Why is this allowed and why is it okay when blizz does it, they

Because you can literally break the law and get away with it so long as you have enough money.

>>383835518
No one cares because it looks like garbage. Avatar and spirit are the only skins that look decent.

Because Blizzard is owned by Activision and as a company themselves Blizzard is not afraid to clash with other companies other what they "own" and how "entitled" the community is but the moment they do a "tribute" it should be a blessing since they believe are the trend setters of the videogame industry.

They need to die out to be perfectly honest.

the only thing they have in common are the robotic arms and mohawk
get over it nerd

>>383835776
let us not forget jay "fuck that faggot" wilson

>>383835518
I actually thought it was a Jack custom from tekken 7 from the thumbnail.

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>>383835518
I don't think it's okay, actually, and I'm a big enough Overcunt to own 2 statues.

Also Tekken sucks

>>383835518
>hasn't played hots
>wolverine
>samus
>colossus
>warhammer 40k
>cable
>evangelion

So this is the skin that does it tho. Some obscure fighting games most obscure character. nice.

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>>383835518
what is the issue here, a game paying homage to another one?
because such things never happens in other games right

>>383837425
No, it's bad when blizzard does it!

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>>383835518
why do you suddenly care now?

>>383835518
jack is a shit character tho so who cares

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>>383837425
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>>383835518

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>>383835518
You can say what you what about the various faggots who suck corporate dick, but there is none more pathetic than the blizzdrone.
They will defend anything that blizzard does.

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>>383835518
What are his other skins?

>>383838550
I thought you were going to make a point?

>>383835518
>Why is this allowed and why is it okay when blizz does it
Everybody does this junior. It's called drawing inspiration, paying homage.

have none of you faggots heard of homage?

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>>383838226
THEY DO THIS AND YET THEY TOOK SKELETON KING FROM US

>>383838550
Hearthstone is shit but they made it very clear where they drew their inspiration. They said they were huge fans of magic and wanted to make something like it. And they did that while having big differences.

You're trying to cherrypick without actually inspecting the cherry, you're pretty fucking stupid, so stop reaching.

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>>383840919

>ywn take a knee (peasant) ever again
>ywn be pitied for your flea bitten pelt

>>383841553
someone give this man an humanity!

>>383835743
Those skins are shit you're retarded

>>383840815
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>>383840815
>paying homage
so the chinese heartstone knockoffs are all paying homage to blizzard games right?

98% of the casuals who play this game wont even recognize the "nice gesture blizzard put into the game" and will just think it's just their creativity

>>383841954
this
its okay to make shit like references like in dialogs or hidden ingame stuff but to make money on selling skins of other game's characters is shameless jewery

>>383841553
I will never stop being mad for this
They took everything that made him great when they put the croissant on his beard
>His pearly white smile
>His bone puns
>The smug tone in his voice
Is there a mod to bring him back?? He was my favorite character before the change

>>383841954

Who the fuck doesn't know Fucking Jack tho?

>>383841954
>98% of the casuals who play this game wont even recognize the "nice gesture blizzard put into the game" and will just think it's just their creativity
Like everyone in this thread who literally just now heard about Jack and decides to shit irrationally shit on blizzard on it because /v/ told them it was the cool thing to do and they don't know what homage means?

/v/ these days is filled with retarded children

Paladins.

>>383835672
Do you actually think this is breaking the law?

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>>383835518
>justice rains from above

>>383843757
Well they did it themselves and tried to take people to court over it

>>383835518
at least in this skin hes not a nigger anymore

>>383843656
MASAKA!?

>>383837425
Is OW one big homage to TF2?

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>>383835518
>why is it okay when blizz does it
It's okay when Activision-Blizzard does it

I still love that they put Asagi ingame as a sniper, even including the backstory of Widowmaker getting mindfucked until her skin went blue too

>>383842753
BTFO

>>383845201
Isn't Widowmaker more Lieri Bishop with the whole "brainwashed and killed husband" shit? That's what Lieri does in one of the lilith izm games.

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>>383835518
They steal everything. They just bite-size it so no-one cares.

See Warhammer Fantasy/40K

>>383843656
>doomfist has one of the exact same abilities as Ash from paladins
I-it's not fair bros! Paladins is the copy!!

>>383835518
Did you also suffer from impotent rage when you saw the Gundam reference?

What triggers me the most about that skin and its variant is the fin on his head. Not that I mind the fin, it's that the shape of it is copied from Guardians of the Galaxy.

I genuinely despise overwatch because of this sort of shit. It's like Blizzard is incapable of coming up with anything by themselves. They gave the Wild West cowboy fucko an ultimate that is almost the exact same as deadeye from red dead, and couldn't even be bothered to think of a different fucking name for it. And I know people compare TF2 and Overwatch all the time, but Torbjorn and the engineer are literally the exact fucking same, even the amount of metal they carry is the same. Not to mention the team making overwatch is so mentally disabled they have never managed to balance anything effectively, everything is either insanely OP or retardedly shit. And it fucking won game of the year in that shitty show, despite being a fuck fest of 20 other games executed worse than all of said games if they were made by 9 year old sweat shop workers.

>>383840947

Indeed, the game cycle is largely different.

>BUT BUT BUT ITS A CARD GAME THERE CAN ONLY BE 1 CARD GAME

Bitch plz.

>>383837346
>most obscure character. nice.
Gon?

>>383835518
Is this bait? Do you autists not understand the difference between a homage and stealing?

>>383846017
*fucks your gf*

lol dude its just an homage relax

>>383846017
how is it an homage when it's this close, nevermind the fact that overwatch, wow, hearthstone and all the shit inside those games are ripped off from elsewhere

>>383846017
Gee I dunno, who is making money off of another person's creation?

>Blizzdrones

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>>383846017
I actually wouldnt mind these """homages""" if blizzard wasnt also a company that aggressively pursues copyright protection to the point where calling your game "World of (x)" is grounds for a multibillion dollar law suit.

Fuck off shill

>>383837346
>Best selling fighting series ever
>obscure

How can someome be this dense?

>It's okay when Valve does it
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Team_Captain
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Plumber%27s_Cap

>>383846090
>>383846110
>>383846149
>>383846374

>Blizzard is stealing from One Punch Man! Doomfist says his catchphrase! REEEEEEEEEE

>>383846591
Is this real?

Blizzard really are pros at pandering to their retarded audience if so.

>>383838550
Unfortunately hearthstone isn't much like magic at all. It would be a much better game if they had copied it more.

Mei does the dance from haruhi.

Is that stealing too?

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>>383840919
Blizzard didn't take anything, Valve just had a kneejerk reaction and removed it themselves.

Blizzard is the least creative dev in the industry and has been since their inception

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>>383842507
Just use one of the many sets that hide his face. Pic related costs cents irrc

>>383846385
im calling ur game shit

>>383842507
There was but some other cunts used the same method to transform all the tree into pumpkin and other pretty exploits and Valve was forced to patch out it.

>>383845479
That was Games Workshop's fault though.

>>383835743
Painted is obviously his best skin.

Simple fix.

Like Jack? Congrats! Jack's in Overwatch now as a guest character.

Hate Jack? Congrats! Only a character you hate got ripped off and it's just one skin that you can easily ignore.

>>383845852
>they have never managed to balance anything effectively, everything is either insanely OP or retardedly shit.
because they want to make graphics. they want to draw cute clothes for their waifus instead of making the game good, because that's all Overwatch is, a visual splurgfest where everything is bright lights and colorful pew pew lasers, every character has giant hitboxes so you can get perfect headshots 99% of the time and feel like an EPIC COOL BADASS XDXD either not knowing or not caring that you aren't actually good, you are playing a game that is DESIGNED to make EVERYONE feel good at the game.

and holy shit, it works so fucking well that even jeff kaplan himself likes to take to the forums and BRAGPOST to people that he knows the game the bestest because he's won a lot of games on his own time. as the dev of the fucking game. and he brags about that.

they obviously want to make CG cutscenes and forgo gameplay as often as they can, barring the occasional garbage patch

>>383846017
I always find the homage arguments silly after I met Clint Eastwood once, and he told me something that no anon has ever topped
>If they don't need it, nor want it, why is called a homage?

>>383847647
>It was GW's fault that Blizzard didn't scrap their game and begin anew after GW pulled out of the deal, and instead released the game with just enough changes to not be considered blatant plagiarism

>>383835518
BECAUSE IT'S A HOMAGE (now please pay $20 for the random lootboxes in a vain attempt to get this skin i'm not profiting from another persons ip i swear).

>>383848326
>Clint Eastwood doesn't know the difference between homage and tribute
Learn something every day.

>>383838550
Similarities between MtG and Hearthstone:
>they are both card games, but Hearthstone doesn't use real cards
>
>
>
And you're doing no favours to MtG by comparing it to the shitshow that is Hearthstone.

>>383841954
>implying a skin that looks vaguely like a character from another game is equivalent to literally copying an entire game and selling it is a seperate product
If you're so desperate to hate Blizzard, you really don't have to make shit up to do so. There are plenty of legitimate things you can attack the company for.

>>383838550
Hearthstone is objectively almost nothing like magic in terms of actual gameplay mechanics.

>>383848468
Funny, as the exact same can be said about tribute anon

>>383846374
Meanwhile world of tanks still exist

>>383835518
It's hilarious how much you faggots throw shitfits at Blizzard for homaging other games and companies but everyone else doing it is fine (unless it's Nintendo doing it because lol Nintendo is the devil).

>>383839051

Fucking shit tekken 7 customization doesn't even let me turn jack 7 into this even though ibviously the game has these assets stored.

There should also be an item that when equipped makes your character ragdoll when you get koed like the mishima soldiers and jacks do in story mode.

>>383844179
No. They took valve to court over it because they wanted the rights to DOTA because they saw the potential investment in it. It had nothing to do with copyright infringement.

Valve bended the knee on skeleton king and windrunner because they didn't want any other trouble.

>>383848336
>let's scrap a bunch of assets and waste dev time and money when we already have a pretty solid foundation
I hate Blizzard as much as anyone for their faggoty decisions, but you can't ask people to do this

>>383839051
holy shit it really is the Chad stride

>>383844179
That's weaponizing the law, not breaking it.

>>383835518
Blizzard is a joke, a company for numales.

>>383849483
Valve definitely came up on top with that
Now everybody just thinks blizz is evil for trying to take back a potential franchise they abandoned, and people will shit on them for any attempts they might make to use it

>>383835518
Sometimes it's not about "lol I'm gonna steal your shit because I'm lazy", sometimes it's "Wow I like this character design and want to pay tribute to it."

>>383847343
Valve should just fucking die as a developer desu