| HoloDust said: They were granted patent - why can anyone have patent on game mechanic is beyond insane, but they do have it. |
It's also why we haven't seen anyone take a crack at emulating the Nemesis system, because WB owns the patent to that entire mechanic (it also doesn't help that the mechanic itself is complicated in design itself).
Apparently they did file some patens back in 2021 though, but I also like to imagine Palworld was also in super early Alpha at that stage, seeing as how it released to the public in a phase two beta style launch (playable state, some content to keep gamers playing, etc). However, the recent patents were filed after palworld sold gangbusters, which meant that Nintendo started to build a case after seeing the numbers, meaning they do want to crush their competition via abusing the law and patents, which can be a common tactic to use, if you cba outshining your competition (and when you're big, you tend not to pour money into making yourself look better, when you can just take an easy pot shot at smaller fix in the sea).
That being said, I don't think this will kill PocketPair. I just think there will have to be some changes made, but I am also hoping that Nintendo doesn't pull a further dick move by trying to drag Pocketpair through legal proceedings for months/years on end, because if they do that, then they can slowly crush the entire studio (or buy them out when they're weak enough and simply gut the studio and kill the game, which we all know Nintendo has no issues doing with their own games).
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