The strangest things go viral on the internet, and as a case and point we were rather amused to see a 'trailer' for mobile app Final Clash - developed by PopPace - get a lot of heat recently on Facebook. Originally posted on 22nd June but having been spotted and shared a lot in the past 24 hours, it simply rips a TV ad for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and puts its own logo at the end.
Observe...
https://www.facebook.com/finalclashpoppace/videos/1550601918325046/
Some of the comments on the Facebook page are pure gold, as you'd expect. The actual game looks like this:
Oh internet, never change.
[source facebook.com]
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Nintendo is going to love this.
When you think about it, it's genius. Now everyone will be talking about them.
Wait....this is legal, how?
I smell the scent of lawyers... hark, in the distance!
They do the same with Pokémon
Considering the game is actually and original game, I foresee that all that will happen is the ad will get taken down, the developer will get a slap on the wrist, and ultimately probably profit from all the attention. Its probably a pretty effective way to get more business as messed up as it is to say.
Didn't know mobile could handle those kind of graphics.......
"Case and point"
You people get paid for your words and you can't get the expression correct?
"games journalism" never fails to disappoint
Lemme guess, you also "could care less"?
@Menchi187 I think you are missing the point here...
They're just seeking attention. There's a term for that but I'm certainly not allowed to use it on this site.
I really love how even the "real" trailer's info slides just ape the Smash style.
They really should have called their game "WiiU All-Stars" and been done with it Nintendo wouldn't even care.....
Lol
Seriously, I laughed when I saw it.
Whoever is responsible for this needs a nice big fine.
I would not at all be surprised if some criticize Nintendo for taking care of this.
They just used the Zelda trailer and slapped their logo at the end, lmao. I actually laughed at this.
I wonder if they know how vigilant Nintendo are with their IPs...
@Menchi187 Hello PopPace employee, nice to meet you.
You can already hear the furious typing of lawyers hitting their keyboards, lol.
This is hilarious. The funny thing is their game looks pretty good compared to most things like it on the Google Play store.
The amount of adds I get on YouTube that lift footage directly from Pokemon games and just insert Ash/Satoshi art is insane. Yeah like the Nintendo/The Pokemon Company would make a mobile clone of their own series just to cannibalize their sales. MAKES TOTAL SENSE!
I see trailers and advertisements for junk apps using pokemon art and gameplay all the time.
Also used to find ads for bootleg mario games using mario art here in this same site some time ago.
@AlternateButtons Because China does not recognize US copyright law. It is also the reason why Japanese companies have to be more strict because their laws are stricter and do not recognize Fair Use laws.
The sad thing is a lot of these mainly Chinese knock off mobile apps get away with it and successfully gain monetary via micro transactions, app cost, ads. They sometimes directly rip assets from other game sources and use them within their apps without no remorse and get away scott free, though with a title change.
@AlternateButtons I agree, but they can do it because their China. I mean when you are the manufacturing mecca of the world who is going to challenge you?
It's actually pretty common on the play store to see apps using characters or icons from big franchises. This one seems pretty cheeky though, throwing in actual gameplay footage.
Everybody wants a piece of the GOTY.
The audacity of this made me smile.
There may be trouble ahead.
Maybe if the next Madden trailer shows gameplay from Assassin's Creed, I'll actually buy it!
I can see lawyers parachuting onto their premesis shortly.
They aren't even trying anymore. 😂
Haven't seen this yet but hardly surprised. As previously mentioned, the ads stealing Pokémon assets are insane. Heck, there's one game that outright take anime girls and puts then in Pokémon costumes. Literally. And they evolve. But yeah, plenty of the ads for other games have actual footage from recent Pokémon games.
Pokémon isn't the only franchise either, just the most prevalent. I've seen Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Final Fantasy XV... some don't use game footage, some do, but none of them are by their respective developers and even the App Store descriptions are riddled with engrish and the handful of 1 star reviews claiming it doesn't work offset by a single fake 5 star review that rants how it's "the best game ever" and they're such a fan of the series...
@Senpai_Bruh well technically new ipad/iphone cpu surpass Switch (not gpu yet) ..but controls still suck
What a Great Trailer!
@SLIGEACH_EIRE Just maybe. Just an eensy weensy bit.
@Luke64 Gee! It Sure Was Swell!
I won't be surprised if a meme emerges out of this with people editing all kinds of game logos into BotW trailer. The Life of Black Tiger will have never looked so awesome before.
This is a bizarrely clumsy misleading advertisement.
@Menchi187 Yep... the 'in point' is to mean that 'the opposite' example is relevant in the following case, but those who did not understand this peace of speach often interpret it as saying 'here is a case and it is also the point of what I'm saying'... which is incorrect. But yea, jump on facebook or youtube and witness this kind of thing everywhere.
For a while there was this ad on YouTube that would show actual Pokemon footage from in-game and trailers of official Pokemon games but then when you would go to the Appstore to check out the app, it turned out none of what they showed was of course in the game, the developer on top of it stole several official sprites and fan art sprites to use in the game without permission.
That's Chinese games for ya.
I've seen a game use an ever so slightly modified screenshot of Heroes of Might and Magic III to promote itself on Instagram. Of course, the game itself looked completely different to Heroes.
Chinese people did that ?!
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS !!!
I feel ashamed as a half Indonesian-Chinese people to see like that...
@ShadJV
Oh... gosh !
I feel bad for naive peoples in China who think those games are "Real" but actually a bunch of Fake and Copycat.
Poor those naive peoples who has never knew anything about gaming world...
I reckon they did this on purpose to get attention.
See this kind of thing far too often. One mobile game used footage from the Legend of Korra game in their trailer, though they did have the bright idea of pasting their own virtual button interface over the top. Another game used Blood Borne promotional art to promote itself. I also remember ads that used Street Fighter or Soul Calibur fan art to promote their three kingdoms or Greek mythology based game.
Same company used footage of Pokken Tournament a few months back.
What's that? That's the sound of someone riding some coattails.
i cannot believe in my eyes...
BREATH OF THE WILD MULTIPLAYER CONFIRMED!
Prepare for Nintendo butt tightening.
Well not the 1st time this happened i saw some game advertisement using footage from Dragon quest on Instagram
I've seen a lot of stuff like that with cheap mobile shovelware that rips off and uses Pokémon footage to promote their crappy game, which of course looks completely different.
2017 just keeps getting better! That has game of the year plastered all over it! O.<
the actual game looked quite good. the zelda trailer was a good laugh. might not be worth their while though if nintendo come down on them too hard.
Made by Poopface, nuff said!
I don't think I've seen one quite so brazen as this before to use an entire trailer wholesale, amusing in a way. But obviously yeah, they should take it down.
Reverse rickroll lol
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