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.