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Nintendo is suing Palworld (Update: Palworld will fight back)
- Thread starter John Elden Ring
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I hope Nintendo loses. They got caught being lazy and got their lunch taken by a competitor. Do better with your own games.
Nintendo going around like legal terrorists...
Everyone fears getting litigated by them.
Will I get litigated for writing this... Who knows but I feel brave for writing it.
Everyone fears getting litigated by them.
Will I get litigated for writing this... Who knows but I feel brave for writing it.
you have to love Nintendo and how they protect their IPs man
Depends what they found really. PocketPair has made enough money from the game that they can afford a pretty good legal team, so I suspect that Nintendo probably thinks they've got a good argument.
It is also possible that because PocketPair is Japanese, it's easier to sue and win for patent infringement?
That was the most obvious copy ever but they waited way too long. Pocketpair are billionaires at this point. They can fight whatever Nintendo throws at them.
Rumour is the PS5 version will be announced next week. What will happen to that. It's like Nintendo had no issues when the game was Xbox exclusive
Rumour is the PS5 version will be announced next week. What will happen to that. It's like Nintendo had no issues when the game was Xbox exclusive
Not quite billionaires actually, but yes, they've got hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank.
They can still lose the case depending on what Nintendo found.
That was the most obvious copy ever but they waited way too long. Pocketpair are billionaires at this point. They can fight whatever Nintendo throws at them.
Rumour is the PS5 version will be announced next week. What will happen to that. It's like Nintendo had no issues when the game was Xbox exclusive
Nintendo be like
Palworld on a console that doesn't move units: I sleep
Palworld coming to PS: REAL SHIT?!
I know you're mostly memeing, but for a lawsuit of this magnitude, it takes months to build a case.
They were on top of that shit from Day 2.
Yeah, this being about patent infringement makes this super exciting all of a sudden.
Like, what are they cooking over there?
Nah they gonna win. Palworld devs literally ripped Pokemon character models/assets from official games, made like 1% changes, then slapped them into Palworld.
There was a Twitter thread that showed the shocking similarity in character model geometry for a few of the characters between both games. I imagine that's what's lead to this lawsuit.
Most likely, the two sides will settle out of court, but it does make Sony in particular look a bit foolish going into the joint partnership thing knowing this legal grey area was hanging in the background. Sure, the allure of their own Pokemon was too strong to resist, but there are safe ways to do it (Yu Gi Oh, Digimon etc.), and then there's...well there's how Palworld did it
Did either of those have games where they potentially ripped Pokemon models wholesale, changed a few polygons & textures, then called it a day? I don't remember that ever happening.
I hope Nintendo won… they are in their rights.
Palworld didn’t even try to cover how they ripped Pokémon.
Palworld didn’t even try to cover how they ripped Pokémon.
It being patent infringement is...curious. What's the patents? A gameplay mechanic, like capturing a monster in a spherical ball perhaps? And why wait nearly a year later to do this?
Whatever it is, I hope Nintendo loses. A lot of Nintendo patents are for really stupid things like a method of characters turning to face towards interesting objects or characters moving with objects they are standing on. I dislike restrictions on creativity, generally
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I also thought Palworld was fun so I'd hate to see it go. It still suffers a lot of the same grindy problems other survival craft games like Rust and Valheim have, and before even getting everything I felt like I had seen everything the game had to offer. Yet, it was a fun little distraction. I like chucking balls at things and catching them. I think the bug where you can capture tower bosses was cool. The building parts of these games is always kinda fun. I think being able to capture human enemies is funny and its fun that the game lets you be a little evil and sadistic.
Whatever it is, I hope Nintendo loses. A lot of Nintendo patents are for really stupid things like a method of characters turning to face towards interesting objects or characters moving with objects they are standing on. I dislike restrictions on creativity, generally
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I also thought Palworld was fun so I'd hate to see it go. It still suffers a lot of the same grindy problems other survival craft games like Rust and Valheim have, and before even getting everything I felt like I had seen everything the game had to offer. Yet, it was a fun little distraction. I like chucking balls at things and catching them. I think the bug where you can capture tower bosses was cool. The building parts of these games is always kinda fun. I think being able to capture human enemies is funny and its fun that the game lets you be a little evil and sadistic.
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That dude admitted he doctored the pictures btwNah they gonna win. Palworld devs literally ripped Pokemon character models/assets from official games, made like 1% changes, then slapped them into Palworld.
There was a Twitter thread that showed the shocking similarity in character model geometry for a few of the characters between both games. I imagine that's what's lead to this lawsuit.
Most likely, the two sides will settle out of court, but it does make Sony in particular look a bit foolish going into the joint partnership thing knowing this legal grey area was hanging in the background. Sure, the allure of their own Pokemon was too strong to resist, but there are safe ways to do it (Yu Gi Oh, Digimon etc.), and then there's...well there's how Palworld did it
Did either of those have games where they potentially ripped Pokemon models wholesale, changed a few polygons & textures, then called it a day? I don't remember that ever happening.
