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[Mr Moose]

What type of shit computer must you have? The game can run on toasters

9060XT/3600, 32GB RAM.
(medium preset)

 

[Danjin44]

Do I think Nintendo is going overboard on this? yes but at same time I have no sympathy for Palworld devs either.

They very obviously copying Pokémon, they should I have seen this coming.

Then again I have no love towards either Pokémon or Palworld…..when it comes to monster catching games I prefer Shin Megami Tensei.

 

[Sooner]

You are making a thread about your own Video?

Isn't that against the rules?

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

Never drink and post. Read the first few posts and you'll get the idea.

I knew it was coming, but I was still suprised. Fully commited and over the top. Thank you for your service, I needed a good laugh.

 

[marquimvfs]

I through that's was prohibited here…

Not really. If it's done in good faith and not with the sole purpose of inflating your views, it have been tolerated. Other prominent members have also done it, when the discussion is relevant to gaf community. It's not like VGEsoterica only post his (and every) videos and run away. He only post the ones with themes that have already been discussed here, and always engage with discussion here. It's only fair.

 

[BennyBlanco]

adamsapple please make this Kacho avatar when he inevitably loses that bet

 

[LakeOf9]

Never drink and post. Read the first few posts and you'll get the idea.

Holy shit that might be one of the best posts I've read on here

 

[Kacho]

adamsapple please make this Kacho avatar when he inevitably loses that bet

BennyBlanco betrayal outta no where

 

[Sakura]

Isn't it about the patent on the damn pokeballs? That's the last I heard about this.

I think they are suing about other stuff too like the ability to ride the monsters.

 

[Ribi]

Fuck Nintendo

 

[Rush2112]

Hey look two things I hate nintendo and a live service game in the same thread.

 

[Azelover]

The resemblance to Pokemon is what sold this game, lets be realistic.

It would be nothing otherwise. Nobody would even know about its existence.

 

[Danny22]

Everybody always talking about right or wrong in these discussions but Nintendo doesn't care, it will use any and every tactic until one works. Seriously why doesn't somebody in Japan ever stop this company's legal team?

Nintendo after somebody uses a banana after Donkey kong

 

[Robb]

Not surprised, Nintendo probably knows more about litigation strategies than game development.

 

[Fabieter]

I dont care for Pokemon nor Palworld but any idiot could see Palword was a blatant copy of Pokemon. Nintendo wouldve been an idiot to let that fly.

Some pal designs are straight copies but gameplay wise nintendos case is complete bullshit.

 

[Soodanim]

The resemblance to Pokemon is what sold this game, lets be realistic.

It would be nothing otherwise. Nobody would even know about its existence.

The concept is derived from Pokemon, yes. Games have done that before. Every genre clone, including every Souls-like from the past decade, exists solely because of an existing product.

Most importantly it isn't what's being defended in court.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I dont care for Pokemon nor Palworld but any idiot could see Palword was a blatant copy of Pokemon. Nintendo wouldve been an idiot to let that fly.

Spoiler: you cannot patent a game mechanic.

 

[Robb]

Spoiler: you cannot patent a game mechanic.

Isn't that literally what this suit is about though? Palworld is being sued for using game mechanic(s) such as 'throwing Pokeballs', which Nintendo has indeed patented.

Aiming a capture item (Poké Ball) at a character placed on the field (Pokémon), releasing the capture item in a direction determined by player input, judgment of whether capturing is successful or not upon contact between the capture item and Pokémon, and changing of the Pokémon's status to "owned by the player" when capturing is successful. In addition, the patent also covers the mechanic of having capture probability displayed to the player, regardless of whether it uses colors, graphics or numbers.

 

[Jacobson]

amazing how you can stretch any topic juuuust enough to get a bit over 10 mins for ad revenue lmao

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Isn't that literally what this suit is about though? Palworld is being sued for using game mechanic(s) such as 'throwing Pokeballs', which Nintendo has indeed patented.

Yes, and that's why this suit has no merit. Nintendo can TRY to patent it, they can have their patent granted even and yet the court can toss it out, as happened in EA vs. Edge.
Nintendo amending the patent during ongoing litigation tells you all it needs as how much they are confident in this lol.

 

[Astray]

I mean it's one thing to sue Pocketpair and Palworld because you think they violate your patents even if said patents are some of the most vague gameplay mechanics you could possible imagine. It's another thing to amend the patents mid lawsuit to try to strengthen their case when Pocketpair basically proves the patents should have never been granted in the first place as the patents weren't novel or unique. But Nintendo has to Nintendo lol

Pocketpair have all my support in this.

Gameplay patents are fucking awful.

 

[Robb]

Yes, and that's why this suit has no merit. Nintendo can TRY to patent it, they can have their patent granted even and yet the court can toss it out, as happened in EA vs. Edge.
Nintendo amending the patent during ongoing litigation tells you all it needs as how much they are confident in this lol.

Oh okay, yeah. Agreed.

 

[Baemono]

Definitely a David vs Goliath fight here.

A Tarô vs Shinichi I'd say

 

[Panajev2001a]

You sound biased.

You misspelled based .

 

[Lokaum D+]

Spoiler: you cannot patent a game mechanic.

Isnt LotR nemesis system WB patent and no one eles can use ?

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

You'd think a company confident in it's strengths, innovative capabilities and IPs wouldn't behave like this. Why fight over so little with so much public attention and cost on every level? Ridiculous. Becomes very apparent when you compare it to other big companies with global IPs.

 

[Skifi28]

You'd think a company confident in it's strengths, innovative capabilities and IPs wouldn't behave like this. Why fight over so little with so much public attention and cost on every level? Ridiculous. Becomes very apparent when you compare it to other big companies with global IPs.

Nintendo is a lawyer company that just happens to also make videogames on the side.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Isnt LotR nemesis system WB patent and no one eles can use ?

It was granted because it's a system, a collection of many mechanics that work together to create something novel. It still shouldn't have been granted, but that has more merit than throwing a fucking ball

 

[Ar¢tos]

I'm gonna patent a system where, upon a button press, a character defies gravity for a very short time and lifts from the terrain an height equivalent to a percentage of the character's own height, I'll call it "jumping".
And another where, upon pressing the button again while the character is no longer in contact with the terrain, during the "jumping" described before, it displaces the character even more from it. I'll call it "double jumping".

 

[Lokaum D+]

You'd think a company confident in it's strengths, innovative capabilities and IPs wouldn't behave like this. Why fight over so little with so much public attention and cost on every level? Ridiculous. Becomes very apparent when you compare it to other big companies with global IPs.

Nintendo dosent give a shit since their fans base ll defende any bad pratice or scummy thing they do.

 

[AJUMP23]

You can make a thread about your content, just disclose that.

 

[VGEsoterica]

Video game patents are BS, in general. Stand down, Nintendo.

Pocketpair have all my support in this.

Gameplay patents are fucking awful.

Exactly. Imagine an industry where such simple mechanics obtain patents. The industry would be choked out and you'd just have companies owning the concept of entire genres or simple mechanics just because they could

 

[Saber]

Isn't that literally what this suit is about though? Palworld is being sued for using game mechanic(s) such as 'throwing Pokeballs', which Nintendo has indeed patented.

Nintendo not only created that patent extremelly recently (so that means they NEVER had any interest in the mechanic, otherwise they would have tried doing that ages ago), but they also put alot of generic explanation on it.
If you read the patent, they basically patent any form of throwing oval object that afects the space around it.
It so generic that could mean anything, throwing grenades, throwing smoke bombs, throwing a Genkidama from DBZ, Rasengan from Naruto, you name it.
And remember this about patent here, they ain't after Palworld for "copying", probably because similarities are not copies. If you misk a bunch of things from Pokemon and create a monster its not longer Pokemon, even more so that Lucario ears are pretty much generic fur creature design.

 

[Variahunter]

I through that's was prohibited here…

You would have to get your head out of Nintendo's ass to see that OP has been doing that for years, notably for retro gaming.