I support anything that takes shots at or a market share of pokemon. Pokemon fandom needs to chill out.

I think it’s all a bit silly.

Palworld absolutely leans into the controversy in their marketing, but fundamentally it’s an Ark-like, on a different platform. It’s really not competing with Nintendo sales.

Hence, it’s kind of ridiculous Nintendo pursued this so aggressively. It’d be like Bethesda Game Studios relentlessly going after Stardew Valley on iOS because they both have “NPCs with schedules,” when fundamentally, their games are nothing alike.

palword is setting a good precedent , copyright is bullshit and should be ignored

Waiting for NTSCworld

My reply to these replies here about Copyright being a bad idea (besides that Nintendo never pursued a Copyright claim with Palworld)...

I think Copyright is important to preserve rights. Without Copyright, we couldn't have Open Source licenses like GPL. And the industry wants to sell products ideally not pirated, to make profit. Which is not a bad thing, because that encourages competition. Now that does not mean there are no loopholes and evil companies (and individuals) wouldn't abuse it. But that does not mean that the entire idea of Copyright is bad or "bullshit".

You know its selling like hotcakes when certain ball and gun streamers are screaming mad at its relevancy.

edit: Said guy is STILL raging at it after a whole day lmao. In fact I booted it up just to piss him off.

Nintendo is such bullshit.

They have Pokémon but don't they also make Pikmin? It's practically the same name, but different. Digimon is the same as Pokémon but they don't sue each other?

Then there's Animal Crossing, Pokémon Pokeopia or whatever it's called, the Hello Kitty one, and Stardew Valley and all its clones/similars.

Breath of the Wild was just a Zelda-themed Dark Souls. Super Mario Bros. has had a ton of spinoffs/ripoffs.

But yeah, go after Palworld.

Oh, let's not forget that Metroid exists because Ridley Scott said "no" when they wanted to make an Alien video game. That's why that one boss is named... Ridley.

Nintendo is such bullshit.

"Pokemon baiter"? Wtf kind of clickbait headline is this?

Edit: Here's an Archive link for those who don't want to reward clickbait: https://web.archive.org/web/20260710162937/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/after-years-of-nintendo-lawsuits-and-many-millions-of-sales-pokemon-baiter-palworld-is-out-in-10-today

The patch notes for this are INSANE. Basically every aspect of the game was updated in some way. Loads of new content and it all flows together better than before. We played all weekend and still have tons to discovet.

Pikachu + Totoro =