"We have known about this game since it was announced but it wasn't until 5000 armchair IP experts contacted us that our lawyers realized there was a case!"

Once I saw that they sued the Pokemon mod, I knew Palworld was safe

Any more info on the models? I'm seeing a lot of crazy claims and side by side comparisons and some are unconfortably close.

Brand new sentence.

From what I know, copyright law in Japan is rather strict, and the people there are generally in support of that. That's why you won't see any free manga repository sites hosted in Japan.

There's a genuine belief in supporting companies through official purchases and preventing bootlegs, piracy and the like. And in Japan at least, there is a little bit more of a culture of mutual relationship between companies, workers, shareholders, customers and the people there, something long lost in North America.

My translation for the first sentence is "We have received many opinions from our customers that the other company's game released in January 2024 is similar to Pokemon, as well as inquiries if those were condoned by our company."

I think that shows better TPC's statement that they got plenty of comments from people and they are very well aware of the situation, and how it reads between the lines like "OK, OK, you can stop telling us about Palworld now," as the article suggests.

Because people are jealous this ones good

Because thise one became popular and seems (did not really saw anything besides a short talk by a youtube channel) somewhat original in an acceptable quality.

I don't know of any other clones that reached that popularity.

(That said: Pokemon stopped for me at 3rd Gen, so I don't know whats up with the IP anyway)

I'm a pokemon fan. These new pokemon-like games seem really exciting, because they are taking the pokemon formula and innovating in a way that Game Freak won't.

There are many complaints about the direction Pokémon is going. But people would just complain without directing to another game, besides their favorite classic pokemon game, or "ROM Hacks" without actually suggesting a particular hack.

As for myself, I was getting tired of the formula, especially as it shifted to more like a movie than a game with Sun/Moon. I withdrew from new Pokemon games until Legends Arceus and Scarlet/Violet, precisely because they add an advantage that the older games didn't have. I had a lot of fun with Pokémon Scarlet, in large part due to the open world, breaking the straight line trend of the past four gens. It still suffers from too many cutscenes and slowness (not just frame drops). I still need to really pour time onto Legends Arceus. Cassette Beasts and Palworld are high on my wishlist now.

Yeah they're not snitching, they're mocking them lol