{"id":454206,"date":"2024-01-24T22:38:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/?p=454206"},"modified":"2024-01-24T22:38:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:38:26","slug":"the-pokemon-company-statement-palworld-pocketpair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/the-pokemon-company-statement-palworld-pocketpair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pok\u00e9mon Company issues statement on &#8216;another company&#8217;s game&#8217;, a.k.a. Palworld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After plenty of online speculation around whether it would actually happen, The Pok\u00e9mon Company has <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.pokemon.co.jp\/media\/news\/detail\/335.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released a statement<\/a> about &#8220;another company&#8217;s game&#8221; released in January 2024. And we can say what we&#8217;re all thinking: <em>Palworld<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the company doesn&#8217;t name <em>Palworld <\/em>or Pocketpair outright, the assumption is that&#8217;s what this statement is about, unless <em>Prince of Persia <\/em>has a super-secret stage I don&#8217;t know about. But the statement says The Pok\u00e9mon Company has received &#8220;many inquiries&#8221; regarding another company&#8217;s game released in January 2024, and TPC says it intends to &#8220;investigate and take appropriate measures&#8221; to address any acts that infringe on intellectual property (IP) rights related to Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to cherish and nurture each and every Pok\u00e9mon and its world, and work to bring the world together through Pok\u00e9mon in the future,&#8221; the company signs off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Palworld - Release Date Announcement Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Jn9LQslOjA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"h-i-m-not-your-pal-buddy\">I&#8217;m not your Pal, buddy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After what&#8217;s felt like ages, in Internet time, of speculation over whether The Pok\u00e9mon Company would take notice and do anything about the similarities between the Pals of <em>Palworld <\/em>and its own pocket monsters, this is at least a firm declaration that the company is paying attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t really speak to any legality for or against here, I just write the video game blogs. But I&#8217;d have to imagine that certain efforts like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/palworld-already-has-a-pokemon-mod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Pok\u00e9mon <\/em>mod for <em>Palworld<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>didn&#8217;t do much to douse the fuse on this powder keg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll see now if Pocketpair makes any response, even though they weren&#8217;t explicitly named. In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240122-25873\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Automaton<\/a>, Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe said: &#8220;We make our games very seriously, and we have absolutely no intention of infringing upon the intellectual property of other companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than that, we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see whether TPC&#8217;s investigation results in them taking any action. I used to think I&#8217;d always look back on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-purchase-acquisition-call-of-duty-warcraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft\/Activision Blizzard announcement<\/a> as the most stunning start-of-year declaration, but now the War of the Monsters might give it a run for its money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TPC wants you to know that they know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":808,"featured_media":451977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"[]","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[19882,22690,24366,106,19865],"internal-label":[24256,24340],"invoiceable_action":[23730],"article_type":[23116],"coauthors":[{"id":808,"display_name":"Eric Van Allen","user_nicename":"ericvanallen"}],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Palworld-Pals-with-Guns.jpg?fit=1200%2C675","author_info":{"display_name":"Eric Van Allen","author_link":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/author\/ericvanallen\/"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Palworld-Pals-with-Guns.jpg?fit=1200%2C675","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454210,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454206\/revisions\/454210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454206"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=454206"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=454206"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=454206"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=454206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}