nintendo is sort of depleting goodwill in the western customer base due to how they use laws
different culture, in japan if a law is a law all is justified, but in the west we have a culture where some ways of using laws against people or companies can be considered abusive and I don’t think there’s anything more bad faith then to patent something and then retroactively use that patent to go after competition that already used what you patented, before you patented it.
I’ve got a switch 1, it’ll be the last nintendo product I own.
Nintendo just patented prehistoric hunting techniques.
Enough with this nonsense. It’s time for someone to sue Nintendo.
Blizzard, do your duty to our industry!
(Ok not actually expecting that, but you need to defend yourselves)
This is mainly about Pokémon. Nintendo’s patent targets creature-summoning mechanics like those in Pokémon, which is why they’re going after Palworld. It’s not meant to affect WoW, Final Fantasy, or other games with summoning in general.
JoJo should sue Pokemon because Pokemon function similar to Stands and JoJo came out way before Pokemon.
Just wondering, technically, who has the right to patent health and mana bar, if we go into history of gaming?
If nintendo wins. can Palworld or whoever appeal the ruling? Or is that it? Nintendo owns the concept of catching and releasing monsters now?
But it will, because once a patent is accepted, developers will have to avoid using those mechanics in new games or features within existing ones or risk opening themselves up to a lawsuit from Nintendo if Nintendo ever feels like it.
Very few companies accept such a risk.
Good point, but that’s why this whole thing looks so shaky. Summoning allies or creatures in battle isn’t something Nintendo invented it goes back decades. Dungeons & Dragons had summoning spells and monster companions long before Pokémon was ever a thing. The idea of “call a creature, it fights for you” is a core RPG mechanic, not unique IP.
If push came to shove, there’s plenty of precedent showing this concept existed well before Nintendo, which makes enforcing a blanket patent like this really questionable.
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Fair yeah, as others have said it is just hunting strategy, catch animal, see if it is better as food or better to continue its line, release in pot or release in wild after.
I’ve seen people completely lose understanding of basic concepts like, capturing an animal and releasing it, simply because it was delivered in the context of a digital experience.
Let’s hope whoever has to greenlight this has enough technical literacy to know.
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And that’s why patenting , copyrighting ets is bad .
Someone should patent the practice of patenting .
Imagine how much money you can make off this lol .
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Patents only exist to troll, heck the patent troll.
I don’t blame Nintendo
I blame the clown who approved this patent
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Plain stupid tbh.
If this pass, then blizz can/should patent moba gamestyle lol.
Welcome to Japan and somewhat the US (evidently). Japan is notorious for its outdated system in that sector. In the US while you can have such patents passed they are usually challenged in court (if necessary) and the patent gets revoked. It does require a fair sum to able to sustain this legal fight however and only big companies can do that.
Basic mechanics arent able to be patented in the majority of Europe from the get go.
And if I followed the Palworlds vs Nintendo case correctly then Nintendo is trying to grasp for straws as they are currently losing the case against Palworld and Palworld is aiming to have Nintendos patents challenged and revoked.
Its unlikely Nintendo will ever go to court against any big company in the US. Nintendo is also notorious for only going after small fish that it can bully into submission (and even that fails if the country the person lives in has a reasonable system. Or they try something so incredibly dumb that they get basically told to shove it by the courts like in costa rica).
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I’m amazed this got a patent. Like how.
Nintendo has gotten far too big for its boots. I wish all these massive corporations would be dismantled. Their ability to dominate huge parts of the gaming industry is sickening.
Money. Same with all laws.
IRL is playing Monopoly with your family but you can’t flip the table, rage at how BS and unfair it is because the dice didn’t back you up and then leave.
If gravity cared about money its laws wouldn’t apply to some people.
Hopefully Nintendo patent dying so I can become immortal.
This pretty much.
It isn’t hard to see that Palworld is a Pokémon rip off.
Funnily enough this remark has died off. Its now only being called an ark ripoff given the gameplay and design.
And it doesnt look that good for Nintendo on the Japanese court front right now. Which is quite surprising (but then again I highly assume Sony is uber backing Pocketpair over there in Japan in this lawsuit).
If they try to sue them in the US as well (given the recent patents) then I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft also gets involved on the US front.