I’m stuck at work right now so maybe I’ll have a more robust explanation of what I mean by this later, but for as much as the pal designs in palworld are BLATENT ripoffs of pokemon designs but given a bunch of tiny alterations, I hope that if the pokemon company takes legal action, they lose.
There’s a handful of reasons for this really, but I think the biggest reason is an understanding that they can’t stay complacent and keep their hold on the market they have. I hope it makes them concerned how much of a real possibility it is that a competitor could march in like this and gain such a spotlight.
Nintendo Wins:
absolute chill across the entire industry; sets a precedent that only legacy companies are permitted to shake the industry and define its conventions.
Pocket Pair Wins:
vindication of the theft-machine model as the Wave of the Future, guaranting a crashing wake of asset-flip shovelware games drowning out the Cassette Beasts and Temtems and actual labor-of-love games in the niche and rippling out into the other genres.
Not liking either of these.
I welcome additional thoughts on the matter.
Oh don’t get me wrong, my hope that TPC is moved to improve at all by Palworld’s rampant success is both very optimistic and very selfish of me.
More than any other possibility is the likelyhood that the game has it’s fifteen minutes of fame, the internet gets tired of it, and Game Freak releases yet another game of the same quality if not lower in the next 6 months and it once again sells outstandingly.
I’m simply tired of the complacency of those in charge coasting on the success of Pokemon for simply BEING pokemon, and hoping that maybe this could be the slap on the ass that gets the horse running again.
But it probably won’t be.