Not gonna lie the game has interesting mechanics, like possesing enemies and cooking themI don't even know if there's actual official flat artwork for the game at all, is there? I didn't see any in the cursory glance of the press kit but I've not spent a great deal of time looking for it. Wondering if people who've followed the development more closely have any?
Their other game Never Grave, which seems to be inspired by Hollow Knight, has some:
The game:
This. As an ex-3D modeller the 3D model evidence is more than damning. They're going to get ripped a new one.
Same reason why so many of the other fake Pokemon have oddities design wise. Think of it this way. When plagiarizing an essay and trying to replace certain words with synonyms or remove them entirely it is common to arrive at a situation where a sentence no longer has proper structure. Now apply that to copying character designs.This is everything they've put up
Yeah, this was an odd choice. Looking at the wireframes, it looks like they've created it themselves, but why copy it so closely? It doesn't look good without the pearls, and if you're recreating it from scratch you may as well produce something that looks more natural.
If anything, it would be that he reposted it without crediting who he took it from. (Not entirely serious.)
thanks for the info. so far everyone has only spoke about it from a US perspective
why are they so obsessed with cooking enemies in their games lol?
What's bad faith is pretending this user said 1:1 when that isn't evident in the screengrabs you post. Doesn't have to be 1:1 to be plagiarism
Somerton was a pretty unique example where someone with significantly more clout than him had the time to gather an immense amount of evidence of not only the plagiarism but just being a shitty person in general.
Note that people aren't saying they used AI to get fully functioning 3D models up and running. As by my knowledge there's only one method to "generate" assets and that is by using the generator that scraped the data of an amazing
I guess it really isn't always so clear-cut, no? Would depend on the country and if "fair use" is a thing there (which doesn't seem to be the case in Japan), after which it would need to be decided by a court of law.
So then the person moving goalposts is you, not the person being quoted in the Twitter thread you posted. That's bad faith, not the behavior you called bad faith.
wut? parody has to do with comedy and making fun of something, like a cartoon having a restaurant called "McRonalds". it doesn't mean you can make your own McDonald's.
what's the point of posts like this?
I'm not sure why you would expect average people online to be well versed in legal minutiae. And parody isn't really a cut and dry concept, it's one of those things that has many interpretations.
I said "much less in a legal context" meaning they don't even understand the basic concept, and when it comes to the more complex legal concepts even less so. that does not imply that I expect average people to understand legal minutiae whatsoever.
Woof well that seems bad in general, but also bad for Palworld.
Yeah. I think they're weighing their odds of winning any potential suit they file over this against whether that win is worth the resulting PR dumpster fire. Taking down fan mods and the like is one thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if even they're thinking pretty hard when the subject in question is a 6 million-plus selling game that's all over the internet right now, even leaving aside the fact that building a case takes time.
Nah but people pointing out these things are just an "angry mob"…
I can see why it would feel discouraging but to be fair that is also true, people are not obligated to have a dog in this fight and can just enjoy plagiarized entertainment if they want. Everyone does not need to be outraged or take a stance in a battle between 2 for-profit corporations. True about everything in life, really. There are much more important things people don't take stances on/get involved in where I think they should, so like you said, not exactly surprising that something like this might not even be of concern to many.
This was my question earlier this week as well. We've known about Palworld for years so unless new information on release like their potential use of models came to light that caused them to change their mind and start putting together a suit then they probably already decided they don't want to/wouldn't win if they pursued it. So I figure a month or less from now we will already know.
The cynical part of me thinks it's just because Nintendo primarily will go for easy targets. Smaller YouTubers, modders, fan game devs, going after Palworld with all the money it's made is going to be a much harder ordeal.
What do you mean, pointing out what exactly? They're making several early access games?
Because they have nothing except speculation. If they had and they cared to they would have shut it down before it could release. It hasn't been kept top secret, it's been publicly out there for years.
IMO 7M+ sales would make them more likely to sue (if they intended to), not less. In fact it would be one of the few IP protection endeavors they could pursue that would actually be worth their while, unlike going after fans for throwing Pokemon themed parties and making their own game projects.
I didn't even think of this. Yeah the more sales that it gets the more it's going to probably annoy them, but if they go after it and get it shut down they have millions of players angry at them by default.
This person makes a much more compelling and rational contribution to the conversation around the modification of models which might impact a hypothetical court case
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