‘Palworld’ is a ‘meaningless plagiarism’, former Pokemon legal head accuses

Rage for Palworld It doesn’t stop there, and all signs point to Pocket Pair being a game that will keep people talking for a long time to come. Not only because of his brutal performance on Steam and Xbox, where he continues to break his concurrent records, but also because accusations of alleged plagiarism Pokemon.

The Pokémon Company has not publicly addressed the issue. However, the former top manager’s comments likely reflect the sentiment within the company. Don McGowanformer legal director of the above-mentioned firm, did not hide the accusations against Palworld and called it “meaningless plagiarism.”

The aforementioned said this to journalist Stephen Totilo from Game file. I asked him what he was thinking about PalworldMcGowan was categorical: “This looks like the typical mindless plagiarism that I saw a thousand times a year when I was Pokémon’s director of legal affairs. I’m surprised he got this far.”.

The words of The Pokémon Company’s former legal director should not be taken lightly, given that he held that position at the company from 2008 to 2020. Therefore, it would not be surprising if the Japanese corporation ends up suing Pocket Couple, the study is behind Palworld. Although there are no firm indications in this regard yet.

Palworld growing at tremendous speed despite accusations of plagiarism

When McGowan says, “I’m surprised it’s gotten this far,” he’s logically referring to the film’s brutal publicity and critical performance. Palworld. The game remains at the top of the sales chart on Steam, with more than 1.7 million concurrent users on that platform alone. Moreover, ratings for the proposal remain overwhelmingly positive.

Of the 59,686 reviews posted by Steam users at the time of writing, 56,081 were positive. It means that Palworld Today he has almost 94% approval among the public.. But that is not all. A few hours ago Pocket Pair confirmed this sold over 6 million copies in just 4 days. It is logical to assume that all this also arouses suspicion among the creators Pokemon.

Although some of the public exposed the similarities of the creatures on social networks Palworldcalled Pals, with those of Pokemonit is obvious that the vast majority of players doesn’t matter. Or they find the game attractive and exciting enough to turn a blind eye to any perceived plagiarism.

Palworld is an open world survival game where players must collect buddies and use them for different purposes. Be it in battle, when building a base, or even as a food source. The caustic humor of this offer was very well received by users, and this can be seen in the numbers achieved in the first week of its existence.

Accusations of similarities between their personalities and characters Pokemon led to him becoming informally known as “Pokemon with weapon”. And even Maud which replaces the original characters with characters from The Pokémon Company as satire or ridicule.

It will be interesting to see if it reaches mass reach. Palworld pushes creators Pokemon start a lawsuit. Yesterday, Takuro Mizobeone of the people responsible for the game and Pocket Pair, defended himself from criticism and asked him to stop defaming him like that Palworld as well as the artists participating in it.

“We receive defamatory comments about our artists and see tweets that appear to be death threats. I received a lot of opinions about Palworldbut all creations associated with Palworld They are supervised by several people, including me, and I am responsible for production. I would be grateful if you would refrain from slandering the artists involved in Palworld“.

Takuro Mizobe on criticism Palworld.