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Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit (www.videogameschronicle.com)
submitted 10 hours ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world
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With the implementation of Patch v0.5.5 this week, we must make yet another compromise. From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals. Pals in the player’s team will still provide passive buffs to gliding, but players will now need to have a glider in their inventory in order to glide.

How lame. Japan needs to fix its patent laws, it's ridiculous Nintendo owns the simple concept of using an animal to fly.

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[–] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I wonder how much of this game they can force them to change. I know Steam has a 2 hour limit for returns but at what point does this game become “not the game I bought”?

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 28 minutes ago

Pretty much anything so long as Palworld doesn't have 1.- a backbone and 2.- a dictionary at hand. Because it is as simple as finding a picture of any of a long list of animals that can glide, state the words "previous art" and they should be free from this ridiculous demand.

Mechanics that already exist in nature should not be copyrightable. Can you imagine if the first videogame company ever patented "character walking"?

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the game is in early access so if you bought it and are now complaining it changed... It's a you problem, not something that should be refundable.

[–] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Nah, not complaining, idly wondering. I made my bed, I’ll sleep in it, I’m just wondering how far a game can go to change a game and still claim it’s the same game.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago

There’s and endless list of games people have complained about changing during early access. It’s a stupid idea. Don’t preorder games.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 hours ago

point does this game become “not the game I bought”?

Anytime you can’t access the version of a game you spent money on