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Palworld ditches Pokéball-style summoning mechanic amid Nintendo legal battle (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No they specifically only target companies that cannot defend themselves. World of Warcraft has battle pets that you can capture by throwing cages at them and then train and fight them against other battle pets. Nintendo isn't about to file a lawsuit against Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

World of Warcraft has battle pets that you can capture by throwing cages at them and then train and fight them against other battle pets.

Which is arguable a more realistic representation of what Pokemon represents: slavery.