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Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit (www.videogameschronicle.com)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the implementation of Patch v0.5.5 this week, we must make yet another compromise. From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals. Pals in the player’s team will still provide passive buffs to gliding, but players will now need to have a glider in their inventory in order to glide.

How lame. Japan needs to fix its patent laws, it's ridiculous Nintendo owns the simple concept of using an animal to fly.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Which is equally insane, no?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, the more you read the patent the more you just want to grab whoever approved it and force them to explain how and why it deserved it, despite lots of prior implementations.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

As far as I understand patent law, if nobody has actually patented something someone can just say "mine lol" and scoop up royalties and block shit for spite.