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Sony (Horizon vs Light of Motiram) and Nintendo (Pokemon vs Palword), man. They really hurt the gaming industries freedom. Now we just need Microsoft (Blizzard) to sue Marvel Rivals for copying Overwatch in some form, then the Triforce is complete.
Nah. This is waaay more of an infringement than Palworld. I can’t even tell the difference in screenshots.
You not being able to tell the difference in screenshots is not an infringement. These are two different games, that look similar and play similar. Its totally fine to do this. It's sad that companies and even some players (like you) do not want that. Doing something similar should be okay.
Imagine cars couldn't look the same, or websites couldn't look the same or couldn't be structured the same. Or imagine every music you listen to has to be vastly different from anything else. This stifles creativity and competition. Otherwise no one can improve on existing games.
As long as nothing directly is stolen, like the exact art, program code or whatever copyright is, it's okay. I want more of the "same", from more devs, more competition. I want more Pokemon, more Horizon, more Overwatch and I'm not even joking.
Yeah...imagine if you could sue because someone put out a song with a beat almost identical to your own, which is what Sony is alleging happened here: https://americansongwriter.com/ice-ice-baby-and-the-david-bowie-queen-legal-battle-that-tainted-vanilla-ices-career/
An identical sound means its a theft. That's not the issue "we" or "I" am talking about. The issue with the games getting sued is, because they are similar. There is no audio, graphic or code being identical. It's more like, if the music sounds similar, then you can sue someone.
Edit: Off course the situation with the "beat" being identical is petty and probably not under copyright anyway. I don't think you can copyright a "beat".
“Stifles creativity” when talking about this game is hilarious. Running defence of this game is ridiculous, it’s clearly a total ripoff which is why Sony is challenging them on it. Tencent has the budget to actually take risks and do something creative. This is just pathetic. Lots of games do what you are talking about. This isn’t one of them. It reeks of being designed in a corporate office by committee.
I'm all for game "copies" like this to exist, otherwise we end up in situations like Nintendo suing Palword or worse. And yes, I am talking about stifles creativity. No company should be in a position to sue for a game that looks, plays and feels similar or same. That should not be punishable. Even if they did not add much, it is a different game and should be treated as such.
Or we should start banning Mario Kart clones, fighting games like Street Fighter 2 because Capcom didn't allow copies to exist in early history of videogames and so on. You are blind to see the problem if you want to ban this Horizon clone. At least it gives us a similar game to explore, without Sony having the full power over this type of game.
Imagine movies couldn't look or feel the same as other movies before, because it is very similar to it. God i hate this idea of banning and suing similar games, even if they do not add much to it.
There are TONS of awesome RPGs out there to explore. lol you keep talking about creativity but nobody else seems to have that problem other than this team. This game is not creative or interesting, it’s just Horizon at home. Not to mention it hurts the reputation of other Chinese developers at a time when games like Black Myth are starting to blow up and get attention globally.
I tried to explain it multiple times. You just don't understand what I mean.
You'll get Escape from Tarkov vs Escape from Duckov and you'll like it!
Tencent's Arena Breakout is very similar to Tarkov. Like, watching it, you'd just think tarkov got a bit of an update. They don't really care about IP unless it's their own.
No chance Tarkov will ever sue with the amount of IP they rip for the game.
From Software could kill the entire soulslike genre with one lawsuit. Like, just pick the biggest non-From Software soulslike and sue the publisher.