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So you don’t think these patents are going after any aspect of Palworld that players would recognize as a defining feature of a Pokémon game?

I mean, there's like a mechanic where you throw the spheres, right? And this is a very obvious, in your face system [that’s very much like Pokémon]. But I think that it will be a lot more technical than this. Nintendo would have dug through every single action inside the game, they would have probably reverse engineered it, and just find ways to sue these guys. 

You can bet your life that Nintendo hates this company, and they couldn't find an angle with the character designs. This is why they are not mentioned in their press release. So they come with these technical peculiarities. So I personally believe, if you act like this, you can sue like 90 percent of the game developers in the world. I'm sure there's like thousands of games that have a confirmation screen when you go from sleep mode to resuming the game right, but if you basically trigger the wrath of Nintendo, they will come after you.

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[–] yamanii 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nintendo are trolls and have been doing this for a while whenever the competition scared them, before Palworld they sued White Cat Project to give an upper hand to their own Dragalia Lost, that came years later.

I'm glad Dragalia closed down, fuck Nintendo.

https://www.pocketgamer.biz/nintendo-settles-five-year-court-battle-with-white-cat-project-developers/

[–] DrDominate 19 points 6 days ago

Nintendo literally created a patent this year and waited for it to get approved before suing palworld a month after. Clowns over at Nintendo.

[–] sumguyonline 13 points 6 days ago

I was a Nintendo fan my entire life. I literally own almost every Nintendo console (no vrboy). Nintendo made the unfortunate decision to not create quality games, but to litigate for profit. I will never go back to Nintendo so long as they still have Gary Bowser's life in their hands. Nintendo has lost life long fans over their action towards competitors, and their inability to make a quality game(say what you want but Pokémon is half assed compared to palworld). I look forward to the eventual bankruptcy filing from Nintendo. I might buy Mario.

[–] CleoTheWizard 6 points 6 days ago

Well now I’m hoping that the Switch 2 has a working emulator within a handful of months after release.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is not business. This is extortion. Palworld has opened a can of worms with a realization that gamers don’t need Pokemon anymore. There can be better alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If Nintendo actually wins this, I will - as someone who grew up with Pokémon - destroy them as a company. I will slander them into submission if I have to, fuck them if I can't even have a circus to go with my bread.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

"No bread, no cake, no circus." - Nintendo

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago
[–] disgrunty 36 points 1 week ago

I mean, the bar is on the ground at this point at best.

It was a painful process, having my love of Pokémon games slowly stripped away until I finally gave up on them. It's hard giving up on something that you've loved from childhood. Pokémon used to be my comfort game and it's now unplayable trash.

The only reason I still have my Switch at all right now is the Zelda franchise because I currently lack the means to emulate. And the occasional sale item from the eShop because I'm not paying full price for a Switch game ever again after they ruined Pokémon.

I'm surprised no one's brought up the hellscape we know as the Nintendo eShop. It's >90% trash.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Plug for the game cassette beasts! An excellent monster collecting game that feels like a natural progression from early Pokemon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Shhh! Don't alert Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Valid competition vs a super corpo that milked the cow dry. Of course their going to be evil about it.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Nintendo is one of the worst companies in the videogames world. They need to fail, and I really hope this next switch becomes something worse than WiiU and they disappear from the world.

However, they won't. Their fanatics won't let them. So I can only hope they double down in their anti consumer behaviour to screw as many customers as they can. Because honestly? If after all these years you keep buying a Pokémon game, you deserve to be scammed and abused as a customer.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They need to fail, and I really hope this next switch becomes something worse than WiiU and they disappear from the world.

However, they won't. Their fanatics won't let them.

Nintendo is famously one of the most cash rich companies out there. A fiscal report from last year indicated they had USD$9 billion in liquid assets.

Nintendo isn't going anywhere anytime soon and it has very little to do with whether or not fanatics "let them".

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My hot take is that even before they flushed their goodwill down the toilet, they were a mediocre company. "Here, buy our 500 dollar console with graphics worse than your phone so you can play the Mario game that we added a magic hat to."

Worst and most expensive products in the industry.

[–] Maalus 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Show me a platformer as good as Mario Odyssey not counting A Hat in Time, and I might stop buying from Nintendo. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are great games too. Saying that they don't offer anything valuable is misguided.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have to buy their shitty overpriced console to play those. The value nosedives.

And psychonauts 1/2 are right there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Also switch games are so easy to pirate and emulate lol, and it seems like switch 2 games might be easy too

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[–] Kelly 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

most expensive products in the industry.

Counter point: PS5 Pro is au$1200 vs Switch OLED for au$540

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Counter counterpoint Ps5 pro is modern hardware. Switch internals were outdated at launch and they still cost the same as 7 years ago.

Ps: I do believe Ps5 pro is stupidly overpriced, but that doesn't mean Switch isn't.

Edit: typo

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I think people are jumping to the conclusion way too fast. We should wait and see what the actual case is about before making judgements.

[–] yamanii 18 points 6 days ago

Patents are cancer for software, I'll side with Carmack before Nintendo any day.

[–] zzx 19 points 6 days ago

I think that conclusion is being come to because Nintendo has a really bad history with patent and legal abuse

[–] Maggoty 16 points 6 days ago

Nah. Unless these guys literally stole the code, Nintendo can fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

ya man fuck them!!! Like who gives a fuck what's happening we just want to fuck everyone when there's a chance

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

we just want to fuck everyone when there's a chance

No, just specifically Nintendo as they have shown that they are complete assholes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Nintendo can specifically go fuck themselves for being such litigious bastards.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have been boycotting nintendo for a while now. But it seems that for most people, they don't care how horrid a company is so long as they get to consume.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The best example of this is Disney.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What makes Disney particularly difficult to boycott is that it is a monopoly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

They don't have a monopoly on entertainment.

[–] badbytes 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you can't beat them, sue them. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

The Nintendo way. If someone else is making money, make that your money instead

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