Honey, wake up, another blatant scam just happened that will cause you legal problems sooner or later. Tencent Games and subsidiary Polaris Quest have just announced it Motiram Lighta “legally separate” version of the Horizon series for PlayStation. The biggest surprise? This is an MMO game that will only appear on PC for now.
This crucial announcement came out of nowhere along with an extensive press release (via Gematsu) along with trailers and screenshots and a Steam page which already contains a lot of details. The game will also be available via the Epic Games Store. As for the planned price (or free-to-play model), nothing has been revealed yet.
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I think the Palworld developers can rest a little easier now, as Light of Motiram is sure to attract more attention in the coming weeks, at least when it comes to being a rather blatant rip-off of an established IP. It’s demanding to imagine a scenario in which Sony won’t panic and start throwing lawyers at Tencent. From the overall aesthetic to the creature designs – which made me do a double (and even triple) take – Motiram’s Light clearly pushes more than a few boundaries.
You can watch the main trailer below (more videos have been released):
The funniest thing about this announcement is that it comes even before PlayStation has publicly unveiled its online-only Horizon video game, which appears to be the company’s biggest foray into the live services arena, delivering some headache-inducing power. If Palworld’s initial success (which has been more than enough to fuel its development over the years) has taught us anything, it’s that regular gamers don’t really care how much a game looks like someone else’s game, as long as it’s fun. If Polaris Quest delivers a satisfying moment-to-moment gameplay loop, it could spell trouble for the PlayStation service and Guerrilla Live on Horizon, which is another reason we think there are legal battles on the horizon (pun intended).
Light of Motiram promises to focus on the survival and crafting formula that has proven very profitable in recent times, although combat encounters seemingly play out in a similar fashion to Monster Hunter, which is by far the most logical approach to making Horizon’s fights against machines work honestly speaking, in the context of cooperation. In fact, I bet Guerrilla is also heading in this direction with their long-in-development Horizon project.
Either way, it’s just another bump in Horizon’s long, tough road. A franchise that seems substantial enough for Sony to consider it its current “big thing,” despite the lack of excitement around it in the first few weeks after each release, is seemingly destined to find obstacles around every corner. It consistently introduces fresh entries alongside much more captivating releases, and has recently started selling Lego Horizon Adventures apparently they were disappointingat least on PC.
Even the planned live-action series Horizon on Netflix has hit a brick wall, with PlayStation Studios and the streamer shutting down the project entirely for now after it was reported that showrunner Steve Blackman (of The Umbrella Academy fame) had created a “toxic work environment.” “Yes.
