#pocket pair

Palworld haters never played the game, so their opinion has no weight. They saw 1 trailer, and only see it as "Pokémon with guns". They look at it on a surface level, refuse to look any further, and just write it off as a knock-off, like what they do with every other monster taming game that is not Pokémon.

Palworld fans who hate Pokémon at least played Pokémon before, so their opinion actually matters. They're not just talking shit to talk shit, everything they dunk on Pokémon for is something they actually experienced while playing, and they saw that Nintendo was not fixing these issues as the franchise went forward. In fact, Palworld fans who hate Pokémon grew up with Pokémon, used to like it, but don't like the new direction Nintendo is taking the series in terms of game design.

Palworld literally exists BECAUSE Pokémon started sucking, and longtime Pokémon fans needed SOMEthing actually fun to play. And modern Pokémon simply was not, and still is not, delivering.

Pokémon fans often use the "it's a kids game" excuse to defend any bit of criticism thrown at the game, as if a multi-billion dollar corporation really needs some unwashed dork online to protect them or something.

Well, we can use the same logic.

Pokémon is for kids. We are not kids. So we stopped playing it.

Palworld is for everyone, not only kids. We're an "everyone". So we started playing it.

We're not kids anymore, so we wanted a game that doesn't treat us like kids. That's really the long and short of it. Other kid's franchises like Digimon were able to grow up with it's audience (while still making stuff for the kids, since it's still a kid's franchise at heart), yet Pokémon refused to do so. And since Pokémon refused to do so, Palworld stepped up to fill that role.

To Marcus - I likes ya. And, I wants ya. Now, we can do this the easy way, or the hard way... The choice is yours.

It only happened when Pokémon decided to get the law involved, which you’d assume these people would be all for right? Evil pocket pair finally getting what they deserve?

But no, now the designs that were “blatant copies” just a second ago are “only drawing inspiration from similar sources”. I think this is because a lot of online/fandom spaces love to play the copyright infringement game, but never want legality to get involved (probably because of negative run-ins with it, like fanfic, fan games, copyright abusing on YouTube).

It reminds me of closed species actually, like with primagens for the most popular example. Primagens are considered to be “closed species”; only people who pay the creator can get the permission to make an oc. But the thing about Primagens and all closed species. There is no legal president for them being copyrightable, patentable, whatever. I’m pretty sure the creator tried, but was rejected (don’t quote me on that).

Just like with closed species, they want to be able to harass people who don’t follow their online rules of what’s “stealing”, but they don’t want daddy copyright law to end their fun.

I could honestly write multiple essays about this and just copyright abolition in general.

Details from the Tokyo District Court reveal #Pocketpair's defense in #Nintendo's patent infringement lawsuit over #Palworld, known as "Pokémon with guns."

Pocketpair challenges Nintendo's patents by citing prior games, such as Titanfall 2, ARK: Survival Evolved, Rune Factory 5, and The Legend of Zelda titles, showing that mechanics like creature capturing predate Nintendo's claims. They argue these patents lack uniqueness under Japanese patent law. The defense also references user mods like Pixelmon and NukaMon, and the Unity engine, to bolster their case that Nintendo's claims depend on established gameplay mechanics.

Have Palworld maybe considered not stealing and slightly modifying assets? Every other failed """Pokemon killer""" managed to do that and they're not getting sued by Nintendo.