“Should we take this as a lesson that the players want more originality in their games, to the point where they’re turning to other sources for it?”
“Nah, just get rid of the competition.”
I bet their lawyers have cost more than the whole Palworld production.
Pokemon, as a franchise, is worth it to monopolize.
If they did something good with it sure… But they are like Lego… Not much value for the price compared to others…
Not sure I can go that far. Lego is vastly superior quality to other blocks. Though they have been heavily reliant on licensed IP over original sets.
Imagine if only Need for Speed racing games were allowed to exist, or the only allowed shooter game was Call of Duty.
Fuck Nintendo.
Next up: Nintendo tries to patent jumping; citing Mario
Patients don’t protect small inventors anymore. They are now just systems to protect large corporations from competition. Patients are instead now weaponized against local businesses and small inventors. We need major world wide patient reform.
I think your auto-correct has gone wrong; patients rather than patents 3 times.
Totally agree with your point though. I’d extend it to include copyright reform as well as patents; intellectual property rights are being abused globally and used as a way to abuse citizens.
Everything is owned by a few corporations operating umbrella companies that make up the illusion of competition
old timers (or geeks) help me:
Didn’t Rogue (which termed the genre Rogue-like) had a “monster capturing” mechanics? I know that Nethack has a pet system (you even start out with a cat or dog that follow, fight and even steal items for you).
Also, what about older text based games similar to Zork? any of them with monter capturing/battle system?
My point is that if we dig deep, we may discover “monster capturing” (or pet) mechanics way earlier than what most people think about what is considered the beginning of videogames (fliperama era games like NES, MegaDrive, Sega…)
I don’t know about Rogue/Zork/etc. but monster training has been an important mechanic in games like Dragon Quest 5 and the Megami Tensei series long before Pokemon existed.
It’s okay if you stop defending this corporation. Just sayin’.
Not seeing anyone defending Nintendo in this thread. Those guys are still on Reddit.
I’ve seen several threads on Lemmy of fanboys defending Nintendo. They just haven’t gotten to this thread yet
I haven’t, and I subscribe to a bunch of the Nintendo communities. The top comment on this story on [email protected] is advocating for Nintendo to have to pay PocketPair’s legal fees.
Yeah. Sony are a bunch of bastards.
