job! ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tuco on 12-05-2012, 22:05:26
http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst986_Army-Rage-Stealing--Important-Plz-Read.aspx

 :P

Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: wujj123456 on 12-05-2012, 22:05:25
Hi, I am wujj123456, one of admins in bf2mod.cn.  I haven't been active in mod community for years since I started my study in US, pursuing my dream of computer architect and OS programmer.  I just came across this issue on our forum, and would like to give you some information.  I apologize that I didn't spot and control the damage in time, but I hope everyone can kinda understand why it went down this way (which is horribly bad and wrong). 

First, background info.  I will try to be as objective as possible, but it's quite hard as most people involved are close friends of mine. 

Start from RainbowSix, designer of Army Rage, active member (kinda) on bf2mod.cn, close friends of many people in our forum.  (Close means that we've sit at a table and dined together.)  His respect to copyright is quite established as he started buying genuine copies of games even 10 years ago, which is quite uncommon in China.  He was also very familiar with copyright issues and was always adamantly on the copyright protection side. 

烂苹果, or "rottenapple", is another active member of our forum.  He always uses curse words, but usually in a humorous way.  He's a close friend of RainbowSix as well.  It's his humor saved him from being banned.  Usually he has no malicious intent even when he is bitching around.  (Of course, not in this case)

Harrier, moderator of FH2 section in our forum, who raised this issue to me.  He might be familiar to some of you. He usually promptly translates FH2 news and posts them on our forums.  He's usually the POC when members in our forum want to reach you. 

Striker105, moderator of BF2 section.  After bf2mod.cn had copyright scandals for some mods/posts released around 2008, he has been shooting down discussions/threads that could potentially violate copyright on our forum. 

当红瓦尔特, or Valter.Feu3r, who defended FH2's right on our forum and various other places.  No one knows him before this discussion, and you guys probably know him better than I do. 

Second, my understanding of how things went wrong. 

RainbowSix is a designer, not responsible for artwork.  The first discussion thread back in Sep 2011 was deleted, and I have no idea how persuasive it was.  Nevertheless, his curse words were inappropriate at least, as their team did make the mistake. 

Due to his established profile and good relationship with many members, multiple members jumped the gun and blindly defended him.  Rotten apple exercised his curse words, but obviously not in good intent this time.  Really not sure what happens to him, as there is no sign of logical thinking in his words.  I even doubt if he has read the discussion.  His behavior is indeed very damaging.  Now he's very unhappy about my stance on this issue as I didn't defend RainboxSix, and has left the forum indefinitely (as he claimed). 

Other moderators in the discussion (Rainbow (not RainbowSix), Harrier, firefly2002, striker105) did try to guide the discussion in a constructive manner, but we were all to late to the issue.  The damage was done.  And I personally apologize for any bad feeling your team and Valter.Feu3r might had from the discussion on our forum.  We appreciated Valter.Feu3r's heads-up on the issue.

Anyway, moderators and I will suppress any contumelious behavior from now on.  This is indeed an important issue to discuss.  But unfortunately, discussion on our forum is not likely to resolve the problem as we are not involved in either party at all... 

Finally, how to move forward. 

I am really not the right person to talk about this.  Nor bf2mod.cn.  Per RainbowSix's request, I just want to touch some points.  RainbowSix was very quiet when this issue was raised again (three days ago?), as their manager is now officially handling this and demand minimal public communication by team member.  It would be inappropriate for him to speak up.  Therefore, he prefer not to directly comment on the issue.  He has put years into the game, and now it's being screwed by their mistakes in artwork.  Thus he resort to harrier and others including me to communicate privately, in order to minimize the impact.  Of course many will have doubt in this private PR approach, but he really can't comment now. 

RainbowSix told me that the publisher and their team were in contact with FH2 team to resolve the issue.  I have no way to validate this of course, and some of the progress he revealed to me could have impact on their business, so I can't disclose. 

He would like to have a point of contact in FH2 team so that they can fly a representative to Europe or US to discuss the issue in person.  If such POC exists in FH2, please let me or Harrier know.  We will forward the contact info to him. 

He also asked me to communicate to Valter.Feu3r privately, and I will do so soon.  Again, he can't speak up as the issue is elevated to the management plane.  Although this will confuse the progress quite a bit, hopefully everything will be back on track eventually.  I guess that ultimately depends on what their management decides to do. 

Regards,
wujj123456

Disclaimer: I am not part of ArmyRage team, nor part of FH team (obviously).  These are my personal take on what happened on bf2mod.cn.  My opinion should not treated as any "official" or "semi-official" stance of either side.  Thanks. 
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Wilhelm on 12-05-2012, 23:05:27
http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst986_Army-Rage-Stealing--Important-Plz-Read.aspx

 :P

Quote from: Wilhelm2012
Hello,

I saw this thread and I just had to respond.  The allegations made by the FH2 team are true and supported by facts. 

http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/armyrage/

The argument that both games would have texture sheets, sky dome models, sounds, uv maps and other technical "resemblances" because they are both based upon ww2 and aim for a realistic portrayal of the period is foolish!  These game assets are made by individual people and do not come from some central database of pre-fabricated parts...for two games or mods to have 1:1 identical assets means either 1: the two teams worked together to make the content, 2: said content was used from a third party who allows that content to be used by the public, or 3: some one used the other's content with or without permission.

In the cases outlined by the FH2 team, all of them are from the latter case:  Army Rage uses FH2 content without permission.

FH2 is a mod for Battlefield 2.  The Forgotten Hope team has been modding using the Battlefield series since 2004, when they worked on FH1 for BF42.  Both mods are free and use 100% their own made content or content used with permission of the original author/artist.  Both mods have been celebrated for their work on sites such as modDB: http://www.moddb.com/

The issue that the FH2 modders have with Army Rage is that they are using the content they made and worked hard on without their permission and, even worse, Army Rage is charging money from premium purchases when their game uses so much copied content.

This is a matter of ethics and responsibility towards the consumer.

I am a member of the FH community since 2004 and I am also a beta tester for the mod.  I enjoy WW2 games and play a lot of them.  I do not support projects that are found to be using illegal content. 

The hope of all this is to educate the consumers and gaming public and to do what is right. 


Quote from: {SS}Neiko;6545
i've read a couple of threads and it wont surprise me if they actually attack this one, they are already attacking and flagging youtube videos with army rage gameplay, pretty soon the you know what will hit the fan.
i've changed my password to a more secure one but that wont matter if they know what to do... anyway.

There is no need for that.  FH2 is a mod, not some hacker community looking for people's personal information.  They make and play games because it is their passion. :)

I am sure this post will be deleted, but I had to at least make the effort.  I only signed up to play this game to investigate if the allegations I heard were true. 

*note, this issue was brought up before the FH2 devs even knew this game existed...the community brought it to their attention.*

~ Wilhelm
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tuco on 12-05-2012, 23:05:34
Quote
Wilhelm.. it has less similarities once again of FH compared to Wolfenstein. Even if what you're saying is true, they're still allow to base ideas off of a mod. Can you provide a copyright license for your mod? What is it protected under, etc. Yo claim the community isn't a hacker community, but the way they're dealing with this issue is pathetic. A mob is being started out of irrational feelings. The whole deal makes FH look like a pathetic community, no two ways about it. Show us the proof with examples and you explaining in detail without giving just a "reponse". Once again, it's quite pitiful and what Will says at the moment to all who are wondering is not true.

/Facepalm
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Musti on 12-05-2012, 23:05:39
I really want now to go there and point out these similarities to him, but I'm afraid they would contain too much sarcasm, and swearing, and i would look like a total dick.
In the end, there could be "FH2 property" written all over those textures, and he would still deny it, no point in discussing with that person.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Ts4EVER on 12-05-2012, 23:05:11
I wouldn't waste much energy on this. These people on that forum are fans, they don't know how textures or modeling works. For them it's just the FH2 teams word against that of the army rage team. Why should they believe us?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Wilhelm on 12-05-2012, 23:05:52
I wouldn't waste much energy on this. These people on that forum are fans, they don't know how textures or modeling works. For them it's just the FH2 teams word against that of the army rage team. Why should they believe us?

Indeed.  I just wanted to post something informative using my Army Rage account.  Everything that is needed to be said is in remdul's link.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kubador on 13-05-2012, 00:05:19
A reminder: please be civilized and show the better side of our community if you engage in any discussion on topic. The devs deserve our respect and faith that they can handle this matter so we don't need any flame wars.

I'll be watching.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 13-05-2012, 01:05:23
I especially love this post from that thread on ArmyRage  ;D

Quote
i've read a couple of threads and it wont surprise me if they actually attack this one, they are already attacking and flagging youtube videos with army rage gameplay, pretty soon the you know what will hit the fan.
i've changed my password to a more secure one but that wont matter if they know what to do... anyway.

oh yeah.... they seem to have a problem with the SS clan tag being used in a ww2 game even tho SS stands for soul society and not the waffen SS
here's hoping for the best.

I can't stop laughing :D

But it's great. In not even a week we got the attention of a lot of people, even on the ArmyRage forums. No matter if they really understand the problem about this, they know about it. I guess the rumors of ArmyRage stealing textures and sounds are going to spread in the community in the few weeks. There is a big part of people that does not care anyway. But there are definately people that care and spread the rumors further.

When even the community knows about it, then the ArmyRage officials can most likely not go on the way they did before and have to handle the issue honestly.

What's probably needed right now is to present the facts clearly so there is no doubt they stole that stuff.

Best way, as mentioned before: A comparance by making a youtube video about it. The easiest way to visualize the problem to the people. The link provided by the devs is great too, but I feel it's not clear enough for a lot of people I guess.

I unfortunately did not make a video yet and don't reall know how to do it. Does anyone have experience with that ? The content could be discussed in this thread, because there are some things that show up the plagiarism more than others, like the Bazooka sound.

Maybe introducing more concrete proof brings us a few steps forward now, since a lot of people, as mentioned, noticed the accuses now and they will spread further as long as we keep the youtube comments up.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tuco on 13-05-2012, 01:05:13
Id find it particularly amusing if they used one of the models with the dev's name already "stamped" into it.. The spent casing with ctz's name for example, that would be about as concrete as it gets. I imagine they could probably wipe those but im completely ignorant of modding so idk. 
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 13-05-2012, 06:05:30
 ::) I have a faulty intelligence, The rainbowsix He is GameDesigner, not GameProgrammer or GameArtDesign. :(
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Yustax on 13-05-2012, 07:05:25
The allegations coming from FH2 development team are absurd (eg. Weapons, vehicles and maps models and textures, windows, sand bags, etc.) after all both games are reflecting the same period in history and are aiming at being as close to reality as possible so it is normal that there is a resemblance. We got warranties from the developer of Army Rage Tuyasoft that the material is original, despite that we forced them to change to a great extend all the materials that were disputed with the goal to end this matter in the most expeditious way possible.

FH2 team is way out of line with their claims and you as a gamer can easily make the difference and see for yourself that it is absurd to claim that Army Rage has close to none original content. Their statements that the game will be brought off-line are far from realistic. What is more, from their actions so far it is easy to realize how hopeless they are and that they are only trying to gain some popularity at the back of Army Rage and our hard work.

We don’t accept nor we acknowledge any failures on our end are only doing so to act as a responsible publisher and to see this matter to an end in the faster and most honest way possible. You have been playing Army Rage almost since the beginning, we are sure that you know the game very well and are very surprised to hear that you have any doubts whatsoever that the game is not original but a copy of another game…
On the contrary, we are counting on players like you to support us as you above all should know better. We are working hard on getting the game ready for official release as soon as possible with features like: brand new lobby interface, brand new HUD, new maps and vehicles, costume upgrades, consumable items, missions, brand new and improved chest, new weapons, maps, etc.) and the last thing we need right now is to be distracted by such nonsense allegations.

Best regards,
Stef, Army Rage team

http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postsm6562_Army-Rage-Stealing--Important-Plz-Read.aspx

What's funny is that the other day I saw a video of a guy using a Springfield 1903A3...and the shooting sounds were the same thing.

And all the sounds I recognize them from FH2...and the models as well...I recognize them.

These guys are stacking a mountain of bullshit so high that it will overpass the everest.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kradovech on 13-05-2012, 09:05:30
Id find it particularly amusing if they used one of the models with the dev's name already "stamped" into it.. The spent casing with ctz's name for example, that would be about as concrete as it gets. I imagine they could probably wipe those but im completely ignorant of modding so idk.
Did you see this texture extracted from army rage (Remdul's post):

(http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/armyrage/guardhouse.jpg)

They have removed the signatures from most of the tectures, but not from this one. To me this speaks louder than all other proof, which there is plenty. If they didn't bother with creating this relatively simple model and texture, it is very likely that all other models and textures have been taken from other games/mods as well.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 13-05-2012, 09:05:45
I think they will delete the copy files, and made new models and texture (i mean tuyasoft)

Sounds good  :D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 13-05-2012, 10:05:05
 ;) Yes, they will made a new game, forgive them, plz.

i hope don't attack the tuyasoft and yacuba again, they will change ;)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Flippy Warbear on 13-05-2012, 10:05:37
Official statement from them would be nice.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 13-05-2012, 10:05:05
They say sorry about this, and they need time to do this, They made new models day and night. Forgive them, mate.  :)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tuco on 13-05-2012, 10:05:03
Id find it particularly amusing if they used one of the models with the dev's name already "stamped" into it.. The spent casing with ctz's name for example, that would be about as concrete as it gets. I imagine they could probably wipe those but im completely ignorant of modding so idk.
Did you see this texture extracted from army rage (Remdul's post):

(http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/armyrage/guardhouse.jpg)

They have removed the signatures from most of the tectures, but not from this one. To me this speaks louder than all other proof, which there is plenty. If they didn't bother with creating this relatively simple model and texture, it is very likely that all other models and textures have been taken from other games/mods as well.

See now that's all the evidence you need lol...
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 13-05-2012, 11:05:52
 :)They say,  The copy files is made by outsourcing. Not made by armyrage production team. They negligence the outsourcing, So this is the origin of this thing. ???
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: kettcar on 13-05-2012, 11:05:37
can someone catch the facts of the moment for me please?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 13-05-2012, 11:05:42
hmmm.. and the 烂苹果 is nothing to do with the matter, he just is Rainbowsix's friend. He does not know what happened. He thought I was slandered his friends, so he Personal attacks on me. yep ,the end of it all, I think the yacuba will attitude change, soon.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LuckyOne on 13-05-2012, 11:05:45
:)They say,  The copy files is made by outsourcing. Not made by armyrage production team. They negligence the outsourcing, So this is the origin of this thing. ???

Well if that's the case they should have checked with whom they were working. Still they should at least remove the infringing material and we're fair and square. It might even turn out to be a nice game if they stop using the content that doesn't belong to them.

However I still have my doubts... It seems a lot of content there is made by "outsourcing", as the easiest way is to blame someone else...  ::)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 13-05-2012, 11:05:39
 :)  I think they will fulfill its promise, Because they begin willing to speak the truth
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: siben on 13-05-2012, 11:05:52
Looking at this game i start wondering, who plays something like this? i would never consider it in my life.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LuckyOne on 13-05-2012, 11:05:58
Looking at this game i start wondering, who plays something like this? i would never consider it in my life.

People that we generally don't want here in our community as they think teamwork is for pussies and have great enjoyment from things like "HEADSHOT", "MULTI-KILL", "TACTICAL NUKE" etc. It might be a game for some brainless fun but definitely not my flavor.

Though I am jealous of their tank track damage feature... I wish our Devs had more liberty with their work and not having to constantly wade through endless list of BF2 engine limitations.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Valter.Feu3r on 13-05-2012, 11:05:19
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: kettcar on 13-05-2012, 13:05:42
its out:

http://www.bf-games.net/readnews/10476/bf_fh2_kampf_gegen_vermutlichen_plagiat_shooter.html
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LuckyOne on 13-05-2012, 13:05:04
^ Good job! Hopefully this will help to raise awareness...
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tankbuster on 13-05-2012, 18:05:46
Mind Translating?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 13-05-2012, 18:05:40
Mind Translating?
Google translate?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Neiko on 13-05-2012, 18:05:52
I especially love this post from that thread on ArmyRage  ;D

Quote
i've read a couple of threads and it wont surprise me if they actually attack this one, they are already attacking and flagging youtube videos with army rage gameplay, pretty soon the you know what will hit the fan.
i've changed my password to a more secure one but that wont matter if they know what to do... anyway.

oh yeah.... they seem to have a problem with the SS clan tag being used in a ww2 game even tho SS stands for soul society and not the waffen SS
here's hoping for the best.

I can't stop laughing :D

But it's great. In not even a week we got the attention of a lot of people, even on the ArmyRage forums. No matter if they really understand the problem about this, they know about it. I guess the rumors of ArmyRage stealing textures and sounds are going to spread in the community in the few weeks. There is a big part of people that does not care anyway. But there are definately people that care and spread the rumors further.

When even the community knows about it, then the ArmyRage officials can most likely not go on the way they did before and have to handle the issue honestly.

What's probably needed right now is to present the facts clearly so there is no doubt they stole that stuff.

Best way, as mentioned before: A comparance by making a youtube video about it. The easiest way to visualize the problem to the people. The link provided by the devs is great too, but I feel it's not clear enough for a lot of people I guess.

I unfortunately did not make a video yet and don't reall know how to do it. Does anyone have experience with that ? The content could be discussed in this thread, because there are some things that show up the plagiarism more than others, like the Bazooka sound.

Maybe introducing more concrete proof brings us a few steps forward now, since a lot of people, as mentioned, noticed the accuses now and they will spread further as long as we keep the youtube comments up.

may i ask what exactly is so funny in my post ?
is it the fact that you people are so stupid in thinking that a clan with SS tags is automatically something wrong or the fact that you guys got butthurt when the army rage youtube channel and facebook page got moderated and you couldnt do shit to them.

just stick to playing the game and well do the same and let the big shots sort their shit out, white knighting wont bring you anything.
to be honest this is the best thing that could have happened to this mod because it doesn't seem to be that popular.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tankbuster on 13-05-2012, 18:05:26
Mind Translating?
Google translate?

Tried it, sentences didn't make sense.

I especially love this post from that thread on ArmyRage  ;D

Quote
i've read a couple of threads and it wont surprise me if they actually attack this one, they are already attacking and flagging youtube videos with army rage gameplay, pretty soon the you know what will hit the fan.
i've changed my password to a more secure one but that wont matter if they know what to do... anyway.

oh yeah.... they seem to have a problem with the SS clan tag being used in a ww2 game even tho SS stands for soul society and not the waffen SS
here's hoping for the best.

I can't stop laughing :D

But it's great. In not even a week we got the attention of a lot of people, even on the ArmyRage forums. No matter if they really understand the problem about this, they know about it. I guess the rumors of ArmyRage stealing textures and sounds are going to spread in the community in the few weeks. There is a big part of people that does not care anyway. But there are definately people that care and spread the rumors further.

When even the community knows about it, then the ArmyRage officials can most likely not go on the way they did before and have to handle the issue honestly.

What's probably needed right now is to present the facts clearly so there is no doubt they stole that stuff.

Best way, as mentioned before: A comparance by making a youtube video about it. The easiest way to visualize the problem to the people. The link provided by the devs is great too, but I feel it's not clear enough for a lot of people I guess.

I unfortunately did not make a video yet and don't reall know how to do it. Does anyone have experience with that ? The content could be discussed in this thread, because there are some things that show up the plagiarism more than others, like the Bazooka sound.

Maybe introducing more concrete proof brings us a few steps forward now, since a lot of people, as mentioned, noticed the accuses now and they will spread further as long as we keep the youtube comments up.

may i ask what exactly is so funny in my post ?
is it the fact that you people are so stupid in thinking that a clan with SS tags is automatically something wrong or the fact that you guys got butthurt when the army rage youtube channel and facebook page got moderated and you couldnt do shit to them.

just stick to playing the game and well do the same and let the big shots sort their shit out, white knighting wont bring you anything.
to be honest this is the best thing that could have happened to this mod because it doesn't seem to be that popular.



At least they didn't steal stuff from other games, and as for "not popular" just check who won Moddb Mod of the year award. I would love to see Army rage do that.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LuckyOne on 13-05-2012, 19:05:58
is it the fact that you people are so stupid in thinking that a clan with SS tags is automatically something wrong or the fact that you guys got butthurt when the army rage youtube channel and facebook page got moderated and you couldnt do shit to them.

"Moderated" as in censored like they do in the great People's Republic of China?  ::)


At least they didn't steal stuff from other games, and as for "not popular" just check who won Moddb Mod of the year award. I would love to see Army rage do that.

Well since they're not technically a mod... They can't... Maybe Indie Game of the Year...


Oh wait, people don't like it when you show off with stolen content, so good luck with that.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Thorondor123 on 13-05-2012, 19:05:11
I especially love this post from that thread on ArmyRage  ;D

Quote
i've read a couple of threads and it wont surprise me if they actually attack this one, they are already attacking and flagging youtube videos with army rage gameplay, pretty soon the you know what will hit the fan.
i've changed my password to a more secure one but that wont matter if they know what to do... anyway.

oh yeah.... they seem to have a problem with the SS clan tag being used in a ww2 game even tho SS stands for soul society and not the waffen SS
here's hoping for the best.

I can't stop laughing :D

But it's great. In not even a week we got the attention of a lot of people, even on the ArmyRage forums. No matter if they really understand the problem about this, they know about it. I guess the rumors of ArmyRage stealing textures and sounds are going to spread in the community in the few weeks. There is a big part of people that does not care anyway. But there are definately people that care and spread the rumors further.

When even the community knows about it, then the ArmyRage officials can most likely not go on the way they did before and have to handle the issue honestly.

What's probably needed right now is to present the facts clearly so there is no doubt they stole that stuff.

Best way, as mentioned before: A comparance by making a youtube video about it. The easiest way to visualize the problem to the people. The link provided by the devs is great too, but I feel it's not clear enough for a lot of people I guess.

I unfortunately did not make a video yet and don't reall know how to do it. Does anyone have experience with that ? The content could be discussed in this thread, because there are some things that show up the plagiarism more than others, like the Bazooka sound.

Maybe introducing more concrete proof brings us a few steps forward now, since a lot of people, as mentioned, noticed the accuses now and they will spread further as long as we keep the youtube comments up.

may i ask what exactly is so funny in my post ?
is it the fact that you people are so stupid in thinking that a clan with SS tags is automatically something wrong or the fact that you guys got butthurt when the army rage youtube channel and facebook page got moderated and you couldnt do shit to them.

just stick to playing the game and well do the same and let the big shots sort their shit out, white knighting wont bring you anything.
to be honest this is the best thing that could have happened to this mod because it doesn't seem to be that popular.
Red herrings, straw men and ad hominem all over the shop.

Let's concentrate on this: http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/armyrage/
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Harmonikater on 13-05-2012, 19:05:16
For those who cant understand google translate or those who like proper english:




BF/FH2: Fighting against presumed Plagiarism-Shooter

A firm rule, which we at BF-Games have followed for years, goes as follows: We do not report on mods which use content without permission, stealing from other people and teams. In addition there is  an unwritten gentleman’s agreement between mod-teams worldwide. If you do borrow content, like models, skins, sounds or maps, ask the creator, and if he authorizes the usage, mention him in the credits. Of course there are smaller mod-teams or individuals which do not follow the rules, but due  to the lack of coverage, and the following lack of attention, these occurrences quickly fade into obscurity, where they belong. How does it look however, when a company apparently combines massive amounts of content from other developers and uses it to create a game? That's the topic of today's article.

FH, FH2, BF2, BF1942 and DoD as self-service shop?

Fans of the WW2 scenario, especially the FH2 developers, take a close look at every new shooter in this setting. On the one hand as fans, and of course to follow new ideas and concepts of other developers. As has happened with a new, superficially free WW2-Shooter titled Army Rage (http://www.armyrage.com/#) from a chinese developer called Tuyasoft. Of course it quickly requires payment for skins, items and weapons (similar to BF Heroes).

While playing the playable beta version for the first time, Forgotten Hope 2 Developer Remdul,  noticed some, to his eyes, oddly familiar material. Investigating the unzipped game files he found a lot more. As detailed on the Information Page (http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/armyrage/) from FH2, textures (tanks, Skybox(PHL), weapons, etc.), models like the FH2-Coupe, sand bags from Day of Defeat: Source, landing boats from BF1942 and countless sounds, have been allegedly extracted from the games and mods mentioned by Remdul. For more information we recommend the info page (http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/armyrage/) mentioned above and the corresponding Topic in the Forgotten Hope Forums (http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=17210.0). Take a look at the situation yourselves.

What now? Get active!

This is not the first time that the FH-Team has fought against alleged plagiarism (in fact succesful as this example shows (http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/fancygoal/)).
In addition, FH2-Developer Lobo could well be only person on this planet, who has succeeded in convinving the torrent-site Pirate-Bay to remove a link from its index. This being the link to the leaked FH2-Betaversion in 2007.
The situation in this case is, according to Remdul, currently as follows:
At first emails to the Publisher Yacuba Games (CEO Delzar Khalaf) were ignored, then they claimed that the offending content had been deleted or created new. Which however proved to be false after taking another look at the files. Both companies service providers have been informed about the situation, with the intention of taking the website offline.
Additionally, Eletronic Arts / Dice in Sweden have the case sitting on their desks. Legally it might prove to take some time, with a developer from China and publisher from Bulgaria.
Tuyasoft, the game's Developer has supposedly obtained content from an external art-team.
Now, what can the community do?
For that we quote from FH2-Dev Remdul's original forum post (http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=17210.0) with many useful links:

"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."
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tankbuster on 13-05-2012, 19:05:56
Thank you, BTW did you translate that by yourself?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Lightning on 13-05-2012, 20:05:21
Quote
In addition, FH2-Developer Lightning could well be only person on this planet, who has succeded in convinving the torrent-site Pirate-Bay to remove a link from its index. This being the link to the leaked FH2-Betaversion in 2007.
Did I really? I don't remember that at all...
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: NTH on 13-05-2012, 20:05:31
That was Lobo with his Spanish Inquisition skills.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Harmonikater on 13-05-2012, 22:05:09
well tell the folks at BF-games and theyll correct it.
im just the innocent translator
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: :| Hi on 13-05-2012, 22:05:49
For those who cant understand google translate or those who like proper english:




BF/FH2: Fighting against presumed Plagiarism-Shooter

A firm rule, which we at BF-Games have followed for years, goes as follows: We do not report on mods which use content without permission, stealing from other people and teams. As well as there is an unwritten gentleman’s agreement between mod-teams worldwide. If you do borrow content, like models, skins, sounds or maps, ask the creator, and if he authorizes the usage, mention him in the credits. Of course there are smaller mod-teams or individuals which do not follow the rules, but due to the lack of coverage, and the following lack of attention, these occurrences quickly fade into obscurity, where they belong. How does it look however, when a company apparently combines massive amounts of content from other developers and uses it to create a game? That's the topic of today's article.

FH, FH2, BF2, BF1942 and DoD as self-service shop?

Fans of the WW2 scenario, especially the FH2 developers, take a close look at every new shooter in this setting. On the one hand as fans, and of course to follow new ideas and concepts of other developers. As has happened with a new, superficially free WW2-Shooter titled Army Rage (http://www.armyrage.com/#) from a chinese developer called Tuyasoft. Of course it quickly requires payment for skins, items and weapons (similar to BF Heroes).

While playing the playable beta version for the first time, Forgotten Hope 2 Developer Remdul,  noticed some, to his eyes, oddly familiar material. Investigating the unzipped game files he found a lot more. As detailed on the Information Page (http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/armyrage/) from FH2, textures (tanks, Skybox(PHL), weapons, etc.), models like the FH2-Coupe, sand bags from Day of Defeat: Source, landing boats from BF1942 and countless sounds, have been allegedly extracted from the games and mods mentioned by Remdul. For more information we recommend the info page (http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/armyrage/) mentioned above and the corresponding Topic in the Forgotten Hope Forums (http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=17210.0). Take a look at the situation yourselves.

What now? Get active!

This is not the first time that the FH-Team has fought against alleged plagiarism (in fact succesful as this example shows (http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/fancygoal/)).
In addition, FH2-Developer Lightning could well be only person on this planet, who has succeeded in convincing the torrent-site Pirate-Bay to remove a link from its index. This being the link to the leaked FH2-Betaversion in 2007.
The situation of this case is, according to Remdul, currently as follows:
At first emails to the Publisher Yacuba Games (CEO Delzar Khalaf) were ignored, then they claimed that the offending content had been deleted or created new. Which however proved to be false after taking another look at the files. Both companies service providers have been informed about the situation, with the intention of taking the website offline.
Additionally, Eletronic Arts / Dice in Sweden have the case sitting on their desks. Legally it might prove to take some time, with a developer from China and publisher from Bulgaria.
Tuyasoft, the game's Developer has supposedly obtained content from a external art-team.
Now, what can the community do?
For that we quote from FH2-Dev Remdul's original forum post (http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=17210.0) with many useful links:

"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."


Corrected for spelling and made a sentence or two less awkward
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Fuchs on 13-05-2012, 22:05:30
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In addition, FH2-Developer Lightning could well be only person on this planet, who has succeded in convinving the torrent-site Pirate-Bay to remove a link from its index. This being the link to the leaked FH2-Betaversion in 2007.
Did I really? I don't remember that at all...
With Lobo gone his legends fade into you. Don't break down your own propaganda campaign. You are like that one Roman consul who got the feats of 2 of his family members on his own name.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kubador on 13-05-2012, 23:05:10
Something I found interesting: http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst897_Wolfenstein-Clone.aspx
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Musti on 13-05-2012, 23:05:20
Isn't that the same guy who said "i can't see any similarities between FH and AR, apart from the fact both are based on WWII" or something?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LHeureux on 13-05-2012, 23:05:47
Yeah the guy with the SS clan tag lol
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tuco on 14-05-2012, 00:05:15
Yeah the guy with the SS clan tag lol

Their "soul searchers" gosh...  ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tankbuster on 14-05-2012, 07:05:55
More like Stuff Stealers.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: kettcar on 14-05-2012, 09:05:47
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well tell the folks at BF-games.....

....tell me, i write it  ;D


Oh Lightning sry for this. nail me to the cross for this majesty insult.  ;D

i fixed it and now lobo takes his recognition.

hope that some german sites writes about it too. it would be in the next BF3-Fanzine called CoGa. soon on this website (http://www.battlefield-company.de/).

i also emailed PC-GAMES (http://www.pcgames.de/) and the holy GameStar (http://www.gamestar.de/) editorial staff. both are big print and online magazines.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 14-05-2012, 09:05:57
Just a map name... you can pretty much re-map the Vice City and mod it into BF2, and still call it Vice City Reloaded. And it is still fine.

Anyway, that's purely disgusting, profiting from stolen stuffs and still tries to look cool is utterly disgusting.

Anyway, regarding "SS" clan tags and all. In many under-educated 3rd world shitholes, anybody can pretty much wear reich swastika flag T-shirts, SchutzStaffel key chains (even military magazine handed this out as free gifts) or Adolf Hitler armbands and show them off to mall to look that they know something about WW2. I saw those kind of things numerous times here. Those people are probably the same farb impressionist that vonMudra often loathed at.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tankbuster on 14-05-2012, 18:05:56
Yes, and the Western countries are at the other end of the spectrum.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Thorondor123 on 14-05-2012, 18:05:48
Yeah, in the west no one knows who Pol Pot was.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Fuchs on 14-05-2012, 18:05:26
Yeah, Pol Pot, that opera singer from Britain's Got Talent!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: jan_kurator on 14-05-2012, 18:05:56
that feeling when you leave in Poland and you don't know is it east or west
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Tankbuster on 14-05-2012, 18:05:35
Pardon me but since I live in a "Third world Shithole" as one of my fellow players put, could someone tell me what jan_kurator meant?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Paasky on 14-05-2012, 19:05:18
Pardon me but since I live in a "Third world Shithole" as one of my fellow players put, could someone tell me what jan_kurator meant?
He doesn't know if Poland is a "Third world Shithole" or not.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Korsakov829 on 15-05-2012, 01:05:33
Here is that picket sign I promised:
(http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2883/armyrage.png)
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[IMG]http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2883/armyrage.png[/IMG]
I hate Army Rage so much, that I used scrap material that didn't work out, doodled with MSpaint for some 30 minutes, and applied a lame filter. They are not worth any actual art so enjoy! And... sorry for the profanity, but its the best way to express my feelings.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: :| Hi on 15-05-2012, 01:05:15
Is that a Stuka on the bottom?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 15-05-2012, 02:05:31
Here is that picket sign I promised:
(http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2883/armyrage.png)
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[IMG]http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2883/armyrage.png[/IMG]
I hate Army Rage so much, that I used scrap material that didn't work out, doodled with MSpaint for some 30 minutes, and applied a lame filter. They are not worth any actual art so enjoy! And... sorry for the profanity, but its the best way to express my feelings.

What the hell is this and what is it for ? I just see Army, Joy and Fuck as well as some russian and strange drawings. I guess this is some kind of anti army rage signature, but what the fuck is this, I don't get it :D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Korsakov829 on 15-05-2012, 03:05:50
That joy is actualy uoy, which should be you. Was in the middle of something and it confused me so I wrote it backwards. Anyway, its going against Army Rage.

Don't look at it too long, you'll get a headache.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Biiviz on 15-05-2012, 03:05:43
Meth - not even once.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 15-05-2012, 06:05:54
Pardon me but since I live in a "Third world Shithole" as one of my fellow players put, could someone tell me what jan_kurator meant?

LOL Poland is not even close with "Third world shithole."

You had to go south, east... then look at what people with money to buy education did.

If you are referring to failed people in Europe/North America, here we are talking elite and semi-elite society posing with war crime stuffs without any idea about their sensitivity in the land where they love to show-off their stuffs (Europe/North America).
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Flyboy1942 on 15-05-2012, 19:05:06
Isn't Poland part of the Second Wold? Seeing as it was part of the Soviet Union's domain back when the phrases were coined. First world is the west, second world Russia and their iron curtain etc, and third world countries that weren't (directly) involved.

Anyway, back on topic, I'm glad to see some movement with this issue. I wonder if some people could see it better if say every game that have had a version of the FG42 were compared side to side. This would make the copying clear and similarity separate.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Korsakov829 on 16-05-2012, 00:05:59
...I wonder if some people could see it better if say every game that have had a version of the FG42 were compared side to side. This would make the copying clear and similarity separate....

Thats a great idea! I might work on it later.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Thorondor123 on 22-05-2012, 12:05:16
Anything new?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: THeTA0123 on 22-05-2012, 13:05:37
Pardon me but since I live in a "Third world Shithole" as one of my fellow players put, could someone tell me what jan_kurator meant?
I have been to poland, its an amazing country and far FAR from a 'third world shithole'
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: jan_kurator on 22-05-2012, 14:05:17
oh, come on! don't take everything so serious guys :D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kwiot on 22-05-2012, 14:05:32
Theta was 5 days in Poland he thinks this country is a paradise  ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: THeTA0123 on 22-05-2012, 14:05:21
Theta was 5 days in Poland he thinks this country is a paradise  ;D
2 weeks in wich i saw krakow, warshau, zakopana and the areas around them.

And it really aint that much diffrent from much EU countries, minus the houses of the former soviet union time  ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Thorondor123 on 22-05-2012, 15:05:04
Anything new?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kubador on 22-05-2012, 15:05:05
Anything new?

This.

Plus. TheTa, you have no idea how far Poland is behind western EU when it comes to living standard.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Krätzer on 22-05-2012, 16:05:05
Pls if you want to speak about Poland, start a new offtopic Thread. Thank you Guys  :)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: CologneSky on 22-05-2012, 17:05:38
Pls if you want to speak about Poland, start a new offtopic Thread. Thank you Guys  :)

thx Krätzer!
any news on the "proper" topic?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 26-05-2012, 21:05:50
1) Poland is awesome.

2) I've never seen any human work harder and more accurately than Polish men/women.

3) No news, maybe in a few days. My air loom was malfunctioning but now it is back in action.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Yustax on 26-05-2012, 21:05:03
*Roll eyes* Poland is offtopic, get the thread back into focus! If you want to discuss Poland create a thread in the offtopic section. This is for discussing the war against those mother fuckers who stole assets from FH2 and are filling their pockets with it.

Yes, me angry.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 26-05-2012, 21:05:15
They have just released a new patch.

Don't know what they might have there. Amongst the changes (shown) they added these new stuffs:

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- Added ZB.vz.26. It is the new default weapon for Support.
- Added a new weapon AVS-36, it's a semi-auto rifle for Assault and Scout. Unlocks at level 3.
- Added a new weapon PzB38 Anti-Tank Rifle, which unlocks at level 9.
- Added the PzB39 Anti-Tank Rifle as a new rare weapon.
- Added the M1919A3 Browning Machine Gun as a new Building Package, which unlocks at level 15.

Having rare weapons in a "mainstream distribution" game is good. But the choices are quite confusing. Anyone checked the new content yet? AFAIK, FH never had PzB 38. Let's hope that this time they are for real.

Tankbuster:
I didn't know you were Indian, but we're both caught in similar situation. Honestly, I don't like ppl fanboying around sensitive subjects like establishing game clan using SS tags, without knowing what it really is. I don't mind people showing word "Das Reich" in their signature here or showing runes and such. But, hipster feeling aside, showing off SS stuffs and brandishing the "eliteness" to impress noobs (who isn't familiar with WW2 subject) is pretty lame for me. It is kinda like showing off your after war Colt .45 to bunch of WW2 militaria collectors.

Being in a "shithole" means, the people around us are indifferent towards the sensitive subject. The last time I opened the SS keychain, somebody notices and bugged me with his rant about how he sympathized Hitler. Well, luckily, he and people around me who listened to the rant all looked Asian.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: :| Hi on 26-05-2012, 22:05:01
Make a fucking thread to talk about it guys.

Ontopic: Looking forward to news on everything
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: VonMudra on 27-05-2012, 05:05:35
Isn't Poland part of the Second Wold? Seeing as it was part of the Soviet Union's domain back when the phrases were coined. First world is the west, second world Russia and their iron curtain etc, and third world countries that weren't (directly) involved.

Poland is first world now, along with Slovenia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Estonia, and almost but not quite Slovakia, Latvia/Lithuania, and Romania/Bulgaria.

EDIT:  oops, just checked human dev index, looks like Croatia, Slovakia, Latvia, and Lithuania are now considered 1st world.  Congrats!


Also, question, is there any news on actual lawsuit pending or anything against them?  There is literally NO way of stopping this without filing suit.  Otherwise, we're just shouting into the wind.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Ts4EVER on 27-05-2012, 11:05:50
IMO the best outcome would be them keeping the models, but acknowledging that they are from FH2, maybe even doing some ingame advertising.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 27-05-2012, 11:05:37
IMO the best outcome would be them keeping the models, but acknowledging that they are from FH2, maybe even doing some ingame advertising.
Yeah well, too bad that game looks like crap, even with FH2 models  ::). Not really great advertising imho.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Biiviz on 27-05-2012, 11:05:05
According to that German article, the case was already on DICE Sweden's table?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 27-05-2012, 16:05:39
I notified Valve Software, but they have not responded. Judging from previous experience, I highly doubt EA cares nearly enough to even read my emails, so I didn't bother sending one.

Not sure what DICE knows, but generally DICE ~= EA.

I'm not particularly big on copyright enforcement myself, which nowadays tends to converge with censorship. This is more a matter of acknowledgment of authorship, which has been denied us.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Turkish007 on 02-06-2012, 19:06:18
Army Rage is pure shit  I mean, can you even look through the ironsight? Also the graphics and gameplay of it literally sucks
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: CologneSky on 14-06-2012, 01:06:46
any recent development on this front?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: GeheimwaffeKLAUS on 10-07-2012, 09:07:16
Naah, its not a match for FH2, even they stole most stuff ! It looks like a cheap arcade-style-shooter. Hope, theyll vanish in a cloud of shit ! Sue their asses !  >:(
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 23-07-2012, 21:07:57
I've made an update to the page: http://www.fhmod.org/armyrage/
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Krätzer on 23-07-2012, 22:07:05
Ouh noes not again something from Rad  :'(
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Turkish007 on 23-07-2012, 22:07:52
I've made an update to the page: http://www.fhmod.org/armyrage/

"site not found"
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 23-07-2012, 22:07:58
"site not found"
Check for dangly wires. Works fine here.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: :| Hi on 23-07-2012, 22:07:26
Its been almost two years since Rad passed, hopefully the shit game his work has been stolen by, will collapse.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LuckyOne on 23-07-2012, 23:07:55
Its been almost two years since Rad passed, hopefully the shit game his work has been stolen by, will collapse.

I doubt it will unless someone big takes over the case... They seem to attract more and more players with every update...

The world is such an unfair place... If I had a bunch of money I would file a lawsuit against them immediately.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: McCloskey on 24-07-2012, 00:07:31
I recently noticed this shit having ads appearing on my facebook, often shamelessy showcasing FH2 content... someone needs to shut these muthafuckas down.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: bremijo on 25-07-2012, 04:07:43
Hi. I don't really post on the forums, so bear with me, I hope I'm not breaking any minimum post rules or anything, but I've been playing FH for about 3 years now and love it, and seeing this really ticks me off. So I thought I'd try and help

On the page that was made regarding FH vs Army Rage, it says that 'Leaseweb' is their hosting provider, so I looked up the Policies on the Army Rage website's hosting service, and I found that Leaseweb will shut down/suspend sites for having copyright infringing material, or anything that might make Leaseweb look bad for hosting (ie, Allowing SS and HH clan tags n stuff I'm sure would be somewhat of a bad thing to be associated with....). Has anyone tried contacting Leaseweb and letting them know about this? Maybe they'll be inclined to take down the site, or maybe suspend it for a while.

Just a thought though... I'm probably wayyyy behind in this, but I want to help somehow. :P
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 25-07-2012, 05:07:10
Hi bremijo,

You are very welcome in this community regardless of your number of post or the date of you joining. That's a good news IMO, our effort here are mostly organized by Remdul. So I hope he'll read your post. I am actually very surprised to see the developments here. The Chinese based Tuyasoft who is the developer of the game somewhat (or maybe) complied with the rules (as I understood). But the Yacuba has been in denial, so what the hell happened here?

My attempt at campaigning FH2 against this utter BS is by posting as much FH2 screenshots as possible. So more people would become aware of FH2's contents before seeing ArmyRage knock-offs. I am putting my bet at each player's conscience in choosing which work of game developers are worthy of their play time. I prefer to just weed off bad apples from quality gamers from those who simply are not wise enough to choose what to enjoy and what not. Some people are simply best to be left out.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kwiot on 25-07-2012, 22:07:17
Do you think that people who don't play FH2 daily will care about breaking copyrights? I bet not....  ::)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 26-07-2012, 00:07:54
Nice research bremijo ! It won't hurt when a FH dev contacts them and tells them about it. Definitely worth a try. There are indeed not a lot of people that care, but the chance should be used. Random ArmyRage players give a shit, but contacting the hosting provider with this issue, is not wrong and who knows, maybe they'll do as they promise and care. As I said, won't hurt to let them know.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 26-07-2012, 03:07:43
Do you think that people who don't play FH2 daily will care about breaking copyrights? I bet not....  ::)

That's why I'm calling in their conscience, especially since FH2 is a freeware. But you have a point though. Those who ever thought at buying ArmyRage could be some grossly under-informed out-of-this-world gamer type.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: AfterDune on 26-07-2012, 11:07:43
Maybe they'll be inclined to take down the site, or maybe suspend it for a while.
Not a bad idea tbh. Bring 'em down!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: DLFReporter on 26-07-2012, 11:07:49
I think Remdul has already written them right at the start of this ordeal, but the hoster didn't respond.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 26-07-2012, 14:07:12
Thanks for your interest and support bremijo. I have indeed contacted Leaseweb, it was one of the first things I did when we learned of Army Rage.

We are actually a customer of Leaseweb ourselves (our stats tracker and error reporting have been hosted there for years). Leaseweb will take down armyrage.com when given sufficient evidence. Given the material we've collected so far, they will almost certainly comply, if asked. I'm not sure why we haven't done that yet. I guess because we're nice guys.

We're not interested in destroying their business, just that they stop illicitly profiting from our creations.
Although they probably do deserve to be destroyed, we've given them more than enough second chances...

Current approach still is to shame them in public. A large online games magazine will soon run a story. If they not repent soon, we will strike with the hammer.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 26-07-2012, 15:07:14
Just came to my mind, would there be any chance, to convince youtube to put down all armyrage videos? Surely this is as big copyright issue as using some copyrighted music on some video?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 26-07-2012, 15:07:03
Just came to my mind, would there be any chance, to convince youtube to put down all armyrage videos? Surely this is as big copyright issue as using some copyrighted music on some video?

I don't believe in censorship. Their Youtube videos are probably the best evidence against them.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 26-07-2012, 15:07:23
Just came to my mind, would there be any chance, to convince youtube to put down all armyrage videos? Surely this is as big copyright issue as using some copyrighted music on some video?

I don't believe in censorship. Their Youtube videos are probably the best evidence against them.
But if you ever go to road of asking to take down their website, wouldn't it be nice side effect to take their youtube channel down with it.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 26-07-2012, 15:07:33
If they directly profit from their Youtube channel (e.g. by running 3rd party ads there), I certainly wouldn't mind to see it disappear.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 26-07-2012, 16:07:18
Remdul, you are such a righteous man. I shall declare my allegiance to you!  :D

But still, we deserve more credit than just this:

http://www.alexa.com/search?q=armyrage.com&r=home_home&p=bigtop
http://www.alexa.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fforgottenhope.warumdarum.de%2F&r=site_screener&p=bigtop

So far I've always given people link to forgottenhope.warumdarum.de, and have forgotten fhmod.org. Maybe that has some contribution to the popularity.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Turkish007 on 27-07-2012, 20:07:06
Apparently, FH2 needs more propaganda to race with Army Rage and needs to inform other people to join us about this unfair "siber-robbery"
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Uberplatypus on 30-07-2012, 05:07:52
The plagiarising swine must die! >:(
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ouech on 05-08-2012, 21:08:57
I found this on their oficial forum :
http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst986_Army-Rage-Stealing--Important-Plz-Read.aspx (http://www.armyrage.com/forum/yaf_postst986_Army-Rage-Stealing--Important-Plz-Read.aspx)

I can't stand the reply of the administrator and the other guys !

But I've got a question : these guys are using the battlefield 2 engine, it's obvious (in the videos the graphics and the lightin are the same). So I think EA could say something to that, as it is not mentionned that Army Rage was developped with this engine... (it's semms important to say that to me)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 05-08-2012, 22:08:33
They would be long gone if it was on refractor 2 engine without proper license  ::)

Just funny that new registration to forum have been disabled since this topic was brought up.  ;D

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Welcome Guest! To enable all features please Login. New Registrations are disabled.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: AfterDune on 05-08-2012, 23:08:42
They keep asking for proof :'(. Some textures even contain FH2 in it, how hard can one fail?
Too proud to admit it, too stubborn to change it!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ouech on 05-08-2012, 23:08:34
At least they copied stuff from Battlefield, so that's enough for EA.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ouech on 07-08-2012, 12:08:05
I contacted Leaseweb, here is their reply :
"

Thanks for contacting LeaseWeb. LeaseWeb has a policy banning illegal
distribution of copyrighted material.
 
In order to process copyright infringement claims, please ensure your
claim adheres to the Dutch Notice and Takedown Code of Conduct. This
means you have to first contact the infringing website, only if they do
not reply or their reply is unsatisfactory you can escalate to the
hosting provider. Please include a copy of your communication(s) with
the website when you file your claim again.
Failure to adhere to the Dutch Notice and Takedown Code of Conduct will
mean that we will request you to first contact the infringing website.
This will result in a considerable delay in processing your complaint.
As you have not indicated or proved you have tried to contact the
website please follow the procedure as described above, please allow 5
working days for a response from the website. If you have not received a
response after 5 days you can contact us again. Please provide proof you
contacted or tried to contact the website so we can process your claim
expeditiously.
 
If you have already done all the above, then please respond to this
message, so your ticket will open again, and you claim can be progressed.
 
Please do not forget to add the IP address of the abuse domain/link in
the complaint for fast progressing.
"

The FH developpers already have all the things needed. Don't be too kind with them.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 15-08-2012, 17:08:49
@ouech: the Army Rage engine they use is definitely not the BF2 engine. Although I have found some references inside a few files that seem very similar to an old Open Source game engine, it is probably just coincidence; I don't have conclusive proof.
I did find a programmer who claims to have worked on the Army Rage engine for Tuyasoft, but have not contacted him (yet).

I would also prefer if no one make legal complaints/accusations on your own (especially if you're not a respective rights holder). It is confusing for all parties involved and makes new developments difficult to keep track of. Please contact me instead if you have useful information (you will of course be credited).
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: CologneSky on 15-08-2012, 18:08:30
Just saw that Yacuba representatives will be at the Gamescon, the largest video games exhibition in Europe, Aug 15-18.
(http://www.yacuba.com/news/24/Yacuba_Games_is_attending_GamesCom_2012!.html)

So if anyone of the devs is planning to go there, you might be able to track them down personally?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Krätzer on 16-08-2012, 08:08:25
Just saw that Yacuba representatives will be at the Gamescon, the largest video games exhibition in Europe, Aug 15-18.
(http://www.yacuba.com/news/24/Yacuba_Games_is_attending_GamesCom_2012!.html)

So if anyone of the devs is planning to go there, you might be able to track them down personally?

Didn´t saw them in the Halls, guess they are in the Buisiness Area. Have a Pass for it but it isn´t wise to make trouble there :p
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 16-08-2012, 09:08:55
I could imagine the situation.

"You stole from us!!!!"
"Get this crazy man out from here."

And guard comes :P
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: McCloskey on 16-08-2012, 10:08:28
Bwahahahah, that would indeed be funny as hell :D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Surfbird on 16-08-2012, 11:08:41
Making trouble there is probably much fun indeed :D

You could go to EA (or Dice if they are there) in the businiss section and tell them. I doubt that they are interested and have time though. But it's always easier to deal with problems if you talk about them directly instead of only writing mails.

Too bad it's at the business section, would like to talk to them. I literally live next door, didn't plan to visit Gamescom this year though. But if Krätzer tries it's pretty much going to end like ajappat said :D Those Chinese (they are Chinese, aren't they ?) have experience in how to deal with copyright problems ;)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: psykfallet on 28-08-2012, 12:08:44
Everyone go here and vote 1
http://mmohuts.com/review/army-rage
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Thorondor123 on 28-08-2012, 12:08:57
And spread the word in the comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ9yWeqXZlo
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Biiviz on 28-08-2012, 12:08:35
Everyone go here and vote 1
http://mmohuts.com/review/army-rage

I tried voting. The vote count went from 236 to 237, but just to make sure it stuck I refreshed the page. Back to 236 votes. Perhaps you have to register or something for it to stick.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: psykfallet on 29-08-2012, 19:08:04
Everyone go here and vote 1
http://mmohuts.com/review/army-rage

I tried voting. The vote count went from 236 to 237, but just to make sure it stuck I refreshed the page. Back to 236 votes. Perhaps you have to register or something for it to stick.
Strange, I tried voting again and it said "you've already voted" and Im not registered.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Berkolok on 30-08-2012, 11:08:32
i will do my job for my fh2 its my duty  :'(
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: th_battleaxe on 30-08-2012, 12:08:41
Does that vote bar jump down for anyone else?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 30-08-2012, 16:08:33
I just don't like to see ouech telling lies on those youtube comments. Army rage most certainly doesn't use refractor 2 engine and it makes us look like idiots to say such thing.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: DLFReporter on 30-08-2012, 16:08:24
Oh god, who let him lose?! ^^
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 03-09-2012, 14:09:25
My spouse and i wouldn't spend even 1 cent with this crap activity... Looks just like a browser player with the dice... On the opposite hand, I wonder whenever they gather even larger community regarding players when compared with FH2.
Being a free game, it attracts easily younger gamers who either don't have money or their parents don't allow buying game like these. Kind of like world of tanks, full of kids.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 25-09-2012, 15:09:53
Update:

http://www.fhmod.org/armyrage/

Yes. Yacuba actually sued a games magazine, because they would expose them... :o
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: ajappat on 25-09-2012, 15:09:45
I wonder what are they accusing Eurogamer of? I mean, to sue someone, he must have done something first, right?

Freedom of speech might be weird concept for chinese though  ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: McCloskey on 25-09-2012, 15:09:37
chinese mafia, they had to mention chinese mafia. that's why the article is "on hold". ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: th_battleaxe on 25-09-2012, 15:09:15
<facepalms more, over and over, until blood starts to pour from my forehead>

They just proved themselves guilty. Anyone who knows they're innocent would let the article appear, and then refute the accusations with sound and solid arguments. It's fastly becoming the "how low can you sink" show
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Remdul on 25-09-2012, 15:09:35
I wonder what are they accusing Eurogamer of? I mean, to sue someone, he must have done something first, right?

Slander probably.

Quote
Freedom of speech might be weird concept for chinese though  ;D

Yacuba is from Bulgaria. Actually, from my experience, the Chinese are actually the most honorable in this all, if you ignore the fact that they did try to get away with it in the fist place. When we contacted FancyGoal (http://www.fhmod.org/fancygoal/), the entire business was shut down without a single question. The Chinese version of Army Rage disappeared overnight without the slightest resistance.

My personal understanding is that, despite the imposed Communist mindset 'everyone owns everything', the Chinese do seem to understand that profiting from someone elses hard work is 'not done', when directly confronted.

I'm sure in ex-Communist Bulgaria, similar leftovers from that mindset are still present, but likewise, I don't believe its populace are any worse than any other place on earth, when it comes to acknowledging authorship. It seems to be an universal understanding.

The individuals that make up Yacuba however...they are seriously lacking in soul. It has nothing to do with nationality.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 25-09-2012, 17:09:49
The thing with most easterners is that you have to speak nicely and state your reason clearly: "Hey this is my hard work, you can't just do this without my approval." Fearing their own karma bitch, they will think twice before switching into their typical arsehole attitude.

But there are the mafia "us and them" attitude as well, which turns into a lockout like this. I believe the only solution is to run their rackets dry.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Sagal on 24-10-2012, 16:10:36
Just noticed this, so nothing really happened after all that or?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Turkish007 on 05-01-2013, 19:01:43
Just convinced a few fellow Turkish gamers to stop playing Army Rage, told them all about this plagiarism issue.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: BroskiDerpman on 18-01-2013, 01:01:25
The thing with most easterners is that you have to speak nicely and state your reason clearly: "Hey this is my hard work, you can't just do this without my approval." Fearing their own karma bitch, they will think twice before switching into their typical arsehole attitude.

But there are the mafia "us and them" attitude as well, which turns into a lockout like this. I believe the only solution is to run their rackets dry.

Slight necro, sorry guys.

But I'm an easterner that also respects other people's property and just go by the rules. Would I be an arsehole too?  ??? (Legitimate question)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Lightning on 18-01-2013, 13:01:35
He means Asians, not East Coast Americans.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: DLFReporter on 18-01-2013, 16:01:11
And even if you are an Asian, then you're only an asshole if you rip off other people's property. Be it intellectual or material. ^^
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: BroskiDerpman on 18-01-2013, 21:01:01
And even if you are an Asian, then you're only an asshole if you rip off other people's property. Be it intellectual or material. ^^

Thanks for clearing it out a little, I posted my message just as I got a bit tired so I got a little confused at first.  :)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: :| Hi on 18-01-2013, 22:01:40
He means Asians, not East Coast Americans.


Nice and subtle Lightning  ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: [130.Pz]S.Lainer on 18-01-2013, 22:01:16
He means Asians, not East Coast Americans.


Nice and subtle Lightning  ;D

And Asians who live on the East Coast of the USA are the biggest pieces of shit of all.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Biiviz on 19-01-2013, 14:01:27
He means Asians, not East Coast Americans.


Nice and subtle Lightning  ;D

And Asians who live on the East Coast of the USA are the biggest pieces of shit of all.

Time to put the bottle down, Lainer. :)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 20-01-2013, 14:01:21
I am being subtle...
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: BroskiDerpman on 21-01-2013, 01:01:16
Indeed  ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Turkish007 on 15-03-2013, 23:03:31
(http://mnglive.yacuba.com/upload_images/repair_tank.jpg)

That repair tool is from Bf2, right? If so, you guys might get yourselves heard in higher places...
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: jan_kurator on 15-03-2013, 23:03:29
That repair tool is from Bf2, right? If so, you guys might get yourselves heard in higher places...
Doesn't look exactly like BF2 wrench, they only took the idea but it isn't the same model:

(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110730184514/battlefield/images/0/07/BF2_Wrench.png)

Also: they were using stolen battlefield 1942 models and nobody gave a fuck about it.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Pejsaty on 01-05-2013, 18:05:12
It seems like you haven't achieved any success with it... I'm spotting spam of adverts on Polish sites about this game...  ::)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: THeTA0123 on 26-06-2013, 18:06:40
gentlemen, your attention if you may

compare this from FH2's april fools
(http://forgottenhope.warumdarum.de/screenshotsfh2/010408Sherman.jpg)

To the animeme tank on 0:53

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73UxOKpm8l8


is looking a bit simular with some changes, dont you think?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: BroskiDerpman on 03-07-2013, 03:07:59
Yup indeed! Almost same style/tone.

@old replies.

I am an Asian that lives on the east coast of USA. I just don't get you guys...  :-\
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: AfterDune on 03-07-2013, 07:07:37
In what way? You mean you don't get why people get upset over this?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: BroskiDerpman on 09-07-2013, 21:07:26
Yes, sort of what you just said. Is it only because of this company/game dev ripping off other peoples work? (I beleive that leads into an stereo type too) Or is it just some other personal motive of hating an race/specific group of people?

Thanks in advance and sorry for prolonging an old discussion.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: AfterDune on 10-07-2013, 17:07:29
It doesn't have to do with race, background or any group of people. It's about a company stealing assets from FH2 without permission and making money with it.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: BroskiDerpman on 11-07-2013, 04:07:14
Thanks AfterDune for clarifying it for me. (I'm a bit dull like that ;P)
Since in your description it says you're an PR dev; good luck on the mod!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 11-07-2013, 13:07:21
I am Asian too, living in Asia. Just don't take it all too seriously.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: RAnDOOm on 03-08-2013, 18:08:32
http://www.armyrage.com/

So i guess ArmyRage is no more. 
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Turkish007 on 03-08-2013, 18:08:19
Drinks are on me.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Graf_Radetzky(CZ) on 03-08-2013, 18:08:54
At last! Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Ts4EVER on 03-08-2013, 19:08:37
The witch is dead!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Flippy Warbear on 03-08-2013, 19:08:12
An interesting and to me an unexpected development of events.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 03-08-2013, 19:08:14
Never expected to see them go down so suddenly. Probably it is the violated big corporations who took the action.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Korsakov829 on 03-08-2013, 20:08:25
No one else is saying what happened so I assume they shut themselves down, part of their scheme from the beginning. If that is the case then in all technicality, we've lost.
If they were shut down, we'd hear something from EA or another company, wouldn't we? I can find nothing.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: RAnDOOm on 03-08-2013, 20:08:43
No one else is saying what happened so I assume they shut themselves down, part of their scheme from the beginning. If that is the case then in all technicality, we've lost.
If they were shut down, we'd hear something from EA or another company, wouldn't we? I can find nothing.

Do you really think EA would release a statement about this little thing ? Thats funny.   ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: |7th|Nighthawk on 03-08-2013, 20:08:35
Good news for our devs, bad news for the people who spent money to support this game.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Slayer on 03-08-2013, 20:08:10
Quote
Unfortunately, circumstances beyond our control have forced us to take this hard decision.
Mmm, beyond their control, huh?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: LuckyOne on 03-08-2013, 21:08:39
Good riddance!

The best part of the announcement:

Quote
In the past couple of years our team has spent lots of sleepless nights, always striving to improve the quality of the game and thanks to your constant help and tons of suggestions we've managed to transform Army Rage into one of the best shooters available which makes it even harder for us to make this announcement.

Yeah, spent lots of sleepless nights stealing other people's work...  ::)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: |7th|Nighthawk on 03-08-2013, 23:08:44
Yeah, I had to laugh too. Reminds me of certain politicians ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: THeTA0123 on 04-08-2013, 01:08:34
http://fhpubforum.warumdarum.de/index.php?topic=19218.0

FH2 fought and deserved this victory

(http://mundabor.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/deservevictorychurchill.jpg)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 04-08-2013, 08:08:51
It's kinda hard to decide, but certainly FH2 devs couldn't take the credit if they don't know what happened though.

But "Quality" is totally a joke. And "WW2 shooter" with all that stolen work and their fantasy nonsense. I hope the original devs wouldn't mind their work being portrayed in semi-fantasy bullshit like that. Should be called "WW2-themed" though.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: AfterDune on 04-08-2013, 11:08:34
Yaaaay, great news!!

We probably won't hear a thing. Them shutting down could have been caused by EA's legal deparment making a phone call to them or something, but that's just speculation.

To me, this is victory! :p
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: pizzzaman on 11-08-2013, 21:08:59
http://www.red.orchestra.pl/forum/index.php?topic=1244.0

A bit old but...   did he get the permission to use those?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: jan_kurator on 11-08-2013, 22:08:09
http://www.red.orchestra.pl/forum/index.php?topic=1244.0

A bit old but...   did he get the permission to use those?
It was aprills fools joke about Fall Weiss Mod which never existed. Autor explained that next day in that topic. He also said about origin of those renders so everything is fine.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Musti on 11-08-2013, 22:08:15
Are you seriously asking if they had permission to use some pictures for a joke from 5 years ago?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Kubador on 13-08-2013, 11:08:02
It was an april fools joke. Polish community got their hopes up for a fall weiss scenario. (at least from what I read there)

edit: ooops, too late. Didn't notice the next page.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Musti on 13-09-2013, 22:09:19
Here's something interesting, though I might show it just in case.
http://modswot.com/historical-sounds-engines-v-0-47-world-tanks-0-8-8/
a very well known sound mod for WOT, that uses some FH2 content, other mod of that guy called "historical gun sounds" has even more sounds borrowed (or "borrowed") from FH2 (the earliest versions of the mod were even called "FH2 sound pack". Now it has a lot of its own sounds(and it's a goddamn good mod), but some from FH2 still remain.
http://modswot.com/historical-sounds-engines-v-0-47-world-tanks-0-8-8/
and a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxn7KsjLCFQ
6:20 is probably the most obvious.
Now, he does credit FH2 (or did at least), but is thi legit? Did he ask for permission or something or not?
Because if not then maybe it could be even used in favor of FH2.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: BroskiDerpman on 14-09-2013, 20:09:28
Think he did give credit (He listed the FH2 sounds too) though in reality modders have no control over copy writing their stuff, DoTS tried copy writing their mod for Med2 under gnu or something and CA told them they shouldn't and if anybody rips off work CA will handle it.

Not sure if Dice gives a crap though.

It is common courtesy to ask for permission and of course I highly recommend doing that to show some respect.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Eat Uranium on 14-09-2013, 21:09:27
If this is the same mod that I brought to Natty's attention about 6 months ago, then he was fine with it (and he was in charge of the sounds at that point in time).
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: jan_kurator on 14-09-2013, 21:09:55
No wonder why he was fine with it half year ago. He is retired for about 10 months now, probably didn't really care back then.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Eat Uranium on 14-09-2013, 22:09:35
Well, I don't really remember the time too well, but it was at least a month before he retired.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: PanzerKnacker on 14-09-2013, 23:09:17
Natty retired?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Flippy Warbear on 14-09-2013, 23:09:14
Long ago.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: PanzerKnacker on 14-09-2013, 23:09:04
because of the flamewars  8) here or was it unrelated?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Lightning on 15-09-2013, 14:09:12
Natty always made it very clear he wanted to retire after the release of 2.45, so he'd be able to spend more time with his kids. That's why he put so much time and effort into updating maps and the sounds and effects.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: THeTA0123 on 26-11-2013, 21:11:40
Guys


who made the K98k firing sound???
FH2 made or taken from something else?
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Korsakov829 on 26-11-2013, 22:11:42
Obviously you've found something...
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: THeTA0123 on 26-11-2013, 23:11:43
perhaps (http://cdn0.cosmosmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/20080314_sherlock_holmes.jpg)


But it will be difficult to fight such a monster of a company
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: PanzerKnacker on 26-11-2013, 23:11:10
so...EA took our sounds?

...oh wait  ;D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: THeTA0123 on 26-11-2013, 23:11:33
The discovery channel apocalypse, shows Der stahlhelm members shooting K98k .22LR guns...

with the exact FH2 k98k firing sound
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: jan_kurator on 27-11-2013, 00:11:37
at least they used it for educational purposes :D
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Zoologic on 27-11-2013, 04:11:27
Apocalypse used crappy MG sounds like most documentary WW2.

A lot of people still don't know that these sounds are added later, since most of the films at that time has no sound recording.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Steel_Lion_FIN on 14-10-2014, 12:10:00
You may want to keep a lookout for trolls and such, now that Forza Horizon 2 is out. Might lead to confusement between FH2 and Forza Horizon 2 players.
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Mudzin on 14-10-2014, 16:10:25
You may want to keep a lookout for trolls and such, now that Forza Horizon 2 is out. Might lead to confusement between FH2 and Forza Horizon 2 players.

Chance for us that more people will get to know this mod!  8)
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Mayhemic.MAD on 14-10-2014, 16:10:32
You may want to keep a lookout for trolls and such, now that Forza Horizon 2 is out. Might lead to confusement between FH2 and Forza Horizon 2 players.
I am more worried that we might get a bunch of farmers here talking about inseminating cows.  ;D
http://www.lfl.bayern.de/itz/rind/048768/
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: Flippy Warbear on 14-10-2014, 16:10:44
Angry farmers!
Title: Re: Call To Arms
Post by: FatJoe on 14-10-2014, 17:10:12
We've got a kit ready for them to use in that case :)