The former soccer professional Edgar Davids says that he was the template for a LoL skin. A court has now agreed with this claim.
In the MOBA League of Legends, there are many different champions that can be unlocked with in-game currency. All of these champions also have at least one additional skin that visually changes the heroes. So the nasty gangster “Graves” with his shotgun becomes a guy in swim trunks and a water gun.
For the champion “Lucian”, there is a skin that transforms the nasty AD carry into a striker in a soccer outfit. However, this cosmetic change has now caused problems, as it seems that a former professional was used as the template.
Striker Lucian looks like soccer player Edgar Davids
The skin in question is “Striker Lucian”, which was released in League of Legends back in June 2014. In the LoL shop, this skin can be purchased for real money.
Now, about three years after the release of Striker Lucian, there are problems with this skin. The former soccer professional (now coach) Edgar Davids claims that the skin looks very similar to him and that Riot is making a lot of money from it.
Riot Games is said to have exploited and profited from his celebrity status. Davids is world-renowned, having played for the Dutch national team and, among others, for Juventus Turi.
In its defense, Riot Games stated that players would recognize the character Lucian more from the skin. The Dutch court saw it differently and ruled in favor of Davids in the legal dispute.
Davids is now entitled to earnings generated from the sale of Striker Lucian. In the following image, you can see a comparison between Davids and Striker Lucian.
At first he was happy about the skin, now the turnaround
Many players in the community are wondering where this completely different attitude from Davids suddenly comes from. When the skin was introduced in June 2014, the former soccer professional was anything but upset about it.
On Instagram, Davids shared a picture of the Lucian skin with his fans on June 5, 2014, and wrote “My son says his father was used as a template for this LoL character hahahah”
The next day, it didn’t seem like he had any problems with this skin on Twitter either.
In the League of Legends community, this sudden change of heart is causing bad vibes.
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