Strange that you can patent a game mechanic in software. What’s next, the superhero landing? The vpose with a bent leg? Running a certain way with a gun between waypoints?
What’s next, the superhero landing?
A different branch on IP law but for decades Marvel and DC had a shared trademark on “Super Hero”.
If either felt they could argue it was a unique trade identifier they would have claimed it exclusively but instead they claimed shared ownership and used it to lock out competition in the space from 1979 to 2024.
We are still suffering the effects of bad software patents. Tons of garbage patents were granted in the form of “common everyday thing, but on a computer.” A notable one was the digital shopping cart that was eventually invalidated.
There are no good software patents. The concept should be abolished.
I believe Microsoft has a patent for launching different functions if a button is double clicked versus a single click.
What if they just single click twice, instead of double-clicking?
make a shitty game in godot with all these things and file for patents before all the big players do
I am copyrighting the T pose for player characters and will sue everybody who ever shows it.
I wish they would just switch the spheres for a scroll and mark the summon spot on the ground at point of view with a summoning hex. Also make other scrolls for one off uses for you to use a pal fruit skill.
Also, F Nintendo…
The issue is it’s not a copyright on the ball, it’s a patent on aiming to summon a creature.
a patent that was issued after palworld came out. its a sham
Does that mean Nintendo could sue Bethesda because summoning spells in Skyrim have to be aimed?
Damn.
This really isn’t that bad, it’s an opportunity to be creative as well. They can replace the balls with anything, say, talismans that they have to stick on the creatures. When summoning them back, they could be reading off of these talismans. It would ironically have more of a Japanese vibe than Pokemon. Other alternatives: for summoning, just replace the balls with curled up miniature versions of the creatures that just expand into size and the capture device can be an artifact that shrinks them and turns them into stone statues you can place in your base. It could go full on occult into summoning circles. They could make it customizable into anything the player chooses as a jab at Nintendo at how worthless their patent is.
It’s not that bad for this instance, but it’s bad that Nintendo gets to bully companies into submission. Supposedly Poké Balls are inspired by Gashapon so are themselves taking something from someone else (as everything does). Sure, Palworld was especially aggressive with how obvious they were copying them, but I don’t think something so generic should be ownable.
This is how gaming as a category gets ruined.
Use cubes.
I hope someone mods it back in.
They will.
While I think it’s petty and silly to sue over this I think it’s pathetic that PP couldn’t think of any other way to capture and summon monsters, and that the players kept calling this a pokemon game. There are so many games with tons of monsters you can tame and fight and they don’t look like pokemon ffs. I’m with Nintendo on this one. PP, do better.
There is nothing about this game that resembles theft of anyone’s IP in any way, and in a just world an absurd suit like this anywhere on the planet would result in literally every piece of IP a company owns (piercing corporate bullshit) being released to the public domain in the entire world permanently.
