Activision releases a volume from Call of Duty: Warzone and Vanguard after being accused of plagiarism

The developer made a statement acknowledging the error and apologizing to the community.

Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Vanguard are set for an update that includes the Terminator cosmetically, but the innovation in question has been revealed. complaints In the community due to an additional skin that copies a design from a non-Activision artist. And now this addition, which gives a dog look to one of the operators, withdrawn games played after accusations

We messed up our process and removed this image from the gameactionThe developer with a description sent to Polygon admit the mistake and apologizes: “We have great respect for creativity and content creation. We love Loyal Samoyed [nombre de la skin]but unfortunately we made a mistake in our transaction and we removed this image from the game. We apologize for the misstep.”

To put some context, just know that artist Sail Lin drew attention to Activision on Twitter for presenting a cosmetic product that plagiarized one of her designs that was recently posted on ArtStation. 2019. Fortunately, this article viral and it reached the ears of Activision, who decided to remove the content as we explained in the same news.

This lawsuit ended well for the artist, but it should be noted that this is not the first time Activision has been accused of plagiarism. In this sense, a professional photographer asked the developer for an explanation for the design of one of the Call of Duty: Warzone characters. copied one of his works both in the overall design and in the poses used for its presentation.