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Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit

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Whaaaat? A Chinese company making a knock-off of another product? You don't say.
- abduct Chinese paper makers, imprison them, steal the technology
  sneak into China, impersonate religious figures, hide silkworms on your person, sell to a Roman emperor
  sail into China, pretend to be a botanist. Steal tea and grow it in your starving colonies instead of food
  "Why don't China care about western patents and copyright?"
  
  You're citing examples from the 6th, 4th, and 18th centuries and arguably the last one isn't even about intellectual property
  Even ignoring the blatant "what aboutism" if your justification for why it's ok to steal video game ideas is because some Byzantians were mean to you 1400 years ago just know that nobody is going to take you seriously
  
  Good ole "what aboutism"
  
  What are you talking about? Is this a bot?
Horizon Zero Dawn:
Light of Motiram:
- To be fair, there have been a few great Chinese AAA games lately. And the Chinese are far from the only ones who steal IP
- Ooh yeah that’s a bit much.
  Games are gonna copy major mechanics. Look at all the BOTW clones that came out after Breath of the Wild was successful. But you have to put a liiiittle effort into mixing up the art style and color palette.
- Wow! I didn't realize Sony invented sweeping vistas and giant creatures.
  
  I think it's because of the colors used, visual theme, mecha nature of the enemies, and character design of the protagonists - too many direct similarities to argue it's just inspiration.
  
  They might have been able to get away with it if they didn't use giant mechanical creatures. That's pretty distinct.
- Surprised they didn't call it Light of Noziroh.
Oh wow that is A LOT more similar than I was thinking.
i don't give a shit? doom had like a thousand clones; guess what, doom is still a household name and most of the clones are long forgotten. some good ones made their own name and following.
unless there's outright stolen assets or code, or they're using a deliberately confusing name, i don't care. if it's a slavish clone as you say, there's nothing to worry about.
it would be one thing if horizon was this underdog game made by a couple people and has largely gone under the radar then yeah it would suck. but fuck me no one's mistaking another game for horizon zero dawn.
- DOOM clones weren't literal clones called HELL where you play as the Hell Man killing demons with the Large Heckin' Pistol.
  
  Yeah they were called CHEX QUEST and it was awesome.
  
  I mean... I feel like there were games exactly like this
  
  Painkiller is that you?
  
  i don't think you're remembering things well or maybe you played the popular ones. there was a bunch of doom clones that barely tried to be something different. lots of w3d clones too. also this game isn't called Orion: Null sunrise so your "HELL" example is a bit unwarranted.
- You're right. Us, the consumers, will only ever benefit from more competition for our money. Also, the people who wanted to buy Horizon already did, if they like the theme and playstyle they may also buy this other one, but it's not like Horizon is losing buyers on this.
- I mostly agree. And honestly, maybe one of these games will be more interesting if there’s some competition.
That is Aldi levels of copying right there.
- i hope this is a compliment because i love Aldi's take on foods
Sony is that petty.
Sony is suing a game dev because their name is "Naughty Cat" which, according to Sony , infringes on Sony studio "Naughty Dog."
I like the idea that they approached Sony about making a Horizon game but Sony said no and they were like "Oh, well, this game is coming out..
They’re mad because they wanted to do that first by releasing Ubisoft style annual instalments.

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