• BootLoop@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      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.

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        17 hours ago

        Because, to be blunt, a lot of apps seem to get away with it without getting sued. Especially mobile clones

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          15 hours ago

          And especially when faced with the difficulty of trying to sue a company in a different country.