Game of life board game lawsuit12/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Netmarble Games has promoted "Everyone's Marble" as an online version of "Blue Marble" even without a license from BM Creative-Art, according to iPeoples. It also claimed BM Creative-Art refused a licensing contract request from Netmarble Games because it already had an exclusive deal with iPeoples. ![]() board game "Monopoly." In this game, two to four players roll two dice to move around cities worldwide to buy land and construct buildings.Īccording to iPeoples, M2Games was hit hard after Netmarble Games released "Everyone's Marble" in 2013, shutting down in 2015. The board game "Blue Marble," developed by BM Creative-Art CEO Lee Sang-bae, is a Korean version of popular U.S. ![]() But Netmarble Games has imitated the board game without permission from BM Creative-Art." "We have established an exclusive licensing contract with BM Creative-Art regarding Blue Marble. "Blue Marble is based on the board game made by BM Creative-Art in 1982," iPeoples said. It said Netmarble Games' "Everyone's Marble" has borrowed game conventions such as landmark construction, dice rules and turn limitations. On Wednesday, iPeoples said it is suing Netmarble Games for allegedly stealing the design concepts of its mobile game "Blue Marble," which was made by iPeoples subsidiary M2Games in 2008. For this reason, the litigation value is could reach tens of billions of won, according to industry sources. The mobile version of "Everyone's Marble" has been one of the company's most successful mobile games in the Korean game market and is estimated to generate about 30 billion won ($25.35 million) in monthly sales. Based on the same game style, the company released the mobile version of "Everyone's Marble" in June 2013. Netmarble Games said it released the computer online games "Quiz Marble" in 2000, "Rich Marble" in 2004 and "Everyone's Marble" in 2012. There also have been many other games with a similar style overseas for a long time." "We are very embarrassed to face such a sudden lawsuit as we have already provided games like Quiz Marble, Rich Marble and Everyone's Marble, all of which have a similar game style, over the past 16 years. "We plan to definitely take legal action (against the lawsuit)," Netmarble Games said. But Netmarble Games said Thursday it will take legal counteraction against the claims. Smaller Korean mobile game firm iPeoples has sued Netmarble Games for patent infringement and an act of unfair competition. Netmarble Games has denied allegations that it infringed intellectual property rights over its mobile board game "Everyone's Marble." ![]()
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