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I don’t think this is the win we want. Sounds like palwprld change the game to no longer infringe on Nintendo copyright claims. So Nintendo can no longer seek an injunction. They are still seeking damages.
I really want to see the copyright claims be challenged in court so we know where we stand. Rather then the continual settling out of court because Nintendo has more money.
It doesn’t sound like Nintendo are on track to win or lose this. Just Palworld changed the game to limit the impact of the lawsuit. Which is in a way a small win for Nintendo.
The ‘copyright claims’ (patent violations, actually) are currently being challenged in court, that is… what the lawsuits are about.
They are also not settling out of court… they’re in court already. Meaning that the eventual settlement will be that adjuctated by the courts.
Given the total extent of damages and violations that Nintendo was originally claiming… and Nintendo’s reputation as a litigious legal juggernaut…
The common expectation, when this all started, was that Nintendo would be able to functionally sue PalWorld out of existence.
That is not what seems likely to happen.
Instead, it looks like PalWorld is going to walk away from this with some scrapes and bruises, but mostly intact, Nintendo is having to massively scale back the extent of violations and damages they claiming, because basically, their legal foundation for much of it was dubious.
Yeah, not a total victory for PalWorld, but surviving at all is an incredible victory, in context.
Part of why it is an incredible victory is that it shows that Nintendo can be successfully fought in court, and you can come out intact… as opposed to just being afraid and conceeding to their demands, assuming you would certainly lose in court.
Good, maybe with this Nintendo learns their place
Palworld had to change the game so much to prevent the lawsuit from getting worse, hardly a win in my book.
Nintendo has been doing this for the last 30 years (at least, likely way longer), I doubt they’re stopping now.
I don’t know if it’s true but there is saying they have more lawyers than developers.
Doubtful but it’s hopefully the first of many losses in the future.
Good. It was built on intimidation and fake claims of copyright.
Can I get a tldr oh what’s palworld?
Ok. Palworld (a pocket monster style game like Digimon or Pokemon) released in 2024. Some people claimed it stole assets from Pokemon (or heavily plagiarized them). This has since been debunked but continues to be a bone of contention for some.
Nintendo decided to sue for patent infringement based on game mechanics (not monster design), and apply for new parents on game mechanics like mounts/creature riding mechanics, and the ability to catch creatures to enable the lawsuit against the developer of Palworld, Pocketpair.
This lawsuit has been ongoing for a couple of years now and in that time, Pocketpair have made changes to Palworld to further differentiate their game’s mechanics from Pokemon games in order to mitigate the damages from the lawsuit.
If you are so inclined you can read more about it here:
https://www.ip-brief.com/blogs/nintendo-is-wrong-on-one-patent-claim-against-palworld
Game where you enslave NotPokemon™
And shoot them with guns
And give them guns.
And use them as guns.
And have Lovander polish your guns barrel for extended periods of time.
Fun little animal capture Battler with base building and guns. Nintendo sued then for having a mechanic of being able to grow to capture and ride mounts without extra steps. Revised payments in the middle of the law suit too iirc.
A kitchen sink monster taming survival sandbox game with Pokemon-like cute creatures, a handful of reaaaaally familiar designs, edgy shock factor marketing featuring gun violence and animal abuse, and enough obviously Pokemon-inspired gameplay elements that Nintendo decided to bring out all the IP big guns, from copyright infringement down to bullshit mechanics patents and claims that mods don’t count as prior art. (if a modder invents something, no they didn’t, and a developer that puts the same feature in a game years later can sue anyone who imitates the mod, according to Nintendo.)
You can’t use a search engine?
Many microblogging and aggregation platform users prefer to ask questions within a thread to keep the conversation active. You can continue scrolling through other posts while waiting for an organic reply from another user.
You can also keep a conversation going by being an insufferable cunt, Lets all thank Summzashi for providing an excellent example of this.
Nah, a proper question and contribution would be to ask what the lawsuit is about. It’s ridiculous to expect others to explain what a high profile game is, that’s what a search engine is for. It takes literally 5 second or less to Google it and look at screenshots to understand what’s the point here.
This isn’t contributing anything. If your “active” conversation is nothing more than asking about widely available facts, it’s nothing but noise and might as well not be there.
How dare people converse?
You can’t just block and move on? I sure as hell will.
lol
