Why wouldn’t they? I’m all for the fuck Sony train when they fuck up (like when they pushed PSN onto PC users and then blocked the sale of their games in countries that aren’t supported by PSN) but in this case Tencent is/was blatantly copying the Horizon IP.
It’s not copying it, it’s ripping it off, which isn’t illegal. Sony is trying to claim that it being a ripoff means customers would be confused into believing it’s actually a Horizon game and purchasing it in error, which is stupid.
If they had called this Horizons: Motiram, they’d be 100% in the right. But they are just trying to essentially claim they own the combination of style and theme of “colorful world with tribal humans vs robot animals”. That’s not how trademark works.l (this is trademark btw, not copyright, just in case anyone is getting them mixed up).
Goodeye8@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Why wouldn’t they? I’m all for the fuck Sony train when they fuck up (like when they pushed PSN onto PC users and then blocked the sale of their games in countries that aren’t supported by PSN) but in this case Tencent is/was blatantly copying the Horizon IP.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
It’s not copying it, it’s ripping it off, which isn’t illegal. Sony is trying to claim that it being a ripoff means customers would be confused into believing it’s actually a Horizon game and purchasing it in error, which is stupid.
If they had called this Horizons: Motiram, they’d be 100% in the right. But they are just trying to essentially claim they own the combination of style and theme of “colorful world with tribal humans vs robot animals”. That’s not how trademark works.l (this is trademark btw, not copyright, just in case anyone is getting them mixed up).
Goodeye8@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
You’re going to tell me people won’t think this is Horizon?
Light of Motiram
That’s an image from the official reveal trailer.
Yupa@ani.social 5 weeks ago
Wait wtf? I thought it was just an exaggeration! I get why Sony is mad now.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
They won’t mistakenly buy the game based on that image, which is the standard for trademark violations.
ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Do you have an example of a piece of intellectual property that was blatantly copied?