| curl-6 said: Tencent responds: "At bottom, Sony’s effort is not aimed at fighting off piracy, plagiarism, or any genuine threat to intellectual property. It is an improper attempt to fence off a well-trodden corner of popular culture and declare it Sony’s exclusive domain. In Sony’s telling, Horizon Zero Dawn is 'like no fictional world created before [or] since. That claim is startling, because it is flatly contradicted by Sony’s own developers, not to mention the long history of video games featuring the same elements that Sony seeks to monopolize through this lawsuit. Sony’s Complaint tellingly ignores these facts. Instead, it tries to transform ubiquitous genre ingredients into proprietary assets. By suing over an unreleased project that merely employs the same time-honored tropes embraced by scores of other games released both before and after Horizon—like Enslaved, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Far Cry: Primal, Far Cry: New Dawn, Outer Wilds, Biomutant, and many more—Sony seeks an impermissible monopoly on genre conventions." |
I have no idea how this lawsuit will go but it feels like Tencent has no real ground here. They designed the game from the groundup to be Horizon. The iconography and design is ripped straight from that of the series (which is work that would've been created by other actual professionals within the Horizon team). Sony passed on giving the license to them and Tencent did next to nothing to adjust anything of the game.
This game looks or sounds nothing like any other IP they mention in their response. it literally looks like Horizon.
But we'll see how this all plays out.
