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simple@piefed.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

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

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simple@piefed.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Sony and Tencent have settled their dispute over upcoming Tencent game Light of Motiram…
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    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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      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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        Dino-Riders rocked

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        HOLY SHIT.

        This is awesome.

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          So were the toys.

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          That’s the 80s for you. Big on awesome.

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        This show existed to sell tyco rc slot racers I’d never own.

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          Slot racers?

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            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

            https://youtu.be/byGNQ22I3EU?si=B4e1-lgu8UPAetFX

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              Oh man I totally forgot about that wall-climbing train

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              Yo dawg, I heard you like ads, so I put some ads in your ads so I can sell toys while I sell toys

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

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      Tencent could just do the same game with much better writing but we know they literally cannot. Does any tencent game have good writing?

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      I mean, there was Zoids

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        Still are!

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      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.

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        Companies shouldn’t own concepts, fuck Sony.

        Yeah, that’s not what happened here.

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        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.

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        The tencent game was a blatant knock off of Horizon.

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

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