The modder who put Pokemon into Palword claimed that “Nintendo came to my rescue” after his tweet was deleted.
Creator Toasted Shoes posted on X/Twitter teasing the Palworld mod with clips featuring famous Pokemon such as the Pokemon Ash in place of the player character and Pikachu in place of the Palworld pals.
Palworld is a crafting and survival game called “Pokémon with Guns.” A monster called Pal appears. Some people say Pokemon is a “rip-off”.
Nintendo has come for me, please leave me your thoughts and prayers pic.twitter.com/HGg65y67Qp
— Toasted (@ToastedShoes) January 23, 2024
Palworld developer Pocketpair claimed that Palworld is more similar to survival crafting games like Ark Survival Evolved and Valheim than Pokémon, but that hasn’t stopped people from continuing to criticize the game.
Within 24 hours of Toasted Shoes’ tweet being published, it was taken offline due to an apparent Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown by Nintendo, which publishes Pokemon video games.
As told to IGN, toasted shoes He said he still plans to release a full video introducing the mod, but will abide by any further copyright notices from Nintendo. “We would like to complete the modpack and make it available to the public for free, but for now we are playing by ear because we want to avoid legal trouble,” Toasted Shoes said.
A debate is brewing online over whether Nintendo and the Pokémon Company will take legal action over Palworld. Takuro Mizobe, CEO of developer Pocket Pair, said: automaton Palworld claimed that it had passed legal checks and that no other companies had taken any action against it.
“We take making games very seriously and have no intention of infringing on anyone else’s intellectual property,” Mizobe said.
A Nintendo representative said bloomberg The company is aware of Palworld, but declined to comment on individual cases. The Pokémon Company has not yet commented.
Don McGowan, who led Pokemon’s legal team for almost 12 years, said: game file: “This seems like the same old rip-off nonsense I saw thousands of times a year when I was chief legal officer at Pokemon.”
Palworld has now sold an astonishing 6 million copies in just 4 days, with an astonishing 1.7 million concurrent players at its peak.
All eyes are on whether Nintendo and the Pokémon Company will take any legal action against Palworld. Pal World is also available on Xbox and Windows PC as a Day One Game Pass title guaranteed by Microsoft.
Mod sites, perhaps to avoid potential issues with Nintendo. Nexus Mods appears to remove Pokémon-related mods in Palworld From that site.
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