The fury for Palworld It does not stop and everything indicates that the Pocket Pair game will continue to give something to talk about for a long time. Not only because of its brutal performance on Steam and Xbox, where it continues to break its concurrent records, but also because of the accusations of alleged plagiarism Pokemon.
The Pokémon Company has not publicly addressed the matter. However, the comments of a former executive would quite certainly reflect the mood within the company. Don McGowanformer legal head of the aforementioned firm, made no bones about charging against Palworld and called it “pointless plagiarism.”
This is what the aforementioned mentioned to journalist Stephen Totilo, from Game File. Asked what he thought of PalworldMcGowan was categorical: “This seems like the typical pointless plagiarism that I saw a thousand times a year when I was Pokémon’s legal director. I’m surprised it got this far”.
What was said by the former legal chief of The Pokémon Company should not be taken lightly, considering that he held this role in the company from 2008 to 2020. It would not be surprising, then, if the Japanese corporation eventually takes legal action against Pocket Pair, the study behind Palworld. Although for now there are no firm indications in this regard.
Palworld grows at a brutal rate despite accusations of plagiarism
When McGowan says “I’m surprised it’s gotten this far,” he’s referring, logically, to the brutal commercial and critical performance of Palworld. The game remains at the top of the sales chart on Steam, and has passed the 1.7 million concurrent users on that platform alone. Furthermore, the ratings for this proposal remain overwhelmingly positive.
Of the 59,686 reviews posted by Steam users at the time of writing, 56,081 were positive. This means that Palworld Today it has almost 94% approval among the public. But this is not all. Hours ago, Pocket Pair confirmed that exceeded 6 million copies sold in just 4 days. It is logical to think, then, that all this also fuels suspicion among the creators of Pokemon.
Although part of the public has exposed on social networks the similarity of the creatures of Palworldcalled Pals, with those of Pokemonit is evident that the vast majority of players do not care. Or they find the game attractive and fun enough to turn a blind eye to any alleged plagiarism.
Palworld is an open-world action-survival game in which players must collect Pals and use them for different purposes. Whether in combat, base building, or even as a food source. The acid humor of this proposal has been very well received by users, and this is evident in the figures it has achieved in its first week available.
Accusations about the resemblance of their characters to those of Pokemon has led to him being known unofficially as the “Pokemon with weapons”. And even a mod which replaces the original characters with those of The Pokémon Company, as a satire or mockery.
It will be interesting to see if the massive reach it has achieved Palworld pushes the creators of Pokemon to start a legal battle. Yesterday, Takuro Mizobeone of those responsible for the game and Pocket Pair, defended himself against criticism and asked to stop defaming so much Palworld as well as the artists involved in it.
“We are receiving defamatory comments against our artists and seeing tweets that appear to be death threats. I have received a variety of opinions on Palworldbut all creations related to Palworld They are supervised by several people, including myself, and I am responsible for the production. I would appreciate it if you would refrain from defaming the artists involved in Palworld“.
Takuro Mizobe, on criticism of Palworld.