Comment on "Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Out ofthe loop here. Why does Nintendo care?

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  • orenj@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It kinda looks like the pikachu game

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    • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pikachu Simulator World Cup 64™ ?

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Detective Pikachu?

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  • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nintendo spent a load of money and resources in a protracted legal battle trying to get the project canned by suing them for everything they could think of. It ended in them forcing Palworld to remove the ball throwing mechanic, because apparently Pokemon has that copyrighted or something.

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    • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And the gliding with monsters

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      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Damn, didn’t know that.

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  • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They plagiarized a bunch of Pokemon and used the publicity generated to bring attention to their game.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If memory serves, the plagiarism allegations were doctored. Nintendo tried to find whatever they could sue them for, and it wasn’t plagiarizing monster designs; it was for things like “riding a captured creature” and “catching creatures by throwing a ball at them”. Some aspect of Japanese law allowed for them to make new patents after Palworld came out and then sue them for it retroactively.

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      • Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m not talking about what went into court. Most pals are “legally distinct” monsters, but that’s what brought the game to public awareness, what started the comparisons with Pokémon, and why Nintendo hated their guts. Monster collectors have existed outside of Pokémon for decades and still do, Nintendo only sued Palworld because they copy-pasted their monsters with a different color palette.

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    • eyes@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Actually they’re suing because of these alleged infringement of these weirdly general patents:

      1. throwing an item at a character in a field triggering a combat state.
      2. capturing creatures in the wild, rather than in a battle setting.
      3. riding creatures in an open world and transitioning between those creatures.

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    • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nintendo alleges that they plagiarized their assets.

      The thing is, there was a solid argument to be made that some of the meshes for certain Pals were too similar to that of some Pokémon models to be a coincidence, but Nintendo didn’t bring any of that up in the lawsuit. They opted to go for the much more flimsy “riding a character” and “summoning a character by throwing a ball/sphere”.

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      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And, somehow, fucking won. They forced Palworld to remove the ball throwing mechanic.

        It’s fucking stupid.

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    • femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If anyone plagiarized pokemon it would have been tem tem, but that was not a threat to Nintendo so they went after pal world because game freak got lazy with their game dev.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought GameFreak owned Pokemon.

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      • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They own a third of it, along with Nintendo and Creatures

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