Former Blizzard Boss Slams Marvel Rivals, Comparing It to Horizon-Like Light of Motiram | Push Square

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Not everyone enjoyed the full release of Marvel Rivals, it seems, with former Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra comparing the game to Tencent's egregious Horizon rip-off, Light of Motiram. He went so far as to call the popular hero shooter "Overwatch Marvel Rivals" in a since-deleted tweet.

Eurogamer caught the exchange, in which Ybarra intimated that NetEase Games' free-to-play shooter was pulling a little too closely from Blizzard's Overwatch, in particular, citing the similarities between sniper Widowmaker and Natasha Romanoff, AKA Black Widow. Ybarra was seemingly not aware that the creation of the character of Black Widow outdates that of Widowmaker by a cool five decades, resulting in a particularly pointed Community Note. Blizzard's former president subsequently deleted his post.

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What do you think? Does Marvel Rivals do enough to differentiate itself from Overwatch? Who is the more interesting character, Black Widow or Widowmaker? Let us know in the comments section below.

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From the company that ripped off Warhammer to get their big break that's a bit rich.

So I think most of us have launched an email/comment before better sense stepped in. I think the general consensus was that it was very much an Overwatch clone — but I've not played it myself. I kinda suspect few people are complaing about character design though… there's a generally a clear record of who did what character art first.

Games however are such an interesting (and I'm sure frustrating) thing to manage IP around — because it's so hard to say this