Counter-Strike being the most popular PC game in the planet must be a figment of my own imagination, then.

Didn't Nintendo c&d a Pokémon mod for palword like super early on in release? cough cough they did / https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/19f7929/pokemons_team_released_a_statement_about/

Every day I am more convinced that someone made a wish to the monkey paw for Nintendo to do something about Palworld, and now we are where we are.

The issue is game mechanics, not the game. If a games mechanic that existed as prior art can't be used, then neither should they be able to sue about it.

So if someone created a mod for palworld that put Pokemon in the game that would be fine?

It's basically a non-sequitur.

A mod isn't a standalone game, sure. It requires the base game to have meaning. Unitl it gets spinned off and becomes a "real" (standalone) game.

However, that has no connection with the original problem: Did anyone who isn't Nintendo ever animate a cartoony person throwing a ball that does something, before Nintendo filed for a patent?

Of course they have. That's prior art, and the patent itself is under serious question - whether the animation was in a "real" game, a "fake" one or in a Blender animation has very little influence on that fact.

"I want to control an idea I came up with, but that person who came up with that idea first doesn't count"

Is an insane argument

I honestly think it's absurd you can be doing something for nearly 30 years (longer than a patent lasts) and then try to get a patent on it retroactively. That seems like a completely insane cheat code for the patent process.

If mods aren't real games, can we reverse the cease and desists for all the fan mods they've killed? After all, if they aren't real games and aren't to be considered legally for patent/trademark/copyright then they aren't violating anything?

So game mechanics in DLCs cannot be patented, because they are just mods?

Source games

Well well well.

Looks like Shin Megami Tensei is able to make a patent for catching and training monsters.

Game in question: Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 11 September 1987

Team Fortress was a quake mod

Half Life used a modded version of the quake engine

Counter Strike was a Half Life mod

L4D was a Counter Strike mod

Gary's Mod is literally just a game revolving around you modding the Source Game Engine

Seems legit Nintendo.

a videogame isn't a big mod out of an engine? Like, GTA V, is a mod of RAGE engine?

Yeah, games are not real either, they require compilation/interpretation of source code /s

Im not even mad at Nintendo, they’re a mega corporation, they constantly fuck around like this. I blame the horrible laws and geriatric lawmakers who won’t stand up to these corporations and put in laws to stop all this fuckery. These mega corps will always take the loopholes and play these games

So create a game that does nothing but move around.

Create a mod that duplicates Pokémon exactly.

Mods aren’t real games. Are you gonna sue?

So Dota is not a game?

Free legal advise to Nintendo:

A patent may not be obtained though the invention is not identically disclosed or described as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the subject matter sought to be patented and the prior art are such that the subject matter as a whole would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which said subject matter pertains. Patentability shall not be negatived by the manner in which the invention was made.

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2141.html