https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/01/24/the-pokemon-company-announces-it-will-investigate-palworld-ip-and-assets
>The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets
Let's fricking Go!
The Pokmon Company Announces It Will Investigate Palworld IP And Assets
Every Palworld asset has already been confirmed to have been built from scratch
All and every allegations of Pocketpair "stealing" assets has been thoroughly debunked
Kek this, and I'm sure Gamefreak knows this so while they've put up this front about investigating, they won't do shit because they literally can't do shit
They would have stopped the game launching after the trailer showed up 3 years ago if they had a case.
>Every Palworld asset has already been confirmed to have been built from scratch
This means nothing anon. For example, if Palworld did a perfect replica of Pikachu from scratch, it would be copyright infringement.
The problem is that some models have a likeness to certain Pokemon. Take a look at the OP, the eyes and mouth are identical.
This one fricking baffles me.
Everyone knows the Pokemon models have been available online for years. You can tell that even if they aren't 1:1 with the models. Pokemon's 3D models probably have directly been used as some kind of base by the Palworld devs.
This hair style doesn't make sense without the pearls. It's clearly a rip off.
I caught this one today, incredible how a fusion of Primarina, Milotic and Serperior somehow resulted into an abomination. Genuinely flabbergasted. She's lucky she has Watering 3.
Game Freak doesn’t own yellow eyes and grins.
Game Freak doesn’t own three segmented hair.
What's with people posting really disingenuous shit like
Can't you just say "yes they did rip it off but there's nothing litigious that can be done about it so deal with it" so that you don't come off as a dishonest freak
>it’s disingenuous because I’m assblasted about a true statement
You’re right, Pokemon ripped off Toriyama’s eyes and triangle shoes.
Yeah it's like they can't admit that the models have near-identical features. Like
the loose spikes of hair are of the same number of spikes and at exact same position as Primarina.
Which could only really be explained by the Pal Monster being Frankensteined from Primarina's model rather than an original creation.
It's because some people's thoughts are slowly becoming extremely binary. They think all laws are good. If you suggest that "this thing is legal but shitty", their Pavlovian conditioning will activate.
I blame ads and the algorithms in social media.
I mean they are pretty up front about it in their designs. A lot look like pokemon bootlegs and they don't try to hide it much. Coromon, Nexomon and many others have done the same and most people agree that that is fine.
Many claim this one is different because they believe they actually used the assets that were developed by nintendo in their own game and show things like the hair and the eyes to "prove" it.
The shark teeth and pupils line up
It has the same hair strands.
Stop with this "who cares" mentality and don't be surprised if Palworld gets fricked over it. I'm hoping they end up having just change some features.
Game Freak isn’t the only one allowed to make yellow eyes and sharp teeth.
Game Freak isn’t the only one allowed to make hair with strands.
> and don't be surprised if Palworld gets fricked over it
There’s literally nothing to frick over Palworld with. Should Toriyama go after everyone who makes anime characters with triangle eyes and pointy shoes?
Pokegays aren't the only ones allowed to say moronic shit
The grin and eyes are pretty standard features, the eyes are straight up catbus and the teeth are a common shark like feature
The hair one can argue, but the grin + eyes is way too generic
The Meowth has actually moddled teeth though.
Pikachu yes, but not every Pokémon is trademarked like Pikachu is. The vast majority have drastically less legal protection.
>Take a look at the OP, the eyes and mouth are identical.
So GameFreak invented the Cheshire cat now? The frick is wrong with you clowns.
Sure you can base your character on Cheshire Cat, but the one thing these variations do not do is leech off one another. Why is it so hard for Palworld not to draw the same exact eyes and mouth off of Meowth? Or the same exact shape of Primarina's hair? All they have to do draw that, but off the top of their hear, because it sure doesn't like they did.
>but off the top of their hear
head
seethe harder c**t
The only one seething here is you, I'm just giving a logical explanation.
Explain how instead of being angry.
>Take a look at the OP, the eyes and mouth are identical.
What is the Cheshire Cat ???
You're a moronic homosexual
If you could sue someone for "Likeness" that way, Disney would of sued most other cartoon makers into submission years ago.
hi Joe!
Take a look at the posting times, moron.
>Every Palworld asset has already been confirmed to have been built from scratch
Oh really, would you please give me a teaspoon of proof, moron?
asmongold told me so
I like how this has became a game of where's waldo with various pals and their stol- err "inspirations"
if its not obvious it has the same head as pancham minus the ears and a duck bill plastered on
This. The “statement” was just to get pathetic bootlicking manchild homosexuals like OP to stop emailing them. Can’t wait for the “w-whatever happened to the investigashun??” threads. Big “two more weeks “ energy.
$5 says that TPC won't learn anything from what Palworld did like not having the selection of ridable Pokemon be gatekept to a a select few Pokemon.
I'd bet the next games will still look and run like shit as well.
And how is this related to IP stealing allegations?
It's not, but TPC deserves to be shitted on.
Because if it turns up in 10/11 you know gamefreak stolen it.
The statement sounded more like a boilerplate "We know! Stop e-mailing us about it! If we could have sued them, we would have when it was announced three years ago!" buried in legalieze to me.
>$5 says that TPC won't learn anything from what Palworld did like not having the selection of ridable Pokemon be gatekept to a a select few Pokemon.
Why would they? Let's be honest, Scarlet/Violet broke records, and even after Palworld whatever is the next Pokemon game is likely going to break more records, especially if it launches on Switch 2.
That's the problem, it's the world's most profitable franchise, they have no reason to care when it will sell anyway, not like Palworld will make a scratch in the sales of whatever the next game is. That is why it's been going downhill for years and they don't care to fix it. Something would have to actually effect their profits for them to give a shit, and I can't see even Palworld doing that.
>do you really think they will sit by and let Palword take any of their territory?
Palworld was made by a Japanese studio. IIRC the dev's office is even close to the Pokemon offices.
>The bone structures on something that is basically a tube happen to be similar
You don't say? Considering that the Pals have far more animations than Pokemon, even with different Pals having their own animations for the SAME action, a bit hard to argue it was copied for the sake of animations.
Yes, by what people generally call "the squint test", where if you can barely tell the difference if you squint at a picture of two things it's close enough to be infringing. Nobody is going to see a screenshot of someone shooting a mon with an AK-47 or literally butchering humans for meat and think "Yup, that's Pokemon"
>It would have been an easy lawsuit but Gamefreak literally doesn't have a pair.
Of.... Pockets you could say?
>>The bone structures on something that is basically a tube happen to be similar
He says their topologies are exactly the same.
I honestly don't care about Palworld, but what are their actual chances of pulling through if legal action is taken?
It goes without say that a lot of their models are very similar to actual Pokemon. Palworld is selling their likeness, so I'm guessing the Pokemon Company would win any potential case.
What would the outcome of this be? I think the most probable outcome would be, Palworld is taken off steam and they make a new game with all the problem designs taken out.
Well they now have half a billion dollars to spend on lawyers
At worst, a settlement
Likely nothing will happen
They made a lot of money, which is why I think the outcome would be a settlement, with a new project released at a later time.
Why?
They have the money to fight and develop now. Not like they have a chance of losing any legal fight
Nintendo knows this and so is likely not to fight at all, so they don't have to pay legal fees
>They have the money to fight and develop now
There is no reason for them to waster their money fighting.
>Not like they have a chance of losing any legal fight
Anon, some designs are nearly identical. Like the grass rabbit. The chances of them winning are slim, that's why their best bet would be not to drag out a costly suit, and just use the press to push their next project.
The pr disaster that would be taking a settlement is way worse
Ya 100% TPC will do nothing, no point and with dedicated servers up, no way to remove it now
>The pr disaster
I'm sure those angry PC gamers would hurt the sale of a Nintendo game in a Nintendo console.
They don't give a frick, they'll shut it down if they can.
No I mean that ant settlement would require palworld to relaunch under a new name
This would ruin pals pr
Ni way they would take that settlement
Why would they need to make a new name?
If tpc is sueing and offering a settlement there would be no way they would let the current game continue
>No I mean that ant settlement would require palworld to relaunch under a new name
I don't think they would need to change their name. But, other than that, the PR of being the game "shut down by pokemon" is monumental.
Cope, palworld is finished. Do you actually think TPC won't really sue them? It's blatant theft. Enjoy your little game while you can, your fun is about to be OVER
They'll just use their millions and millions of dollars to hire competent modelers and artists who can make legally distinct designs. Palworld has proven itself to be far too profitable to just abandon.
Japan is a five eyes nation and Pokemon one of its greatest mind kontroll tools, do you really think they will sit by and let Palword take any of their territory? Palwolrd devs better sleep with one eye open, they WILL be coming for you soon.
>pokegay is an unironic schizo
take your meds and try not to think about the monster in your closet anon
> Japan is a five eyes nation
Ummmm no it isn’t moron
>They'll just use their millions and millions of dollars to hire competent modelers and artists who can make legally distinct designs
This makes me think it was done intentionally.
Think about it, any moron could see some of the designs were almost identical, so why didn't they? They probably wanted to get the attention to make money, bail on this game, and release a new version in a few months. I wouldn't be surprised if they were already half finished with it.
They just used moronic kids who couldn't model and didn't understand you can't rip off Pokemon designs.
Maybe they could instead use their money towards making a game that isn't a broken piece of shit for once
Palworld will be sued to death because TPC sees it as a threat to their monopoly.
>daddy Masuda these guys made a game like Pokemon you should sue them
>fine, we'll put out a statement if it gets you kids to shut up
They aren't going to do shit
Yup exactly. The statement was just corpo speak for "YEAH WE KNOW GUYS, CHILL OUT AND STOP SPAMMING OUR FRICKING INBOX"
At most they'll hire a contractor to frick around with some assets for a couple of months, write a vague report about it, and then nothing will happen. Game Freak and TPC can easily just point to the switch hardware team and say it's their fault for making the damn system so easy to crack. Neither of them wanna tangle with any of this shit, especially Game Freak, they're already sweating like a pig trying to push out a new game every year
You're delusional. Palworld WILL be sued, and the game WILL be taken down.
They can't do shit lol, they can't prove to a judge that the Palworld assets were stolen from Pokemon and they wont try unless they're 100% certain. There's nothing for them to do except b***h at Nintendo. But Palworld is just a competitor and Pokemon's gotta deal with it the same as they would deal with any other competitor, and Palworld isn't even marketed for kids so I doubt they care very much anyway
they dont even need to prove they were stolen
they just need to prove that Palworld was copyright infringing which can be done the old fashioned way
What "old fashioned way" you mean?
Copyright infringement is not some magic, they actually would need to prove that Pocketpair infringed on their intellectual property and having ugh vaguely similar looking creatures is not it.
TPC can do jack shit about Palworld.
Show me the stolen assets in Palworld. Oh wait, the only person that claimed that they exist ended being a fricking liar lmao.
>Show me the stolen assets in Palworld.
This person says their bone structures are identical.
It's already been explained thatthey don't need to have stolen the assets to be sued.
If they don't kill Palworld, Pokemon's monopoly is over. It's a bigger threat that Yo-kai Watch. They won't just sit around and do nothing.
It's not though, Palworld isn't very Pokemon like and it's just a bunch of cobbled together stock assets from the Unity store. It's addictive but not well made.
You're right, but it's still better than S/V.
>isn't very Pokemon like
real question here, what is "Pokemon like" exactly?
Shitty boring ass turn based combat, cringy stories and making the same game over and over again for 20 years.
How is Palworld a threat to Pokemon?
I bought Palworld and just in the first 5 minutes I've found
>meme character creator that lets you make yourself stupidly fat while having tiny legs like in Ark
>"Creating the world..."
>a tutorial on how to build a workbench
And graphics and performance worthy of Scarlet and Violet.
No joke, I played this on the Deck and somehow runs worse at minimum than Red Dead Redemption 2 at a combination of minimum to ultra settings despite the fact that at minimum it looks as bad as SV while having an even worse drawing distance.
This isn't Pokemon, is just another Early Access survival game.
B-b-b-b-b-b-but what about the 9 gorillion sales a-a-a-and the g-g-g-great gameplay?!
N-n-n-not to mention the a-amazing graphics?
>How is Palworld a threat to Pokemon?
Because it's just better.
It has nothing to do with Pokemon, this is just another early access survival game with some creatures that happen to look like Pokemon, but conceptually it has nothing.
If Pokemon tried being this it would probably flop even harder than PLA, because it just has nothing to do with it.
Well, they do have one thing in common as I said, the atrocious technical aspect.
so you want it to be even more carboon copy for it to like Pokemon?
When people talked about Pokemon for adults, or Pokemon but better, yes, I expected the games, but better, maybe the realistic Pokemon I've always fantasized about.
Not to replace everything with the same survival mechanics every other EA game has.
Plus the creatures I've found so far all look just as cutesy as nuPokemons, which is a disapointment.
dude, you are nickping everything, it is clear you are just playing to say that you "tried" and hate it
Maybe people, especially on Ganker, are just normies that enjoy Ea survival crafti g games that are never finished.
Keep in mind, even if people shit on Call of Duty or Starfield, both these games solde over ten million copies.
Maybe people, especially on Ganker, are just normies that enjoy Ea survival crafti g games that are never finished.
Keep in mind, even if people shit on Call of Duty or Starfield, both these games solde over ten million copies, and they are the normiest FPS and Open world adventure games. People like buying whatever is new, yet the hype or hatred never lasts forever.
Somehow while editing my post it posted it twice. My bad.
It has nothing to do with Pokemon because Pokemon is now about human dramas and hebe waifus.
You will never belly rub your Pokemon. You will never hold hands with your Pokemon. You will never get petted by your Pokemon.
This is a just a silly visual trick. The player is crafting and the Pal comes up right behind him and begins crafting as well. They're both crafting the same item.
>You will never belly rub your Pokemon. You will never hold hands with your Pokemon. You will never get petted by your Pokemon.
Don't care about that, if you want to hurt me tell me I will never use my Pokemon in an actually compentent online infrastructure or be forced to build teams out of them strategically to defeat a trainer in the singleplayer.
>>you will never have high quality bonding mechanics with your mons
>Don't care about that
How did Pokemon fans become like this? How are Pokemon fans more heartless than the fans of the game where you shoot the mons and have them do hard manual labor?
I don't know, have you tried not being a woman?
Years of GF's monopolization of the monster-catching genre have forced Pokephiles into a stockholme syndrome mindset where they defend everything GF rectally deposits into their mouths without question as they can't imagine or mentally process a reality whether a Pokemon alternative actually exists.
If GF doesn't want to include petting, Pokeprisoners will sadly defend it tooth and nail as its what their god commands regardless of whether it will improve the games of not.
>If GF doesn't want to include petting, Pokeprisoners will sadly defend it tooth and nail as its what their god commands regardless of whether it will improve the games of not.
Just... make sure your hands are empty before you pet them.
No, it's more the fact that I'm fed up with the "cutesy" part of Pokemon and the whole "Pokemon are our wholesome friends".
Amie, the picnics, whatever that shit in SWSH was almost made me puke.
Don't the Pokemon literally genocide Adaman's people for no reason in PLA?
Being sinful isn't no reason
>one of the biggest problems of nuPokemon is the constant homosexualry about how Pokemon are our friendly pets, even fricking legendaries like Rayquaza or Arceus, God itself
>Palgays actually think a problem with Pokemon is that there's not enough of this homosexualry
The more I read about you people the more I realize that your ideal Pokemon game wouldn't be something like a realistic, serious Pokemon game, or one that's finally centered again on the battles and gives NPCs have actual competitive teams that force you yo strategize, but that it would be a game with barely any battles, maybe even no battles at all, and that turns Pokemon into an open world Nintendogs where you just pet Pokemons and roll on the grass all day with them while feeding them cupcakes.
If all you care about is battles then you may as well replace Pokemon with guns or robots or some shit.
Too late, Hudson already did that in 1998
we made the mistake of allowing compgays to think they were welcomed and now all they want is a rerelease of showdown every 3 years.
Compgay here, I'd be fine with one per gen, or even just a single one that gets updates every now and then.
>play for 5 minutes
>whine about tutoral and character creation
>game bad
I've been playing for 20 minutes now and they are the same first 20 minutes of every other EA survival game.
Though I'll say that the "creating the world" part almost killed any motivation because it's the developers telling you that it's just a sandbox and you won't find anything unique.
>Though I'll say that the "creating the world" part almost killed any motivation because it's the developers telling you that it's just a sandbox and you won't find anything unique.
I'm not sure why it says that because the map is not procedurally generated AFAIK. It might have been a badly translated message of them saying they were loading everything into the world. But if you look at people's playthroughs, everyone has the same map.
>Would you like some cheese with that WHINE?
Oof, fighting words.
>And graphics and performance worthy of Scarlet and Violet.
What kind of fricking dinosaur computer do you have? It ran perfectly for me at 1080p with everything cranked up and I have a 5-year old GPU that I got used from eBay. Scarlet and Violet runs BETTER on that same computer when emulated than it runs on my Switch.
You are also blind if you think the graphics look anything close to S&V, unless you was running it on a toaster from 2012 at 640x480 with everything cranked down to the minimum... and still somehow managing to get poor performance.
>this is just another early access survival game with some creatures that happen to look like Pokemon
Not really true, it definitely has a creature catching and fighting mechanic that bears some similarities to Pokemon, it's just that it's not the only gameplay mechanic of the game.
>What kind of fricking dinosaur computer do you have?
I'm playing it on the Steam Deck.
Of all the games I've thrown at the Deck Palworld is the only one that runs like shit, despite the fact that it's the worst looking game i've tried on it as well.
I've played Assassins Creed Unity, RDR2, Crysis 3, Stalker Anomaly, and Monster Hunter World, and they all ran better.
>You are also blind if you think the graphics look anything close to S&V
Try on minimum, not only the graphics look just as bad, but at minimum draw distance you can see stones spawning 5 feet ahead of you.
>The pals are working on an assembly line making ak47s
Palworld glows holy shit lol, no wonder mkultra'd zoomies are slurping it up. What's next, the Ukraine+Israel Glorious Defense DLC?
Nintendie tards are absolutely fuming
TPC isnt going to do jack shit btw
TPC is trying to figure out how to kill Palworld in a way which won't damage their public image or inadvertently make Palworld even more popular. Imagine if people started showing up with grizzbolt shit at their Pokemon conventions. It wouldn't be a good look for them.
It's OVER. Is your chest PALpitating yet, losers? TPC is coming for you, and will do EVERYTHING it can to protect EVERY pokemon from your thieving grip. Watch your backs, Palworlders. LETS FRICKINGG GOOOOOOO
Is it not possible to say "games should not copy assets" whilst also thinking that huge corporations shouldn't be able to sue little companies or individuals
Nintendo is too busy going after splatoon tournaments and striking down fan games to deal with CHADworld
Your soul is black if you like Palworld. The shit never would have happened under Trump, Japan is being bullied into place for the coming global conflict. TPC will not allow such humiliation, prepare youself and lube up for the swift justice coming your way.
If this is anything like what happened between zblizzard and Valve over DotA (the characters, not the name) or Blizzard and Games Workshop they'll just hash shit out behind the scenes and some Palword characters will be slightly redesigned. Generally having a comfortablly small and indirect rival is great for business (expands market, helps with antitrust) but we'll have to see how autistic the Japanese are.
Nintendo didn't sue them when they clearly stole zelda assets, why woulf they sue now? They don't actually steal any consumers. Palworld selling 20 millions doesn't mean Pokemon won't sell 20 millions either.
hopefully they will investigate the twittertroon who ripped palworld and pokemon models
>scaling
again, simple value change, not making your own models
>non-uniform scaling
again simply changing it however you want until you get the result that supports your bias
I hope pocketpair drag that disgusting fricker to the court for this smear campaign and destroy it financially. It's the least it deserves for being a bootlicking pokegay
>Free speech for me, but not for thee
dudes a certified animal fricker
He purged his entire twitter too, this Black person is not doing this because of "animal abuse".
All these PETA glowies coming out of the wood work building this conversation for decades against pokemon, and now they all screech animal abuse because now they do something more than just dog fight lmao.
Nintendo will be seen as demons for going after such a lovable game. I except full boycotting of their games. I highly doubt they will touch Palworld.
Imagine GameFreak letting you do this with Gardevoir.
WTF THATS SO CUTE
bad pr? eehh who gives a frick you'll buy it anyway lmao
>button says pet
>you hold the Pals hand instead
GOD IM SICK OF THESE LAZY FRICKING DEVELOPERS REFUSING TO PUT IN ALL THE EFFORT WE DESERVE. THE HIGHEST GROSSING GAME ON STEAM EVERYONE, GOD #PALDEVSARELAAAZYYY
>a $7k project did more in 1 year than what a multi billion dollar project did in 20
What mental illness is making people buy this ARK simulator so much? What the actual frick?
>inb4 seethe pokegay
I hate Scat and Vomit
No other game appeals directly to Pokemon fans. Pokemon is the biggest franchise, so of course it exploded.
ARK is a pretty generic survival game which is a popular genre. The original had a lot of bugs and the game didn't feel too good to navigate and play. This one has polished its gameplay and added pokemons to it.
The developers said they didn't try to be original but to make a good experience based on things that they knew people liked.
It's an amalgamation of a bunch of different genres and addictive game design to cast as large of a net as possible.
Don't care about Palworld but I'm gonna the slapfight that will follow anyways.
>t.poke/digigay
Just tried it, I don’t see what the hype is about in all honesty.
no turn based combat plus slavery of pala and humans sold it to me
why are pokefriends like this?
The pokemon fanbase has always been weird and ultra possessive as frick about the franchise. They're basically the adult Disney fans of video games.
>The pokemon fanbase has always been weird and ultra possessive as frick about the franchise
It is one of those things like sonic. For some reason, sincerely dysfunctional autists love pokemon. Idk enough about autism to say exactly why they are drawn to these kinds of interests but they get obsessed over shit just like this.
A lot of the people freaking out and running to gamefreaks defense are honestly probably truly and genuinely deeply autistic.
It isn't a coincidence that sonichu is half pokemon.
Autist here
Familiarity. Literally it being stale as frick makes it soothing and comforting
Show me the stolen assets in Pizza Tower
moron
There's no stolen assets in Palworld
Everything has been made from the ground up inhouse
Let me guess, you're one of the twats who think "scaling=different model"
It's not just scaling. They have totally different polygon counts. It's obvious that the modelers looked at the Pokemon and made crude imitations of their design elements.
Yeah if by crude imitations you mean 1:1 copies of key elements.
I'm saying they aren't 1:1 copies.
They were removed from the release build.
>Spoiled babies throw tantrums
really makes you think
Samegayging /reddit/ troony using his mobile phone detected
Palworld is completely shameless at stealing Pokemon assets
>Furshitless Decidueye
Shit, i think they've won me over.
Your comparison for the electric horse is Manetric and not Zebstrika?
This, its using Manetric's color scheme but it's more Zebstrika than anything
Get over it homosexual. Why the frick do you care if some multi billion dollar franchise gets its assets used. I wish ONE of toy pokemon autists could explain WHY you are willing to whine and moan in the defense of a franchise this size.
Seriously, why the actual frick does this matter to you? Why do you actually care?
Why does the size of the corporation automatically make stealing from it okay? You realize then your innocent little underdog is just going to replace it as the soulless evil monster in your best case scenario right?
>You realize then your innocent little underdog is just going to replace it as the soulless evil monster in your best case scenario right?
Not wrong considering the other big indie successes.
You can’t steal anything that isn’t physical property, in my opinion.
That's a pink Zorua tho.
Anyway that bootleg Luxray is absolutely shameless and daring.
It's also not even in the game (yet)
>sheep, flowers, women, lions, dancer, cats, and fat people didn't exist before 1996
this confuses an enrages the pokestan tendie
Good job completely ignoring the point.
Good job not understanding how copyright actually works. Cry some more.
If any of those popped up in some shit like TemTem no one would give a single solitary frick about it.
That Liligevourbossom is pure sex
All of them are improvements.
Based. I’m glad Pokémon was ‘stolen’ from and improved upon. The palworld designs are all so much better.
its joever
GF started it
Japanese are discovering that Palworld are stealing monster designs from artists on either Pixiv and Twitter
>It's ok if Temtem steals fakemon designs
>It's not ok if Palworld is inspired by fakemon designs
Do you haver a source to This?
I know there are fakemon in temtem, but they got permission from the artists.
Temtem paid somebody to use their fakemon
this one feels like a pretty big stretch
the body shape is there, sure, but there's so many differences between the two designs that it's hard to prove it as anything more than a coincidence
hell, there's pokemon designs that have closer similarities to fakemon designs
This OC Pokemon design was first designed by the artist back when he was in middle school in the year 2011 before he improved on it when he grew up
https://twitter.com/11_ima/status/1378711879548170240
>bipedal fire
Bro, When I was 6 I made goat like this. Its not creative
This is their way of saying "Stop bothering us about it Jesus Christ we don't care" They won't investigate shit at all, there's no case here. And if they do and lose, they'll completely kill whatever credibility and goodwill they have left
There's no way they would lose. They clearly copied Primarina's hair, among other things.
>They clearly copied Primarina's hair
But they didn't? The devs obviously made it from scratch
Or are you going to bring up a pokegay's fabricated scaling-falsificated models as evidence?
I'm not talking about asset stealing.
>The devs obviously made it from scratch
Shit argument.
Look man, no court is gonna give Nintendo a win. Got any idea how many different companies are looking at this situation? This is the perfect opportunity to make Nintendo eat loads of shit and permanently damage the one franchise that has kept them above and beyond the competition for decades.
Nintendo knows this.
But it's just the shape of Primarina's hair? Do they have that hair style copyrighted?
It's evidence that hey copied the assets. I guess we'll see if it is true only if they start legal actions.
Well that's a kind way of telling the people spamming their inboxes to frick off.
https://twitter.com/themimegogo/status/1750591419469959665
wouldn't suprise me if palworld has a team of artist making minor adjustments to all the models now that if anything did come their way they could quickly change it in an update
Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc., 863 F.Supp.2d 394 (D.N.J. 2012), was a 2012 American legal case related to copyright of video games, confirming that a game's look and feel can be protected under copyright law. Tetris Holding is a company that holds the copyright to the original Tetris game from 1985 and licenses those rights to game developers. Xio Interactive is a game developer that released Mino in 2009, a mobile game based on the gameplay of Tetris. Mino was downloaded millions of times, and Tetris Holding filed a DMCA notice and eventually a lawsuit against Xio for copyright infringement.
The earliest video game case law had protected the designs in Galaxian and Pac-Man. But later cases such as Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc. found that it is permissible to make a video game clone with similar ideas and principles as another game, since copyright does not protect an idea, only the specific expression of that idea. A trial occurred in 2012, the first case in a long time to proceed to trial on this issue. The district court ruled for Tetris Holding, with Judge Wolfson applying the Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison test to determine if any infringement occurred. Although standard gameplay ideas are not copyrightable, Mino was still substantially similar to Tetris in terms of its art style, and those elements are in fact protected by copyright. This case has since been applied in other copyright disputes to offer broader protection to the look and feel of video games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Interactive,_Inc.
Spry Fox, LLC v. Lolapps, Inc., No. 2:12-cv-00147 (W.D. Wash., 2012), was a court case between two video game developers, where Spry Fox alleged that the game Yeti Town, developed by 6waves Lolapps, infringed on their copyrighted game Triple Town. While the case was settled out of court, preliminary opinions by Judge Richard A. Jones affirmed that a video game's "look and feel" may be protected by copyright, affirming the federal district court decision in Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc. from earlier the same year.
Despite the games having cosmetic differences with different settings, the similarities between the games were evidence that Yeti Town had illegally appropriated elements of Triple Town. The judge rejected a motion from 6waves Lolapps to dismiss the case, thus undermining their main defense, since the games did have several identical gameplay elements. In October 2012, the companies announced a settlement where Spry Fox would own the intellectual property for both games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spry_Fox,_LLC_v._Lolapps,_Inc.
Palworld is clearly a controlled fake competitor invented by TPC to prevent future legitimate competitors from ever becoming a threat. Nobody would be moronic enough to blatantly rip off the designs of the largest franchise in human history.
From here on out, any other Pokemon-like game will be seen as "just a Palworld rehash" and largely ignored, further solidifying Pokemon's stranglehold on the genre.
I think the bigger issue goijng forward is that all of the Youtubers who went to bat insisting that Palworld was fun and that it didn't plagiarize anything are going to lose all of their credibility in the Pokemon community.
I expect this might be the beginning of the end of the 'Pokemon Peaked Long Ago' narrative. Kind of like how the Genwunner thing just kind of fizzled out as the games remained popular.
The common opinion is that Palworld is obviously a shameless ripoff, possibly even straight up stole the assets, and yet it's still more fun than Pokemon.
And that opinion is not acceptable because the two games are completely different genres and are therefore not comparable.
The people claiming it is more fun than Pokemon don't play RPGs anyway.
They're in the monster catching genre.
>But it's different in other ways!
Doesn't matter. They're monster catching games, simple as.
Completely different types of monster catching games, yes.
yeah, palworld is actually good while pokemon has been shit for 20+ years.
The fun part is very debatable.
I think is one of the cases of "everything is new and engaging".
I think it's how I download a random AFK in my cellphone, play for one week and delete after.
I think most people will stop to play after a couple of weeks.
The devs made everything from scratch. They built the models from the ground up. Their monster designer from elementary school next door invented all the designs by herself. They are only a smol indie company on a tight 10k budget who learned making games as they go. They couldn't have had the knowledge on how to rip assets. Debunked!
This is what Palmutts actully believe
Edit away.
Gamefreak won't do shit. They let a fake psychic bully them for YEARS when he threatened to sue them for Kadabra's existence. It would have been an easy lawsuit but Gamefreak literally doesn't have a pair.
Japanese name was was Unigeller. Best to not try.
I wonder if you morons will ever learn the difference between a patent, trademark, and copyright and then realize no one owns the rights to a zigzag toothed mouth we all drew in 2nd grade
I don't know why so many people want Palworld to crash and burn. It's a really charming game. I'm having a blast playing it.
According to pokegays, Pokemon has invented everything
Reminder that Nintendo/TPC are notoriously litigious companies that
>Forced a porn website to change their Pokemon tag to Porkyman
>Routinely DMCA small channels uploading their music to Youtube (even though Nintendo doesn't actually have a legal way to listen to most of their shit)
>Has DMCA'd countless free mods and fan games
The original trailer came out almost three years ago and was blatantly """inspired""" by Pokemon from the word go and has only gotten more blatant since then, to the point where you can eyeball the assets they've lifted. There's no way they wouldn't have already stricken this game off the face of the earth if they actually were able/wanted to.
palword is actually good publicity for Pokemon. It reminds the world that Pokemon is a big deal. and when this game loses hype in a few months, it won't be over shadowing and future Pokemon releases. If anything it may inspire the people that enjoyed Palworld the desire to actually try a pokemon game
It makes pokemon look bad by being better than it. The next pokemon game will be compared to palworld.
>palword is actually good publicity for Pokemon
TLC's sues and pokétroons crying is actually good publicity for Palworld
You can not datamine a game trailer.
>You can not datamine a game trailer.
They were uploading trailers of pretty much every Palmon to their Youtube channel nearly daily.
After Nintendo and the Pokemon Company announced they were investigating Palworld, Pocketpair made private 6 Palworld trailers on their official YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLptNv_Fxn9id_imMs6OtKXAHbA1FkfwUO
I dont expect anything to actually happen, but if it did, that would be pretty funny to see people seethe.
>Has DMCA'd countless free mods and fan games
They never attacked ANY free games.
Weren't this guys taking "donations" on their main page? They also have "Pokemon" on the title, so of course they would shut it down.
>>They never attacked ANY free games.
>Here is a free game they attacked
>>T-t-t-that doesn't count because (goalpost moving)
They were asking for donations and to support the game by giving money. That's certainly profiting from the "Pokemon" name. They learned their lesson since then and the new game they put on didn't go through that.
They tried to sue AM2R out of existence you moron. It only survived through torrents
Can't they be sued for that? That's a huge violation of fair use law.
>That's a huge violation of fair use law.
You clearly have no idea how fair use works.
Am2r was free. You can't sue fan art, it's perfectly legal.
Palworld shills are all underaged morons.
I don't get why people call this a "Pokemon clone"
It's literally Fortnite Survival game with plagiarized Pokemon models.
They didn't even try to hide how blatantly it rips-off Fortnite animations.
Denying that the models are clearly plagiarized is pure spite for Nintendo/Pokemon. It's painfully obvious.
It's more like ARK with fakemon instead of dinosaurs
How does Palworld work? Does Pals has movepool like Pokémon ? How do you pick moves for Palworld while shooting at the same time
Can't wait for a nothing burger of a smear campaign this will be against palworld. Pokecucks and Gayfreaks on suicide watch.
how good are their legal team?
>pokemon steals designs for 25+ years
>nobody bats an eye
why didn't Square, Bandai, and other companies use Pokemon?
What is that Charizard holding a sword and shield from?
That Dragon Quest one is really reaching. Only a few in the middle have some resemblance.
If they had a case they'd have jumped on it already. They're literally only saying it to get frickheads like OP to stop emailing them constantly.
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do NOT bully!
Palworld ain't that bad...
Can't wait to draw lewd of this thing when I finish work. I ain't buying the game though.
That's just corporate speak for "stop emailing us". Also why the frick do you care lmfao.
Hahahaha how the frick is idea/asset stealing real hahaha like unless it's a 1:1 hash direct infringement put on your big boy pants like homie talk to an actual copyright lawyer if you care this much haha
You gays on both sides are totally fricking insufferable. Every possible combination of traits that could ever be imagined already exists in potentia. Whether or not someone has copyrighted it doesn't fricking matter. It's a product that you will spend your time on one way or another unless you actively disengage from it. If it bothers you so much, just give them nicknames like "Edgetwo" or "Lilligoodra" or whatever else you need to do to cope. Call Ceruledge "Protoman." Pick your means of communicating and shut the frick up instead of pretending a single company is offering you some unique medicinal formula only they could have provided you. It's entertainment.
Aren't medicines mostly fake materials to drive up brand costs while the generic is much cheaper?
I would not have given a frick about palworld had people not shilled it here so much.
Now I hope everyone involved ends up destitute.
If you pokeBlack folk hurt my comfy base building game I will actually lose it
I've played Palworld, don't worry, you have the rest of the Early Access catalog because this game looks like every other.
I love both of these cats equeally!
This is so dumb, no one is playing palworld for original designs or because they thought it was the next Pokémon game
Why do autist think it will be shut down for literally 4 or 5 designs that are blatant rip offs
The only thing the Pokemon Company should be investigating re:palworld is how to make a decent fricking game
Just because you pokegays have atrocious taste due to playing no games beyond Pokemon doesn't mean Early Access Survival slop is good, this game has been coming out every day for 10 years.
Recommend good games, I need help
Since you liked Palworld I recommend Kenshi, the same but actually good, with a massive modding scene, no homosexual Pokemon and way more in depth.
MonHun
As a series, this is fricking embarassing. Take a look at Arceus, and compare it to Palworld. And it is clear, Pokemon / Arceus looks like /mlp/ had a foster child and Microsoft owned with their delivery.
The biggest proof of embarassment is that you Pokegays are so used to absolute shit you think Palworld is any good.
The game on minimum runs worse than RDR2 while looking like a PS3 game, and every mechanic is the same you find in any early access survival game.
Check out RDR if you want to see how a modern open world game looks like.
Or Ark: Survival evolved.