Sounds like you haven’t actually looked at any of it then apparently.
“I assume that you’re an ignorant” is not an argument.
There’s a reason the main people speaking out about it are literally industry professionals.
If you’re going to engage in the appeal to authority fallacy, at least do it properly, by naming those “industry professionals” that you are talking about.
Relevant detail: if the models were so obviously copied, the article in the OP would be called “Nintendo sues Palworld over copyright infringement”.
Even my rather meager experience with creating mods and design models for 3D printing is plenty of experience to make those comparisons myself.
Aaaaaaaand the source linked is a X post that doesn’t even analyse the models themselves. (Of course, because even from a glance they are clearly different.)
That is not evidence dammit. Show the meshes of the models side-by-side, and point out the parts that were allegedly copied. Having roughly a similar shape is easy to justify by being inspired on the same critters, it is not evidence of copy.
There are two separate comparison videos in that article, as well as the posts from industry figures discussing the comparisons that were uploaded and how damning they are.
HOWEVER. It has come to my attention that the original poster who created those videos edited the Palworld models to make it look more damning. I was going off bad information, and I acknowledge you’re correct, there no -valid- evidence Palworld directly stole models.
It’s crazy to assume that just because Nintendo must be perfectly fine with it just because they didn’t file a lawsuit the day after the game launched.
“I assume that you’re an ignorant” is not an argument.
If you’re going to engage in the appeal to authority fallacy, at least do it properly, by naming those “industry professionals” that you are talking about.
Relevant detail: if the models were so obviously copied, the article in the OP would be called “Nintendo sues Palworld over copyright infringement”.
“Chrust me” is not an argument.
Hic Rhodes, hic salta. Show it.
https://www.gamesradar.com/game-developers-arent-really-buying-the-similarities-between-palworld-and-pokemon-to-accidentally-create-a-complex-model-mesh-with-so-near-exact-proportions-is-practically-impossible/
Aaaaaaaand the source linked is a X post that doesn’t even analyse the models themselves. (Of course, because even from a glance they are clearly different.)
That is not evidence dammit. Show the meshes of the models side-by-side, and point out the parts that were allegedly copied. Having roughly a similar shape is easy to justify by being inspired on the same critters, it is not evidence of copy.
There are two separate comparison videos in that article, as well as the posts from industry figures discussing the comparisons that were uploaded and how damning they are.
HOWEVER. It has come to my attention that the original poster who created those videos edited the Palworld models to make it look more damning. I was going off bad information, and I acknowledge you’re correct, there no -valid- evidence Palworld directly stole models.
That said, you have to be a blind to think they aren’t shameless Pokemon knockoffs. It goes far beyond mere passing similarities, most pals are assembled from chopped up Pokemon (quite thematically appropriate I suppose). Nintendo certainly thinks so too: https://www.ign.com/articles/the-pokemon-company-makes-an-official-statement-on-palworld-we-intend-to-investigate
It’s crazy to assume that just because Nintendo must be perfectly fine with it just because they didn’t file a lawsuit the day after the game launched.