Games

Didn’t want to watch the video so used kagi’s ai summarizer:

• Onepeg, a gaming YouTuber, tagged KieranTV in a tweet claiming that Nexon's case against IM had been dismissed in both US and Korean courts, which was factually untrue.
• When KieranTV questioned this, Onepeg doubled down and accused KieranTV of historically taking Nexon's side without cause.
• Reports from Korean media indicate that while the preliminary injunctions from both sides were dismissed, the judge noted it was likely Dark and Darker illegally stole from Nexon's P3 game.
• The case has not been fully dismissed and will continue to a full trial on the merits to determine the truth of Nexon's claims.
• Onepeg apologized for misrepresenting the facts but KieranTV remains skeptical of his motivations given his repeated doubling down.
• KieranTV's consistent position has been to want the truth determined fairly in court, not to take either side without cause.
• Coverage of legal cases can be complicated as the truth may not come out clearly even if the right party wins or loses.
• Fans of the game have previously harassed KieranTV for his neutral reporting on the case.
• Onepeg should have fact checked before tagging KieranTV and making claims about the case's outcome.
• Both sides will continue arguing their cases as the full trial moves forward.

It's a pretty different situation under closer examination. The DnD developers are ex-Nexon employees and they (allegedly) pitched the idea internally before deciding to leave and take the idea with them.

Nexon thought that they had a legal leg to stand on because of how IP laws work (i.e.: employee ideas on company time are company IP). Perhaps more importantly; they probably felt a need to retaliate in order to send a message to other employees who might want to try something similar.

Palworld, on the other hand, is made by a team with no ties whatsoever to GameFreak. If Pokemon were a younger franchise they might possibly have a patent case of some kind, but even the 3D games go back almost 24 years now.

Palworld has no former employees of gamefreak and is a completely different game than Pokemon and a completely different genre. Some of the monsters look kind of similiar to pokemon but they arent copies.

The palworld devs never worked on Pokemon. The dark and darker devs were, allegedly, employees of Nexon working on a similar game. It's completely different

The DnD claim has a lot of validity, as a fan of DnD. Have you looked into it much?

The DnD devs are accused of working on Nexons game, stealing source code, leaving nexon, and buying the same assets Nexon used to rapidly build DnD from p3's ashes. The main leader who quit nexon directly poached from the p3 team to build the clone game as well.

I'm no Korean law expert, but there's something worth looking into there.

Palworld just has a similar art style, and the idea of catching monsters in balls. There's a lot more mechanics to palworld than Pokémon has, whereas DnD was actually P3 but made by a new team.

But Palworld is being investigated.

the locked class' were unlocked for everyone after about 1 week due to backlash, they did listen at least. Different races are now for sale through points earned in game or real money. They are a cosmetic change with some minor stat differences (both good and bad so pretty balanced)