PUBG and Free Fire have always been considered strong rivals in the Battle Royale gaming industry. The two game companies have repeatedly engaged in a war of words and today Krafton filed a lawsuit against Garena as well as Apple and Google for copyright infringement in Garena's Free Fire.
It won't be wrong to say that PUBG Mobile and Free Fire are considered the behemoths of battle royale gaming. The two games have competed in several awards and accolades. While the former game tops the revenue charts, the latter takes the glory away from eSports. However, this rivalry turned into a legal battle as Krafton filed a lawsuit against Free Fire's parent company as well as Apple and Google.
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South Korean game company Krafton released PUBG (Player's Unknown Battlegrounds) for PC in 2017 and the game took the entire gaming industry by storm. After a few months, Garena introduced Free Fire which was accused of to be a blatant copycat of the game. When PUBG Mobile was launched in 2018, the two games started clashing.
After the initial release of Free Fire, Krafton took the copyright case to the Singapore court, however, the issue was resolved without any conclusion. Today it was revealed that Krafton is going to sue Garena for copying similar game mechanics from PUBG and adding them to Free Fire. He also filed a lawsuit against Google and Apple for distributing the title. The official trial gave the following statement-
"Since the initial release, Garena has wrongfully authorized Apple and Google to distribute hundreds of millions of copies of the Free Fire app through their respective online 'app' stores — the Apple App Store and the Google Play store. Indeed, upon information and belief, Garena has earned hundreds of millions of dollars from its global sales of the infringing apps, and many of the infringing acts have occurred in the United States. from their distribution of Free Fire, as both platforms retain a significant portion of what users spend within the infringing game."
According to official reports, Krafton previously asked Garena to end their sale of Free Fire and Free Fire Max, the company also asked Google and YouTube to stop distributing the game on their platform, but the two requests have been sent. vain. This caused Krafton to take legal action against the companies by providing different images where it is shown how the mechanics of Free Fire are a carbon copy of PUBG.
Previously, Krafton filed a lawsuit against the cheat creators of PUBG and also won the compensation amount of $10 million after claiming victory in the case. Both PUBG and Free Fire are considered equally popular games, but PUBG's parent company now wants Free Fire banned. Does this mean the end of Free Fire? This question remains unknown.
