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The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets (www.forbes.com)
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[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 113 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's been advertised forever. If there was a case, Nintendo lawsuit-happy lawyers would have taken them down by now. It was never a secret their design shared aesthetic with Pokemon.

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 50 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Reading the article explains that it's not that their aesthetic is shared, it's that some of the models are extremely similar to S/V models, beyond the likelihood of coincidence, and Nintendo plans to investigate if it's coincidence or actual asset theft.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

Reading the linked article? You are asking the impossible.

[–] Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That was disproven several times - the guy who claimed it even admitted he'd altered Palworld's assets to show that supposed 'similarity'

[–] HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for that? This is the first I'm seeing that the claims were fraudulent.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net -3 points 9 months ago

The guy apparently rescaled the models to make them similar in size, which, idk if I'd call that altering

I still think it's kind of a BS claim though

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Source? Or is this a "dude trust me"

[–] Rusty_Red@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

Screenrant Article here from a day ago. It does still state that Nintendo intends to investigate, but most of the stolen/copied asset claims have been refuted or rescinded. With the main "they stole assets" person admitting they fabricated the proof because they hate how Palworld glorifies animal abuse (which is extremely ironic to me because no one had a problem when Pokémon was cockfighting for children)

[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de -2 points 9 months ago

No they are not.

[–] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if one of the most litigious gaming companies out there hasn't filed a suit against them, then I think they might be ok, unless they can somehow prove parts of assets were used.

The closest Nintendo has gotten to legal stuff was against a modder for Palworld who used Pokemon and put the mod behind a paywall and I'm pretty sure if they didn't charge they might have been left alone maybe.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago

Nintendo is incapable of leaving anything alone.