• nous@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think this is the win we want. Sounds like palwprld change the game to no longer infringe on Nintendo copyright claims. So Nintendo can no longer seek an injunction. They are still seeking damages.

    I really want to see the copyright claims be challenged in court so we know where we stand. Rather then the continual settling out of court because Nintendo has more money.

    It doesn’t sound like Nintendo are on track to win or lose this. Just Palworld changed the game to limit the impact of the lawsuit. Which is in a way a small win for Nintendo.

    • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      It is Japanese copyright court, so it’s a clusterfuck and loosely makes sense. Nintendo won’t lose and PocketPair won’t win. It will be some shit decision in the middle.

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      3 months ago

      Nintendo has been doing this for the last 30 years (at least, likely way longer), I doubt they’re stopping now.

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        3 months ago

        I don’t know if it’s true but there is saying they have more lawyers than developers.

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      3 months ago

      Palworld had to change the game so much to prevent the lawsuit from getting worse, hardly a win in my book.

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      3 months ago

      Fun little animal capture Battler with base building and guns. Nintendo sued then for having a mechanic of being able to grow to capture and ride mounts without extra steps. Revised payments in the middle of the law suit too iirc.

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      3 months ago

      A kitchen sink monster taming survival sandbox game with Pokemon-like cute creatures, a handful of reaaaaally familiar designs, edgy shock factor marketing featuring gun violence and animal abuse, and enough obviously Pokemon-inspired gameplay elements that Nintendo decided to bring out all the IP big guns, from copyright infringement down to bullshit mechanics patents and claims that mods don’t count as prior art. (if a modder invents something, no they didn’t, and a developer that puts the same feature in a game years later can sue anyone who imitates the mod, according to Nintendo.)

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        3 months ago

        Many microblogging and aggregation platform users prefer to ask questions within a thread to keep the conversation active. You can continue scrolling through other posts while waiting for an organic reply from another user.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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          You can also keep a conversation going by being an insufferable cunt, Lets all thank Summzashi for providing an excellent example of this.

        • Summzashi@lemmy.world
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          Nah, a proper question and contribution would be to ask what the lawsuit is about. It’s ridiculous to expect others to explain what a high profile game is, that’s what a search engine is for. It takes literally 5 second or less to Google it and look at screenshots to understand what’s the point here.

          This isn’t contributing anything. If your “active” conversation is nothing more than asking about widely available facts, it’s nothing but noise and might as well not be there.