22 points

Omg get stuffed tendo

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the lawsuit is targeting three patents in particular. These primarily cover throwing an object in a specific direction to either summon a battle character or to capture a creature in the field

Better watch out, Ghostbusters. Your ghost trap might be next.

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No they specifically only target companies that cannot defend themselves. World of Warcraft has battle pets that you can capture by throwing cages at them and then train and fight them against other battle pets. Nintendo isn’t about to file a lawsuit against Microsoft.

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World of Warcraft has battle pets that you can capture by throwing cages at them and then train and fight them against other battle pets.

Which is arguable a more realistic representation of what Pokemon represents: slavery.

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I need it explained to me how this wouldn’t cover “throwing a net”. Don’t see how you can get away with patenting a real life action with an uber vague patent.

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Not a lawyer, but it seems like changing the ball throwing mechanic is an admission that they are taking ideas from Nintendo. Maybe they are trying to minimize the damage but still seems like they are weakening their position.

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Yeah doesn’t seem like a good tactic to me.

Honestly this whole thing is gonna set precedence and simple game mechanics are gonna get copyrighted in ways that will only make gaming as a whole even worse than it already is.

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Your video game has characters collecting in-game coins.

We have a patent for commercial mechanics existing in games, pay us.

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I bet with their sales Palworld can afford actual lawyers

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I’m really hoping that this was done in a way that lets someone just mod it back in trivially or something.

Also obligatory fuck nintendo. For so many reasons, including this.

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