A bizarre story has leaked from Horizon: Forbidden West developer Guerilla Games. While the sequel to Horizon: Zero Dawn has met mixed reviews, apparently Sony wasn't content with even the original title's overall impact.
Some anonymous developers that worked on the Horizon series are now claiming that Sony was upset with them that the series' protagonist Aloy was not receiving enough fan art, citing games such as Overwatch or Pokemon as having "incredibly passionate, dedicated fan bases that will create art to promote and celebrate the franchise". After the game's release, they began to demand that the developers themselves create their own "fan art" to populate various websites to make it look as if the game had a larger fan base. This came in the form of taking Aloy's model from in-game and putting it into pornographic animations to populate PornHub or Rule 34 with Horizon "content".
The game's main character, Aloy, is a woman with long red hair worn in braids, and freckles. Her design seems fine enough, although I suppose it's not super iconic. It seems that the Horizon series has just failed to really grip players enough to make porn, I suppose. No one wants to fuck Aloy. That's really all it boils down to, I guess.
"Look, Zero Dawn came out in 2017. 2017. Look on Rule 34, how many results are there for Aloy? This is unacceptable. Nintendo announces a green cat. A green cat, and there's already more art than there is of Aloy. That's free advertising. That's community. No one even plays Overwatch anymore, but people will buy the new game just because they love the porn so much. We need to bring those numbers up, people. Animate more. Look at Tomb Raider. Look up Tomb Raider on PornHub. Don't you guys have any werewolf models you can use? You guys make games, don't you? Add thirteen werewolves to that animation, now. You guys are blowing it. Blowing it!" A leaked transcript of a Sony executive meeting read, as allegedly leaked by the supposed Horizon developer.
This leaker claims to have quit after being forced to work overtime for almost a month in order to create animations of a pregnant Aloy giving birth to what appeared to be some kind of large eggs? I would assume dinosaur eggs of some kind, they looked to be at least ostrich egg-sized. This bizarre trend is actually more common than you may think, like when Wendys started commissioning artists to draw hentai of their mascot. It was always a known rule of advertising that sex sells. It just seems the strategy has become a bit more... explicit.
No one has been able to verify if the artists involved do actually work for Sony, but when reached out to for comment, Sony responded with "We are glad that gamers view Aloy as a powerful and strong female character, and not one that must be needlessly sexualized. Aloy is a feminist icon, and we do not encourage or endorse the sexualization of her fat jiggly bazonga lactating milky freckled titfuckbags".
As of right now, Sprigatito is expected to top 1000 pornographic images within the month, while Aloy has been sitting at around 600 for quite some time.