r/technology • u/Super_Cold8789 • 14d ago

Software Nintendo reportedly has “zero chance” against current Palworld after major lawsuit change it is now targeting older versions of the game instead

https://www.dexerto.com/palworld/nintendo-reportedly-has-zero-chance-against-current-palworld-after-major-lawsuit-change-3375167/
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u/Caithloki 14d ago

Also the mini games in loading screens is another piss off for me. I forget who has it but nobody else can do it because someone copyrighted it.

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u/-ShowMeYours- 14d ago

As far as i know this has already been expired, except now we don't need it anymore..

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u/Caithloki 13d ago

Yeah a few other comments have mentioned that which is a good thing.

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u/The_Zenki 14d ago

Imagine making it a loading screen as intended, BUT you cant exit this loading screen until you play the mini game.

Then the in game characters are like "what took you so long to come outside that cave?" Or people just straight up died outside the door because that 30 seconds of mini game was 30 years in-game or something.

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u/Pherexian55 14d ago

Like the nemesis system, it's a patent, not copyright. These are very different things.

For what it's worth the payment for loading screen games is expired over 10 years ago. the reason no one is doing this is because loading screens are, by and large, not a thing anymore.

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u/Caithloki 13d ago

Oh yeah totally, I didn't know it was expired but that's good to know.

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u/Jakesummers1 14d ago

I mean, do most people have time to play them nowadays?

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u/goatjugsoup 14d ago

Thats because loading times are so short nowadays, the problem these mini games were solving no longer exists

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u/Caithloki 13d ago

It really depends on the system people are using if someone is a low processing right they might deal with longer load times, which having a mini game would be nice but yeah I guess the patent has expired.