Who are they kidding? It's been years since they started scanning everything you were watching to inject ads into it. If people were happy with that, they're happy with this.

Obligatory Frankie Boyle routine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqzMUFwJU_4

Tan suits yo.

Well I'll only have one drink a day then.

Make mine a double!

Do people even bother pirating this shit? Surely they just use one of the many free alternatives that do exactly the same job?

Yeah, once one country has done it, the rest can join in with a flick of a switch.

The big sites are only too happy to hoover up and sell even more data about you.

It will be.

Zero knowledge proof is a thing, but we all know that's not what they're going for.

It does feel a little like going after Al Capone on tax evasion, but here we are.

There's other games that do the sued for things, and they didn't get sued. Tem Tem, etc. World of Warcraft's pet system was very Pokemon-like.

Palworld isn't even like Pokemon games. It's Ark Survival Evolved with a Fortnite look and Pokemon instead of dinosaurs, as far as I can tell.

Blatantly swiping the art style and several Pokemon designs, and plastering it all over their marketing clearly pissed somebody at Nintendo off. They decided to sic the lawyers on them for something, even if it wasn't what they were angry about.

Sure, nobody owns the artstyle. Nobody owns the idea of collecting animals. Not suggesting they do.

But you get enough things the same, lawyers will start sniffing around.

Tem Tem is pretty much Pokemon, far closer in gameplay than Palworld tbh, but they sensibly made it look different, didn't try to ride the coattails of a lawyer-happy multi-billion dollar corporation, so avoided all this drama and nonsense. Digimon and Yo-kai Watch, again, very games. Different enough marketing that they didn't get sued.

Sony don't own metal dinosaurs or post apocalyptic scenarios (although they make so many of the latter they might as well), but when Tencent did this:

... just what do you expect their lawyers to do? Not get paid?

Why did people use Internet Explorer before it?

It's just "the internet button" for most people, the same as Windows is just "the computer" and Android is "the phone".

The idea that you can change out fundamental software components of a modern computing device is alien to them.