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.
Nintendo doesn't seem to be taking the bait either. They stopped a Pokemon mod of the game, and that's about it.
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.