Palworld Modders Are Restoring Mechanics Pocketpair Was Forced to Patch Out Due to Nintendo and The Pokémon Company’s Patent Lawsuit - IGN
Palworld Modders Are Restoring Mechanics Pocketpair Was Forced to Patch Out Due to Nintendo and The Pokémon Company’s Patent Lawsuit - IGN
My shitty no-stakes conspiracy theory is that said modders are comprised of anonymous Palworld devs who are as salty about the removal as we are, and who know the code better than anyone.
This is why more games should openly embrace modding.
A "we're legally not allowed to do this gameplay mechanic" writeup and let the community unofficially provide it.
Pes has relied on players to recreate real teams they don't have licensing for for years
There are a couple games where it's an open secret that the "community" modders were the devs
I know at least one of the factorio devs released a few mods of things that didn't really fit with being in the base game but are interesting mods, like MIRVs. But that isn't even a secret, it's published under the same name.
Plenty of indie games on steam that have workshop support usually have a handful of mods from a dev. Usually qol stuff or just fun things to change.
That's funny! Any particular mods I should look for?
I wish the keeper of many fond childhood memories wasn't a company I fervently wish would die in a fire.
I'll never understand why Nintendo hates their fans so much. Just because Japanese copyright law is shitty, doesn't mean that you have to be equally as shitty.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there is a law forcing Nintendo to enforce copyright. They willingly choose to be assholes.
Because of international trade agreements, Japan’s copyright and patent laws are not meaningfully or substantively different than any other neoliberal country’s. That is an excuse circulated by apologists. Nintendo’s aggressive, litigious, anti-consumer tactics are purely a matter of company policy.
The gulf between Nintendo’s legal/corporate office and the game designers/developers is staggering to me
It's sad but they've been like this since the get-go. They sued Galoob for the Game Genie (and lost), and they sued Blockbuster for copying manuals so that people could have the manual to review when they rented games (and won). Nintendo has always been excruciatingly aggressive about protecting and policing their copyrights and IP, even when they're dead wrong.
This is not an attempt to justify what they're doing, just to point out that it's unfortunately nothing new.
Nintendo is why DRM is a thing. The NES CIC lockout chip avoided the 2600's shovelware problem... and created an abusive monopoly, that generation.
Nintendo secretly had color screens developed for the upcoming Game Boy, switched to black & white, and left the screen manufacturer hung out to dry. Which is why the Game Gear and Lynx coincidentally have the same resolution.
Nintendo was politely informed by SNK that they'd be making their own handheld. A year later the Game Boy Color dropped as a secret fuck-you to the Neo Geo Pocket.
Nintendo informed Sony they had cancelled their SNES-CD add-on by announcing an SNES-CD add-on made by Philips. At the Consumer Electronics Show. After Sony's big presentation about their SNES-CD add-on.
Never give Nintendo your money, they are devils with subpar games.
trying to justify thier games as AAA pricing. subtier console with subtier gaming. especially around pokemon games. gen 1-6 were good, but everything after that was just a disaster.
It's finally gotten way out-of-hand, even for me. Gen XI will be the first main series Pokémon games in 30 years I won't be pre-ordering, let alone even buying. First-party Switch games were already way too expensive, rarely ever going on sale, and now we may be moving to an $80 standard. And it seems the main selling point of the Switch 2 in the latest Direct was a bunch of ports. At that price point, there's no reason not to just get a Steam Deck and sail the high seas for first-party titles. At least Valve won't brick my device if I hurt their feelings.
I'm curious how close this guess is, based solely on the generations you mention as good; are you 28?
Yeah, post gen-6 is where i stopped. It felt like the games were really dumbed down, and they leaned way too hard into 3d graphics.
Make game open source
What do now Nintendo?
Nintendo has sued multiple open source projects and their creators into oblivion.
pokemon billions dollar name, plus thier side business which is the card game which also billions dollar market too, but they do nothing of scalpers and collectors/investors(tcp japan)
Love it. Just hope big daddy N doesn't go after them too.
As for a restoration of throw-to-release pals, there is a mod currently available along those lines, but it doesn’t work exactly as Palworld used to before last year’s patch (it doesn’t include the ball-throwing animation, rather summons the Pal where you're currently looking).
Wouldn't surprise me if they're going full "avoid Nintendo issues" mode and make one mod for spawning, another for throwing animation and potentially potentially a third sacrificial one to make them work together. Iif you don't make the second compatible with "all" items and don't use the ball as an example screenshot.
