There's nothing to take. Their attorneys would have told them as much. The anti-AI crowd don't like it, but Palworld's work is clearly transformative.
That specific pokemon mod going unmolested would have endangered their copyright, so they had to blow it up.
Honestly, they should be taking some god damned lessons. Their entire fucking franchise is built on a kind of dopamine brain worm for collecting shit, and they haven't properly innovated. Their own, ridiculously dedicated fanbase has made a multiplicity of mods and even alternative games to improve the gameplay loop and although they blindly grasp into the either; they never really commit.
I hope to god that they had a fucking wake-up call and realize that a bunch of knock-off retards just made a bajillion dollars on a barely finished product. Revolutionary demand is out there for Pokemon, they just have no idea how to exploit it.
They can do it. Pokken Tournament is fucking awesome. Pokemon Conquest was a knock-off of Fire Emblem, but it still worked. Arceus is grasping at Zelda. They just need to put the damn effort into it.
It kills me that the Pokemon sycophants are so upset by this game. Honestly, it's probably the best thing that could happen to them. A game that actively threatens Pokemon's status as "The only Monster Collecting game anyone cares about." could finally be the thing to force Gamefreak to stop being a bunch of lazy idiots and actually put in the work to make their games more appealing than an obvious early access title.
There is a negligible number of people "upset" by Palworld. The only supposed outrage is either in headlines written by talentless hacks calling themselves game journalists, and in the offices of Game Freak and Nintendo. Pokémon fans aren't particularly bothered by it. Nobody else cares.
I think Pokemon has long passed the event horizon. They've just made too damn many of the critters without them all being of sufficient quality. It was cool back when it first hit and even Gold and Silver it was still manageable. You could have a working knowledge of the whole franchise. Now though? Good luck keeping up or getting back in. It's been lurching forward on the momentum that was built up in the 90s for a very long time now.
Idk why AI is looked upon so poorly, especially in video games of all things. If your creative team can’t beat a few words into a computer program then that’s kinda your problem
On one hand, it's because (as you note) relatively useless people can be easily displaced. On the other hand, doomer luddites misunderstand it's capabilities and think it will solve problems at an exponential rate, but not create new ones at a same exponential rate.
What about us techno-savvy luddites who see it for the massive power that it is and simply don't trust a bunch of filthy apes to wield it without bringing more evil into the world?
You don't have them wield it, you wield it yourself.
Adopt new technology to your society, particularly weapons. Do not reject it whole heartedly. This is why Gab AI is a good idea.
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca were absolutely wiped out by the Spanish with pikes, swords, and a couple cannons.
The Black Feet, Navajo, and Nez Pierce acquired both firearms and horses and managed to hold on for significantly longer. Even in a loosing struggle where you are guaranteed to be conquered (like a Mongol invasion) your primary objective needs to be to adapt as quickly as possible and keep building it within the boundaries and restrictions of your culture.
This is why the Japanese went from nearly being an uncontacted medieval people, to the most dangerous navy in the world within the span of a single century.
I think both Game Freak and Nintendo are very hidebound in their thinking; Nintendo seems to insist on making underpowered shit that sees games get stripped down for it (NMS for instance), and archaic systems (only one save file for Pokemon, really?) and Game Freak has only ever developed for Nintendo, and they also use archaic game mechanics (or were up to 6th or 7th gen, anyway.)
And Pokemon has kind of restricted itself to showing us its world ONLY from the eyes of a Don King sort of fighting team manager. But we see glimpses of the day to day partnerships (Fire pokemon working with cooks, and just plain old household helpers and friends) ...
And the fact that they won't cross-platform Pokemon but not everyone wants to buy a Switch just for Pokemon.
I'm kind of ok with that. I think that by maintaining a closed ecosystem they've walled themselves off from a lot of the cultural problems infecting the rest of the industry space.
There's nothing to take. Their attorneys would have told them as much. The anti-AI crowd don't like it, but Palworld's work is clearly transformative.
That specific pokemon mod going unmolested would have endangered their copyright, so they had to blow it up.
Honestly, they should be taking some god damned lessons. Their entire fucking franchise is built on a kind of dopamine brain worm for collecting shit, and they haven't properly innovated. Their own, ridiculously dedicated fanbase has made a multiplicity of mods and even alternative games to improve the gameplay loop and although they blindly grasp into the either; they never really commit.
I hope to god that they had a fucking wake-up call and realize that a bunch of knock-off retards just made a bajillion dollars on a barely finished product. Revolutionary demand is out there for Pokemon, they just have no idea how to exploit it.
They can do it. Pokken Tournament is fucking awesome. Pokemon Conquest was a knock-off of Fire Emblem, but it still worked. Arceus is grasping at Zelda. They just need to put the damn effort into it.
It kills me that the Pokemon sycophants are so upset by this game. Honestly, it's probably the best thing that could happen to them. A game that actively threatens Pokemon's status as "The only Monster Collecting game anyone cares about." could finally be the thing to force Gamefreak to stop being a bunch of lazy idiots and actually put in the work to make their games more appealing than an obvious early access title.
I wish someone had done that before DIE got to Halo, Forza, and Mass Effect.
They don't know how lucky they are.
I think Halo would be the easiest.
There is a negligible number of people "upset" by Palworld. The only supposed outrage is either in headlines written by talentless hacks calling themselves game journalists, and in the offices of Game Freak and Nintendo. Pokémon fans aren't particularly bothered by it. Nobody else cares.
I think Pokemon has long passed the event horizon. They've just made too damn many of the critters without them all being of sufficient quality. It was cool back when it first hit and even Gold and Silver it was still manageable. You could have a working knowledge of the whole franchise. Now though? Good luck keeping up or getting back in. It's been lurching forward on the momentum that was built up in the 90s for a very long time now.
Idk why AI is looked upon so poorly, especially in video games of all things. If your creative team can’t beat a few words into a computer program then that’s kinda your problem
On one hand, it's because (as you note) relatively useless people can be easily displaced. On the other hand, doomer luddites misunderstand it's capabilities and think it will solve problems at an exponential rate, but not create new ones at a same exponential rate.
What about us techno-savvy luddites who see it for the massive power that it is and simply don't trust a bunch of filthy apes to wield it without bringing more evil into the world?
You don't have them wield it, you wield it yourself.
Adopt new technology to your society, particularly weapons. Do not reject it whole heartedly. This is why Gab AI is a good idea.
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca were absolutely wiped out by the Spanish with pikes, swords, and a couple cannons.
The Black Feet, Navajo, and Nez Pierce acquired both firearms and horses and managed to hold on for significantly longer. Even in a loosing struggle where you are guaranteed to be conquered (like a Mongol invasion) your primary objective needs to be to adapt as quickly as possible and keep building it within the boundaries and restrictions of your culture.
This is why the Japanese went from nearly being an uncontacted medieval people, to the most dangerous navy in the world within the span of a single century.
I think both Game Freak and Nintendo are very hidebound in their thinking; Nintendo seems to insist on making underpowered shit that sees games get stripped down for it (NMS for instance), and archaic systems (only one save file for Pokemon, really?) and Game Freak has only ever developed for Nintendo, and they also use archaic game mechanics (or were up to 6th or 7th gen, anyway.)
And Pokemon has kind of restricted itself to showing us its world ONLY from the eyes of a Don King sort of fighting team manager. But we see glimpses of the day to day partnerships (Fire pokemon working with cooks, and just plain old household helpers and friends) ...
And the fact that they won't cross-platform Pokemon but not everyone wants to buy a Switch just for Pokemon.
Nintendo only exists to sell Nintendos.
I'm kind of ok with that. I think that by maintaining a closed ecosystem they've walled themselves off from a lot of the cultural problems infecting the rest of the industry space.
Yeah, the console is there to sell the games.
There are also elements from Zelda BOTW in it as well. Maybe a bit of generic Fortnight too.
They just gotta chose one, then fucking excel.