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'It was a very depressing day': Palworld community manager reveals studio's reaction to Nintendo lawsuit (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Nintendo had registered the patents in a filing not long after Palworld's release, setting the stage for the lawsuit.

How is that even legal? Decades after releasing something, a competitor comes along and releases their product, so you decide "now's the time to file a patent" and you can kill the competitor. That should create a very unstable business environment as no new business can be safe when making a patent check as they can be filed after you created a product by somebody else. It makes no sense.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was just thinking this. Japan's patent system is so fucked up. You can do everything right, look up all relevant existing patents to make sure you're in the clear, then a competitor ex post facto files and kills your business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Doubt that any company would get away with this. Maybe only biggest hundred or so

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is literally what Nintendo is doing right now.

They filled this suit, and only THEN filed for a bunch of extra patents they didn't already have in order to increase the damages they could claim from Pocket Pair for being in violation.

I already think patents for game design mechanics are idiotic an unethical, but this is absolutely insane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I said "get away with" and you said "they are doing" these can both be true, and I even provided the reason, too big to fail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not only are they getting away with it, it looks like they'll continue to benefit from it.

I'm not sure what reality you're living to think they're not.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Future tense is used for denoting events that have not happened yet. And also, why do you care so much? The world is fucked sixty five ways till Sunday, so why the focus here?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

What do you think will happen to them, because they pulled this?

so why the focus here?

I can pay attention to more than one thing. These greedy corporations abusing legal systems is why the world is so fucked. Trying to handwaved this as not mattering sounds like you admit you're wrong

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Japans laws regarding copyright and patents are.... hazy

[–] recursive_recursion 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know why people are downvoting this post as everything stated in the article is true and unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I didn't downvote, but I found it quite unclear and vague.

Nintendo announced the lawsuit [...] we were just about to go to Tokyo Game Show, so obviously we had to scale back a little bit and hire security guards and stuff like that."

I don't follow the connection... Why do you need security guards in response to a lawsuit?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just a hunch, but have you seen how rabid some nintendo -fans are? If a word of the lawsuit got out some whacko's could try something. Ref. "Zelda-game got only 8/10? Send death threats to reviewer." mentality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Okay, that makes sense 😅

Well, I guess I am not informed on such details. Maybe one of the people downvoting were in my same situation. Although I guess this kind of websites expect their visitors to already know about the context.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They are probably scared of Ninjas? 😁

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Nintendo is a trash company.