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Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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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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[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You would be correct if that is how the copyright and trademark system actually worked.

But they don't. They favour the big guy, not the little guy. Crazy, I know. Wait until you find out how modern taxation systems work.

[–] Alaknar@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

They favour the big guy, not the little guy

That's the US law system, not the IP system in general.

There are examples of smaller companies managing to protect their IP (Finjan vs Symantec, Unwired Planet vs. Huawei, Neo Wireless vs. Sony, etc., etc - that's just from a quick search).

I'm not saying that the copyright system in place is perfect, but saying "copyright and patent laws need to die" is just delusional.