There are already plenty of games on the App Store that have gained an audience by downright copying existing IPs, but while many of these apps display a total lack of creativity in terms of content, most of them at least do their best to properly rip off the original idea. Sure, Modern Combat might look an awful lot like Call of Duty, but at least you know what you're getting.
The ad for Dragon City you see above commits a much more deplorable offense by not only preying on fans of an extremely popular franchise -- in this case, Pokémon -- but at the same time downright lying to gamers.
The Pokémon franchise debuted on Game Boy back in 1996, and since then it has become a juggernaut in the gaming space. The many games in the serie