#nintendo puts as little time and effort as physically possible on their gamefreak conveyor belt of weirdly empty games

[zoriety]

I don't really like how so many people who were previously agreeing that AI art is theft are alright with palworld because it's kinda-theft but from a big company. I also think palworld sets a pretty bleak precedent.

edit at the top so I'm not misunderstood: palworld is not made by AI, but the dev Takuro Mizobe is very open about his support for it, and is morally on the side of borrowing heavily from what is popular. (link to his words further down)

I think people are missing the point with the arguments. The problem isn't that it's plagiarizing from Nintendo, which I also don't care about, but that the dev doesn't really mind about originality and about mimicking what's popular ( https://www.siliconera.com/how-does-the-palworld-ceo-feel-about-ai/ ). his other planned games are heavily inspired by others too (from hollow knight, for example). It isn't about who is plagiarized from, but the precedent set.

And I'm also seeing 'but it's really fun/I don't care because it's much more fun than pokemon'. Also not really the point - and possibly even the moral challenge here. If a bit of fun in a game is more important to you than the moral principle of avoiding financially supporting ai tech bros, I can't tell anyone not to - and if it turns out that enough people are totally okay with it and will give them money despite some hang ups, that's the win to them and they'll continue - and I suspect it will be!

For me, the dev's opinions and value of other people's creations is obviously little, and I want nothing to do with that. I also accept I seem to be in the minority with it; ultimately, you vote with your wallet with this kind of stuff.

FURTHER EDIT: I do kind of have to respect Takuro Mizobe for his honestly though LMAO. "I don't really care about originality, I'm just going to take what's popular so lots of people play it" I mean he's playing with legal fire isn't he, as long as he walks the tightrope of plagiarizing pokemon in-game models and changing them JUST ENOUGH to avoid being sued

Ultimately he is not really evil, realistically no company will lose money at this stage, but personally I'd rather play original games that aren't purposefully mashed up and regurgitated versions of others