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The Pokemon Company releases a statement regarding Palworld
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- leetrout 3y agoIf they were smart they would engage with the current game creators and spin this into something bigger.
- xethos 3y agoI struggle to picture Nintendo teaming up with the game that has players farming and eating their own "pals". More to the point, people have been clamouring online for an MMO-style Pokemon game... hell, since the internet went mainstream. Nintendo not wanting to do the "heavy"[0] lifting of making a game like Palworld is, IMO, not why Nintendo hasn't launched one. [0] Not an afternoon project, but also very much not out of Nintendo's wheelhouse.
- Hamuko 3y agoI thought that they ate Pokemons considering that there are no non-Pokemon animals in the universe? Actually, the anime even says outright that one of the Pokemon is basically extinct because it's so delicious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrd128i8YGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrd128i8YGI
- xethos 3y agoThe distinction I'm looking to make is the subtlety. Palworld is objectively, dramatically more in-your-face about it. The first ad on Steam is one "Pal" eating another. Nintendo will accept they need to have an answer to "So are all Pokemon vegan?", but will neither advertise it, nor push people to question what all the people and pokemon eat. They have very different markets, and strive to project different images.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoAnother trailer is rather using Pals to manufacture firearms on an assembly line. Its... Definitely not a Nintendo game.
- me_me_me 3y agothere is an animation (pixalated) for slaughtering your pal. Also you can capture humans as pals. So there is that. Definitely not a nintendo take
- viraptor 3y agoI think we got an official answer to that one a while ago. https://imgur.com/ICjRaA8 https://imgur.com/ICjRaA8 (Magikarp is tasty)
- minimaxir 3y agoThe most likely outcome is that Palworld gets released on the Switch 2 eventually.
- numpad0 3y agoBigger as in bigger legal win perhaps. Bigger as in hype no. That's not how media works.
- viraptor 3y agoNintendo is the Apple of games world. They have their own expensive toys in their own garden and don't play with others. If they wanted to engage and make something bigger they'd engage with modders or community years ago. They effectively are trying to kill the community-run Smash tournaments through legal.
- minimaxir 3y agoThe common consensus is that this statement is a "We know, stop messaging us goddammit" with nothing implied one way or the other.
- riffic 3y agois there supposed to be any context for this post?
- minimaxir 3y agoLook at Palworld's marketing materials and take a guess: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/
- slater 3y ago1. There's a massively succesful new game called PalWorld 2. It kiiiiinda sorta vaguely looks like Pokemon 3. Everyone and their dog is all "haha nintendo won't sue.. they won't sue, right...? right...?"
- numpad0 3y agoPalworld is a indie/startup game sold 8m copies in 5.5 days so far and recording second most in simultaneous player count on Steam. There are assets in the game that are, mostly subjectively, just too close to Pokemon models that there has been internet flamewars around that topic.
- Manuel_D 3y ago"Just too close" is extremely vague, and likely isn't enough to trigger copyright infringement claims. Consider that Warhammer and Warcraft weren't similar enough to be infringing, same with Digimon and Pokemon. If this [1] isn't infringing on Pokemon, I seriously doubt Palworld is either. 1. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNGJhOGJmZGItNjQwZS00MzQ5LTg0MDMtYTc3YzAwMDc4YjFmL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzM4MjM0Nzg@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNGJhOGJmZGItNjQwZS00...
- brucethemoose2 3y agoIts waaay closer than digimon. Enough that you do double takes when you see many of the Palworld creatures.
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- aurareturn 3y agoMaybe this will make the company how insanely profitable a Pokemon MMO would be. I've been dreaming of one for 20 years now. There is no better perfect fit for an MMO than the Pokemon world.
- sheepishly 3y agoI'm looking forward to Palworld models popping up on Models Resource or the like so I can do some comparisons on my own. That Azurobe model literally just looks like 3-4 mons thrown into a blender.