Call of Duty's new operator looks like a popular Rainbow Six Siege character with the exact same name, and Ubisoft has taken notice: 'Seriously?'
Rainbow Six Siege fans did a collective double take last week when Activision shared the next slate of operators coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone. Meet Dokkaebi: a «skilled spy and robotics engineer» available in the Season 1 battle pass. Call of Duty's Dokkaebi immediately drew comparisons to popular Siege operator Dokkaebi: a skilled hacker who disrupts and steals enemy intel.
It's a pretty close match—enough that nearly every reply to Activision's Dokkaebi tweet is about their striking similarities. It doesn't help that pictured behind CoD's Dokkaebi is a new black-masked skin for Enigma that looks a whole lot like another Korean Siege operator released alongside Dokkaebi in 2017: Vigil. Rainbow Six Siege's creative director noticed the similarities too, and he doesn't seem too happy about it.
«Seriously?» replied creative director Alex Karpazis.
That's what I said to myself, too. To be clear, this probably isn't a legal issue. The name «Dokkaebi» is a reference to Korean mythological creatures often compared to goblins, so Ubisoft likely has no unique claim over the word, and Activision's Dokkaebi doesn't look exactly the same either. This is a crime for the court of public opinion: Where is the line between innocent inspiration and tasteless aping in live service games that are constantly adding faces to their rosters? Because sometimes, overlap is genuinely coincidental and inevitable.
Like, did you know there's an «Ash» (or sometimes «Ashe») in Rainbow Six Siege, Apex Legends, Overwatch, Paladins, and League of Legends? All five of them are women, two of them have silver hair, two have red hair, and two wear a hood. Is anyone really copying anyone here? You could make a case that Blizzard had
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