The lawsuit also hits Apple and Google, as Krafton alleges that distributing its games for free in their app stores allowed it to gain greater reach and thus earn “hundreds of millions of dollars” in commissions. of sales, while the companies “similarly earned a substantial amount of revenue from their distribution of Free Fire.”
They even accused Google of allowing YouTube videos of gameplays of the two games in question, as well as posts, which it described as “feature films that are nothing more than a dramatization of live Battlegrounds that blatantly infringes on us.”
What is happening between PUBG and Free Fire?
This case dates back to 2017, when Garena began selling a game in Singapore that allegedly copied aspects of the Krafton title. At that time, the claims between the two companies were resolved, but Krafton did not present any license agreement with Garena.
By September 2021, Garena released Free Fire Max and that’s when the controversy resumed. In December, he asked Garena to “immediately stop its exploitation of Free Fire and Free Fire Max”, but the company refused. In addition, he asked Apple and Google to download it from their app store, but the game is still available.