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Sony’s Light of Motiram lawsuit demands an ‘impermissible monopoly on genre conventions,’ says Tencent

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://massivelyop.com/2025/09/19/tencent-argues-sonys-light-of-motiram-lawsuit-demands-an-impermissible-monopoly-on-genre-conventions/

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  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    From what I’ve heard it’s just really clear copyright infringement.

    Raising monopoly is also funny considering this genre is saturated by not only Sony, but also Ubisoft, EA, Valve, …

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  • Runaway@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    …or it’s just a clearly blatant ripoff lol

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Which still should not be illegal. And believe me I have no problem when Sony and Tencent go at each other‘s throat. Let them fight. But you can‘t protect a style or a genre. Especially when said genre is as old as the medium.

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      • Runaway@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Palworld is a different game using similar mechanics. This game looked like the same game. I think the cases are different and I think basically trying to make the same game is not fair.

        Sure no one cares about tencent vs Sony but what if it was tencent vs a smaller dev? Derivations are fine but ripoffs really probably should be limited.

        Not to mention the original looked like they basically stole designs lol

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