Really though. Game's got next to no players compared to launch. Honestly wasn't sure if the servers were still going.
I looked it up and the mechanics are completely different than Pokemon. Palwaorld isn't even a turn based RPG so the two games aren't remotley comparable gameplay wise. PUBG suing Fortnite had more of a basis than this.
Even if they were, those are such vague mechanics that I doubt you could sue. That's like if Minecraft sued Rust for having crafting.
I would think it being a matter of the numbers being exactly the same, if there's exactly 32 IV values, exactly 25 natures, exactly 1/8192 shiny odds, that sort of thing; that might be more apt to be a vulnerability in sensitive Japanese courts.
And poke balls catching monsters are literal rip offs of Ultraseven's Ultra Capsules. So much so Pokemon's original title was Capsule Monsters.
Well in that case, the only sort of IV values are health, defense and attack, there are no natures, there are no shiny variants, no egg groups since everything can breed with everything. Honestly the only thing patent related I can see in Palworld is just the "you can capture creatures with sphere objects" and... That's pretty much it. I can see the issue being only about the sphere shit since TemTem is nearly a 1:1 Pokemon clone but it does it with cards instead of spheres. (Although people stopped giving a single fuck about this game really quickly.)
If that's what they are suing over then I would guess Nintendo owns the patent on it and Tsubaraya can't sue, but we don't know what Nintendo is doing it over.
I wish I could see the lawsuit documents so I could figure out what exactly they're claiming and under what laws, but I bet they're only in Japanese.
Morals don't begin to come into whether you pay for video games or not, you autistic loser. You want to feel justified to download something for free instead of just sucking it up and downloading your dumb game.
I guess some lawyers thought that, if they could take down Chinese developers (since those actually were true worries), they could take down anything that was trying to bite at Pokemon's complete monopoly.
