Nintendo lawyers have killed another Pale PocketPair game mechanic published a patch Thursday which changes the functioning of the sliding in the cheeky satire “Pokémon with rifles”.
You can still slide PaleBut you can’t use your boyfriend anymore to do it. Starting with patch v0.5.5, you can only hover with a boring and inanimate glider in your inventory. Although the friends of gliders can still drag passively, it is no longer as fun as to launch the creature and use their aerodynamics to cross a ravine.
As you can imagine, PocketPair’s decision comes back to its legal defense. Nintendo and Pokémon Company continued the developer in Japan last year, saying Palworld has reached multiple patents. Since then, Nintendo has laid A wave of patent applications in the United States in an apparent program to globalize with its legal assault.
“We understand that it will be disappointing for many, just like for us,” wrote Pocketpair. “But we hope that our fans understand that these changes are necessary in order to avoid new disruption of the development of Pale. “”
Today’s update is not the first to Bork the game trying to divert the Mario Maker’s legal dam. In November, Palworld deleted The possibility of invoking friends by launching spheres, one of the most Pokémon-Esque details. But Slipping is a much less established Pokémon gameplay mechanic. In addition to that, it is common in industry, found in franchises like various Cry, Fortnite and Batman: Arkham.
The trial arouses the fears that industry giants using courts to stifle the smallest competitors will become more widespread. “”Video game Patent mechanics must die completely given the way it is abused by large companies to paralyze any competition or completely wasted as with the Nemesis system of the Middle -earth games, “U / DenseCalligrapher219 heard on Reddit.
Another way to see the Nintendo movement is that it masks the stench of a stagnant franchise. “If Nintendo will sabotage other Pokémon type games, the least they could make is to make Game Freak to develop a Pokémon game that is not garbage,” wrote U / Vacant Throughs. “The largest franchise in the world with the most lazy developers in the world.”
