The TRUTH About Palworld VS Pokemon Drama

as you all know power world is blown up selling 5 million copies in its opening weekend putting it nicely between Pokemon XY and sword and shield sales during the same release window you can argue whether or not that's a fair comparison as it's half the price of Pokemon and on a more generally available system but January is also a hard month to sell entertainment in so for the sake of this video it has solidly beaten X and Y and is very close to Sor and Shield's first 3 days due to this massive level of success along with the clickbait fan title of Pokémon with guns power world has Unleashed what is possibly the dumbest Pokémon debate of all time unlike the arguments around the generation 8 pokeddex cut or the generation 9 gameplay issues where each side can throw fairly valid arguments back and forth the power world versus Pokemon debate has instead been overrun with the worst possible arguments either side could muster what should be a fairly simple debate on how far-reaching copyright laws should be in the personal ethics of enjoying a product made by questionable means has devolved into an arms race to find the single most argument possible to embarrass yourself and further drift away from the other side we're going to take a look at some of the arguments from both sides and their Ridiculousness the pro Pokemon argument is obsessed with picking apart every single pal to find a link to a Pokémon most pals are pretty generic looking fantasy creatures like a deer but it's purple or a deer but it's brown oh wait that's just a deer or a deer but it has ice powers or a basic fantasy fluffy Dragon there are that many you can point to as being a legitimate knockoff of Pokemon but the ones that are are a clear problem I just wish people would stop deluding their evidence with gross overreaching because it invalidates your point when you start just adding garbage to your argument the power world response to this is that you should shut up and stop sing for a corporation and that the Pokemon company doesn't own the monster taming genre so if you're upset about power world just wait until you hear about Monster Rancher or cassette beasts I absolutely hate of these arguments let's start with the defending large corporations this sort of argument is always the first reaction when someone knows they're in the wrong and would rather try and make you feel stupid than research a valid argument to change your perspective the realm of politics is where people experience this the most often if a candid was to say something outrageous like how dictators are very strong people who do no wrong and should always be above the law and then you argue against that clearly deranged opinion you're no longer viewed as a human with a differing thought congratulations you've evolved into a sheep who deserves to be poor and work into your grave no constructive dialogue is possible and to a much more tame extent this is where the power world debate has gone stop sucking up to a company as if they will ever care about you is a lazy response for someone who does not want to imagine the real world consequences of no longer enforcing copyright laws this debate should never be about I like Pokémon therefore power world is bad it should be about the legitimate issues around if power world infringes on copyright these laws go both ways if you believe that a small developer should be allowed to rip off Pokémon's intellectual property because the game is fun which it is power world is a blast then you must also believe it's acceptable for a large company to steal the content from everyday people and profit off of it for example you might love Shonen Jump like who doesn't but it would be illegal for Shonen jump to steal the designs and critical aspects of my manga ma RW or another Publishers IP like apple black even if Shon and put some amazing talent behind the project and created a very well-made mjoll knockoff it's just as illegal as if they made a half-ass one when it comes to copyright law if we allow small companies to steal from large ones we endanger the future of independent creators it's not sucking up to the Pokemon company it's ensuring that we don't fall into a world where large companies like the Pokemon company can blatantly steal from small creators comparing power world to other creature collecting games is honestly a strange one the actual gameplay of power world is nothing like Pokemon this debate would have made much more sense during the release of either temp or coromon but it's very important to notice that it did not happen to either of those games by all measures but one Temp and coromon are closer to Pokemon than power world is the reason that is acceptable is because Pokemon has never owned the idea of creature collecting in the same way that Halo and Rainbow 6 can't SU each other over having guns in a mostly firstperson perspective Pokemon and coromon are applying their own art styles and game mechanics to an already existing genre power world is a survival game and it does all the same things that other survival games do so it's perfectly in the clear gameplay wise the only legitimate issue with power world is that this is a Raichu this is an Electabuzz this is a lyan rock this is a quag zire this is a gmax Eevee and this is a Calon down to the pose the typing the personality the extra Design Elements and in some cases literally the model itself even the pals that are essentially an AI combination of two Pokémon like Goodra and lilligant or dragon air and myotic are probably in the clear because they are legitimately different from the originals in the same way that chunk Toad and poly toad are different or to bring up the ridiculous Dragon Quest comparison in the same way that literally all of these are different games movies and manga take inspiration all the time that has never been an issue but it does become an issue if they're legitimately plagiarizing the work of another artist another argument that comes up a lot is that parody falls under fair use and therefore a power world is safe I don't think anyone who says that knows anything about fair use or has played power world this is a legitimate game it's not meant to be a parody like when Peta made Pokemon black and blue we should also clarify what exactly fair use allows fair use allows someone to make use of a copyrighted work as long as start adding something to it so things like reviews parody and commentary but this quickly gets into a gray area on sites like YouTube so if I made a video with sarcastic comments about Pokemon scarlet and violet while using gameplay footage like in my Pokemon breeding video that would fall under fair use for commentary or review but if I produced a feature film about Pokemon where my characters made sarcastic comments about the Pokémon in that movie that would not be considered fair use I cannot steal the intellectual property of of Pokémon and use it in a commercial product the gray area for YouTube is that even if you make money from your content you're in this weird Middle Ground of being an individual following fair use laws and a broadcaster producing commercial content laws are funky CA is trying to make it worse for us I won't spend too much time on it but that's why there's often issues and disputes around if YouTubers and streamers can react to TV shows on one hand they're individuals engaging in transformational work while on the other hand they are broadcasting content they do not own and profiting off of it perhaps more interestingly I'm sure many of you have art prints from an artist you really like copyright laws are very interesting around Fan Art because it's such good promotion for the IP that the IP holders almost never go after it but selling Pokémon Art or anime art is usually in violation of copyright laws so where does this leave power world the designs that skirt the line like discount Lucario Zeo Zoro Jigglypuff and Ninetails are likely legal while the model copying on how if proven true might be one of the only things the Pokemon company could legitimately go after they can't go after palis speres or Tower bosses in the same way a third person shooter couldn't go after defensive roles or weapon upgrades this argument should really only be about how far reaching copyright laws should be so that we can protect small businesses and independents from having their content stolen by large companies in the future and if we are morly okay with some of the blatant ripoffs in power world and weirdly it teaches us that Gamers who don't like the Pokemon gameplay formula are overwhelmingly happy to play a totally different genre of game that just happens to steal Pokemon designs well on the flip side Pokemon fans are incredibly unlikely to support Pokemon style games like coralon and for the weird third side of this argument that it's a good thing for Nintendo because with this competition maybe game freak will try harder K freak owns a disgustingly small percentage of the Pokemon IP and every year are whipped harder and harder by Nintendo to crank out as many Pokemon games as possible if you want something to change in the mainline Pokemon series your energy needs to go to management at Nintendo and the Pokemon company who set the schedules and cut content and Mainline games one day I'll finally make a video about how depressing this whole setup is in the meantime how do you feel about power world I think it's a very fun game that should probably alter like 20% of their designs but overall it's not this big culture War issue that people should be draft into the Twitter Army for so thanks for watching make sure to check out ma RW before a large publisher steals it and we get to have this argument all over again but reversed

Channel: TheDubbedCasualGaming

Views: 3,819

Keywords: palworld, pokemon, pokemon with guns, palworld pokemon, palworld controversy, pal world, palworld explained, palworld ai, palworld scam, palworld stealing pokemon, palworld drama

Id: 5Qi6-OhZI8g

Length: 9min 13sec (553 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 25 2024