Concern about copyright things..

[Dertin]

Am i may the only one, wondering how this game made it that far with that many things reminding of a certain IP?

i am really scared that this game will be shut down before it gets finished..

may some experts reasure me that i have not to worry..

[Ryvaku]

You are thinking too hard on it and worrying over something outside of your knowledge.
Don't stress on the unknown. Pretty sure they can do nothing because they made their own designs and there are other games that were pokemon inspired and they are fine.

[Teratus]

There's obvious influences but influences don't violate copyright.

There's nothing about this game that I can see that would be just grounds for a copyright case.

[Teratus]

Lol Nintendo really are gits for that sometimes.

I can't really blame them these days though.. cause fans are making better games from their IP's than Nintendo are putting out XD

[VolOpt]

no one owns the concept for the genera of a game.

as long as something doesn't directly violate ip (which most fan games/projects do) there isn't much if anything to be done.

[SockDog]

Same thing was said about their other game, Craftopia, and that's been released and developed for a very long time now.

[DarkFenix]

Originally posted by jidaeng:

you should ask nintendo what they think about this. i'm pretty sure they will find something to shut down this game and this company. lol

This game didn't begin development yesterday, it's been in the making for years. You can bet your ass Nintendo's lawyers have carefully examined every pixel for something that could be considered infringement of copyright or intellectual property.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's actually been dialogue behind the scenes where Nintendo have proverbially marked their territory and Pocketpair have carefully avoided trespassing on it.

[Itsapaul]

Do people actually think you can't make games like other games?

[awanderingswordsman]

Originally posted by Zeruca:

Originally posted by VolOpt:

no one owns the concept for the genera of a game.

While true Game Freak (the actual owners of Pokemon, not Nintendo like everyone keeps saying) will have issue with the mass amount of pals that are copies of existing Pokemon with slight variations that aren't even trying to be original.

No they won't and the pokemon company owns pokemon which is jointly managed by gamefreak, creatures, and nintendo (each at 1/3rd shares). Who actually makes what decisions behind the scenes is not publicly visible.

They also absolutely have no legal grounds to do anything to palworld. Even the very obvious "ripoffs" like inceneram and the cobalion look alike are distinct enough to not get sued. You are talking out of your ass.

[Velka]

search TemTem, that game is still up, this game will be fine dw

[Natey]

Originally posted by Dertin:

Am i may the only one, wondering how this game made it that far with that many things reminding of a certain IP?

i am really scared that this game will be shut down before it gets finished..

may some experts reasure me that i have not to worry..

Lol TemTem and Nexomon are still around and they're literally the same as Pokemon.

Palworld is a much different game. There's zero chance it gets shut down. Nintendo doesn't own creature capture.

[PromNightFetus]

As long as TemTem exists I doubt it. TemTem is probably one of the closest to being a true Pokemon Clone in so many aspects (though I'd argue they do some things better). If we ever see TemTem getting some sort of strike is when PalWorld might see it but as that hasn't happened yet, I don't think it'll happen here.

[Kamakura]

Legal issues could arise from the designs, but I think there's a chance that Palworld is skirting just fine enough of a line with them that they'd get away with it. At the worst, they'd just have to change up creature designs, but seeing that they haven't gotten in trouble yet, they are probably fine.

[The Dutchman]

Total non issue. Smh

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

Originally posted by Ryvaku:

You are thinking too hard on it and worrying over something outside of your knowledge.
Don't stress on the unknown. Pretty sure they can do nothing because they made their own designs and there are other games that were pokemon inspired and they are fine.

this is genuinely good advice. i live my life by not stressing or worrying about anything outside of my control. sometimes, even things directly within my control i dont worry about. the universe has a way of working itself out, in my experience. stress does not help anything and can only make things worse or lead you to make a mistake that makes the situation worse.

I do wonder how they got away with making this game too so i understand your concern. you dont want to put money into this game only for it to get sued and shut down. understandable concern, ive had too many of my favorite games get shut down for various legal reasons.

but, at least consider this, they probably talked to a lawyer extensively about this project, and im sure they had a lawyer on retainer while making this game. a lawyer probably okayed every single thing in the game because theres no way they made this game without checking with a lawyer first, theres just no way.

[Kuro]

Nintendo would have took them down after the initial trailer. Making it to the release means they're in the safe zone.