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.
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.
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.
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.