Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) developed and published by Moonton, a subsidiary of ByteDance. Released in 2016, the game has become popular in Southeast Asia and was among the games chosen for the first medal event esports competition at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines.
Gameplay
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game designed for mobile phones. The two opposing teams fight to reach and destroy the enemy’s base while defending their own base for control of a path, the three “lanes” known as “top”, “middle”, and “bottom”, which connects the bases. Weaker computer-controlled characters, called “minions”, spawn at team bases and follow the three lanes to the opposite team’s base, fighting enemies and turrets.
Lawsuits
After the game’s initial release, Riot Games suspected that the game was imitating the intellectual property of League of Legends and contacted Google to remove the game from Google Play. Moonton then removed the game before Google could take it down and eventually relaunched it with the altered name Mobile Legends: Bang Bang on 9 November 2016.
In July 2017, Riot Games filed a lawsuit against Moonton because of copyright infringement, citing similarities between Mobile Legends and League of Legends.Riot Games also complained that the name title of Mobile Legends sounds confusingly similar to League of Legends.The case was dismissed in the Central District Court of California in the United States on account of forum non conveniens. Tencent, Riot’s parent company, on behalf of Riot Games, then filed a new, separate lawsuit directly targeting Moonton’s CEO, Watson Xu Zhenhua (as he had previously worked in Tencent as one of Tencent’s senior employee) in Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People’s Court, for violating a law regarding Non-Compete Agreements, which ruled in Tencent’s favor in July 2018, awarding Tencent a settlement of $2.9 million(INR 21 crores).
I play this game as well and honestly it is a really good game for a MOBA. Mobile legends has had a really big influence in my family that all of my siblings play this game. My cousins were the first ones to play and dragged everyone into.
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