Nintendo investigate Palworld - Here is what you need to know

[AdahnGorion]

Nintendo has not sued Pocket Pair as of yet and might never do it.
Its important to understand that this is normal and that there are some claims to be had about a few Pals, albeit I find it unlikely that they end up with anything more than a claim to get a Pal changed or removed..

So should you be scared? no.. you should not. Enjoy your game and have fun. Wait for actual news to come out and don´t listen to any thread or post without a source.

Sources
https://www.pcmag.com/news/nintendos-pokemon-co-to-investigate-palworld-for-potential-lawsuit
https://www.thegamer.com/pokemon-nintendo-palworld-lawsuit-why/
(Edit) I´ve listed the original statement, because people keep talking about that and a few users have posted it.
https://corporate.pokemon.co.jp/media/news/detail/335.html

Have a wonderful day all.. I will update this once we have more news.

[mykidsnamedme]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ✠Tommy✠:

There is another game thats a litelar pokemon clone on steam and its over a year old by now. Nintendo didnt give a ♥♥♥♥ about it. They gave the "We are looking into it" statement so braindead golems stop spamming them about Palworld.

The ONLY reason people are making this fuss (I know the game you are referring too) is because Palword does was Pokemon can't and be fun.

If it wasn't so popular noone would say anything.

[lailaamell]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von A. Silvermane:

If TPC sues Pocketpair its not because they care whether they win or not, it'll be to make an example for anybody who would dare make a game reminiscent of Pokemon and to stale further development of the game until Pocketpair runs out of funds

like pokemon got enough money to kill pocket pair with legal costs

[Catpocalypse]

No more news and/or updates needed. If they had a leg to stand on, they would have cut this game up when it was announced. Do you guys forget development and beta/alpha stages of games and release notes? Come on now. End this nonsense. I'm tired of seeing it.

[AdahnGorion]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Fishypwn:

What I am afraid of is Japan's copyright law more than america's. Japan is absolutely anal about copyright. If you thought DMCA in the US was bad, you haven't seen japan.

Its not that much different, albeit it is a bit stricter I have heard.

Many of the same processes are there.

[AdahnGorion]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Catpocalypse:

No more news and/or updates needed. If they had a leg to stand on, they would have cut this game up when it was announced. Do you guys forget development and beta/alpha stages of games and release notes? Come on now. End this nonsense. I'm tired of seeing it.

We have discussed why that is not the case. But I also still agree that its highly unlikely anything will happen.

[Mechnokor]

Agreed, the statement was just to shut up the pestering fans.
What better way than to investigate and then say "We found the game to contain zero Pokemon assets or similar material" An official "This game is legit" statement.
Thus doing the OPPOSITE of what those fans wanted.
They wanted the game to DIE, but if nintendo does this instead....
Yeah just waiting for those reactions is fun xD

Worst that might happen is designs being changed, however...
Given this game is going to have full mod support in the future, modders will just add them back.

[Luna ~]

can't copyright mechanics or ideas cope and seethe.

[kampfer91]

The whole statement have same energy as Gaben proclaimed there will be update for TF2 in one of the interview .

[Minute-globe]

NO ONE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CARES. TENDIES ARE PATHETIC.

[Zinkr7x]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von A. Silvermane:

If TPC sues Pocketpair its not because they care whether they win or not, it'll be to make an example for anybody who would dare make a game reminiscent of Pokemon and to stale further development of the game until Pocketpair runs out of funds

If they sued Palworld, it means they found some actual evidence that links the models to their game. Thus far however, despite people suggesting the models are sus, we know the models 100% are actually different and there's no evidence to suggest they are modified Pokemon models.

They're never suing for the designs being too close, because Nintendo is aware of how copyright works. Not only can Palworld afford to legally defend against those claims, Nintendo will get ultra countersued and will just bleed money over that.

[AdahnGorion]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Minuteworld94:

NO ONE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CARES. TENDIES ARE PATHETIC.

What is a tendie?
I think people care, this was even on CNN

Link here
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/24/tech/palworld-sales-pokemon-with-guns/index.html

Its still important for me to say, that its not likely anything happens, but its all the rave atm.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AdahnGorion:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Exocrime:

Did something happened to TemTem? NO.
WHY NOT?
because Nintendo CANT sue them.
and temtem is much more of a copy of pokemon than palworld.

why should Nintendo not care about winning? if nintento know about a violation they DMCA them in less than 48 hours. - it was never important if a mod/pic/ assets was downloaded 1 times or 1 million times, they DMCAed them always.

Nintendo is already known for claiming copyright infringement - they dont need another example.

And Japanese laws are super strict with something like this. and both companies are Japanese - do you really thing that Pocketpair didnt know how close to beeing a copycat of pokemon they can be?

Temtem does not look like Pokemon at all, I remember when I first saw that game (I don´t own it, but seen enough of it) the style, the vibe, the animals, nothing of it is remotely similar to Pokemon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCn4bhsMDDU

Palworld is more similar, but not a lot.. but the first trailer I saw, my instant popup was "Pokemon"

To be fair, I don´t think this is in any danger (as presented in my OP)

You're kidding me right.

Temtem not being similair, I dont think you played it, nor seen it.

Everything is 'clone' of pokemon.

Gameplay, Artstyle, Gymbattles, Badges, TBC. TMs etc. They litterally have an evil faction. Even a rival... lol

Litterally EVERYTHING, but one thing is different, the creatures look more distinct.

This isnt pokemon with guns. This is ark with artstyle similair to pokemon.

[Wandering Mania]

I've said it in other places, and I'll say it here:
Derivative works are a fact of life. Without them, 99% of the T.V. shows, movies, video games, books, paintings, and all other matters of art, would not exist. Art inspires other art. Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

If Nintendo/Game Freak was to sue Pocketpair, Pocketpair could just use the defense of:
"Well Pokemon is a derivative work of Dragon Quest, and both are allowed to exist. So why not us?"

And the case would be thrown out. Nintendo will never sue Pocketpair because of that. 3rd party modders, that try to make, and sell a 'full overhaul mod' to turn Palworld into a Pokemon lookalike, yes; But Pocketpair themselves, no.

[AdahnGorion]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von GamingWithSilvertail:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AdahnGorion:

Temtem does not look like Pokemon at all, I remember when I first saw that game (I don´t own it, but seen enough of it) the style, the vibe, the animals, nothing of it is remotely similar to Pokemon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCn4bhsMDDU

Palworld is more similar, but not a lot.. but the first trailer I saw, my instant popup was "Pokemon"

To be fair, I don´t think this is in any danger (as presented in my OP)

You're kidding me right.

Temtem not being similair, I dont think you played it, nor seen it.

Everything is 'clone' of pokemon.

Gameplay, Artstyle, Gymbattles, Badges, TBC. TMs etc. They litterally have an evil faction. Even a rival... lol

Litterally EVERYTHING, but one thing is different, the creatures look more distinct.

This isnt pokemon with guns. This is ark with artstyle similair to pokemon.

I don´t think any of the animals look similar to Pokemon and I don´t think the artstyle does either. The gameplay however does. But the gameplay can´t be copyrighted, nobody holds the copyright for "animal tamer" etc.

If we had 99% of all thinks today would not exist.

Palworlds animals does have similar art vibe to Pokemon and a few does make me think Pokemon right away.. but as I said, I don´t think anything will happen, becuase they are not that similar still.. the two that are, could at worst be booted from the game and replaced with another design.

The only way that PP gets in trouble, is if they took assets (no proof of that)

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AdahnGorion:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von GamingWithSilvertail:

You're kidding me right.

Temtem not being similair, I dont think you played it, nor seen it.

Everything is 'clone' of pokemon.

Gameplay, Artstyle, Gymbattles, Badges, TBC. TMs etc. They litterally have an evil faction. Even a rival... lol

Litterally EVERYTHING, but one thing is different, the creatures look more distinct.

This isnt pokemon with guns. This is ark with artstyle similair to pokemon.

I don´t think any of the animals look similar to Pokemon and I don´t think the artstyle does either. The gameplay however does. But the gameplay can´t be copyrighted, nobody holds the copyright for "animal tamer" etc.

If we had 99% of all thinks today would not exist.

Palworlds animals does have similar art vibe to Pokemon and a few does make me think Pokemon right away.. but as I said, I don´t think anything will happen, becuase they are not that similar still.. the two that are, could at worst be booted from the game and replaced with another design.

The only way that PP gets in trouble, is if they took assets (no proof of that)

You cant copyright an artstyle. It dont matter if you have 'similair' vibes.

And alot of stuff thrown out by this boyfrogs person was debunked anyway.

And there's such things as patents (This is why we dont see Shadow of mordor/war) nemesis system in other games.

You're here farming jesters but you have no idea what you're talking about if you're gonna say that less then 90% is different in temtem because that's just false.

This game isnt pokemon. Artstyles simply cannot be copyrighted. PP aint gonna get in trouble and we wish you guys would stop spamming the forums so people can actually talk about the game.

My points with Temtem still stands.