• @Nima@leminal.space
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    844 months ago

    i love how terraria is the 7th best selling game ever and they are just chill with everyone.

    i adore the dedication to fun. they just keep rollin.

  • @mlg@lemmy.world
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    624 months ago

    I don’t care how much of a pirate cheapo game this is, watching Nintendo go ape over practically a knockoff someone could have made as a joke is amusing, especially with their playerbase success.

      • @fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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        04 months ago

        Idk I literally went around just catching pals and spent 30 hours doing that, seems pretty pokemon to me.

        • @Valencia@sh.itjust.works
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          134 months ago

          What were you doing for the majority of those 30 hours? Most likely resource gathering, building your base, optimizing pal usage, etc… Basically the only similarity is that you throw spheres at creatures. There’s no gyms, no turn based gameplay, no trading, no evolution, and not even really trainer battles, just some unique encounters.

    • ms.lane
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      404 months ago

      It’s pretty fun, more fun than modern Pokemon, but I’m just a trash gentwo’er.

    • Echo Dot
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      64 months ago

      You cannot copyright a vague idea. No matter how much Nintendo might want to.

      The game is basically just magic animals in the world that you can capture and do things with. It’s literally every JRPG ever. It’s just mounts with extra features.

  • TxzK
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    294 months ago

    Aren’t they being sued by Nintendo rn? That’s some balls from both sides lol.

    • Fubarberry
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      644 months ago

      That lawsuit might take years, and the requested damages from Nintendo are only $66,000. Palworld isn’t going to be shut down anytime soon, even if they lose the case.

        • Fubarberry
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          284 months ago

          There was a request to halt sales until the specific mechanics were removed, with the mechanics being throwing pokeball like items and riding monsters.

          • Caveman
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            424 months ago

            Trying do ban riding fictional animals is a tall order

              • Echo Dot
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                14 months ago

                Blizzard of course can’t sue anyone because that would require an original idea to copyright.

            • I Cast Fist
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              94 months ago

              ackshually 🤓

              One of the patents was for seamlessly transitioning from one type of ride to another, as it happens in Legends Arceus, ie: jumping into the water while riding the stag will automatically change to the giant piranha. The irony here is that palworld lacks anything like that, you never transition between 2 different mounts without player input. The closest to that is using some pals as gliders, but you’ll just get back on your feet once you touch the ground or water.

              Another patent was for throwing stuff at enemies in order to begin combat. They’re all hard reads, mostly because they read like they’re describing how Legends Arceus works in minute detail.

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                24 months ago

                Another patent was for throwing stuff at enemies in order to begin combat.

                Are Nintendo suing reality now? I must admit, it would be very on brand for them.

        • @QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
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          84 months ago

          I looked through a few articles but couldn’t find anything about a term that would shutdown Palworld just because Nintendo won the lawsuit.

          The worst case scenario would be something like Palworld having to change their “Pal Spheres” into “Pal Cubes” or prisms, or something similar.

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            The Palnoctahedron. “It’s a totally different shape and it’s just the fact that it’s very small, and we enabled smooth shading, that makes it look like we haven’t done anything to it.”

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          -14 months ago

          In Japan.

          With the money they’ve made already, they could move the team to US, where none of this would fly.

          • Echo Dot
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            14 months ago

            They would still have to face the courts in Japan if they want to sell in Japan.

            Your line of thinking is the same thing that X fell for with Brazil. Just because you don’t have your HQ in a particular country doesn’t mean the legal system can be ignored. Otherwise the EU wouldn’t be gifting fines to Google and Apple every 15 minutes.

    • Lem Jukes
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      274 months ago

      The suit is effectively not about the money at all. It’s about setting a precedent in Japanese court to basically allow Nintendo to patent whatever they want, whenever they want, so they can go after and shut down competitors with ease. Pirate Software has a decent and short breakdown on their youtube channel iirc

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      174 months ago

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  • @lorty@lemmy.ml
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    164 months ago

    Summoner class going to eat good. Guess I’ll do another playthrough of terraria.

  • Jolteon
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    144 months ago

    That’s awesome, I thought they got murdered by Nintendo.

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      Nintendo are suing them, but Nintendo sue everyone.

      The Japanese copyright courts are stupid, it doesn’t matter how clearly something isn’t a case, it still goes to trial if one of the parties is big and important enough. They don’t seem to have proper separation of law and government. So political bigwigs can get involved.

  • MyNameIsAtticus
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    84 months ago

    Terraria seems so relaxed. They just kind of seem to be coexisting with everyone which i love.