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Controversial games of the past. (lemmy.ca)
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I'm just sitting here thinking about all the hoopla around palworld right now and I was wondering what other titles out there have been in the controversy filled category in the past few years/decade? I can think of a few, but my game interests are kinda narrow.

What are some of your picks?

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[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A small but vocal subset of turbovirgins loudly denouncing it for plagiarizing pokemon, who even the pokemon company themselves is fed up with lmao. The pokemon company’s investigation of the game is basically them saying “we’ll do our due diligence but please shut up they don’t seem to have done anything wrong”

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more like "We are aware of it" and also unspoken "we are investigating legal action."

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure! That’s part of due diligence. But in case you’re still convinced it’s some big conspiracy, just look at Valve. Valve has a proven track record of doing whatever they can to NOT fuck with Nintendo’s legal team. You think they didn’t make sure the game was square?

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago

You think they didn’t make sure the game was square?

The developers of the game? I'd give it a 50/50 shot, how many times do people get so enthusiastic about something that they are more worried about doing it rather then whether they should be doing it? Maybe they are Pokemon fans that saw a big market and weren't happy with the quality or output of Pokemon games. The company that made the game is called Pocket Pair and seems to only have 3 games:

Palworld (2024) Craftopia (2020) Overdungeon (2018)

If nothing else the creatures are very similar and it's impossible to know how a court would rule on that. The line between infringement and non-infringement can be blurry and hopefully Pocket Pair is prepared to defend their content.