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Call of Duty: Warzone gets Samoyed dog skin, artist says it’s plagiarized
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That it was in Dec 2021 and it's still up wow. The nerve of these crypto scammers.
Edit for all the NFT/Crypto apologists: It's a scam, get over it. Take your jpegs and kindly stuff it.
it's the perfect crime. the people buying jpgs are too dumb to do anything about it and everyone else doesn't care ans just makes fun of the people dumb enough to buy it.
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Which is even worse because the jpeg at the link can change underneath them without changing the actual link.
The twitter page of that scam even retwitted a post calling them out for stealing the art
NFTs are for idiots and money launderers.
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I'll just shorten it to idiots.
It is like people who argue pro life vs pro abortion. Pro life people aren't pro life they are anti choice. No one is pro abortion they are pro choice.
That's the point of crypto. No accountability.
Once again proving NFTs are a plague to the arts.
Stealing other people's work is like the foundational rule of NFT, isn't it?
Plenty of people create and sell NFTs of their own stuff. They're all ponzi schemes, but they're not all art theft.
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Woah shocking, The scam product NFT’s are scamming artists
I swear I've seen about every single big channel i follow on youtube say someone used them for nfts. That's nothing new
It's nothing new, but that doesn't make it any good. Loot boxes aren't new either...
These are way worse than loot boxes tbh. It's direct stealing and taking someone's livelihood away
Exactly, I was just using loot boxes as an example
just because it’s nothing new doesn’t make it less important to put out there.
these artists don’t deserve that.
There should be a law firm that supports these artist. I’m sure you could find 10 examples of plagiarism and have all 10 artists sue under one lawyer or something
You still have to find who you need to sue, and jurisdiction could be a nightmare to sort out.
"That's nothing new"? Why did you say that like it's inevitable? Let's not be defeatist about these scumbags please
Plagarism aside, I didn't know warzone skins were getting this weird lol.
Are any other warzone skins that are so out there?
MechaGodzilla, Snoop Dogg, Jigsaw, an anime cat girl, a football player, a 420 sniper wearing a weed ghillie suit.
It's going full Fortnite, but totally edgy and cool and radical.
Rambo, John McClane and the Terminator too.
Don’t forget Ghostface from Scream!
back in my day (CoD4) we either had USMC Rifle guy or OpFor Rifle guy
and we LIKED IT
I drunk purchased Rambo. I do enjoy the one liners.
you forgot the attack from titan titan, the mecha-dino-hunter, fantasy horsemen of the apocalypse that look like 40k characters, a babayaga, a purple crystal radsuit dude, a futuristic NFL outfit, a normal NFL outfit,
babayaga you say?
He probably is referring to John Wick.
TBF the "anime catgirl" isnt anime, just a normal operator with cat ears on her helmet. I'd argue there are far more rediculous skins, like the latex fetish girl.
latex fetish girl is a reference to O-Ren Ishii from Kill Bill, show her some goddamn respect lol
What? In which sense? O-Ren wore a classic japanesse dress afaik.
That was the only pack I bought aside from Scream, just for the kawaii copter because it’s fun to say. I wish they would’ve had an uWu uzi
An uwuzi?
I miss the MLG video edits from YouTube
Don't forget the actual horseman of the fucking apocalypse. It's really blackops 4 all over again at this point. I don't get mad anymore, it is what it is. Edit for spelling.
Best part is these 25 dollar skin bundles aren’t going to carry over to the next warzone this year
There's a new warzone?
When MW2 comes out (likely in sep, oct, or nov) they are making a new warzone on its engine.
There is also some minor speculation that cod will move to a two year release cycle because activision was purchased by Microsoft, which generally favors more “long term” releases and the fact that CW and vanguard were very poorly received, while MW was commonly thought of as the best cod since Blops2
Yup, going forward they’re apparently going to be using the same “new” engine for all their games, so that means Warzone 2 where everyone starts from square one again
This sounds amazing
There’s a gas mask one that filters weed smoke into the characters lungs forever. It comes with bullet holes in the shape of pot leaves. I love it when the cod devs just say fuck it and do whatever
dont know if that counts as "fuck it and do whatever" because cod has always been VEERRRYYY heavy on weed stuff. they really know their audience I guess
fuck it, do whatever
Full plagiarization mode engaged.
That's not "fuck it and do whatever", that's "cater to the playerbase that they know loads them up with cash". They focus hardcore on the 12-23 year old Dudebro demographic, because that's who plays their games and feeds them thousands of dollars. You should watch this video Pat Gill made about it.
Well they will stop being and edgy stupid with MW2 and Warzone 2 and say they are going back to their gritty and realistic roots. Then within a year we will have more silly goofy skins again.
Practically all games with cosmetics end up going that path, there's only so much grounded stuff you can do and I can't really blame the artists at Activision for wanting to make other things than 3000 variations of camouflage
I don't really see why people care in the first place. They're purely cosmetic, right? As long as it isn't giving people an unfair advantage?
Snoop Dogg sounds pretty dope ngl
On of his end screens he's about to shoot you, but hands you a blunt
I couldnt csre less about COD but that is legitimately fantastic.
Reminds me of True Crime Streets of LA, where you could unlock Snoop Dogg in a free roam mode
The new terminator skins look pretty badass too
Wack... But who am I to yuck someone's yum.. just seems weird they're trying to copy Fortnite but still try and come off as gritty/edgy
I can’t seem to remember the football player, who was that again?
lol how fucking stupid. I am so tired of games needlessly shoehorning in all of these lame cosmetics.
I enjoy these kind of games way more when they don’t take themselves seriously.
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oh god i disagree so much. Modern Warfare/Warzone were at their best when they kept that mil-sim aesthetic. Things went downhill when Black Ops started adding cartoon characters.
I miss when snoop dogg narrating was the craziest thing
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Rambo and John McClane
at least they look like real people that you might stumble across in a battlefield.
godzilla mech operator, though.... that's a little much.
Weird, when I saw the title I assumed there was some kind of combat dog partner that you could apply this skin to, not, y'know, your guy being a humanoid dog.
My favourite is Judge Dredd and his monochrome variant
WHAT
There was a Judge Dredd skin for CoD?
Fuck yeah
Fuck. Now I want to play.
What the actual fuck
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Most out of place shit ever.
That's how all games that rely on selling skins end up. The longer the game is out, the weirder the skins get.
My friends and I switched over to Fortnite a couple months ago from Warzone, and it's pretty amazing how half of the skins there somehow manage to be less ridiculous than most of the newer stuff Warzone is putting out.
To top it off, Warzone skins are like 3-4x the price.
To top it off even more, you can't see your skin in Warzone and other FPS games. I've never understood why people spend so much money on something only other people can see. In Fortnite at least I get to enjoy my skins.
yep that is why fortnite will always be 3rd person view
fortnite can stay without a first person mode, just let me flip my damn camera over the shoulder like every other third person shooter. right hand advantage is fucking stupid.
Have we already forgotten MW2 and those unlockable banners? They've had "out there" stuff for like a decade at least
Out there stuff on a players profile/banner is worlds away from out there stuff being playable characters in what used to be a fairly grounded shooter visually.
Those were like nameplates. Also MW2 had the option for animated clan tags. For whatever reason you had to enter the code (it was like (..+.) And the + would move around, while using a lag switch because it wouldn't work otherwise.
A silly banner is so much different than actual humanoid dogs for player models that I'm unsure why you thought bringing that up mattered.
Those are pretty minor…and most players used them to brag about how many kills they’ve had with a certain gun or something. MW2 was hardly “out there” at all.
People pointing out how different banners are to the skins as though some of us weren't pointing out that this kinda thing was the road that even cosmetic-only microtransactions lead down way back when TF2 was still predominately known for hats back in like 2010 or so.
It's the same logic as the slippery slope fallacy for sure, but that fallacy is one of the weirder ones that is absolutely a fallacy yet sometimes genuinely happens and can be a good argument. In this case, cosmetics are wildly profitable and we know a large portion of the game industry's management tier is made up of profit-lusting shitheads so it's natural that it'll just keep going further and further until at least one of those two facts changes.
Infinity Ward has more grounded skins and aesthetics. Some random stuff and goofy guns but not much.
Treyarch and Sledgehammer are just off the wall with their stuff.
Infinity Ward did have a few out there skins but for the most part is was somewhat grounded
Wow yeah there's like zero room for debate here. There's like not a single detail off to be disputed and so many little details that are exactly the same. Like whoever the artist was didn't even try to change anything to hide it.
Others have said it elsewhere, but it's not that obvious (legally).
The fact that both are Samoyeds is a clear similarity, but the entirety of the outfit is not copyright protected (because it's just generic tactical stuff). What's key is how it's protected as a whole: there aren't a lot of Samoyed soldier designs out there, so this could be considered original.
Activision could reply saying that dogs in soldier outfits is not enough of a protected concept, but it's hard to argue the similarities to the artist's specific design aren't there.
Here's the problem for the artist:
They need to lawyer up. Appealing to social media helps, but Activision won't do a thing if they know the issue has no consequences.
The artist needs to register the work. In the U.S. ,while your art is copyright protected the moment you put it on a tangible medium, you NEED to register it to sue.
The artist will need to commit money into both of these things.
The artist may be able to find someone willing to do it for free if the lawyer feels they have a strong case to get money out of it
That's a big if, because Activision is a big company, they can drag the proceeding, and it's mostly a civil issue. It's a lot easier to find Pro Bono lawyers for criminal or civil rights issues. I bet there's a good amount of money involved in the sales of that skin, but it may or may not be worth fighting for years.
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Usually it's one of a bunch of outsourced VFX studios. There is risk sometimes and they are in high demand so you do need to hire the cheaper ones at times
This even happens in mtg just this/last year and mtg artist wholesale plagerized someone's art station. Artist was black listed and original artist got a hefty pay out
That's what's going to happen here.
Hi-rez studios, developers of Smite, had this happen. They contracted an artist to make 2d skin art for loading screen portraits. That artist just took portraits from other MOBAs and altered them slightly.
I'm sure there are tons of examples over the years of love service games. I'm sure even back in the more modest just a few dlc costumes days there was probably a stolen asset
The weirdest thing about the MTG situation, if it's the one in thinking of, is that: a) the artist was a well-known and established artist for MTG for some time by that point and had many fully-original artworks; and b) it was just one part of a larger artwork that was plagiarized. Like the guy did most of the work for the new art, and had a whole career of regular art, and then decided "fuck it I'm too lazy to finish this art, nobody will notice me copy-and-pasting this Ugin in here." It was weird.
Or maybe there's another plagiarism scandal that happened in MTG recently. But I guess that situation is weird regardless
For those wanting even further details, here's the tweet of the artist calling the MtG artist out
Also to emphasize his presence, he'd been an artist for Magic since 2009 and had done work for about 150 cards. And he's hardly a bad artist, like look at this or this. Dude does work. But just had to take the lazy route and shoot his reputation in both feet.
I think it was that one and yeah super weird guy just torpedoes his career
Not MTG, but WotC's poster for the D&D movie just a few weeks ago had one piece of art copy/pasted (no changes) from D&D's main competitor.
The contractor that did the poster is notorious, so WotC definitely knew what quality they were paying for.
I would think the movie studio actually producing movie the would be the group that contracted the poster, not WotC.
Yeah it's almost always because they go cheap and outsource. one has to wonder how no one in a billion dollar company managed to notice the work was stolen.
There are thousands of art peices online with no easy to check them all
Probably closer to billions
Also they don't always go cheap these outsourcing VFX studios are in very high demand some are high priced and high quality but when you need so much work done so often sometimes you do need to outsource to a cheaper studio with less reputation
At a guess.....
Most of the time studios have large collections of reference art that they find over the years.
Most of this art is copied from other sources. They don't ever actually try to use this. It's just about colors and looks. It could be a section of a building or an old world war 2 uniform. A historical landmark that needs to be in a city etc.
The problem starts when this data is outsourced or shared to different departments.
The internally created, copied art and licensed reference pictures can get mixed up.
So really what this kind of things points to is very bad internal practices. Lazy and sloppy workers.
And other countries are much more lax with this kind of stuff.
It doesn't even occur to them that it might be a problem.
When I worked at an MMO game company, we outsourced a lot of the UI icons because there were so many.
They would enter the description into Google images and just trace one of the top 3 results
I gotta get this shit done now. I don't care. Oh hey, this looks neat! Why don't I just- casually ctrl+c, ctrl+v's. BADABOOM!
Well, making a whole 3d model + animations is a bit more work than just ctrl+c ctrl+v but its still definitely plagiarism.
The people who concept a design are usually not the same people responsible for the 3D assets or animations in a large scale production like this.
Yeah that’s the crazy thing to me. It took significant skill and effort to turn this concept into a 4K-ready skin up to the standards of a AAA video game. The issue is really who gave the 3D artists the plagiarised concept in the first place. They’ve done an awesome model that can’t be used because they were effectively accessories to plagiarism.
On creative processes, having a good idea and refining it takes usually most of the production time.
Plagiarism aside, these skins are getting ridiculous. Last time I played warzone one the newest skin was the Alex Zedra one, sure a little out of place running around in a tank top but now it’s a literal dog???
This is always going to happen to these types of games. There are only so many variants of camo and bearded man in sunglass with headset you can make.
Honestly just live service games in general.
I used to play a ton of Path of Exile, and the cosmetics got increasingly ridiculous. One of them was a literal clown cosmetic pack — and it started off as a loot box too.
PoE cosmetics for me have the opposite issue. For like 4 years now it feels like every league's featured supporter pack skins were just "golden holy angel man" and "black-red edgelord demon". There's barely any stuff if you want to dress up thematically for your build, like ice, poison, lightning, etc.
Sounds like you haven't played WZ since it came out then.
The skins are the least of its issues since they got rid of Verdansk.
I do like fortunes keep though.
Fortune’s keep brought my buddies and I all back in. I don’t feel the need to play the meta at all to be successful on that map.
We are patiently waiting for WZ2 though
I played a little warzone when Vanguard released and I don’t remember any player models that were straight-up jarring to look at. Some strange gun skins but those aren’t too hard to ignore.
If modern warfare 2 has literal animals running around I’m not gonna buy it.
Modern warfare 2 will have "immersive" skins at launch so people like you will buy the game, and then the cosmetics will get progressively more wacky over time.
They won’t have those until late in the game cycle. They wait until everyone buys it, then squeeze out all the whales when they’re the only ones still playing.
and here I am thinking "Wasn't planning on buying MW2, but I'm on board if I get to be a kitty"
WarZone had Jigsaw and Leatherface skins before Vanguard came out. Not as weird as this new stuff but still kinda stood out.
I don't mind wacky and weird but WarZone 2 needs to draw a line between itself and Fortnite for the kinds of skins available. The line for me is give me a banana hat but don't let me be a walking Banana monster.
They've really taken an absurd leap in the past two games. Like, MW'19 and the start of Warzone, they were mostly grounded in reality. Now it just feels like Fornite-lite.
That’s because they switched developers. Infinity ward was the dev for all the more realistic stuff. I forget who they gave the warzone keys to, but all the other cod developers make super 90s arcade type shit. Not my cup of tea, so I stopped playing when warzone took a noticeable nose dive in quality.
What sucks is they don't start introducing this level of whackyness until the game has been out for a bit. But they have been getting kooky with the skins earlier and earlier in the game's lives. MW was pretty lowkey for several months before anything wonky came out. BOCW was kinda goofy from the start but not too bad, quickly got stupid. Vanguard came out the gate swinging with totally-not-WWII shit that looks ugly as sin, and now we have literal furries. Hoping MWII holds back on this garbage for as long as possible.
Honestly if your multiplayer game isn't even trying with lore and world building I couldn't care less about these types of skins.
Now for example this would be far more jarring in something like Apex or Valorant but in Warzone who really cares?
We're in a post-Fortnite world. Every game is now TF2 2011.
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Except they took it word for word, didn’t change a single thing here.
Weird to plagarise an art when the internet and social media exist; and that you're making something for one of the largest and well known brands in the world, so definitely someone in the world will be like "Hey! I've seen this somewhere else before!"
The person who lied to their supervisor and passed the artwork as their own will most likely never work in the industry ever again.
I hope Activision just issues a public apology, but most done so far is removing the promo pics of the cosmetic. Speaking of which, the outfit looks cool and I hope they just pay off the artist for the rights.
Edit: I was right and below poster didn't get what they hope for lmao. When it comes to big corporations and laws, this is what it can mostly amount into.
Just a public apology? How about either compensation for using the artist's work or fully removing the cosmetic? JUST a public apology would not be good enough.
Both, otherwise it encourages them to keep stealing and only pay when they're caught. Anybody who purchased the skin should be fully refunded as well, not some bullshit codcoins.
They haven’t even sold the cosmetic yet. They just announced it, and have since pulled the announcement (as per the article)
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Using pictures of the plagiarized skin for promotional purposes is already grounds for compensation even if they're never making a single cent off the skin itself.
Except it was probably outsourced to another company in another country where they were already paid and really don't give a shit.
"Why ask for permission when you can ask for forgiveness later" is the mindset.
It's likely that the artist and Activision agree to some deal to avoid a lawsuit, but I guarantee it ends up being less money than if the artist was hired in the first place. And that's best-case scenario.
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I agree it's a clear rip-off, but kind of apples and oranges to what OP is talking about. That is, Activision might be able to fight any plagiarism claims for the Gundam logo. They have zero defense for this Samoyed dog skin.
See if normal people plagiarized call of duty materials and were selling them, we'd get a huge fine that ruins us financially.
Activision will just do whatever they want and get a slap on the wrist.
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Yeah for the artist too it will be way harder for them to find future work if they got fired for plagiarism. No big company will want to deal with you if you got fired for that. Hell I even play it super safe in my old design/production job when I had to deal with customer artwork and logos. If anything looks like they ripped someone off, I immediately bring it up since I rather not support stolen work and I don't want to be associated with it. Most of the time too they don't even see the files because the file type is something they need a specific software to open. They assume we have the knowledge to know if its breaking copyright or not.
In the case here, it could be similar but legal finding out this is a copy of something else might also be a bit difficult. The stuff I found that might have broken or did break copyright was usually breaking it from an obvious known company (like Adidas or a sports team) but this one I don't think is a popular known art work so it would be harder to find out about. Plus it is weird to just assume your artist is going to blatantly copy someone else's work like this. Literally would be ruining your own career doing this.
I will say though I think this was the second time I heard something like this happen with Activision so maybe in this case they should either get their legal team to check everything regardless though it will be a bit challenging or they need to heavily work on their application process for their artists. I do wonder though if crunch time is a huge thing for these artists like maybe they barely get enough time so out of pressure they just find something online and try to alter it a bit to try to hide that it is someone else's work but also just assume its enough editing that it isn't considered stolen work. Last point is still bad but I feel their handling of content like this is super strange.
Late to this party, but wanted to say I'm 99 percent sure this sort of MTX is outsource. Outsource "studios" and their employees aren't heavily scrutinized. I think its extremely likely this asset came from outsource, saw very little scrutiny, the outsource producer/pipeline manager did nothing approaching due diligence, and it escaped the normal process of review a professional team in house would do.
Activision is more at fault than you think. I've worked at studios like this before and for online shooter content EVERYTHING goes through legal before it enters production and they get pretty particular from my experience. I can almost guarantee the legal team saw this, found the source material and decided it wasn't a threat.
That seems a bit tinfoil hatty.
I think Occam’s Razor applies here. It seems far more likely that the legal team simply missed catching the offending assets, for one of any number of reasons.
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I give major props to any online artist, becuase even as just a casual outside observer, I'm hard-pressed to find an artist whose work hasn't been pirated, stolen, traced, redistributed, etc, without their consent.
And more often than not, getting that artwork taken down is a fruitless attempt. The thief can simply block you from seeing their account, making the process harder, you may not be made aware of the piracy until well after the fact, or in some cases, you need to supply personal information that gets back to the pirate/thief in order to get it taken down.
I'm a professional artist (Comic book artist/illustrator.) and can say with absolute certainty that it's very much the exception to have your art stolen, not the rule. 99%+ of artists out there won't have their art stolen (Just getting your art seen in the first place is an uphill battle.), the real problem lies in how difficult it is for that 1% to discover their art was stolen in the first place.
There's no reason to go to the person posting it, you would go to the site hosting it with something like a DMCA notice, then the site will go after the thief. They'll more often than not do something about it after that. If not, then they open themselves up to all kinds of legal recourse, which is why Youtube is notorious for being so knee jerk when it comes to DMCA claims.
Never once heard of someone needing to provide personal information to get stolen artwork removed (Not saying it's never happened, I've just never seen a case of it.). Also, if you provided personal information to the website and that somehow leaked back to the person on the other end of the dispute without your knowledge/consent, that would be grounds for legal action in and of it self against the intermediary/website. Privacy laws exist, and depending where you are, have steep consequences for anyone who breaks them.
Yeah, about that last part… per twitter
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/copyright-policy
Are these skins gonna transfer to warzone 2?
No, it's a complete reset of all this stuff back to normal, same with any loadouts/weapon skins
Ridiculous and hideously awful plagiarism aside a "Fluffy Dog Soldiers" pvp FPS is now a game I really want to exist.
Call of Duty: Dogs of War
Can at least 1 military franchise be left alone with the shitty skins? like regardless of the plagiarism this is not a good look for COD.
You are way late on the train if you're thinking this is the first ridiculous skin they've had
Yes, you’re left with hardcore mil-sims like Insurgency and Hell Let Loose as well as Squad(PC only)
Tarkov (even if battlestate games and Nikita are major cockmongers)
They tried sticking to Mil-Sim operators in MW2019 but no one was buying them.
If these weren’t selling they wouldn’t be around, but I agree I’m not a fan either.
At least we got Squad still
Hard for billion dollar companies to come up with Skin Designs you know.
Im convinced at this point devs at Activision dont actually work on their games, they just created soem algorithm that makes sure to maxixmize profits.
This game has just gone so far off the rails, they don’t care though because there are plenty of dipshits that love the micro transactions
Bruh, they could've changed the color at least or something, you'd think it would be obvious someone would notice.
fuck i wish there was an option to turn off all these dogshit zoomer skins. any immersion you are granted in a shooter is ripped away within 6 months when the devs start selling literal clown skins.
Well said RimMeDaddy
Couldn’t agree more, it’s just as bad in fighting games and it’s turned me off new street fighter games almost entirely.
What a stupid fucking skin for a WWII game, even fucking stupider to steal it from a fan. Like how unoriginal can you be….
i like how they have enough time to steal and make skins and camos daily but cant fix the fucking balance of the gameplay. lol
It's worth mentioning that Activision is not the culprit here, but a lazy artist who happens to be employed by Activision.
An artist who's job was to create these works, who instead just took em off the internet and passed it in to Activision pretending it was new.
Activision can't verify it when it's passed in without scouring literally the entire internet (not possible), and only after the plagarised work is shown off and recognized does anyone beyond the lazy artist know what's occured.
Now Activision will follow legals advice and HOPEFULLY do the right thing (which for other legal reasons, likely won't be published for clicks.) Pay/apologize and dump the lazy artist.
Activision is a company well-known for doing the right thing in the face of legal trouble, after all.
Activision is a billion dollar company. They have the money and resources to make sure this doesn't happen. it is 100% their fault.
Do they? How exactly can you prevent an individual artist from recreating some obscure character from a corner of the internet. It’s not like you’d find it in a reverse search. It’s not like you can expect a human to manually check it against every image on the internet.
Initally yes, but once it's released (Even just as a promotion material.) they share equal levels of blame.
You as a business owner are responsible for every product that leaves your business and everything that happens under your roof. Doesn't matter if the employee stole it, it's on the managers and higher ups to catch it and deal with it. Once it's published that's no longer just the employee being lazy, it's the management not doing due diligence, which is literally their entire job.
Reverse image searches and keeping track of reference material for the project will solve this (The later of which should be done regardless to make it easier for the art team in case of future use of the IP.). Vetting reference materials is time consuming work but it's very possible, it's just usually not needed because most professional artists working in a studio setting know how to properly use references.
Yeah in the end the publisher is held accountable as well, despite it being unfeasible/unrealistic for arti directors being required to search for concept art their artists create. It's the same as more or less all companies that deliver a product.
That artist's getting his professional head chopped off for sure and the art director will get scolded by management too for sure tho, regarless of what company will represent on the outside.
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No, those types of searches are looking for the exact same image.
If you DL an image, and then cut the top 20 pixels off, you'll have bested some of these AIs. Perhaps not all though.
However, these arecentirely new assets nerely inspired (too heavily) by someone elses work. More like if you painted a picture of my painting.
wtf are you talking about: https://www.reddit.com/r/Gundam/comments/w9ruut/bruh_cod_messed_up/
There's dozens and dozens of games that have skins this or that, it seems like Activision has a lazy ass culture because they most likely can get away with itlol
Defending a huuge corporation is weird af lol
They more likely have a culture of out-sourcing to cheap 3rd parties for art assets.
And then those artists have a culture of stealing from other artists.
Tbf thats comparing an emblem on certain iterations of one character from an anime. And the symbol itself is just a triangle with 2 extended legs. It’s much much more likely it was just parallel thinking with a simple logo than someone purposefully jacking a small symbol from an 80s anime.
Um wait a second, how does an anthropomorphic dog even make sense within the lore of Call of Duty?
There's a line in the most recent re-re-re-release of Modern Warfare 2's All gillied up mission that addresses it.
Price: "Sir, where's the gillie suits?"
MacMillan: "Didn't bring them Price. Command says Fortnite is making billions adding silly skins. Now put on that dabbing poodle costume and lets go get Zakhaev."
"Doesn't need to make cents. As long as it's making dollars!"
--Activision
I'm so sorry...