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Ubisoft is suing Apple and Google for having proposed on their platforms a game copied from its title Rainbow Six: Siege (R6S), released in 2015. The French publisher filed a complaint before a Los Angeles court of justice this Friday. He claims that the game for smartphones and tablets Area F2 (AF2), marketed by Ejoy, a subsidiary of Alibaba, is a "near true copy" of Rainbow Six: Siege .

No one "can seriously deny it", denounces Ubisoft in its complaint, to which Bloomberg had access. "Almost every aspect of AF2 is modeled on R6S, from the operator selection screen to the final score screen, and everything that happens in the meantime".

3 million players every day

The French company is all the more dissatisfied that with 55 million registered users and 3 million players every day, Rainbow Six: Siege is one of its flagship creations.

“R6S is one of the most popular multi-player competition games in the world and one of Ubisoft's most valuable intellectual properties. […] Ubisoft's competitors are constantly looking to take advantage of the success of R6S to capture the attention and money of R6S players, ”wrote the complainant in the legal document.

Downloadable from the App Store and Google Play

The publisher of this first-person shooter attack (FPS) attack Apple and Google in court because the mobile application in question has been downloadable since April on the App Store and Google Play platforms. Ubisoft says that it warned the latter of the situation but that it had been refused to withdraw the game from their respective offers.

The complainant, however, did not turn against the game designer, whom he considered to be copied from his own. Relayed by BFM TV, the Engadget site  explains that Ejoy is a registered entity in China and argues that an international legal proceeding could be more complex for Ubisoft.

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