If we’re talking messed up Pokemon lore look no further than Gastly.
Gastly has no true form, due to 95% of its body being poisonous gas, with the other 5% believed to be made up of the souls of those who died from the gas.
Nintendo isn’t suing Blizzard. 
Microsoft: ok lets buy nintendo.
i got one better haunter one lick and you are paralyzed lol
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It’s a funny joke but it wouldn’t be allowed. Japan does not allow foreign companies to buy big Japanese businesses.
Some of those palworld monsters did look like very much like pokemon characters.
My understanding is this is exactly what they are suing over. And the mechanics at issue sound very similar to what goes on in WoW pet battles, for those people who think this has nothing to do with WoW.
the problem with that is wow is they are safe. pet battles idea has been in other games and we use a crate to capture our pets.not pokeballs and their patents will be thrown out in court its not a trademark idea you can use stuff from Pokémon but you have to change stuff up a bit
this is Nintendo over stepping again
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I will take Things that dont matter or are nonsense for 1000 bob.
Black Rock will own everything everywhere soon enough anyways, so it doesn’t matter really what those two do.
lets hope that dont happen
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One time I woke up in a good mood. 10 lawyers from Nintendo arrived to issue a cease and desist order.
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just be glade its not the pinkertons from rockstar studios
Personally I hope they get gigafudged for this.
Allegedly (I have no proof lmao), they only filed these patents in August so I’m not sure they can do anything to Pocketpair with them anyway. BUT the idea of patenting monster catching is…stupid lol.
i know only thing that can do and have done is go after the mod makers for making pokemon assists without permission
Blizzard does cheekily steal the names of Pokemon attacks. Usually for creature ability players don’t have access to.
Pretty sure I’ve been razor-leafed and bubble beamed before.
It should be noted that Palworld has noticeably different gameplay than the Pokemon series, so it’s unlikely to target the “pet battles” system specifically in this lawsuit.
The expiry on any “pet battles” patent is also very likely to be over, just judging on the release date of the first Pokemon games (mid-90s). Patents expire in 20-25 years in Japan, and I think game mechanics would be locked to the 20 years.
Remember, after patents expire, they become PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Well, despite some known dislike, Bellular did put out a video on this recently that helps explain the situation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItGD_vbX-8
And it’s being framed as using the patent infringement to strong-arm smaller developers/publishers into paying up and/or killing off the business due to a perceived threat to the IP. Definitely bad, and I may have to retract the statement that a settlement may be the best case here.
There’s some limits on the nature of patents, which might need to be hashed out. Of course, the creator of the patent wants as broad a definition as possible for their benefit, but it sounds like it should be limited as to not entirely stifle new and creative ideas. So there could be a reason to take this to the courts, if only for the line to be drawn on what passes the mark for a patent; sounds like some of them are getting a bit wishy-washy.
Another factor to consider is that SONY is looking to work with the Palworld developers and essentially expand the IP into a multimedia franchise. If they want to get involved and assist them in this matter, possibly because they perceive an industry-wide threat from Nintendo’s strong arm tactics here, it will probably get ugly.
That’s a pretty big “if”, but definitely something to keep an eye on.
Sony and Microsoft are both involved with Pocketpair, so if Nintendo really gets in the way of potential profit they might intervene. Hopefully there’s talks going on to do so already. Sometimes a bully needs to be beaten by another bully. lol
thought that was only for copyright protection just like what happen to winnie the pooh
and steamboat whilly
if nintento just ported and a made a pokemon game like palworld
then they’ll be swimming in money but they don’t like to give a dime to no one.
though, might be way more than that but it just seems silly.
who the hell wouldnt want a pokemon game like that?
someone had to make one lol. its really fun.