Where's the Pokemon MOD??? Nexus Mods??

[DukeFavre]

It was removed from NexusMods.

¿ANY NEWS? It looks fantastic

[Prophet]

It's going to be hard to find. While Palworld is well clear of any copyright violations, that mod is going to be hunted down my Nintendo's lawyers and scrubbed from anywhere on the internet they can reach.

[DukeFavre]

Originally posted by Prophet:

It's going to be hard to find. While Palworld is well clear of any copyright violations, that mod is going to be hunted down my Nintendo's lawyers and scrubbed from anywhere on the internet they can reach.

We must protect the modder.

[SoloQ]

Originally posted by Prophet:

It's going to be hard to find. While Palworld is well clear of any copyright violations, that mod is going to be hunted down my Nintendo's lawyers and scrubbed from anywhere on the internet they can reach.

And by the developers of Palworld. They don't want the slightest hint of copyright infringement around their game. The pals are distinct enough that GF/Nintendo can't claim it. But the mod is outright copyright infringement.

[DukeFavre]

Originally posted by SoloQ:

Originally posted by Prophet:

It's going to be hard to find. While Palworld is well clear of any copyright violations, that mod is going to be hunted down my Nintendo's lawyers and scrubbed from anywhere on the internet they can reach.

And by the developers of Palworld. They don't want the slightest hint of copyright infringement around their game. The pals are distinct enough that GF/Nintendo can't claim it. But the mod is outright copyright infringement.

So we need to go underground and get the mod.

By any mean necessary. We need those pokemons people.

[Dr. Germs]

Originally posted by SoloQ:

Originally posted by Prophet:

It's going to be hard to find. While Palworld is well clear of any copyright violations, that mod is going to be hunted down my Nintendo's lawyers and scrubbed from anywhere on the internet they can reach.

And by the developers of Palworld. They don't want the slightest hint of copyright infringement around their game. The pals are distinct enough that GF/Nintendo can't claim it. But the mod is outright copyright infringement.

Shouldn't the law protect mods? like that's increased overreach that no company not even Nintendo should have power to.

Really the ability to parody and to mod stuff should be outside of copyright infringement...

-sigh (rip all parody movies from the 2000s)

[DirtyMick]

Originally posted by Dr. Germs:

Originally posted by SoloQ:

And by the developers of Palworld. They don't want the slightest hint of copyright infringement around their game. The pals are distinct enough that GF/Nintendo can't claim it. But the mod is outright copyright infringement.

Shouldn't the law protect mods? like that's increased overreach that no company not even Nintendo should have power to.

Really the ability to parody and to mod stuff should be outside of copyright infringement...

-sigh (rip all parody movies from the 2000s)

Look up the definition of parody. A mod that makes everything into Pokémon would not be parody.

[Thorley23]

Originally posted by Repeating Days:

Anyone have a link or the name of the mod? Love to see more pals in the world.

This rumor existed within a few hours of the game going up. I do not believe there is any such mod, as I have yet to see one streamer running it, and there probably would be if this was indeed a thing. Remember Palworld has only existed a few days now and it would take a major effort, even with AI, to create all those art assets and integrate them into the game.


That said I will not be surprised if this happens for real eventually, and I doubt much will be done. When it comes to mods and user created content so far most IP holders have been pretty hands off, including Nintendo.

To put it into perspective, way back in the day when "Spore" was supposed to be "the killer App" and the king of all games, despite it face planting one of the first things that happened was people used the creators in the game to create pretty much every Pokemon they could as closely as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if they are still out there, possibly even multiple versions, if any of the servers for that kind of content are still running. Nintendo seemed to know about it and just didn't care. I'm not a huge Pokemon fan, but thought it was cool enough where I actually had a space ship leading a "fleet" of Pokeballs each one with different "evolved Pokemon" (turned into aliens) in them. It was weird, but I am easily amused.

[Doctor Zalgo]

Originally posted by Dr. Germs:

Originally posted by SoloQ:

And by the developers of Palworld. They don't want the slightest hint of copyright infringement around their game. The pals are distinct enough that GF/Nintendo can't claim it. But the mod is outright copyright infringement.

Shouldn't the law protect mods? like that's increased overreach that no company not even Nintendo should have power to.

Really the ability to parody and to mod stuff should be outside of copyright infringement...

-sigh (rip all parody movies from the 2000s)

In this particular case the mod isn't so much a parody as a 1:1 copy.

All the people foaming about "same eyes" or "both of these Pokemon have legs" are off base, but a literal pixel perfect reproduction of Pikachu that is also called Pikachu is probably going to convince a judge that something shady is happening.

[Zac]

It's not parody, but it is fair use. That is as long as the modder made all the assets and didn't port them, given the mod was out within days of the game it's very likely not original assets. Even with fair use and hand made assets it's not unreasonable for the modder to nope tf out when big Nintendo legal starts calling. You can have a slam dunk case and those million$ an hour lawyers could keep it going for months just to bleed you dry.

[Toomadtoplay]

or ya know

[Doctor Zalgo]

Originally posted by Dr. Germs:

Originally posted by SoloQ:

And by the developers of Palworld. They don't want the slightest hint of copyright infringement around their game. The pals are distinct enough that GF/Nintendo can't claim it. But the mod is outright copyright infringement.

Shouldn't the law protect mods? like that's increased overreach that no company not even Nintendo should have power to.

Really the ability to parody and to mod stuff should be outside of copyright infringement...

-sigh (rip all parody movies from the 2000s)

Parody doesn't mean 'make a copy of it for something else'.

[Mokona]

pokemod went away because he pay walled it on patreon, unless we are talking about a different one. I'm sure we will see some eventually but modders probably dont want to go to deep right now with the game being in EA and their mods could break with just 1 update.

[A. Silvermane]

Originally posted by DukeFavre:

It was removed from NexusMods.

¿ANY NEWS? It looks fantastic

It's literally illegal. The mod author used assets ripped directly from pokemon games like LGPE which is illegal in itself to distribute but to charge for it that just elevates things to a whole new level of not legal.

[Doctor Zalgo]

Originally posted by Zac:

It's not parody, but it is fair use. That is as long as the modder made all the assets and didn't port them, given the mod was out within days of the game it's very likely not original assets. Even with fair use and hand made assets it's not unreasonable for the modder to nope tf out when big Nintendo legal starts calling. You can have a slam dunk case and those million$ an hour lawyers could keep it going for months just to bleed you dry.

Which category of fair use does it fall under: Examples of fair use in United States copyright law include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, and scholarship.

If we were talking about a 30 second flash game that that used parody (that is, a spoof, a satire, a send-up, a take-off, a lampoon, a play on (something), or a caricature) to make some point about pokemon or gaming in general. A fully realised copy of their IP intended to be played seriously wouldn't seem to sit in any of those categories neatly.

[Cmdr D.]

Originally posted by DukeFavre:

It was removed from NexusMods.

¿ANY NEWS? It looks fantastic

Nintendo is about to Sue Palworld for plagiarism. I don't think having mods on Pokemon would be a "strategic" way to help the game Devs. Tbh.