Pocket Pair's battle against the Japan gaming giant, Nintendo, continues today with an unfortunate update by Pocket Pair, as well as an in-game update that modifies certain aspects that were already in the game.

Back in December, 2024, Palworld released an update that modified how Palspheres behaved, by changing the method used for catching and summoning Pals into the world, and while Palspheres still were used to catch Pals in the wild, trying to summing them would make them spawn right next to the player, instead of throwing the Palsphere to summon them like before.

Today, yet another update has been released by Palworld, and while most of the changed things are for the better, there's one modification in particular that was made due to the current lawsuit that Nintendo filed against Pocket Pair due to alleged patent infringement.

The latest compromise to the ongoing litigation has been the removal of using Pal for gliding while in the air. Instead, players are now required to own a Glider item in order to be able to glide throughout Palworld's sky.

Pocket Pair released a public statement on their X account regarding the situation:

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This has certainly stirred up discussion online, as Nintendo / Game Freak weren't the first ones to make gliding with animals when it comes to gaming, much less in media as a whole, and as such, said patent shouldn't hold any ground, but laws in Japan are very different when it comes to patents.

There current patent infringement lawsuit filed by Nintendo against Pocket Pair is still ongoing, and while it certainly hasn't wrapped, these compromises can be seen as a safeguard in case the lawsuit goes in favour of Nintendo.

 

[LeyendaV]

SEA = SEAttle? Or maybe I'm wrong?

This has to be a joke...

 

[Noctosphere]

Oh wait, did I just say I was wrong without realising it? Sorry... err no, I meant, FUCK, no! BAKA!!!!

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This has to be a joke...

Yea, this is a joke, from someone who doesn't pretend to know everything. (I googled up after that post and learned about SEA meaning South-Eastern Asia).

 

[LeyendaV]

Oh wait, did I just say I was wrong without realising it? Sorry... err no, I meant, FUCK, no! BAKA!!!!

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Yea, this is a joke, from someone who doesn't pretend to know everything. (I googled up after that post and learned about SEA meaning South-Eastern Asia).

You are pretending to know everything since you started talking trash in your first post. Are you delusional too?

 

[Noctosphere]

Because if you kill that big whale, every other smal fry will know their place and never get too big and become the next big whale

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I used to be one of these hardcore nintendo fan, until I realise how Nintendo was treating their fans.
I really miss Satoru Iwata
(PS : Before starting bullying me about how they were bully back then too, let me remind you that they also had a lot of good sides back then. Club Nintendo, actually good games, entertaining staff, like Reggie, Miyamoto and Iwata themselves. They had bad sides, but also good sides back then. Now, it seems like they are only showing us their bad sides)

You are pretending to know everything since you started talking trash in your first post. Are you delusional too?

 

[MochaMilk]

Okay okay, hear me out..
But what about "Pal-FLYING?

 

[Noctosphere]

Quick reminder of when and how my arguments turned against you.
On page #3, you associated "riding an animal" and "throwing an object in a 3d environment" with pokemon, and even going as far as saying that everyone would think the same.
When I called you out for saying that, you called me dumb and said I was twisting the conversation (*). You also mentioned how Palworld is "way way too similar to Pokemon" (which would be copyright infringement, not patent)
You then replied that you were "explaining, from an objective and technical point of view**".
I then told you how the argument of "it's been present in Pokemon games for 30 years" was invalid, how other games had these mechanics before Pokemon, and how this argument was used in court by Pocketpair themselves (by actual lawyers who know their shits, people who would not come up with this argument in court if it was good for nothing)
You then came up with you comparison that Palsphere are pokeballs (page #5)

Now, what I'm saying here, is that if you really are objective, if you really are an expert like you seemed to say (**), then you should use better words when explaining your shits. Otherwise, it can get confusing at some points.
Also, being so quick on insults (*) will never be good to prove your point or whatever. If you want to convince someone about anything, insulting them is not the way to go. The best you'll get by doing that, is them saying "ok I believe you", not because they actually believe you, but because they want you to shut the hell up and leave them alone (same logic as to give a kid what they want so that they stop screaming).

TL;DR
Read the conversation we had since page #3 and see by yourself how your argument kept going downhill.

 

[ChronosNotashi]

Oh right. I forgot this game existed.

Wow. Shows how little media presence PalWorld has had since the lawsuit started. Especially considering how much Sony Music/Aniplex (so Sony conglomerate) invested to try to fast-track the IP into a multimedia franchise (it was an "unknown" amount, but we can assume it was either hundreds of millions or even billions in USD).

 

[DJ-Yoshiman]

Oh lord, just how stupid the average american can be?

*Oh lord, just how stupid can the average American be?

 

[BlusterBong]

Oh right. I forgot this game existed.

Wow. Shows how little media presence PalWorld has had since the lawsuit started. Especially considering how much Sony Music/Aniplex (so Sony conglomerate) invested to try to fast-track the IP into a multimedia franchise (it was an "unknown" amount, but we can assume it was either hundreds of millions or even billions in USD).

I mean, it's still holding 20k players on Steam, which isn't bad but by the same token, Terraria is doing the same numbers even late into the night so it's not really that special in regards to the Indie Scene anyways (If you can even call Palworld Indie still dispite the investments and branch company Sony put into it)

 

[Valwinz]

So Nintendo now owns gliding

 

[aoimatsuri]

Wait is that flying ?

If so:
Heck no! I was looking forward to that

 

[raxadian]

most of the mechanics they claim to own has been directly associated with Pokémon for almost 30 years old now.

Flying using a monster was done before Pokemon in several games, that patent is bullshit.

 

[GengarsGhostlyGiggles]

honestly f*ck nintendo

 

[Xzi]

The regulation for both it's the exact same, so it checks.

See there's the conflict, two separate standards were applied. "Switch" is too generic of a trademark, even with the slight text styling, it's a commonly-used word that Nintendo did not create. Gliding using a creature is a commonly-used concept in gaming that Nintendo did not create, yet they were granted that patent. If the regulation for both is meant to be the same, somebody didn't do their job properly.

 

[The Catboy]

Oh right. I forgot this game existed.

Wow. Shows how little media presence PalWorld has had since the lawsuit started. Especially considering how much Sony Music/Aniplex (so Sony conglomerate) invested to try to fast-track the IP into a multimedia franchise (it was an "unknown" amount, but we can assume it was either hundreds of millions or even billions in USD).

It actually more shows where your attention is. Your attention does not equate to the media/community presence of a game. There are probably countless games out there with large niche presence that you aren’t hearing about. The community around this game is still rather impressive and active.

 

[Asia81]

people actually still cares about palworld ?

 

[DJ-Yoshiman]

people actually still cares about palworld ?

You are correct!

 

[ChronosNotashi]

It actually more shows where your attention is. Your attention does not equate to the media/community presence of a game. There are probably countless games out there with large niche presence that you aren’t hearing about. The community around this game is still rather impressive and active.

If that was the case, you'd think there'd be more discussions on it in general forums or Reddit as a whole, instead of the game only being mentioned outside of specifically PalWorld-focused communities whenever something regarding the lawsuit comes up. The community itself might be active, but - again - given how much Sony clearly banked on it becoming a Pokémon-sized (and shaped) multimedia franchise in record time, there's certainly less buzz going around compared to before the lawsuit. And certainly less compared to the regular complaints about literally anything Nintendo/Pokémon-related.

 

[The Catboy]

If that was the case, you'd think there'd be more discussions on it in general forums or Reddit as a whole, instead of the game only being mentioned outside of specifically PalWorld-focused communities whenever something regarding the lawsuit comes up. The community itself might be active, but - again - given how much Sony clearly banked on it becoming a Pokémon-sized (and shaped) multimedia franchise in record time, there's certainly less buzz going around compared to before the lawsuit. And certainly less compared to the regular complaints about literally anything Nintendo/Pokémon-related.

You really didn’t refute my point though. It is still talked about and still has an extremely active community. It’s literally pulling double to triple the players compared to many AAA games.
I honestly feel like the fact that this game still get shit for existing is why Palworld players just keep to our spaces.

people actually still cares about palworld ?

Quite a lot of people

Why are people acting like this was a flash in the pan when it’s actually been extremely successful and is still thriving?

On topic, still checking the mods, I look forward to the community correcting this injustice

 

[VinsCool]

Why are people acting like this was a flash in the pan when it’s actually been extremely successful and is still thriving?

I have a feeling this is simply because some people cannot accept that a Pokémon-like game does in fact exist and is also much better than the original Pokémon games.
So much so they have come to the point they think it is reasonable to pile up lawsuits over bullshit copyright and patent claims out of spite more than good faith.
Some replies in this thread seriously made me question if some of the people thinking it is justified are actually serious or just trolling, the former being even more concerning in this case.
Sometime I just don't comprehend people regarding how and why they are so closeminded over fucking videogames, or maybe they're upset over clouds being shapes they don't agree with, I can't say for sure.