What's your view on Palworld?

This is horrible. You can easily see the Pokémon ripoff and why would you want to shoot little defensless animals?!

@Acornyo

@SmartAlakazam

Some people do. Just because something doesn't appeal to you, or even a large audience, does not mean that there isn't an audience for it or that it is inherently a bad concept.

I think it's fun. The gameplay is completely different from Pokemon; it's mainly a base-building game where you build facilities and assign captured "Pals" as workers. I don't think the Pokemon Co. has done any base-building games like that. And as far as combat is involved, it isn't even turn-based like Pokemon's. All the plagirism is in the visual department -- character models, animations, and so forth.

As for plagirizing Pokemon designs... should I care? With how much money Palworld has been making, there's no way Nintendo lawyers aren't looking closely at it. Pokemon is the biggest franchise in the world, and unlike many victims of plagirism, they have the capability to sue for damages. So I'm sure Nintendo and The Pokemon Co. will take whatever legal action they feel is most appropriate (and will get them the most $$$).

The AI allegations, I'm pretty sure, are completely baseless. That is to say, I haven't seen any evidence that AI was used to develop Palworld. Some of the Pal designs are unoriginal, yes, but not every unoriginal piece of media is necessarily AI generated. The original character I invented in my head just now, "Blue Pikachu," is highly derivative but not AI generated.

So yeah. Cool game, shame about the plagirism. Hope they up the quality of their creature design in future updates.

Many of Pokémon's designs are inspired by real world animals. Given that Palworld uses similar inspirations for its creatures, it is inevitable some of them will look similar. Nintendo and Gamefreak do not own birds, monkeys, penguins or anything else that has been used as the basis for a Pokémon design.

If someone can prove that a design deliberately copies a Pokémon design, there might be a legal case. Tracing the design or using the same model, etc.

But simply having a yellow mouse or a blue penguin in a game does not mean someone stole Pikachu or Piplup.

Competition breeds excellence.

I, for one, welcome PalWorld, as its quality is much better than what GameFreak has given us for the past 2 generations (8 & 9).

Hopefully the success of this game will push them to stop cutting corners with their games and ACTUALLY INCLUDE ALL POKÉMON like they've always done on all gens prior to Gen 8.

Pokémon is the biggest-grossing media franchise of all time. Bigger than the MCU, Harry Potter, and Star Wars COMBINED. Which is something extremely worth mentioning on these scenarios.

Pokémon can today get away with mediocrity precisely because there is no competition. So I'm hoping that PalWorld's outstanding success will force The Pokémon Company to give us actual high-quality games without the anti-player practices we've seen since the Switch came out 👍