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‘Cold-Blooded Business’: Nintendo Is Patent Trolling Palworld Because It Got Too Big (www.404media.co)
submitted 3 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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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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[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 27 points 3 months 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@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The best example of this is Disney.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

They don't have a monopoly on entertainment.