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atticus88th, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike

A Chinese company doing what Chinese companies do best. I fully expect this game to be released and it will take a bite out of Horizons sales numbers.

Poopfeast420,
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it will take a bite out of Horizons sales numbers.

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With the focus on PC and Mobile in China, the big console franchises don’t strike me as super popular over there (based on nothing but feelings).

AgentRocket,

A Chinese company doing what Chinese companies do best.

“The word ‘copyright infringement’ doesn’t translate very well into mandarin”

Aielman15, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike
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There’s got to be irony somewhere in Sony striking a deal with Palworld, then suing another company for copying the art of their game.

Agent_Karyo,
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Is the art of Palworld similar to Pokémon?

simple,
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There are some monster designs that are very similar to Pokemon, but FWIW Pokemon has a lot of simple designs inspired by real animals anyway.

Maultasche, (edited )

Interestingly, most of the copied ones are the non-animal designs like Goodra with Liligant’s flower

Tollana1234567,

pikachu, bulbasaur was pretty obvious

Aielman15, (edited )
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Agent_Karyo,
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Some are the designs are pretty close I will admit, even though I don’t think Nintendo should be able to randomly shut down gamea that are vaguely similar to Pokémon.

psx_crab,

That’s why it’s irony, Sony support knockoff, got their game knockedoff and mad about it.

Agent_Karyo,
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But is Palworld really a knockoff? Some of the designs are similar, but I didn’t get the impression that whole game is a knockoff.

If we used Nintendo’s logic, we would never have any other CRPGs beyond Ultima. I am don’t support such measures.

psx_crab,

Yes it is, the design of some of those monster at least.

I’m not here to defend anyone, i just find it funny. If you wanna defend sony or whosthatpalworlddev, you be you.

Agent_Karyo,
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I would rather have more competition in the market.

psx_crab,

No one saying otherwise.

zr0, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike

A game does not sell just because of art or the IP. So I like that there is competition. Would suck for Sony if the copy had better code quality, a better story, more content than their games at half the price.

Couldbealeotard,
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I think it’s proven fact that things often sell off of the art and IP, sometimes for those alone. If that wasn’t the case they wouldn’t fight so hard to protect it.

zr0,

Oh they obviously make more money out of those IP than they invest. And some IP’s are rather good. However, suing competition also means the market is so small, it is worth fighting them on the legal path, which actually proves my point.

ayyy,

Counterpoint: the janky-ass Pokémon games that suck and still print money.

zr0,

Same for Assassin’s Creed, Black Ops, etc. It does not mean they get bought because they are good. It means there is nothing else to play. For Pokémon there is actually a good example how to create this healthy competition - it is called Palworld.

kemsat, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike

Uhh the game looks awesome from what the trailer shows. I want to play it, and I’m already hyped for it. The combat also looks better than what it was in Horizon 1.

I honestly don’t care if they just copy games like this. I’m too tired of awesome concepts & IPs being completely misused & wasted by game publishers.

I’m hoping Tencent wins this one, because I wanna play the game. If they do win, I bet “Monster Hunter x Horizon + conventionally attractive characters” would sell like hotcakes.

victorz, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike

Same:

  • Music
  • Art style of the creatures and environments
  • Overall concept and ideas, generally, it seems

Different:

  • Character design, a little thinner, more Asian game looking. People who are anime/hentai thin and are performing physical feats they shouldn’t be expected to be able to do. Less texture and detail to the faces and such. More smooth, gen AI look and feel. Less/cheaper work behind it I’m assuming.
  • Traveling, actually looks fun as hell compared to the Horizon games. Riding many more animals of different types and in/through different media, like water.
  • Fighting gameplay, looks like absolute ass, bro. Same old ground-based regurgitated melee style fighting you find in every single Chinese game with fighting in it. Looks so boring. Move in, hit, move out. Repeat until finished. I sleep.
  • Maybe able to clone beings you have destroyed? I dunno. Could be cool if that’s what I saw.

I low key would want to play through this in an any% kind of way. Just to see if it’s fun. But the battle sequences did not sell this well, I have to say.

Good luck to all.

simple, do games w [CLICKBAIT / MISSINFORMATION] One Of The Greatest PC Games Of 2024 Was Removed From Itch.io Search Results
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As mentioned in the itch reply, this has nothing to do with recent events. It was delisted for a while. This is clickbait.

Archive link from November showing that it wasn't appearing in search: https://web.archive.org/web/20241107033706/https://itch.io/search?q=mouthwashing

NONE_dc,
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Thank you. I have corrected the post. I feel so embarrassed now…

simple,
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It's gamestop's fault for terrible journalism, not you. Thanks for updating the post

Coelacanth, (edited ) do games w [CLICKBAIT / MISSINFORMATION] One Of The Greatest PC Games Of 2024 Was Removed From Itch.io Search Results
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Absolute insanity what even is this shit.

EDIT: What it was was “clickbait”, it turns out.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Christofacism.

NONE_dc,
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They took us for fools, I’m very sorry…

duchess, do games w [CLICKBAIT / MISSINFORMATION] One Of The Greatest PC Games Of 2024 Was Removed From Itch.io Search Results

Yeah, they link to other stores without offering a native purchase or download, they don’t get indexed. Not a new rule, and a rather sensible one. The product page is still available via linking.

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w [CLICKBAIT / MISSINFORMATION] One Of The Greatest PC Games Of 2024 Was Removed From Itch.io Search Results

Gasp?!!? The game about being ground up by capitalism and the abuses of power mad men got blocked?

Sounds about christian.

Darth_Lemmy, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike

imagine spending all that dev time to just get shredded. bruh

Phineaz, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike

Heh, remember when everyone was playing Breath of the Wild aka Genshin Impact?

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike

SIE further alleged that Tencent came to the company with a pitch to license the Horizon IP, to which SIE declined.

If sony has physical proof of this, Tencent is fucked and this game will never be released

NaibofTabr, (edited )

Yeah this seems like a smoking gun of intent to reproduce the IP. Hard to claim it was done in ignorance if Sony has documentation on this licensing pitch.

ordnance_qf_17_pounder, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike

Yessss pls damage each other

IWW4, (edited ) do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike

Yeah, I gotta go with Sony on this and holy shit that is horizon zero dawn all the way!

proper, do games w Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike
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and a nolan north style ghost to boot

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