Palworld wouldn’t have been half as popular without Nintendo’s constant push to take it down.
It’s the literal reason I bought it and have never even played
Nintendo is quite literally patent trolling
Why “quite literally”? Did they hire an actual troll for a lawyer?
Patent troll means to get patents for purpose of litigation rather than to produce goods.
Yes
Like a bridge one
Palworld does what Nintendon’t
First half of my life it was completely by accident I didn’t own anything nintendo, but I’m glad the second half of my life I’ve actively avoided it, so not a single cent has gone to those greedy motherfuckers.
I owned all sorts of Nintendo products growing up. Around 2005, Nintendo went crazy against roms and hacking, and then when I stopped buying Nintendo products.
I bought some used stuff and… Bypassed security to expand my libraries. But usually it was after the game was like 10 years old.
Fuck Nintendo.
I wonder if PocketPair (Palworld devs) could flip a giant middle finger to Japan’s entire system by refunding all Japanese customers for the game and refusing to sell it in Japan anymore. Japan is the only country where Nintendo could get their way in a patent lawsuit, so fuck 'em
Wouldn’t work. This has nothing to do with Japanese customers or Japanese laws. These aren’t even in Japanese courts. It’s US patents.
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The only enforceable patents they have are Japanese. This is an attempt to get US ones.
Nintendo, a Japanese company in Kyoto, using American courts to stop Pocketpair, a Japanese indie studio in Tokyo, from selling Pal world.
What the hell.
Scumtendo strikes again
Can someone explain the cultural difference between Japan and the rest of the US around copyright law?
In the US, we have fair use laws. They basically don’t. You can put McDonald’s in your game because you’re parodying it, or because it’s part of the real world your work is based in… They can’t without expressed permission
It’s more nuanced than that, but that’s it in a nutshell
What about the last one?
One of the many reasons I will never spend money on Nintendo again! Their hardware blows anyways
I would love to learn why this isn’t completely stupid, if anyone has a way of explaining. We’d be down entire genres of games if developers didn’t copy each other’s homework.
Suing for patent infringement is the nuclear option. It’s a long and expensive legal process that can very much blow up in your face, so companies aren’t rushing to do it unless they really want to.
It’s not a great system.
I saw this video a while back that explained Nintendo’s behaviour and strategy. It’s a bit long and not a direct answer to your question but I found it pretty interesting.
Fuck software patents.
