Boycott Nintendo

[Rinshun]

Nintendo is going off the rails with their anti-consumer nonsense. They’re suing anyone and everyone just for having fun. Modders? Fan creators? Indie developers? Forget it; they’re all fair game for Nintendo’s legal team.

Instead of supporting the community that loves their games, they’d rather stomp on creativity and pump up prices on their digital store. Seriously, what’s with that? It’s like they want to suck the fun out of gaming while cashing in on nostalgia.

So let’s hit them where it hurts! Boycott Nintendo and show them we won’t tolerate their greedy, anti-gamer tactics. Support indie developers and keep the spirit of gaming alive!

[Kess]

Already ahead of ya, just them pulling that move at all is the final straw. I was gonna make Legends A-Z the final thing I got from them, but no. They've overstepped for the final time, and I've had it with their greed. I won't stay and hope any longer that they'll give a cent of effort in what they make anymore. All semi-fashion, no function whatsoever, same old formulas from decades ago. Once their wallets run dry, we'll be free to have good games again without such things being baselessly attacked by over-generalized patents that were only bought for said attack.
It's not Palworld's fault for being something you couldn't be bothered to make, Nintendo. Even as an incomplete game, it's more than what you set out for triple the price on release day, and somewhat work on through expensive DLC that doesn't even finish what you started before you announce another multi-hundred dollar "handheld console" that needs a paid online subscription and runs off a 10+-year-old graphics card. All you're doing is infecting good things, trying to drag everyone down with you like a toddler loosing a board game. Even if law is corrupt and confused enough to let this go, players that bother with anything more than nostalgia won't be.
...Sorry. I'm just tired of all this... I likely won't be returning.

[Vanquisher of the Vitiated]

The Corporate Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the Palworld race.

[Kess]

Originally posted by Staraven:

Still scamming parents with their "two version" nonsense.

Looking at the eshop, the Sword and Shield bundle is $119.99, no DLC. Crown Tundra and Isle of Armor are now showing as not purchasable, meaning if you want the DLCs, you HAVE to pay the $29.99 expansion pass to get both (Crown Tundra AND Isle of Armor) in a bundle PER GAME. Added together, the "complete" Sword and Shield pair with all DLCs (with rounded cents) $120+$30+$30=$180.

Scarlet and Violet are $59.99 each, and both have their own game+DLC bundle for $94.99. I'm not finding a way to get just the DLC, but I very well could be missing it - although, if it's not there, you then would HAVE to buy a digital copy of the game just to get the DLC. (So don't spend on cartridge or you double-buy.) To buy both games with their DLC (with rounded cents) be $95x2=$190.

The total cost of these 4 games, including DLC to somewhat "complete" them (else you have a beta's worth of decades-old formula to play) is $180+$190=$370, NOT including tax or the online subscription costs (which last as long as you keep paying them) needed to have literally ANY intractability with other players, including trading to complete the Pokedex.

As I type this, I'm looking at the eshop and copying over the numbers.

While I'm not aware of how Scarlet and Violet work, I do know that Sword and Shield follow the trend of "they're totally different games because a few of the grass Pokemon and the Legendaries you get are different" with the added gimmick of "and some gyms are different too". Even if Scarlet and Violet are individual enough of each other, that's still only 3 games being advertised as 4.
It's easy to say "just buy the one you want then". What about the parents who don't know, and are just getting it for their kids? And, unless you give Nintendo your credit card information (or get eshop cards, which you'll always have some left over of, so it's wasted) it's possible that the desired version may be sold out*. While that's probably not a big deal for older players, kids may still throw a fit over not getting the exact one they wanted. It's designed to be a trap that rips off a MINIMUM of $60.
*Ironically, this worked in my favor when X and Y released. Blue was my favorite color (yes, it's THAT surface level) so I'd hoped for X, but that sold out. I knew the differences didn't matter though, so I took Y, and I realized that I'm way more for Yveltal than Xernias. Duality and balance are my favorite, what can I say

[maestro]

Yeah, I was interested in Pokemon a few years ago, but I looked at the prices of their games and said "NO FRICKEN THANKS".

They are still charging what, again? $30 (or something like that I forget) for their GAMEBOY games? Like the OG original Pokemon games? They're out of their flippin minds if they think an 8 bit monochrome gameboy game is worth $30.

Nintendo is synonymous with greed, and I haven't bought anything of theirs since the remake of Link's Awakening when it came out, and have no desire. Breath of the Wild with its breakable weapons just looked stupid to me so I didn't bother, and apparently the Zeldas after it will also have lots of breakable weapons and a "big open sandbox" world design, eh, no thanks.

I could just as easily play the hundreds of other games like it and not have breakable weapons. Anything from Assassin's Greed to Witcher 3 to Skyrim, if I really wanted a big open world sandboxy game, and those are frequently on sale for way less than $60+ (and I already own them lol).

Nintendo just isn't Nintendo anymore. They're a soulless husk that is shovelling overpriced crap out and aggressively attacking anybody who dares to put out something similar because they know their fans don't like the sh*te that they put out.

Pokemon sucks and is way too expensive, so they attack Palworld because people actually like it and it's way cheaper.

[Firemonkey 770]

I lost interest with the story from sword and shield and lack of imagination from Scarlet and Violet. I dislike all these new multiplayer mechanics. It was a single player game for a reason.

I was already planning to stop when I heard about the law suit. Honestly I was thinking of getting Legends Z-A, but I was expecting them to ruin it somehow compared to legends of Arceus. So now I plan on boycotting Pokemon until they change a few things, like their imagination, the law suit and a few other things.

[Firemonkey 770]

They didn't even do DLC's properly. You should have started with a new starter and did a mini campaign with new gyms and decent story. Instead you can steam roll through the DLCs with the team you used to beat main campaign. At the end of the DLC it would merge your PC boxs from main game and DLC. This would have been so much better.

[TDK Gilgamesh]

When TotK came out I bought a TotK Switch, Controller, Case, and a collectors edition of the game. I won't make that mistake again they are officially boycotted for trying to patent generalized game mechanics.

[ZenOokami]

Already have been since the final straw of an interaction with my OG switch breaking, and them sending me a refurbish one and telling me to kick rocks despite having a Nintendo Online subscription but not being able to get my saves back because "not all games will be backed up"

[the evil one]

Why should Nintendo let people rip off their hard work, i for one hope they take them for every penny they made and then take over the game and give it that Nintendo magic touch

[schachlik]

Nintendo has every right to protect its franchise from stealing. And Nintendo never lost one case in the past, when it comes to law. We all know Palworld ripped the designs of many pals from Pokemon. I like Palworld and hope it survives, but it will not win against Nintendo. Just accept it, there are already couple of Videos out that show how much Palworld stole from Pokemon. Nintendo owns these patents, its buisness.

[funewchie]

Originally posted by schachlik:

Nintendo has every right to protect its franchise from stealing. And Nintendo never lost one case in the past, when it comes to law. We all know Palworld ripped the designs of many pals from Pokemon. I like Palworld and hope it survives, but it will not win against Nintendo. Just accept it, there are already couple of Videos out that show how much Palworld stole from Pokemon. Nintendo owns these patents, its buisness.

Denial is a river in Africa.
Nintendo has lost cases plenty of times.

Let's see, they lost their suit against Galoob (Game Genie), they lost to Blockbuster and the US Congress.
They lost their patent of the Wii motion control to Microsoft presenting evidence they didn't invent that. (Allowing Xbox and Playstation to make their own motion controls)

They lost their lawsuit against Fire Emblem creator Shouzo Kaga, thus failing to kill his TearRing Saga (and it's successors).

They clearly couldn't file a copyright lawsuit for Palworld (something Nintendo fans can't seem to wrap their heads around), and so had to resort to a vague patent infringement.
Yeah, not even copyright... just a mere patent.
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So no, PocketPair and Palworld have done nothing wrong, and Nintendo is 120% confirmed to be the bad guys here.

So kindly stop defending Nintendo - that sad, pathetic relic of a bygone era.
As its weak and pathetic Switch coughs and heaves trying to stay alive.

[Capt. Stabbin]

Honestly, this game is what even got me re-interested in monster capture type games. It is a breath of fresh air, and a type of game that I've been wanting for many years, rather then the same dang cookie-cutter game they have been pumping out for years. I stopped after crystal version. And the idea of monster capture isn't even their original idea, is just boomed more with them. I bought a switch like 4 years ago, and it gets maybe a hour or 2 of use, every few months. I kinda regret even buying it, even before this whole mess. This whole scenario just feels like them being a bully because someone actually decided to be innovative. From the bit that I gathered over this "patent" makes me laugh. I wish pocketpair many years of success, and I will totally be buying it after it's full release.

[Kevin]

Sadly nintendo has some thing patented that should not be legal to patent. The copyright lawsuit could not get any traction so they switched to a patent one. They have a very good chance of wining this time. I hope palworld survives because its a great game.

[Nitro Toxico]

Guess Nintendo should try sue DreamCubeGame too, since they making a game exactly like Palworld called Miraibo Go

[daldora]

Originally posted by funewchie:

Originally posted by schachlik:

Nintendo has every right to protect its franchise from stealing. And Nintendo never lost one case in the past, when it comes to law. We all know Palworld ripped the designs of many pals from Pokemon. I like Palworld and hope it survives, but it will not win against Nintendo. Just accept it, there are already couple of Videos out that show how much Palworld stole from Pokemon. Nintendo owns these patents, its buisness.

Denial is a river in Africa.
Nintendo has lost cases plenty of times.

Let's see, they lost their suit against Galoob (Game Genie), they lost to Blockbuster and the US Congress.
They lost their patent of the Wii motion control to Microsoft presenting evidence they didn't invent that. (Allowing Xbox and Playstation to make their own motion controls)

They lost their lawsuit against Fire Emblem creator Shouzo Kaga, thus failing to kill his TearRing Saga (and it's successors).

They clearly couldn't file a copyright lawsuit for Palworld (something Nintendo fans can't seem to wrap their heads around), and so had to resort to a vague patent infringement.
Yeah, not even copyright... just a mere patent.
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So no, PocketPair and Palworld have done nothing wrong, and Nintendo is 120% confirmed to be the bad guys here.

So kindly stop defending Nintendo - that sad, pathetic relic of a bygone era.
As its weak and pathetic Switch coughs and heaves trying to stay alive.

i'm not taking side here but what the person you quoted meant or should have said is that Nintendo has never lost a suit when THEY INITIATE, they have lost plenty against people coming after them but they have a 100% track record of their lawyers going after others. part of this reason is that they have nearly infinite assets and have stalled out court cases to the point the other party is forced to settle before they go bankrupt in paying legal fees.