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Steam removes popular Chinese strategy game after Ark: Survival Evolved studio claims it stole their source code - PC Gamer

Steam removes popular Chinese strategy game after Ark: Survival Evolved studio claims it stole their source code - PC Gamer

Steam removes popular Chinese strategy game after Ark: Survival Evolved studio claims it stole their source code - PC Gamer
Dec 08, 2021 1 min, 23 secs

Studio Wildcard says Myth of Legends is built on Ark: Survival Evolved's source code.

Myth of Empires developer Angela Game has so far declined to reveal who requested the game's removal, but documents viewed by PC Gamer indicate that it came from Studio Wildcard and Snail Games, the developer and publisher of Ark: Survival Evolved.

The takedown request says Angela Game was founded in 2020 by at least one former employee of Snail Games China, Studio Wildcard's parent company, who had access to the Ark source code.

When Myth of Empires was released in November 2021, Studio Wildcard grew "understandably concerned" because of similarities between the two games, including identical gameplay mechanics, which it felt went beyond the possibility of coincidence.

Comparing code headers in the Myth of Empires executable, Studio Wildcard developers claim to have found hundreds of matching class, variable, and function names in a preliminary analysis, which they say confirms that the Ark source code was used in Myth of Empires.

"Studio Wildcard and Snail Games USA Inc have a good faith belief that Myth of Empires was built by: (1) stealing the Ark: Survival Evolved source code and (2) using the stolen source code as the gameplay foundation for Myth of Empires," the complaint states.

"Key employees of the developer of Myth of Empires worked at the Chinese parent of Snail Games USA Inc and at least one of them had the credentials that enabled them to access the Ark: Survival Evolved source code.".

"Our development team solemnly declares: Angela Game fully owns all rights and property associated with Myth of Empires and will actively respond to any doubts or allegations on this point," the studio said on December 7.

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