Please don’t support Nintendo. They have been super aggressive with lawsuits. They should go after people doing illegal things, but the palworld stuff and dmca people streaming games is pretty bad.
As long as Nintendo continues to support a physical format, I’m going to buy a Switch 2 and games for it. You’re free to make a personal decision about whether to support a company or not; everyone has to make their own purchasing decisions based on their values and priorities. I don’t support many companies that you probably do support, some that you may not even give a second thought to. Palworld, for me, doesn’t rank.
I guess we’ve lost this battle, but down vote is not for disagreement. This comment provides an on-topic opinion and suggestion in a polite way, without any hate speech or trying to start a flame war.
It was never a winnable war. It’s something that is completely unenforceable and will always be up to the individual. It would be wise to accept that votes will always be arbitrary and capricious.
The good news is that on Lemmy, they don’t matter.
Eh? Where’s the line exactly? I’d much sooner boycott a company because they’re causing genuine damage with ridiculous lawsuits, than because they make bad games.
Feels like they were going for more pokemon on screen rather than high framerates to me, but the days of hyper optimisation like we saw on the PS2/PS3 are gone for most companies.
I agree but technically they are in the right. Technically game streaming is likely illegal and breaks copyright. It’s commonly accepted and often encouraged by most companies though.
Nah. Not in the Palworld thing. They applied for those patents after Palworld was already being produced and sold as an excuse to sue the company and the fact that the law allows this is bogus. That being said, boycott if you want, or don’t. That’s your business.
It is about then filing a patent in 2021 for “aiming and throwing an item to capture a character”. Something that had been done in RPGs for decades. And they bribed enough officials in Japan to get it approved 1 month before palworld came out.
Then they used the full might of Nintendo legal bribery and lawyers to try to crush indie developers that dare make their “style” of game (which they have been floundering for a decade) better than they do.
Not to mention that they use threats to shut down completely legal emulation software that they themselves steal and use after refusing to preserve old games themselves.
Please don’t support Nintendo. They have been super aggressive with lawsuits. They should go after people doing illegal things, but the palworld stuff and dmca people streaming games is pretty bad.
As long as Nintendo continues to support a physical format, I’m going to buy a Switch 2 and games for it. You’re free to make a personal decision about whether to support a company or not; everyone has to make their own purchasing decisions based on their values and priorities. I don’t support many companies that you probably do support, some that you may not even give a second thought to. Palworld, for me, doesn’t rank.
I guess we’ve lost this battle, but down vote is not for disagreement. This comment provides an on-topic opinion and suggestion in a polite way, without any hate speech or trying to start a flame war.
It was never a winnable war. It’s something that is completely unenforceable and will always be up to the individual. It would be wise to accept that votes will always be arbitrary and capricious.
The good news is that on Lemmy, they don’t matter.
No company is perfect. The only thing bad enough to boycott here is modern Pokemon games, until those devs learn how to code properly.
Eh? Where’s the line exactly? I’d much sooner boycott a company because they’re causing genuine damage with ridiculous lawsuits, than because they make bad games.
Seems they learnt a fair bit by the time they did Scarlet/Violet or were there problems with those as well?
SV was the worst yet. It runs like a N64
Feels like they were going for more pokemon on screen rather than high framerates to me, but the days of hyper optimisation like we saw on the PS2/PS3 are gone for most companies.
I agree but technically they are in the right. Technically game streaming is likely illegal and breaks copyright. It’s commonly accepted and often encouraged by most companies though.
Nah. Not in the Palworld thing. They applied for those patents after Palworld was already being produced and sold as an excuse to sue the company and the fact that the law allows this is bogus. That being said, boycott if you want, or don’t. That’s your business.
I didn’t comment on the palworld thing.
You responded to a comment directly about the Palworld thing.
I directly cited the portion to which I replied too.
That’s fair.
I’m buying a launch console to not play for future hacks for
piracyLinux ISOs. Considering they sell consoles at a loss, this is even more effectiveConsoles are not universally sold at a loss. Among the notable exceptions is the Nintendo Switch…
What? It isn’t about that at all.
It is about then filing a patent in 2021 for “aiming and throwing an item to capture a character”. Something that had been done in RPGs for decades. And they bribed enough officials in Japan to get it approved 1 month before palworld came out.
Then they used the full might of Nintendo legal bribery and lawyers to try to crush indie developers that dare make their “style” of game (which they have been floundering for a decade) better than they do.
Not to mention that they use threats to shut down completely legal emulation software that they themselves steal and use after refusing to preserve old games themselves.
That works be my only consideration. First batch consoles are typically the ones that get hacked first.