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I can't help but feel The Pokemon Company has brought it on themselves for failing to release a modernized pokemon game all these years. Now they lost in competition with a bargain bin clone grafted onto generic survival mechanics. Other franchises haven't had this problem because games like Palworld are not supposed to be a threat to your marketshare.
Somebody said if Pokemon had their Breath of the Wild moment with their newest games then nobody would be caring much for Palworld now and got to say thats probably half right. Breath of The wild didn't have Craftopia the devs past game before PalWorld get anywhere near as popular as Pal world now and that game was heavily taking from Breath of wild among other games. That game barely got much constant coverage from sites like Pal world is now.
Half related but I was thinking today that Kojima said in a interview before that in the western and american market that Death stranding will probably not be as popular or that popular because it has little guns or constant action. Bunch of people said shut the fuck up thats not why or every would be why bar Call of Duty, you just have a shit game is all. Funny that seeing how Pal World has sold 7 million with one of its main gimmicks just being it has guns anf pokemons.
Also unrelated but I shared Anomaly Agent here came out yesterday and holy shit man that game is popping off hard. I don't think much people know of it but I saw it release have like 200 reviews after a hour or two which is very far ahead of other indie games. Checked it last night and its at overwhelmingly postive with 1200 steam user reviews now lol.
Tried a bit of it and its a great fun silly little game with a banging soundtrack so you love to see it.
Yes. But - that's a fan-art picture of Eevee.
There's being mad Pokemon has been a bag of wank for awhile and accepting blatant theft.
I guess my point is, a blatant work of theft would not pose a threat if its source material weren't functionally three generations behind in competition. I don't accept Palworld as anything other than a piece of junk scam game, but for the poor suckers who had to settle for what has become of Pokemon, suddenly a junky knockoff ain't looking so bad.
I think people are really overstating what the Pokémon Company has actually said.
To me, their statement just reads like "We know about Palworld, we'll look into it where relevant. Stop emailing us."
That said, I will be interested to see if this actually leads to a case. I know a bit about IP Law, and I definitely think Palworld's designs are derivative to the point that I don't care to play it at all for that reason alone. But whether there's a case for infringement here I find extremely hard to predict.
Gotta agree.
Fan games are typically small teams of 20-35 year olds, who wouldn't have the resources to make a legal defense. So all it takes is just threatening letter to get them to shut down, even if Nintendo would be in the wrong.
But this is a small company who can probably afford lawyers. I don't doubt Nintendo's lawyers are looking into the matter, and will probably only strike if and when they have a strong enough case.
- Though they might also hold back if a court case would require them to disclose things they haven't made public yet, like unannounced games, pokemon designs exc.