Can the tension of "family friendly nice guys" and "we sue everyone and sent a disabled person to jail" really continue existing in perpetuity?
  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I love how this continues to crank out articles with 0 information and everyone speculating what it might be about.

    Don’t get me wrong, Nintendo are dickheads, but you can clearly see how everyone greedily clicks on these articles considering how often they get rehashed.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t understand. So if I make a video game and my main character is an Italian plumber who wears red and blue, jumps on mushroom people and grows when he eats a mushroom, and Nintendo sues me. Nintendo is wrong? Or are we pretending palworld isn’t “Pokemon with guns” which was literally what people were pushing it as

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Step 1: learn the difference between trademarks and patents. Then we can have a meaningful discussion.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          That’s not what I said at all. I gave you very helpful information to put you on the path of understanding this case.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      the problem is, palworld isn’t “pokemon with guns”, they used that slogan originally sure, but palworld 100% shows more similar mechanics and concepts to ark then pokemon, it’s a mix of pokemon style mechanics and Arks RPG mechanics. I would say they had a stronger suit against trademark than they did mechanics side.

      The only game mechanic similarity between the two is the ball capture system and the fact that it’s called a trainer/leader when you battle the NPC’s anything else is already present in other games.

      By this logic, any game that features the ability to tame or capture monsters would be a pokemon clone. That’s far too broad of a category to allow as a patent if challenged. I personally believe it will result in them losing the patent as a whole if it is that patent they are fighting with.

      • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Anyways, it’s very very clear what game palworld took it’s creature design from. So I don’t think the lawsuit is as silly as the Nintendo haters insist

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          that would be a trademark or copyright suit not a patent suit. Patents are strictly mechanics, they didn’t sue on design, I agree I think they had a better case on that, but the Nintendo lawyers decided otherwise