Shocking.
Update: Sometime over the weekend the Epic Hero Battles Twitter account was deleted. The website and presumably operation remains up and running.
Original: Epic Hero Battles is a “Blockchain-based game on Ethereum network” and nothing stays quite on brand for NFTs quite like theft of another person’s intellectual property. Developer Dan Hindes took to Twitter earlier today to call out the folks behind Epic Hero Battles after discovering that the company had stolen art from his game Wildfire to advertise EHB.
OK NFTs you’ve made this personal now pic.twitter.com/Q7aKeGhMxT
— Dan Hindes ? Wildfire Out Now ? (@dhindes) September 11, 2021
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The EHB website has since removed the image and apologized, blaming it on a web dev.
Hi guys! I want to tell you about the art that was used on the site. We got it from the web dev, but we didn’t check it, our mistake. This won’t happen again, honestly.
We have already removed this image from the site and wrote @dhindes to resolve this issue.— Epic Hero Battles (@BattlesHero) September 11, 2021
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Users discovered in the same Twitter thread that Epic Hero Battles had stolen additional art, including its background image from Boki Boki Pixelart. That image has also since been taken down.
Nevermind, noticed the watermark at the bottom right and found it. Yep, it’s stolen too. Here’s the apparent artist: https://t.co/hVmpc5TTza
— Supra (@SupraMayro) September 11, 2021
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Epic Hero Battle also stole pixel art for its promotional material. Twitter artist @PixElthen responded to the company to complain that his art had been stolen and used without permission, to which EHB refused to take the tweet down.
Hello, we only used this in the gif for giveaway, it won’t be anywhere else, sorry, we will delete this after the giveaway is over
— Epic Hero Battles (@BattlesHero) September 11, 2021
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The company’s Twitter banner also appears to be stolen art and the company has so far refused to remove it.
Did you ask for permission to rip off this artist’s work to make your ugly ass banner picture? https://t.co/jpRlrHsKkz
— marko mcfunko (@markuswhy) September 11, 2021
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At this juncture it’s hard to see Epic Hero Battles as anything other than a crypto scam built off of stolen art. The NFT to end all NFTs. The company is shamelessly using stolen artwork from small creators, still unapologetically using some of it, and trying to market a crypto-scheme built on fraud and theft.
Check out Epic Hero Battles, coming to an SEC investigation near you.
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