A former employee of the development studio Pocketpair, @eb_kemo on X, who worked at Palworld, accused the company of modifying the characters he had designed to make them look like Pokémonwithout even having their permission. It should be no secret to anyone that Palworld looks a lot at the Pokémon series in terms of character design. In fact, some of them appear to be blatant copies of The Pokémon Company characters, so much so that we don’t think anyone should be surprised by the fact that, according to what the developer said, Pocketpair CEO asked to design pals that could potentially enter the top 100 most popular Pokémon everaccording to the translation from Japanese made by Lewtwo, the first to report the news on X.
Mandatory copies
The artist did not want to copy anyone, so much so that he left the company due to the pressure he received, but Pocketpair would have changed his work in a very serious wayThe accusation is that of having trampled on the feelings of those who did not want to plagiarize the Pokémon series, but were practically forced to do so.
In particular, it would have been required to copy Snorlaxwith threats of salary reprisals in case of refusal.
It should be noted that the developer’s accusations have nothing to do with the lawsuit filed by Nintendo against Pocketpair, which does not concern copying the Pokémon design, but rather registered patents. So it is a much more serious accusation, which could lead to very serious consequences for Palworld if the court finds against Pocketpair.
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