Comment on Palworld announces Terraria crossover

• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was a request to halt sales until the specific mechanics were removed, with the mechanics being throwing pokeball like items and riding monsters.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trying do ban riding fictional animals is a tall order

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fuck it, have Nintendo sue blizzard whole they’re at it. I want to see a nerd bloodbath.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Blizzard of course can’t sue anyone because that would require an original idea to copyright.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ackshually 🤓

      One of the patents was for seamlessly transitioning from one type of ride to another, as it happens in Legends Arceus, ie: jumping into the water while riding the stag will automatically change to the giant piranha. The irony here is that palworld lacks anything like that, you never transition between 2 different mounts without player input. The closest to that is using some pals as gliders, but you’ll just get back on your feet once you touch the ground or water.

      Another patent was for throwing stuff at enemies in order to begin combat. They’re all hard reads, mostly because they read like they’re describing how Legends Arceus works in minute detail.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Another patent was for throwing stuff at enemies in order to begin combat.

        Are Nintendo suing reality now? I must admit, it would be very on brand for them.

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• QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I looked through a few articles but couldn’t find anything about a term that would shutdown Palworld just because Nintendo won the lawsuit.

  The worst case scenario would be something like Palworld having to change their “Pal Spheres” into “Pal Cubes” or prisms, or something similar.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Pallnoctahedron. “It’s a totally different shape and it’s just the fact that it’s very small, and we enabled smooth shading, that makes it look like we haven’t done anything to it.”

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• ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In Japan.

  With the money they’ve made already, they could move the team to US, where none of this would fly.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They would still have to face the courts in Japan if they want to sell in Japan.

    Your line of thinking is the same thing that X fell for with Brazil. Just because you don’t have your HQ in a particular country doesn’t mean the legal system can be ignored. Otherwise the EU wouldn’t be gifting fines to Google and Apple every 15 minutes.

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