Whose side you all on palworld or Nintendo

I don't like Palworld. The designs of the "pals" are very blatantly stolen and not just inspired. It feels like the old joke of a kid friendly thing but with guns and violence and other not kid friendly things, which is extremely boring to me because it's been done a million times already and I've seen it done before. The game also looks incredibly basic outside of those things from what I've seen.

I've seen people play it before and nothing about it seems interesting to me. As expected, it basically completely disappeared outside of the occasional lawsuit news after a few weeks.

I have no idea what the Pokémon copyright drama is now and what's happening because watching those kind of topics is tiring, so these are just my feelings on what I've seen of the game itself and not my feelings on whatever is going on with the lawsuits or the company itself.

I'm sure the Pokémon official forums will be totally unbiased and every user is mature enough to have a nuanced take on law and the ethics of intellectual property.

Nintendo have historically been very heavy handed with copyright and trademark law around the world, to say the very least. The recent retroactive copyrights and patents they have been granted during this lawsuit will surely only embolden them and lead to further overreach.

While I understand that they need to protect their copyright to maintain the IP, in many cases I think they go overboard. They are infamous for cracking down on non-profit fan projects, often waiting until the project is finished and ready to release, with all the time and effort already expended, before putting a stop to it.

Nintendo tightening its grip on the games industry and the rights to use certain mechanics, in many cases mechanics core to entire genres, will do nothing but squash creativity and allow Nintendo to strong-arm their competition out of the market.

Maybe large publishers will be confident enough to push through fighting Nintendo lawyer's threats and dabble in developing games similar to something Nintendo now claims ownership, but smaller developers aren't even going to take the risk. They barely have the budget to make their game in the first place. Why would they ever gamble with investing the time, money and suffering just to have Nintendo lawyers strong arm you into scrapping your entire product?

Nintendo winning this lawsuit will make the entire industry worse. Competitors, and potential competitors, will be terrified of even trying to compete. Nintendo, now safe in the knowledge that they can shut down their rivals, will not even try to compete either. They are free to make their games as cheap, lazy and low quality as possible. They will have the monopoly. It's either buy the Nintendo game or opt out of the genre.

Nintendo and Pokémon do not love you. Corporations do not love you. They are not on your side. Even if you are a Pokémon fan and love the franchise, you should not want Nintendo or Pokémon to win this lawsuit or be granted any more patents. The only people that will benefit is Nintendo shareholders. And I do not believe any of you own shares in Nintendo. I think you are supporting them out of delusions of loyalty, not any logical or reasonable self-interest.

Whatever you may think of Palworld and its creators, do not hamstring an entire industry just to pad the coffers of a litigious corporate behemoth, simply because they make that one game series you like.