Palworld Distances Itself from Pokémon Patent with Recent Update Amid Nintendo Lawsuit | Push Square
As the legal battle between Nintendo and Palworld developer Pocketpair continues, the game itself has received an update that seemingly sidesteps a patent related to Pokémon.
As of patch 0.3.11, survival action game Palworld has adjusted the way creatures are summoned in battles.
Before the patch, you could throw a Pal Sphere wherever you wanted on the battlefield and your Pal would spawn at that spot. This bore some similarity to how Pokémon are summoned from their Pokéballs.
With the latest update installed, instead of throwing the Pal Sphere, your Pal will now spawn immediately right next to the player character.
It's supposed by the game's fans that this change has been implemented in order that Palworld can avoid infringing on one of Nintendo's patents relating to its monster-collecting RPG series.
This isn't the only update coming to the game as the lawsuit carries on in the background. A major update that adds a large new island to explore is coming sometime this month.
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Nintendon't you dare touch my patents reeeeee.
If the balls are a problem, simply remove the balls. Easy!
They neutered the game in a bit of a literal sense.
@springer17 words to live by…or, I fear, die by.
So they got rid off the balls in the game AND the ones in their pants?
Could've just replaced a ball with something else like temtem
@springer17 They should've made it a square or pyramid just to prod them. «That good enough for you overly litigious twits?»
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