The appearance of a cloned mobile game Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft angrily sued both Google and Apple

According to Bloomberg, in a complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles last Friday, Ubisoft denounced Area F2, a title free mobile games above Google Play and Apple App Storecopy Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege. At the same time it requires two of the app stores of Google and Apple took the game down.​

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Ubisoft thinks that everything in Area F2 is identical to Rainbow Six Siege, from the character selection interface to the ending interface as well as everything in the game. Ubisoft said it contacted Google and Apple to take down this game, but was rejected by the two companies.

Area F2

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Area F2 is developed by Ejoy, a subsidiary of Chinese Alibaba group. Looking at the screenshots of Area F2, it’s not difficult to see a lot of similarities between this game and Rainbow Six Siege. Ubisoft explains in the complaint that Rainbow Six Siege is one of its most valuable intellectual properties and that Area F2 is taking advantage of its popular title.​

Rainbow Six Siege

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Currently Ubisoft is suing Google and Apple to force them to remove Area F2 from the app store. It seems odd that Ubisoft decided to sue Google and Apple instead of the developer and publisher of Area F2. According to Engadget’s speculation, perhaps because it is quite difficult to sue for piracy in China – where Ejoy and Alibaba are based, it will be easier to remove it from the famous app stores, so it will be difficult to find new players and gradually disappear. Faced with this allegation, Ejoy is still denying and claiming that he has not infringed Ubisoft’s intellectual property rights.​