Bloober said Piotr’s actual words were: “The Steam version has generated considerable interest, and we believe that, in addition to PlayStation (for which the game was initially announced), the Steam version will also be a success. Both we and Konami are pleased with the collaboration and are confident that this is not the end of our journey together.”

“That’s not what we said! What we actually said was [AI generated PR statement].”

Yeah nah, this is 100% trying to save face for Konami. Not that I really care much either way coming from Bloober Team, but still.

Okay, and?

Nintendo fuming

Big shock. This game has had a lot of red flags, and not the good kind one would expect from a Japanese themed game. Everything about this game from the marketing to the merchandising has been bad at best, and outright offensive/borderline racist at worst.

People have been dreaming of a Japan based AC game since the first one. Ubisoft could not have picked a worse game to mess up this badly than this one.

GOTY 2024, this one

Real game hours

Im just a person pointing out that this site has issues. Make up your own opinion, I don’t care.

Average modern games “journalism”

He doesn’t hate diversity, in games or anything else. He is annoyed by forced diversity, like most normal people.

Just make cool stuff without trying to check boxes, its not hard.

Interesting, but its based on user generated input, so this data could easily be manipulated by someone that doesn’t like particular games creating a few accounts to add bad data.

Random combat is the number one thing that makes me drop a game.

Its annoying, it happens too often, it always interrupts me when I want to do something else, and it is too repetitive.

This is why I stopped playing a lot of JRPGs. The other thing I drop them for is when combat only has a single song and always starts with the exact same intro, like what happened with Dragon Quest 11 or whatever it was that I played.

I hate grinding. Its repetitive and boring. Its not fun. If a games story missions are not paced properly with level such that I can do only the story missions and never be underleveled, then I will drop that game immediately.

The thing I dislike about MMORPGs is that they always have the same problem, and its always because the game is an MMORPG:

The whole game feels like an amusement park.

The scale of buildings and hallways is always comical. I always have to wait in line for a dungeon/raid/boss/NPC, etc. NPCs always feel like theyre there for a photo op and everyone is always crowding around them.

I wish that MMORPGs could add a feature where I can play in my own “channel,” where the only other players that appear on my screen are ones I have invited to my channel. Because some MMORPGs are appealing to me, its just I don’t like the crowds of ten trillion people all doing the same task “only a hero can do.”

I am pretty dumb, so probably.

This image is reminding me of the old Command & Conquer box art, its too bad Frostpunk plays absolutely nothing like C&C, otherwise I might’ve played it.

Im gonna do it

Well now that you said it, I want to preorder it even harder now.

Sony is a shareholder and Microsoft has also supportted PocketPair, it will be interesting to see how that works out with Nintendo.

Since this is over patent and not copyright, wouldn’t this have to be about patents filed after the year 2003 and before 2024? AFAIK, patents don’t get extended and cannot be re-filed, and Pokemon has existed since the 1990s, where a lot of its patents would have been created. Unless for some reason Nintendo delayed filing the patents for more than 5-10 years but I don’t know that patents are allowed to have such a time gap between publication and filing or not. Perhaps Japan has different patent laws, their laws notoriously favor businesses so I wouldn’t be surprised.

Additionally, at least in the USA, some things like gameplay elements cannot be patented if they are necessary for the genre of the product. For example, a first person camera, guns, shooting, etc. are not elements that can be patented as they are necessary for FPS games in general, but some kind of specific new technology like the way Doom draws its 3D world could be patented.

For a Creature Catcher game like PalWorld, devices (very vague and generic term that legally should not be patentable because it is too generic BTW) to catch, store, and deploy creatures is necessary to the genre. Unless it is specifically code or the same exact way that both PalWorld and PokeMon function, I do not see how Nintendo thinks they can win other than by bankrupting their opposition like usual.

Really hope this one turns out like Lewis Galoob Toys Inc v Nintendo of America, but the Japan version.

They had to wait for PalWorld to sell a lot and make a lot of money so they can financially ruin these people instead of just telling them “don’t do that.”

Literal Comic-Book Villain behavior.

Wait, purposely excluding sizable segments of the market led to less sales? No way. Someone should note this down.