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Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit
(www.videogameschronicle.com)
Nintendo are rightly losing their free pass with gamers.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
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That is very true, but the Venn Diagram overlap between Gamers^TM^ and ‘Nintendo gamers’ is a rapidly shrinking area.
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Fuck Nintendo.
I don't care about Palworld, but I do hate Nintendo. Enemy of my enemy and all that.
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I can get the pokéball, but mounts in games are older than pokémon. That one makes no sense.
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Can't they just release free DLC with those features worldwide exlcuding Japan where those patents are enforceable ?
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Copyright and patent laws need to die.
Victims of Stockholm Syndrome always focus on what their abusers provide, but never what they take away.
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This is insane - Pokemon cannot trademark having mounts in games. Screw Niantic, the Pokemon company and especially Nintendo which basically controls the first two. Screw them
Do not support these companies.
Sincerely, A life long Pokemon fan
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Patents should last 10 years instead of 20, and digital patents even less.
I can see why patents are so long when you need to build like a billion dollar factory to make a product and mass produce it.
Digital concepts don't take that much investment and once you have it you don't need to invest in making more, it's just there.
So yes, digital patents should be a fraction of the time that physical patents should be. Like 2 years instead of 20.
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Here's hoping Pokemon and Nintendo see disappointing sales. Everytime someone brings up Pokemon, bring up Palworld and how massive of a dick the Pokemon Company/Nintendo was. When people talk about the Switch 2, they bring up all the lawsuits Nintendo brought up on fans, all the YouTubers that dealt with issues because suing people, I'd assume, is Nintendo's main income source at this point..
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I don't play Palworld, but still hate firms that behaves like this. Not buying Nintendo anymore 🥳 Emulators from here on :)
Patenting common stuff like this is just stupid! Think I read somewhere that Apple patented squares with rounded corners 😂 Hope Nintendo doesn't use rounded corners in any of their in-game menus.
I though patents were ment to protect important original ideas. Stuff with impact.
I wonder how hard it would be for an "unofficial" patch to "somehow" be released that restores the previous functionality
Why is there nothing in place to punish Ninendo for doing shit like this?
Patent law is rigged. Legal monopolies shouldn't exist.
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How is it that pokemon has a hold on things like animals allowing flight, but gliders allowing flight isn't under patent?
Like, whoever did gliders first needs to sue Nintendo to change breath of the wild, no gliders allowed anymore.
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Glide with a glider in your inventory like Zelda? Is that patented?