When Nintendo announced that they would be suing the popular monster-collecting game Palworld, they did not specify which exact patent that studio Pocket Pair had infringed on in development of the game. It was theorized that the court battle was due to how Game Freak, and thus, Nintendo, has patented how Pokeballs work. Now, as of Palworld's latest update, it looks like those guesses were correct, because Pocket Pair has changed how Palspheres work. Previously, players would throw spheres to catch and summon Pals; in the newest version of the game, you still catch Pals by throwing Palspheres, but when you call a captured Pal out to battle, it'll just spawn next to you.

Pocket Pair hasn't detailed why the change has been made, though the ongoing legal issues make it apparent as to why the change took place. Right now, Nintendo is seeking damages for infringement, as well as an injunction to stop sales of Palworld, with Pocket Pair currently fighting the charges.

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[chrisrlink]

Is there a mirror for the mods that doesn't require an account?

why nexusmods accounts are free (though premium uncaps the download speed of mods which is capped to 2-3 Mbps on free accounts also their mod downloader (Vortex) makes it a snap to install mods (you can even install mods from other sites directly from compressed archives)

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

I guess this is why no one made an erotic version of Pokémon yet. To risky. Shame as I dream of being choked by Bulbasaur while Pikachu watches.

Furries Dreams: Jokes on you,im in that shit meme.jpge

GBAtempers: .

 

[jeremy2020]

Nintendo's next lawsuit is going after tinder

 

[Ondrashek06]

question is will nintendo just drop the suit now or will they bitch about something else just to bury palworld to hell? (assuming everything from all patents are changed or removed)

Has Nintendo *ever* dropped *any* lawsuit before the very end? Once Nintendo files a lawsuit, they won't stop with it until they either get what they want or a judge rules in the defendant's favor.

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why nexusmods accounts are free (though premium uncaps the download speed of mods which is capped to 2-3 Mbps on free accounts also their mod downloader (Vortex) makes it a snap to install mods (you can even install mods from other sites directly from compressed archives)

Because I refuse to give them another point to add to their user count - for personal reasons that I won't discuss here to not start an argument.

 

[Purple_Heart]

don't you mean BITCHtendo?

So Bitchtendo is Hoeing again?

 

[DJPlace]

So Bitchtendo is Hoeing again?

has always. but back on topic i tried to get into this game i was about to buy it on PS5 but i saw the word MINECRAFT and STARDEW and i said NOPE..... not my game.

 

[owlman]

LOL, so just the placement of the "pokeball" gets changed only?

 

[ChronosNotashi]

has always. but back on topic i tried to get into this game i was about to buy it on PS5 but i saw the word MINECRAFT and STARDEW and i said NOPE..... not my game.

Probably going to be adding "Terraria" to those keywords soon, given that collab content is planned between Terraria and PalWorld.

 

[Bladexdsl]

just change them to eggs problem solved

 

[MayorBryce]

Gonna scroll past all the "screw Nintendo" comments that are very likely to be on here and say this. While I think it is wrong for The Pokemon Company to sue them and force them to change such a minor thing, I think it's pretty telling what kind of game this is that, rather than coming up with a new, creative way to summon your monsters, they settled on the monster just "appearing" in front of you. How uncreative.

 

[Lumpofcoal]

IIRC, one of the patents has to do with throwing out a mon (from the sphere) at an enemy out in the open to start a battle. A la the legends arceus style. So this is probably a response to that particular one by completely removing the throwing part.

 

[DJPlace]

Probably going to be adding "Terraria" to those keywords soon, given that collab content is planned between Terraria and PalWorld.

i tried Terraria once i bought it for vita not my cup of tea. hell if these games were relased in 2000-2003 i might have gotten into it.

 

[ChronosNotashi]

Gonna scroll past all the "screw Nintendo" comments that are very likely to be on here and say this. While I think it is wrong for The Pokemon Company to sue them and force them to change such a minor thing, I think it's pretty telling what kind of game this is that, rather than coming up with a new, creative way to summon your monsters, they settled on the monster just "appearing" in front of you. How uncreative.

Pretty much. For all the boasting from them and their community about being "creative" or "innovative" or whatever buzzword they wanted to throw around, PocketPair sure is lazy about making changes to work around a potential patent infringement. COLOPL, iirc, more or less did the same thing: lazily changed their control method when they got sued for patent infringement after filing more or less the same patent and trying to charge fees for it.

Stuff like that often tells you how much "creativity" these devs/pubs tend to have, when their answer to potentially-infringing mechanics or content is "just remove it". And more or less what I'd expect from a dev that signed a deal with the devil (read: got greedy and signed an agreement with Sony that effectively gives Sony a large deal of control over the IP through Sony Music, Aniplex, and PalWorld Entertainment - much in the same way that Nintendo has a large amount of control over the Pokemon IP in general through The Pokemon Company and Creatures, with GameFreak mostly being responsible for development of the mainline games).

 

[Kiiro_Yakumo]

Yeah was done really quick.

https://www.nexusmods.com/palworld/mods/1942
https://www.nexusmods.com/palworld/mods/1941

"(...) and he cut off the Hydra's head, but little he knew that three new will grow there."
Book of Truth, Chapter 3: Hydra Effect

Heck no. All it takes is a simple google search.

There is even that tabletop handbook that... I mean TECHNICALLY it's not part of the mechanics but it doesn't take much to implement it without even breaking the lore much. One just needs to read the manual a bit (hint psychic type).

So Bitchtendo is Hoeing again?

Not to be confused with actual mighty hoe tool! (Harvest Moon / Rune Factory)
To answer your question, yes, louder yes and another "yes" from not to distant future when it will happen again.
Nintendo died with Iwata, now it's Bitchtendo.

 

[BlusterBong]

To answer your question, yes, louder yes and another "yes" from not to distant future when it will happen again.
Nintendo died with Iwata, now it's Bitchtendo.

So you're saying Nintendo has been what they've always been doing (such as thier anti-piracy stance), Which the poor poor Iwata did absolutely nothing about besides saving Game Freak from thier incompetence for Pokemon Gens II-V? you might as well have said "It's just another day ending in Y." instead of trying to "insult" a company that never cared for you with the level of insults on par with a 4th grade student who just learned swear words.

 

[Kiiro_Yakumo]

So you're saying Nintendo has been what they've always been doing (such as thier anti-piracy stance), Which the poor poor Iwata did absolutely nothing about besides saving Game Freak from thier incompetence for Pokemon Gens II-V? you might as well have said "It's just another day ending in Y." instead of trying to "insult" a company that never cared for you with the level of insults on par with a 4th grade student who just learned swear words.

Oh no, I didn't mean Nintendo to be "saint" level before that. I would just argue it was slightly less... "aggressive" ?
To put it into numbers (for the sake example):
Within a month worth of news it would be up to one with Nintendo being "the bad guys" previously.
Now one could almost make a joke that "it's a wasted week without Nintendo going on war with someone".

Pokemon games indeed the further it went the worse it became. We could probably argue within the area of Gen I to V which were relatively good, which were bad and why, quite possibly ending in statement that these five generations are for better or worse playable still as games for the most part. Starting with Gen VI however it's a slippery slope. Maybe even some kind of self "competition" with the title "how much worse we can make it", whereas for me Gen VII was the last straw that broke camel's back. Cutscene that can't be skipped or hastened (in a sense of "3x speed skipping text") for SIX AND A HALF MINUTES and that's probably not the longest one even or legendary Pokemon that you CAN'T FAIL to catch because if you will accidentally defeat it... the battle just starts over. Gen VII became a poor movie that you have to keep poking with a stick "Play" because it pauses a lot like some broken tape.

As for the consoles I sometimes ponder if buying 3DS was a good idea or not and it always boils down on the library of games and their relatively good usage of 3DS features. Switch however doesn't represent anything that I would care for. The IDEA of having a "2-in-1" was good and that's where the list ends. After that we have poor execution, joycons being potentiometer ALPS piece of crap that breaks horribly fast, games struggling to run in 30 FPS including ports from PS3 era (ToV for example). Oh sure it has touchscreen... so does Steam Deck and his competitors which can do more things for similar if not less money (I would have to check prices for today but it will probably end in Steam Deck's favor).

By the end of the day we have Nintendo that lost that "innovative charm" that many liked and instead of trying to think up a way to gain clients they decide to go with most brutish and boring way to gain money, by suing companies for - as they probably see it - being "insolent fools that dare to breathe the same air as us!"

So no, I'm not saying that Nintendo or any other company of this caliber is "saint", it's just a matter of being uh "normal evil" or being "ultra jackass chaotic evil", with current Nintendo or rather Bitchtendo being the latter one.

 

[BlusterBong]

Oh no, I didn't mean Nintendo to be "saint" level before that. I would just argue it was slightly less... "aggressive" ?
To put it into numbers (for the sake example):
Within a month worth of news it would be up to one with Nintendo being "the bad guys" previously.
Now one could almost make a joke that "it's a wasted week without Nintendo going on war with someone".

By the end of the day we have Nintendo that lost that "innovative charm" that many liked and instead of trying to think up a way to gain clients they decide to go with most brutish and boring way to gain money, by suing companies for - as they probably see it - being "insolent fools that dare to breathe the same air as us!"

So no, I'm not saying that Nintendo or any other company of this caliber is "saint", it's just a matter of being uh "normal evil" or being "ultra jackass chaotic evil", with current Nintendo or rather Bitchtendo being the latter one.

That doesn't change anything as there were still DMCAs and Lawsuits that came even before Iwata was gone or even before he stopped being took up presidency as we still have examples of Big N being similarly as aggressive such as thier lawsuit against the guys behind Game Genie for what you could guess from the name of it, attempting to sue Blockbuster over making photocopies of thier game manuals in the 90s and killing Full Screen Mario in 2013 or the fan made Pokenet MMO in 2010 which Iwata did nothing to stop despite being president by then in the case of the two fangames, and that's not talking about things like when they tried to throw thier hat in being a Youtube partner where you had to be part of it to avoid getting getting Nintnedo videos from getting killed, which Iwata had to approve.

Again, the point is they've ALWAYS been like this, the only reason we're seeing more of these is becuase of the internet growing in popularity making things easier to access information (Alongside Nintendo publishing info about thier major legal activity on thier website such as this recent lawsuit) and the increace of targets the lawyers could strike.

 

[Jayro]

somebody still cares about ntscworld?

Try SECAMworld... Most people don't even know they exist.

 

[Kiiro_Yakumo]

That doesn't change anything as there were still DMCAs and Lawsuits that came even before Iwata was gone or even before he stopped being took up presidency as we still have examples of Big N being similarly as aggressive such as thier lawsuit against the guys behind Game Genie for what you could guess from the name of it, attempting to sue Blockbuster over making photocopies of thier game manuals in the 90s and killing Full Screen Mario in 2013 or the fan made Pokenet MMO in 2010 which Iwata did nothing to stop despite being president by then in the case of the two fangames, and that's not talking about things like when they tried to throw thier hat in being a Youtube partner where you had to be part of it to avoid getting getting Nintnedo videos from getting killed, which Iwata had to approve.

Again, the point is they've ALWAYS been like this, the only reason we're seeing more of these is becuase of the internet growing in popularity making things easier to access information (Alongside Nintendo publishing info about thier major legal activity on thier website such as this recent lawsuit) and the increace of targets the lawyers could strike.

No objections here, if memory serves AM2R project was hunted by Nintendo while Iwata was still there I think. Heck it even dropped from the Internet for some time (it's back since then fortunately). Perhaps you are right on that we see more of this stuff at least to some extend because the information exchange through the Internet is better than it was let's say 10 or so years ago (even tough the Internet connection was quite well spread already). Once again I'm not saying Nintendo is saint or anything. Today I just have more reasons to openly dislike them and have serious difficulty to find anything GOOD in them to, let's say "balance the scales" (TM).

Try SECAMworld... Most people don't even know they exist.

There is a rumor about the prequel, Teletextworld!

 

[ChronosNotashi]

No objections here, if memory serves AM2R project was hunted by Nintendo while Iwata was still there I think. Heck it even dropped from the Internet for some time (it's back since then fortunately).

Funny enough, this more or less lined up with 1) the period leading up to the release of Metroid: Samus Returns, and 2) the period when sales of M:SR naturally declined after the major sales period. Which saw AM2R being out of the way long enough to give the official remake time to generate sales for the Metroid IP (didn't hit 1mil in the fiscal period, but clearly sold enough that Nintendo was willing to take one more shot at making Metroid Dread). I don't recall AM2R ever attempting to generate revenue for the project either, so that probably helped its revival kick in without much pressure.

That doesn't change anything as there were still DMCAs and Lawsuits that came even before Iwata was gone or even before he stopped being took up presidency as we still have examples of Big N being similarly as aggressive such as thier lawsuit against the guys behind Game Genie for what you could guess from the name of it, attempting to sue Blockbuster over making photocopies of thier game manuals in the 90s and killing Full Screen Mario in 2013 or the fan made Pokenet MMO in 2010 which Iwata did nothing to stop despite being president by then in the case of the two fangames, and that's not talking about things like when they tried to throw thier hat in being a Youtube partner where you had to be part of it to avoid getting getting Nintnedo videos from getting killed, which Iwata had to approve.

Again, the point is they've ALWAYS been like this, the only reason we're seeing more of these is becuase of the internet growing in popularity making things easier to access information (Alongside Nintendo publishing info about thier major legal activity on thier website such as this recent lawsuit) and the increace of targets the lawyers could strike.

Yeah, I've certainly seen this being. Even when looking outside of Nintendo stuff, it was much harder to get such information over a decade or so ago. These days, you can't even do a sneeze emoji in an invite-only forum without everyone outside of said forum knowing about it and somehow feeling compelled to share the news to everyone within a 500-meter radius.