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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

palword wouldve solved some of its problem by not naming it to close to POKEMON names, or gimmicks, or copy verbatim some of its features. they only noticed when things were named exactly like they did in the pokemon consoles.

kinda wierd thing to target, when flying was in WOW for 2 decades before this lawsuit.

-after looking at another post, they also copied the pokemon and changed it very little of the pal-creature, palword needs ot do better to have a stronger case.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How is it that pokemon has a hold on things like animals allowing flight, but gliders allowing flight isn't under patent?

Like, whoever did gliders first needs to sue Nintendo to change breath of the wild, no gliders allowed anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

Glide with a glider in your inventory like Zelda? Is that patented?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Shit like this is why I haven't bought a Nintendo product in many years.

They might think it's keeping their profits up, but it's hurting their business, as a lot more people than me feel the exact same way.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Wouldn't a game mechanic/animation like that be equivalent to a stunt in a movie?

Like, imagine if a film director wanted to blow up a car in his movie, but was getting sued by Paramount because Michael Bay already blew up a car in Transformers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Adds to the ever growing list of copy-blight examples

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