With the implementation of Patch v0.5.5 this week, we must make yet another compromise. From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals. Pals in the player’s team will still provide passive buffs to gliding, but players will now need to have a glider in their inventory in order to glide.

How lame. Japan needs to fix its patent laws, it's ridiculous Nintendo owns the simple concept of using an animal to fly.

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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago

Here's hoping Pokemon and Nintendo see disappointing sales. Everytime someone brings up Pokemon, bring up Palworld and how massive of a dick the Pokemon Company/Nintendo was. When people talk about the Switch 2, they bring up all the lawsuits Nintendo brought up on fans, all the YouTubers that dealt with issues because suing people, I'd assume, is Nintendo's main income source at this point..

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 38 points 4 hours ago

This is bullshit. Warner Brothers and Nintendo need to lose, hard.

Also, why the hell does Nintendo think they were first when it comes to the concept? Animals and gliding have been a thing for a long time.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 hours ago

Fuck Nintendo.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 29 points 4 hours ago

Remember they amended the patent after palworld came out

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 hours ago

I wonder how hard it would be for an "unofficial" patch to "somehow" be released that restores the previous functionality

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 38 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Palworld did more for the monster-collecting genre in one early access title than Pokémon has in the last decade of AAA titles.

Why does Nintendo deserve these patents when they aren't going to produce anything meaningful with them and simply weaponize them to squash any real threatening competition?

Pokémon is the highest grossing franchise in the world, and 2nd place isn't even close. I think they can give a little ground to an indie developer who makes games that people are actually interested in playing. The patent bullshit is ridiculous.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago

Because that's how Nintendo works. They are the Disney of gaming.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 22 points 5 hours ago

I don't care about Palworld, but I do hate Nintendo. Enemy of my enemy and all that.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 30 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Nintendo are rightly losing their free pass with gamers.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 55 minutes ago

I've seen no evidence of this. People are clamoring for the switch 2 and talking about all they want to buy. Fuck Nintendo, but people keep giving them money so they're going to keep doing anti-consumer shit with no sign of any government stopping them. The government isn't going to attack one of the most beloved companies in Japan whose mascot they used at their olympics. A lot of Japanese are event against things like free, labour-of-love randomizers made for old games. People need to stop buying their shit globally if they want anything to happen.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Heard that before, this happens every decade or so

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 hours ago

That is very true, but the Venn Diagram overlap between Gamers^TM^ and ‘Nintendo gamers’ is a rapidly shrinking area.

[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

That's lame af. Flying on my dragon dude between my bases was badass.

[–] dodos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

You can still fly, it's just gliding that got hit by the gaming mafia

[–] DogOnKeyboard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 hours ago

So can we please fork v0.5.4?

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 114 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Nintendo is just a garbage lawsuit company that sometimes makes hardware with stupid subscriptions attached.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

and none of it matters, cause they have literal legions of fans that will ride their ride, no matter how much it costs, no matter how poorly made it is, no matter how much nintendo spits in their face.

So Nintendo sees no significant economic repercussions from their behavior, and thus has incentive to change.

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I was one of those but they were losing me more and more every year... But 3 years ago it became way too much, and I got off the bandwagon. Screw that lol.

I hope they don't make as many sales as they expect... But you may be right, too many people who will buy their crap however expensive and how much they're being mistreated by the company.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

and for every one like you.

Theres people who buy multiple of the console.

One person in my family bought 4 of the Nintendo Switch. One for him, his wife, and one each for each of their two grand kids.

and they also buy multiple copies of games, so they don't have to worry about wanting to play a game someone else is already playing.

and I would not be shocked at all if they buy at least two of the Switch 2 the second it becomes commonly available.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Lemmy constantly falls into the same social trap as reddit: that we think we're some monolith of consumerism and when we believe something we think everyone else will be on our side.

Go on YouTube and look up the hundreds of videos from the past few months alone of scalpers and other Pokemon buyers getting into actual physical fights, buying literally 10+ of those huge box sets, and camping out at those vending machines and buying literally everything in them the minute they restock.

I'm a vendor at comic and anime conventions here in the US. I did a show last month that was literally 99% Pokemon cards and merch, and everyone was buying that shit up regardless. There were actually maybe five booths including my own that weren't selling just Pokemon stuff, if at all.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not so sure.

All of my friends who are less pissed off at Nintendo than I am are not even considering buying a Switch 2 because Nintendo basically priced themselves out of the market. All of my friends who have a Switch 1 will not be buying the Switch 2, that's pretty significant IMO, but I guess we'll see.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I agree, they definitely priced themselves out of several demographics including casual gamers, parents of young children gamers, and "I guess I'll get a switch as a second device" gamers. These people aren't going to look at a switch that's roughly the same price as the ps5 and xbox and think "yeah let's grab that one".

The wii u showed their demographic of "die hard fans that buy no matter what" is actually really small compared to the rest of their sales. And I think we're going to see a repeat of that.

[–] Zanathos@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I bought a WiiU refurbished directly from Nintendo shortly before the Switch came out. I did it purely because the first big hax was released and I was able to easily port my GC\Wii hacked HDD to it AND also have WiiU games hacked games available. WW and TWP were also a big part of that purchase decision for me.

I got a Switch and BotW ultimate CE on release, but will be skipping the S2 for some time. Likely until the next Zelda comes out if the Steam Deck can't easily emulate other S2 titles by that time. I'm bummed I'll be missing the new DK game (only 10GB file size though so not very big) and Hyrule Warriors game as the last one was amazing, but it's a basic beat em up so no love really lost there.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I hope it does worse than the Wii U tbh, Nintendo needs to be knocked down quite a few pegs. I am quite fed up with them.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Its also fucked up that the switch is still 300 dollars, despite being released over 8 years ago.

What happened to consoles getting cheaper? You know their cost to manufacture it isnt the same as it was 8 years ago.

[–] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I wonder how much of this game they can force them to change. I know Steam has a 2 hour limit for returns but at what point does this game become “not the game I bought”?

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 30 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the game is in early access so if you bought it and are now complaining it changed... It's a you problem, not something that should be refundable.

[–] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Nah, not complaining, idly wondering. I made my bed, I’ll sleep in it, I’m just wondering how far a game can go to change a game and still claim it’s the same game.

[–] EntirelyUnlovable@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Theseus' Game

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 hours ago

Pretty much anything so long as Palworld doesn't have 1.- a backbone and 2.- a dictionary at hand. Because it is as simple as finding a picture of any of a long list of animals that can glide, state the words "previous art" and they should be free from this ridiculous demand.

Mechanics that already exist in nature should not be copyrightable. Can you imagine if the first videogame company ever patented "character walking"?

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