This game STEALS from a SMALL INDIE DEV!!!

[Yuuko do anime Nichijou]

YES!! You heard it right! Palworld steals its concepts from a very small indie dev. Have you guys ever heard of NINTENDO? Palworld stole all its ideas from this dev's small and unknown game, POKÉMON!
Now? HA! Now this small developer from Japan will NEVER recover. The financial blow is CATASTROPHIC.

HOW can you live with yourselves knowing this game hurts the very small and unknown indie devs at Nintendo? SHAME ON YOU!

[Evernessince]

Publicado originalmente por oh, the misery:

it won't hurt nintendo. but it will hurt the industry as a whole because why make anything unique when you can just steal? devs haven't made one unique game in their life yet they get praised for it.

You do realize the OP was in jest yes? If you think a game "stealing ideas" is bad, you've yet to realize that literally every game takes ideas from each other and this is how it's always worked in the industry. The devs aren't stealing anything, they still have to implement their own code. It'd be one thing if they did actually steal the source code from another game but it's a big nothing burger if they coded their own version of a game system that already exists. Modern games would not be able to exist if they couldn't do that.

[Trofast 🤕]

slow...clap...

[KruxSmash]

Publicado originalmente por .:

YES!! You heard it right! Palworld steals its concepts from a very small indie dev. Have you guys ever heard of NINTENDO? Palworld stole all its ideas from this dev's small and unknown game, POKÉMON!
Now? HA! Now this small developer from Japan will NEVER recover. The financial blow is CATASTROPHIC.

HOW can you live with yourselves knowing this game hurts the very small and unknown indie devs at Nintendo? SHAME ON YOU!

'Won't somebody please think of the poor billion dollar companies.'
Well played OP.

[KruxSmash]

Publicado originalmente por Tech-Priest:

Publicado originalmente por oh, the misery:

yes, nintendo bad. but you are a fool if you think this will even remotely hurt them. this only hurts small creators, because now stealing is seen as an okay thing to do.

Nothing in the game is stolen, else Nintendo would have already sued and won the lawsuit.

Having similar designs is not a violation of copyright law, you don't know what you are talking about. To violate copyright you have to prove that the designer copied a design in whole or significant part from an existing work with knowledge it was taken from the other work. Taking inspiration from an existing work is always safe, as the original design is not being used without permission.

I try to be nice, but ignorant people without a law or legal background should not open their mouths about legal matters as you only make more people who believe you ignorant.

P.S.
I have a law background.

"I have a law background"
mmm, yes, sure.
I do also.
Trust me.

[G-Yuki]

Oh no! How will Game Freak ever keep up with it's multi-cent budget?!

[Fei the SCREAMING BEAN!]

i just wanna put my own two cents in. sometimes, i just want a new game that's basically the same as an already existing game but with a few different features here and there

[Tharkkun]

Publicado originalmente por .:

YES!! You heard it right! Palworld steals its concepts from a very small indie dev. Have you guys ever heard of NINTENDO? Palworld stole all its ideas from this dev's small and unknown game, POKÉMON!
Now? HA! Now this small developer from Japan will NEVER recover. The financial blow is CATASTROPHIC.

HOW can you live with yourselves knowing this game hurts the very small and unknown indie devs at Nintendo? SHAME ON YOU!

No such thing as stealing an idea. That would be a patent. Neither Nintendo of the company who makes Pokemon for them has patented anything. Also it would've expired by now since the first game came out in 1996.

There's prior art everywhere from similar games so there's no way they could patent it at this point. They snooze, they lose.