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.
Someone didn’t live through the 80s, I see.
Dino-Riders rocked
HOLY SHIT.
This is awesome.
So were the toys.
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
How do they even make this argument even with a straight face is beyond me.
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.
The tencent game was a blatant knock off of Horizon.
I agree, but this isn’t a Palworld / Pokémon situation.
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.
Companies shouldn’t own concepts, fuck Sony.
Yeah, that’s not what happened here.
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.
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.
