Angry ex files complaint against game developer: “The character is too much like me” | Games

Even before its official release, Seraphine caused a stir. Namely, the fictional character has its own social media accounts, something the previous 151 League of Legends characters never had. On those accounts, Seraphine ‘posted’ (computer-generated) selfies and photos of her cat, among other things, suggesting that she is a ‘real’ person.

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Now that the main criticism finally seemed to be dropping a bit, there was again unrest on social media. Twitter user Stephanie Dorris claims that Seraphine is very similar to her. With this she means not only appearance, but also the name, the drawings, her cat and even the attitude in certain ‘selfies’ on the Instagram account. Dorris dated for a few months in 2019 with an employee of Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends, and says he always joked that he wanted to include her in the game.

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Riot Games dismisses the allegations in a brief statement. The developer reports, among other things, that the employee that Dorris talks about has not been working for them for more than a year and, moreover, did not have a position in which he had influence on the creative processes.

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Dorris’s lawyer has filed an official complaint with Riot Games, but it is also unfounded, according to the studio. Riot Games does want to talk to the lawyer to discuss the case further.

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