Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 hours agoJust because it has a resemblance to pokemon doesn’t make it pokemon. The gameplay is completely different.
Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 hours agoJust because it has a resemblance to pokemon doesn’t make it pokemon. The gameplay is completely different.
grayhaze@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So you don’t catch “pals” by weakening them and throwing a ball at them?
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Palworld is an open world survival crafting factory/base building game, that happens to borrow the catching mechanic from Pokemon (who borrowed it from Shin Megami Tensei).
grayhaze@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Where is the line drawn between borrowing and copying?
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
If you can’t draw inspiration from other games, then the gaming industry as a whole is in trouble.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Copying would imply a one to one duplication. The catching system in Palworld differs in multiple ways from the Pokemon system. I think that’s enough to call it borrowing and not copying.