Palworld Developer Was Apparently Shocked By Nintendo's Lawsuit
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In case you somehow missed it, Nintendo ended up filing a patent infringement lawsuit against the Xbox Game Pass hit Palworld last September.

While Pocketpair released an official statement in response to this at the time, the team's communications director and publishing manager John Buckley revealed during a panel at the Game Developer's Conference recently how the whole thing was a huge shock:

"This obviously came as a shock to us. I think it came as a shock to a lot of people because it's alleged patent infringement, which is something that no one even considered, and it's something that we're still hashing out basically."

Pocketpair apparently did "legal checks" before the game and got the all-clear in Japan, which only added to the surprise:

"And we went back to the lawyers, and the lawyers contacted the courts, and they said, 'what's going on,' and that's when we discovered it was patents that they were going for."

Buckley claims it changed the entire mood of the team and it also led to Pocketpair scaling back its appearance at the Tokyo Game Show and even hiring security guards.

Although it has been difficult internally for Palworld's development team since the lawsuit was filed, the game itself continues to be a huge success. The studio also founded 'Pocketpair Publishing' earlier this year to help fund games by other developers.

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[source gamesradar.com]