Paladins damn suay sia. Always kena compared to Overwatch. It’s quite understandable given that they both have heroes with similar skills. Nonetheless, Hi-Rez Studios has always denied copying Blizzard’s game. But mati liao. Why leh? Cause Paladins fired contractor for using Overwatch‘s art in an advertisement sia.
Someone realized that Hi-Rez’s advertisement was actually a copy of a map in Overwatch. Reddit poster Arcieth realized that Paladins used the background art of Lijiang Tower was being used in one of Paladins’ advertisements.
Lijiang Tower
Paladins advertisement
Hi-Rez responded:
This art was created by a overseas partner studio for Paladins Strike and had not much in the way of oversight in its content creation by anyone internally at Hi-Rez. We will be looking into this immediately.
Hi-Rez subequent investigation has led to Hi-Rez cutting ties with their outsourcer. Paladins brand manager Alex Cantatore told Kotaku:
“We are very disappointed that a contractor for our mobile hero shooter, Paladins Strike, made use of artwork from another game in the splash art for our Covert Ops Lex skin. Unfortunately as this piece came from what was previously a trusted outsourcer, it did not go through a full internal review cycle at Hi-Rez and made it to the public.”
Hi-Rez plans to handle more of its in-game 2D art internally so that they can have more control.Hi-Rez just can’t catch a break sia.
