2d ago

Game Freak honestly needs a good humbling.

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Pocketpair uses examples from Final Fantasy 14, Tomb Raider, Monster Hunter, and more to defend Palworld against Nintendo's lawsuit

They’ve got pockets up the ass and the HIGHEST SELLING IP IN THE WORLD, and they use it to cosplay as an indie dev team to release games with so many bugs Bethesda would get jealous and now they want a monopoly on a genre they didn’t even invent in the first place.

(MegaTen came out in 1987, nearly a decade before Pokemon Red and Blue came out)

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When people will buy your product no matter what, you don't have much an incentive to make a better product.
- Truly the DNC of companies

They know they don't have a leg to stand on with this lawsuit. They also know that the Palworld devs do not have the money to fund an extremely expensive lawsuit and will most likely settle out of court. All the money they made from palworld has gone into lawyer's fees instead of future games, and they will probably end up shutting their doors as a studio because of this. Game Freak/Nintendo get to destroy the competition, which is what this is really about.
- Game Freak/Nintendo get to destroy the competition, which is what this is really about.
  Yes and no, you see Pocket Pair had partnered up with Sony, so because of that partnership Palworld is now the metaphorical equivalent of a mob family (Sony) encroaching on the territory of another mob family (Nintendo). Had Pocket Pair not partnered up with Sony, I'd bet you that Nintendo wouldn't have cared one bit.
  Yes that's what the whole thing is about, it's about Nintendo protecting their territory from in their eyes a very blatant encroachment by Sony.
  
  Yes and no to you too! Nintendo were fine with games like Nexomon (which is basically a 1:1 pokemon clone in all the was that matter), because Nexomon was small and non-threatening. Palworld was successful enough to be seen as a threat. I think they would've done this regardless of if they had partnered with Sony.

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