82
'It was a very depressing day': Palworld community manager reveals studio's reaction to Nintendo lawsuit (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 11 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 15 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 45 points 11 months ago

Nintendo had registered the patents in a filing not long after Palworld's release, setting the stage for the lawsuit.

How is that even legal? Decades after releasing something, a competitor comes along and releases their product, so you decide "now's the time to file a patent" and you can kill the competitor. That should create a very unstable business environment as no new business can be safe when making a patent check as they can be filed after you created a product by somebody else. It makes no sense.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 30 points 11 months ago

I was just thinking this. Japan's patent system is so fucked up. You can do everything right, look up all relevant existing patents to make sure you're in the clear, then a competitor ex post facto files and kills your business.

[-] Didros@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

Doubt that any company would get away with this. Maybe only biggest hundred or so

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

This is literally what Nintendo is doing right now.

They filled this suit, and only THEN filed for a bunch of extra patents they didn't already have in order to increase the damages they could claim from Pocket Pair for being in violation.

I already think patents for game design mechanics are idiotic an unethical, but this is absolutely insane.

[-] Didros@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I said "get away with" and you said "they are doing" these can both be true, and I even provided the reason, too big to fail.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Not only are they getting away with it, it looks like they'll continue to benefit from it.

I'm not sure what reality you're living to think they're not.

[-] Didros@beehaw.org 0 points 11 months ago

Future tense is used for denoting events that have not happened yet. And also, why do you care so much? The world is fucked sixty five ways till Sunday, so why the focus here?

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

What do you think will happen to them, because they pulled this?

so why the focus here?

I can pay attention to more than one thing. These greedy corporations abusing legal systems is why the world is so fucked. Trying to handwaved this as not mattering sounds like you admit you're wrong

[-] Shawdow194@fedia.io 11 points 11 months ago

Japans laws regarding copyright and patents are.... hazy

[-] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago

I don't know why people are downvoting this post as everything stated in the article is true and unfortunate.

[-] bruce965@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

I didn't downvote, but I found it quite unclear and vague.

Nintendo announced the lawsuit [...] we were just about to go to Tokyo Game Show, so obviously we had to scale back a little bit and hire security guards and stuff like that."

I don't follow the connection... Why do you need security guards in response to a lawsuit?

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 26 points 11 months ago

Just a hunch, but have you seen how rabid some nintendo -fans are? If a word of the lawsuit got out some whacko's could try something. Ref. "Zelda-game got only 8/10? Send death threats to reviewer." mentality.

[-] bruce965@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Okay, that makes sense ๐Ÿ˜…

Well, I guess I am not informed on such details. Maybe one of the people downvoting were in my same situation. Although I guess this kind of websites expect their visitors to already know about the context.

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They are probably scared of Ninjas? ๐Ÿ˜

[-] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Nintendo is a trash company.

this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
82 points (91.8% liked)

PC Gaming

13991 readers
486 users here now

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let's Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
EXiLExJD@lemmy.ca
UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com