I don't have paid twitter, but if we want to defend palworld, someone has to @grummz and encourage him to ask people to contact nintendo investors.
Nintendo is publicly traded. If dozens of their biggest shareholders start hearing directly from the public that this makes Nintendo look like a villain, and will result in fans swearing off the brand? That's going to get investors involved in telling Nintendo it might be an unwise move to throw such might behind a bruised ego.
"Contact the investors"
"Contact the advertisers"
This is how groups like media matters and SPLC / ADF get things done. We need to wise up. Bitching directly to nintendo isn't going to accomplish anything. Getting the bag-holders riled up will.
Someone with a decent following and twitter blue please @Grummz. Post a link here. I'll like and re-tweet.
The only reason Nintendo is doing this to begin with is because Palworld made them look really bad by beating them at their own game. It will be trivial for them to explain this to their shareholders, if they haven't already.
Especially in the interest of preventing future incidents of people trying to do so, as Nintendo's method in the past is to DMCA big names to scare all the little ones into scattering.
Their shareholders will care more about that then looking bad for a brief time, as they always "look bad" when trying to aggressively protect their IPs every other year. But in doing so they continue to be the only real dog on the field and make billions off lackluster products constantly. Its a proven strategy for them.
I don't want to defend their scummy behavior, but that is how their business strategy has worked for a long time now.
Arguably, Nintendo is reacting because Sony backed Palworld. There's plenty of other monster catch & trains out there-- but Palworld's got Sony behind them, and is a big enough threat for Nintendo to activate their legal team.
There's some cultural issues with the Palworld dev being ex-Nintendo and going against the company that raised him going on, too. Underneath, Sony supporting Palworld is a threat to The Pokemon Company, a Nintendo cash-cow.
The Palworld lawsuit can be viewed as proxy battle in the continuing corporate struggle between Nintendo and Sony, since Nintendo knocking out Palworld keeps Sony from damaging/diluting the Pokemon brand.
Like you point out, a Nintendo win leaves only their (lackluster) products on the market.
I had forgotten that angle but its likely very true. After all, damn near identical games like Coromon and Nexomon are being sold that are far more Pokemon clones than Palworld could ever come close to being. They just didn't make much noise so Nintendo didn't care to even waste time on indie slop like them.
There is a lot of petty nonsense going on behind these decisions, but at the end of it there is still logical soundness enough for Nintendo to justify themselves to their shareholders.
Its like when they shut down those emulators earlier this year, its a complete dick move from our end but they could just point to Tears of the Kingdoms lackluster reception/sales and have their investors throwing extra lawyers in to help them do it.
I don't have paid twitter, but if we want to defend palworld, someone has to @grummz and encourage him to ask people to contact nintendo investors.
Nintendo is publicly traded. If dozens of their biggest shareholders start hearing directly from the public that this makes Nintendo look like a villain, and will result in fans swearing off the brand? That's going to get investors involved in telling Nintendo it might be an unwise move to throw such might behind a bruised ego.
"Contact the investors" "Contact the advertisers"
This is how groups like media matters and SPLC / ADF get things done. We need to wise up. Bitching directly to nintendo isn't going to accomplish anything. Getting the bag-holders riled up will.
Someone with a decent following and twitter blue please @Grummz. Post a link here. I'll like and re-tweet.
The only reason Nintendo is doing this to begin with is because Palworld made them look really bad by beating them at their own game. It will be trivial for them to explain this to their shareholders, if they haven't already.
Especially in the interest of preventing future incidents of people trying to do so, as Nintendo's method in the past is to DMCA big names to scare all the little ones into scattering.
Their shareholders will care more about that then looking bad for a brief time, as they always "look bad" when trying to aggressively protect their IPs every other year. But in doing so they continue to be the only real dog on the field and make billions off lackluster products constantly. Its a proven strategy for them.
I don't want to defend their scummy behavior, but that is how their business strategy has worked for a long time now.
Arguably, Nintendo is reacting because Sony backed Palworld. There's plenty of other monster catch & trains out there-- but Palworld's got Sony behind them, and is a big enough threat for Nintendo to activate their legal team.
There's some cultural issues with the Palworld dev being ex-Nintendo and going against the company that raised him going on, too. Underneath, Sony supporting Palworld is a threat to The Pokemon Company, a Nintendo cash-cow.
The Palworld lawsuit can be viewed as proxy battle in the continuing corporate struggle between Nintendo and Sony, since Nintendo knocking out Palworld keeps Sony from damaging/diluting the Pokemon brand.
Like you point out, a Nintendo win leaves only their (lackluster) products on the market.
I had forgotten that angle but its likely very true. After all, damn near identical games like Coromon and Nexomon are being sold that are far more Pokemon clones than Palworld could ever come close to being. They just didn't make much noise so Nintendo didn't care to even waste time on indie slop like them.
There is a lot of petty nonsense going on behind these decisions, but at the end of it there is still logical soundness enough for Nintendo to justify themselves to their shareholders.
Its like when they shut down those emulators earlier this year, its a complete dick move from our end but they could just point to Tears of the Kingdoms lackluster reception/sales and have their investors throwing extra lawyers in to help them do it.