Board Thread:Kancolle Arcade/@comment-3502824-20180711142720/@comment-26464279-20180712023614

RawSauceNo1 wrote: Then what about A***L***??? Are Kadokawa and C2 Praparat also gonna strike a copyright infringement against Manjuu and Yostar???

No offense, but that 'clone' was far more successful than KanColle itself. I mean A***L*** became a mass popularity in Japan, S. Korea, and China. As far as I'm aware KanColle or rather Kadokawa has no basis on which they could strike a copyright claim against Yostar. Though both games use anthropomorized warships it's not like the KanColle creators came up with the idea themself, they just were the ones that managed to make it popular. The only thing they (dmm) did was to trademark the term KanMusu (and maybe some other terms I/we don't know about) and they already warned A...L... to not make use of that term not too long ago. If you look at the games themself they are rather different from a gameplay perspective - especially for the sortie-related part - and wouldn't warrant to calling A...L... a KC clone just because they jumed on to make money with a currently popular trend. They aren't exactly the first in the gaming industry to do this and they won't be the last either.

But here is where A...L... and AH are different. From what I've heared from an aquaintance looking at AH the gameplay seems to be exceedingly similar to KC Arcade. I have no idea about japanese copyright laws but if the AH gameplay really feels like a blatant rip-off of the KC Arcade gameplay Sega might be able to win that lawsuit. I can't imagine them just blindly rushing in either, especially after they have taken same time between after release of AH until filing it.

For your second claim, I don't know which one is more successful of the two games and honestly I don't care as long as KanColle will be around for another few years. Just, as someone playing both KC and A...L... myself I can say that for me A...L... is lacking the incentive to play it regularly for a long time, while I've been playing KanColle almost daily for more than 3 years now and am still all over my favourite girls like I was in the early days, sharing my love-hate relationship with Re-Elite-chan and reminiscing about my first full event I cleared, when I had to face AD Hime with more than 250 Armour in pleb mode to save Teruzuki from her.