Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit

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• otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  accusing Sony of trying to monopolise a part of popular culture

  Ah yes, the shared cultural heritage of robotic dinosaurs in a post apocalypse. I remember the stories we all shared around the campfire growing up.

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Someone didn’t live through the 80s, I see.

    An illustration for the 1980s toy line DinoRiders, depicting cyborg dinosaurs are their sci-fi human riders.

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    • Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      HOLY SHIT.

      This is awesome.

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    • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The tencent game was like … blatant knock off of Horizon.

      I agree, but this isn’t a Palworld / Pokémon situation.

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  • pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How do they even make this argument even with a straight face is beyond me.

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, that setting alone shouldn’t be enough to claim copyright infringement, but the visual identity of the Tencent game looks way too close to Horizon. And since apparently they tried to get the licence and failed, it’s even harder to see it as anything but an attempt to make “I can’t believe it’s not Horizon”.

    They could have made it look different enough that it would be considered at most heavily inspired and there would be nothing wrong with it.

    I certainly don’t think Sony needs defending, but yeah, I can’t say that result is surprising.

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Transformers, turok and mecha Godzilla come to mind. Not post apocalyptic per say but saying Sony own robo dinos in a post apocalyptic future sounds fool hardy.

    This is in no way good for us, the consumers. If it was Nintendo doing it, everyone be would be livid.

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    • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Companies shouldn’t own concepts, fuck Sony.

      Yeah, that’s not what happened here.

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    • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah. If you actually look at the merits of the case … it is obviously a blatant ripoff. They even tried to license Horizon first…

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    • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The tencent game was like … blatant knock off of Horizon.

      I agree, but this isn’t a Palworld / Pokémon situation.

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  • DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, there was Zoids

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Still are!

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• BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is inspired by, there’s a ripoff, and then there’s this. Tencent tried to get the licence beforehand so what I think happened is they built a Horizon game intending to get the licence, they failed to get it, so they just released the game anyways.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Seems a bit mad that with all their money and a game already made they couldn’t be bothered to file off the serial numbers a bit more. I imagine this happens all the time with licencing deals, I know for instance Warcraft was originally written to be a Warhammer game.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because, to be blunt, a lot of apps seem to get away with it without getting sued. Especially mobile clones

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• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hope Tencent recycles everything they developed so far and come up with a crazy novel idea, such as having cute fantasy animals walking around and you have to catch them with balls.

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  • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ancient Pokémon trainers

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  HEHE This game was such a blatant rip off it is unreal they ever pretended other wise.

  Thing is, if there is a game to rip off, Horizon Zero Dawn is one of them. It is one of the GOAT!!

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