#ScarVi made so much money it's insane and those games were complete messes from the top down

[lastoneout]

Like that patent seems broad enough that they could use it against the fucking Persona series. And I mean it wouldn't be infringement since it's Nintendo but you could argue Echoes of Wisdom violates it by having Zelda use her staff to collect creatures she can summon in battle. Nintendo is way outta line on this one. They could have had something of a stance on the design front if they could actually prove the models or other assets were taken from their games and only edited slightly but trying to say they own the concept of a creature collection game where you use an object to collect and battle with creatures is like SquareEnix saying because they made Final Fantasy the own the rights to the concept of a fantasy JRPG, like this is an insane president to set that will have lasting negative impacts on the gaming industry. I can think of like five hugely popular games where you collect and battle with creatures, like are you gonna go after Dragon Quest and Digimon now??

Like I am iffy on Palworld and the company behind it for the AI shit and I will admit the designs are uncomfortably close to Pokemon, like they are def dancing pretty close to the copyright line visually and it's on purpose, but Nintendo/Game Freak choosing to ignore all that and instead say they own the rights to creature collection as a concept and claiming Palworld made them lose money when Pokemon is one of the most profitable IPs in history and there is NO WAY Palworld could come even remotely close to pulling in the kind of money even one single generation of Pokemon games could is genuinely concerning.

I'm not trying to defend Palworld, but I am saying Nintendo is going way too far and pulling some legal tomfuckery here and you shouldn't excuse it just because it's against a game/studio that you already don't like. This is very quickly going to stop being about Palworld and I do not like most of the directions it could possibly go down.