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.
Ancient Pokémon trainers
I think you meant Nomékop 🥸
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.
Tencent could just do the same game with much better writing but we know they literally cannot. Does any tencent game have good writing?
How do they even make this argument even with a straight face is beyond me.
Someone didn’t live through the 80s, I see.
HOLY SHIT.
This is awesome.
That’s the 80s for you. Big on awesome.
So were the toys.
I had the T Rex. It was so rad.
I always wanted the t-rex but I always ended up spending my allowance on NES games.
This show existed to sell tyco rc slot racers I’d never own.
Yeah, the VHS tapes of this I remember had like 1 dinoriders commercial then the rest was different slot racers, like a train that went up the wall and a glow in the dark one, race cars, etc.
I might just be remembering those commercials the most cuz I wanted them the most
Oh man I totally forgot about that wall-climbing train
Yo dawg, I heard you like ads, so I put some ads in your ads so I can sell toys while I sell toys
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.
I mean, there was Zoids
Still are!
Transformers, turok and mecha Godzilla come to mind. Not post apocalyptic per say but saying Sony owns 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.
I’ve played a lot of good games that were blatant ripoffs. Companies shouldn’t own concepts, fuck Sony.
Companies shouldn’t own concepts, fuck Sony.
Yeah, that’s not what happened here.
Nah. If you actually look at the merits of the case … it is obviously a blatant ripoff. They even tried to license Horizon first…
This is actually a rare case of copyright doing what it was intended for.
The tencent game was a blatant knock off of Horizon.
I agree, but this isn’t a Palworld / Pokémon situation.
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.
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.
Because, to be blunt, a lot of apps seem to get away with it without getting sued. Especially mobile clones
And especially when faced with the difficulty of trying to sue a company in a different country.
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!!
