https://x.com/mellco/status/1984560573179445598 >For this illustration, I was told that the horse was overpowering the characters, and it ended up almost entirely cut.
horselads... did we lose?
>>725048514
The reasonable assumption is that they didn't want to have any significant focus on a horse on the cover because that might give people expectations that there would actually be horses in the game.
>>725050956
Too sexy, they keep distracting women who are trying to focus on the game. They don't want young girls exposed to such sexualization on the cover of a video game.