The Pokémon Company, partially owned by Nintendo, announced it will investigate Palworld for potentially using its IP and assets.
The Pokémon Company, partially owned by Nintendo, announced it will investigate Palworld for potentially using its IP and assets.
Sure agree that it read like The Pokemon Company put out a statement because they felt like they had to say something.
If they were going to try and sue them, they wouldn’t make a PR announcement about it until after the suit was filed.
The game is more of a rip off of Ark than Pokemon honestly, but unlike Ark, it’s able to be played at a decent frame rate and isnt nearly as glitchy.
Gameplay-wise, yes, but the monsters look like they took pokemon assets, alter them a little and introduce them into the game, some even look like simple palette swaps
for example:
https://www.ssbwiki.com/images/thumb/d/d6/Lucario_SSBB.jpg/250px-Lucario_SSBB.jpg
https://dotesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/anubisimagepalworld.jpg
Eh, I disagree on them being THAT big of a rip off. They’re very much 100% ripping off pokemon the idea and style, but in game none of them look like a true copy, or copy and stretch the model around. Anubis in the game just looks like what you’d think the Egyptian god (walking dog person) would look like for instance.
I 100% would not be surprised if they fed Pokemon and Pokemon fanart into an MLM and then had it generate ideas though, but it’s also possible they didn’t use ML for that and instead did the same with people. “Hey draw a Pokemon style of a [element] [animal]” lol. And let’s be real, there’s only so many animal elements monster permutations
But Pokemon doesn’t own the concept of cute monster with elemental powers, otherwise we’d never have had Digimon, TemTem, Monster Rancher, or well any other mons IP out there, so I suspect that palworld and it’s totally not Pokemon/poke balls/pokedex/gym battles game will survive for now hahaha
Digimon, Monster Rancher, and other games also didn’t have creatures that are very clearly direct knock-offs of the Pokemon creature IP, either.
Anubis is 100% Lucario, they imported it on blender changed the pawns for hands and removed the dreadlocks and put a veil and called it a day.
Yeah, of course, but none of those look like “hey, can I copy your homework” each one have their own, easily recognizable, distinct style
The only thing I’ve found surprisingly is how many folks really want to get offended on Nintendo’s behalf. Like, I like Pokemon, but I don’t give a flying fuack about this whole “controversy”, or how sure some folks are of “what happened” like they were there. Nintendo is huge, Pokemon is one of the worlds largest IPs. If they find something wrong they’re going to/ already would have torn this game apart, they don’t need regular folks out there championing for them on their behalf
I’m not offended on Nintendo’s behalf, I’m simply not a palworld simp.
I dislike both (Pokemon and palworld) equally, but is crystal clear palworld uses slightly modified pokemon assets, so I have no reason to buy or support palworld, just like I have other reasons to not support or buy pokemon games