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

submitted 7 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] 3 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

I wonder how much of this game they can force them to change. I know Steam has a 2 hour limit for returns but at what point does this game become “not the game I bought”?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 minutes ago

I mean, the game is in early access so if you bought it and are now complaining it changed... It's a you problem, not something that should be refundable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

all my homies boycott and emulate nintendo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Make it so that you can give the glider pal skins.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I wonder what their plan was -- step on the toes of the biggest franchise while operating in one of the many countries with broken copyright laws and then hope for the best while raking in early access money based on an idea that legally can't exist? Was it being naive and hoping they could just make a fun and successful game and Pokemon would be a merciful god?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

So, Nintendo can file parents after years of not filing them just to fuck with an Indie company after that company put out a product with game mechanics that "infringe said parents", but not to go after other large gaming companies like Microsoft that also infringe those same patents. Interesting take.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You're getting down votes from astroturfers, idiots, and kids who can't handle attacks on their precious favoritist little game, but you're right, palworld has zero leg to stand on here and they're lucky their company even still exists with the sheer scale of blatant theft going on. But DAE Nintendo bad hurr hurr?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Can you list out this sheer scale of theft that Nintendo is suing Pocketpair for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago)

Sure, it's located at https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Nintendo+lawsuit+against+palworld

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Nintendo shouldn't be trying to own mechanics. if someone took their core idea and made it so good people who are Pokemon fans are buying it en masse then maybe they should take a hint and make a game that people want. but instead they're out there suing devs for "stealing" their idea of holding onto the feet of creatures with wings to glide? they're clearly unable to take down the game and decided to blindly keep stabbing away at random things trying to bankrupt them with trivial lawsuits. it's pathetic

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