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Palworld removes Pal Sphere summons amidst lawsuit over Nintendo patents

nichegamer.com Palworld removes Pal Sphere summons amidst lawsuit over Nintendo patents

Japanese developer Pocket Pair has released a new update for Palworld that effectively removes the Pal Spheres from the game. The new v0.3.11 update for the game has removed the ability to summon Pals…

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Palworld removes Pal Sphere summons amidst lawsuit over Nintendo patents

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Because I guess Nintendo has now trademarked the act of "throwing" in a videogame
- Literally, read some of their patents. Its all shit like "System For Switching From Character To Vehicle In Top-Down 2D Environment". Like how tf can you actually patent a model and (software) controller swap? Shits basic AF I have done that before.
  
  At one point didn't a company have a patent over an interactive loading screen?
  Which is why loading screens in games have been boring for years, because actually having any kind of thing to do while the game loads is apparently banned.
  
  Patents are about how you achieve a goal, not the goal itself. You can have multiple parents on "switching for character to vehicle on top down 2D environment" as long as the means to do so are not the same.

Just change it to a Pal Cube or some other shape that's more fun than a fucking sphere. Problem solved.
ETA: Also, fuck Nintendo.
- I've said it before. Well they need to replace it with a "pal decahedron". You have to get real close to realize it isn't a sphere.
  
  What about a pal boomerang? The retrieval would make more sense too.
- Pal pear, something that almost a sphere.
  
  What's the 3D version of an oval?

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