Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit | VGC
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Palworld is patching out various features related to Nintendo’s lawsuit…

With the implementation of Patch v0.5.5 this week, we must make yet another compromise. From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals. Pals in the player’s team will still provide passive buffs to gliding, but players will now need to have a glider in their inventory in order to glide.

How lame. Japan needs to fix its patent laws, it’s ridiculous Nintendo owns the simple concept of using an animal to fly.

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    5 hours ago

    If you set out to create a game involving collecting, or even looking at and cataloguing, a bunch of different fantasy creatures, you’re going to have some that are at least a little similar to pokemon.

    If you search for a fox fire witch you’ll see different interpretations on that. But somehow Palworld made a fox fire witch extremely close to an art of a fanmade Mega Delphox.

    delphox comparisson

    It’s not an official pokémon but no way in hell they’re didn’t just create the pal based on this art, it’s just too similar.

    • calmnchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      But that’s not the point of this lawsuit. They patented broad game mechanics and are successfully litigating ownership of those ideas.