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  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    158·
    2 years ago

    Never in all of human history has there been a more appropriate time for the Surprised Pikachu Face meme.

    • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
      111·
      2 years ago

      Guy put a pokemon mod behind a pateron paywall, he was asking for it. Making a profit off nintendo’s IP blatantly.

        • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
          13·
          2 years ago

          Also apparently he ripped the assets out of a pokemon game. Not 100% sure of that but I wouldn’t be surprised, he doesn’t seem too smart.

    • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      But that’s not what’s going on here? Nintendo is suing a mod creator who modded their actual IP into the game, and furthermore locked that mod through a paywall (Patreon), so, you know, profiting off of unlicensed distribution of another’s intellectual property

      Regarding genre, yeah, nintendo has no leg to stand on, and they know it anyway. You can’t claim ownership of art styles or game mechanics, but that’s neither the article nor the situation

    • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      They don’t even have a legal case to go against Palworld anyway, unless the conspiracy-brains at Twitter are somehow correct about the devs ripping Pokemon models.

        • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          2 years ago

          Palworld developer Pocketpair has insisted Palworld is more akin to survival crafting games such as Ark Survival Evolved and Valheim than Pokemon, but that hasn’t stopped people from continuing to hit out at the game.

          And even if Palworld was a monster-taming-battling game, so what? There’s Digimon, Temtem, Monster Hunter Stories, Medabots, and so on and so on, and many have existed for decades. No company can own the IP to a genre. Ultimately, the people claiming that Nintendo/Game Freak will do this or that are a tiny minority, but journalists and youtubers thirsty for clicks are giving them a megaphone.

    • xkforce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Palworld has been in development for years which Nintendo was aware of, and could have done something about, the whole time. Both Nintendo and the company that develops and released Palworld are headquartered in Japan which doesn’t really have a concept of fair use so it wouldn’t exactly be a hard case for them if Palworld did infringe their IP. The mod OTOH was out for one day and Nintendo hit them with a cease and desist notice because it very clearly did infringe their IP and the mod was locked behind a paywall which makes it all the more egregious and therefore easy to get it taken down. Nintendo has a well deserved reputation as being sue happy when it comes to their IP being used in a way they don’t approve of. If Nintendo thought for even a milisecond that Palworld infringed their copyrights, theyd have taken them to court a very long time ago. But the internet, being full of armchair legal experts, thinks they know copyright law better than Nintendo’s cadre of lawyers. Its one of the most clear cut cases of the dunning krueger effect in a while.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Perhaps in a bid to avoid any potential issues with Nintendo, mod site Nexus Mods appears to be removing any Pokémon-related mods for Palworld from its site.

    Nexus Mods out here making every decision possible to make me avoid them even more every year.