Palworld Devs Says They Have Received Death Threats Amid Pokémon 'Rip-Off' Claims - IGN
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Amid the explosive launch of Palworld and Pokémon "rip-off" claims, its developers have taken to social media to say they have received death threats.
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People keep saying that Nintendo is going to sue them or something, but remember digimon?

Pokemon isn’t even an original idea - they just took one aspect of the jrpg and took it further. There’s been countless games that played with the same concept - they’re very litigious, but they don’t have any standing against a game that doesn’t use their IP - and the concept is not their IP, the Pokemon are

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Shin Megami Tensei did it first anyway. And Pokemon straight up stole monster designs from Dragon Quest.

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