Published 07/30/2022, 1:50 PM EDT Call of Duty franchise is soon going to witness the next major entry in Modern Warfare II.
All the hype is already there for the upcoming game.
Unfortunately, the series has found itself in an unwanted situation lately, which is related to the battle royale Warzone.
ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad Recently, the team at Call of Duty came under fire as one concept artist called out Activision for allegedly stealing his/her creation for a Warzone operator skin that made its debut in the game recently.
ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad Call of Duty Warzone Season 4 Reloaded ‘Loyal Samoyed’ skin is plagiarized, claims concept artist Season 4 Reloaded was recently rolled out with a major update.
While bringing new features and game modes, it also introduced various new skins for operators with fresh bundles.
Talking about one of them specifically, then it’s called the Floof Fury bundle.
It features a very special Samoyed themed skin for operator Kim Tae Young.
Once it was made available, the majority of the Warzone players took heavy interest in buying it as soon as possible.
However, this particular operator skin is now being called out by a concept artist.
Sail Lin took to Twitter to reportedly prove that Call of Duty‘s Loyal Samoyed skin is basically plagiarized and is directly ripped off their own creation that they made three years ago in 2019.
As you can see above, the points and details mentioned by Sail, about the similarities between their art and CoD Vanguard and Warzone’s skin, are convincingly similar.
The clothing and overall appearance of Loyal Samoyed Operator skin looks very much identical to the concept art by Lin on ArtStation.
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Interestingly, since the issue got an added attention on the social media, the Floof Fury bundle has been removed.
As of now, it’s not up for sale in the game.
That might imply that the developing team itself is trying to figure out the irregularities regarding the skin.
ADVERTISEMENT Article continues below this ad Meanwhile, it will be interesting to see if there will be an official announcement from the side of Activision or not.
Warzone is now available for all the supported platforms.
Players can enjoy it on the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Battle.
net.
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