In the first days of the new year 2024, Palworld is the name that makes the world gaming community explode. Just a few days after its release, this game has broken one record after another. At the present time, Palworld is the hottest game on Steam with a number of players always above 1 million.
The success of Palworld also led to many mixed opinions about this game plagiarizing Pokemon too much. Many analyzes have shown that Palworld’s design style is more than 80% similar to Pokemon, and even some Pals in the game look no different from a real Pokemon.
In an interview with GameRadar+, former legal director of The Pokemon Company, Mr. Dan McGowan also agreed with the above opinion. Dan McGowan said: “Palworld looks like the usual nonsense scam I’ve seen thousands of times every year. What’s surprising is that this game is now so successful”.
Previously, Dan McGowan held the position of legal director of The Pokemon Company. The job of Dan and his colleagues is to find and sue game projects that violate Pokemon’s copyright. Every year, this legal department has to resolve hundreds of copyright infringement cases around the world. To date, although Dan McGowan has left his position, he still speaks out to protect image copyright for Pokemon.
For its part, Palworld developer Pocketpair seems unconcerned about possible legal action. CEO Takuro Mizobe recently said the game had passed legal reviews and “we have absolutely no intention of infringing on the intellectual property rights of other companies.”
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