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Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers (www.eurogamer.net)

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[–] franklin@lemmy.world 311 points 2 months ago (32 children)

It's still identifiably distinct, I really hope Nintendo lose because allowing copyright of a concecpt is dystopian especially in the context of our lengthy time frames for copyright.

It reminds me of when Apple wanted to patent the idea of rounded corners.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 178 points 2 months ago (22 children)

It's not even copyright, they're suing for using things they patented, but their patents are extremely general. I kid you not, they have a patent for MOUNTING CREATURES, something hundreds of games have done.

Abstract: In an example of a game program, a ground boarding target object or an air boarding target objects is selected by a selection operation, and a player character is caused to board the selected boarding target object. If the player character aboard the air boarding target object moves toward the ground player character automatically changed to the state where the player character is aboard the ground boarding target object, and brought into the state where the player character can move on the ground.

I'm no lawyer so I can't tell you how well this would hold up in court but it's ridiculous. See more: https://patents.justia.com/assignee/the-pokemon-company

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's a little more specific, I think the patent is about:

mounting either an air or ground mount
when riding the air mount, going close to the ground transforms it into the ground mount and you keep riding it

But that's still something multiple games have done in some way I think.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They better sue Microsoft over WoW, then, their IP did that in 2007.

[–] peetabix@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think Joust did this first. Difference might be that the player is permanently mounted all the time.

[–] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Drakengard comes to mind

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit I forgot about Drakengard. That's the one with the giant sky babies right?

[–] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Ya!!! The prequel to nier ❤️

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

So, just like FFXIV?

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