Amid the ongoing controversy around the very popular Palworld, a former Chief Legal Officer for The Pokémon Company has had his say on the game, arguing that it “looks like the usual ripoff nonsense” he’d often deal with while in that role.
If you’re out of the loop, while its player numbers have climbed to very impressive levels, Palworld has been accused of bearing too many similarities to Pokémon games, especially by fans of the latter. Aside from some broad generalisations about the game’s monster-hunting premise, the main focus has been on perceived similarities between the models used by some of Palworld’s Pals and a number of Pokemon.
Now, Don McGowan, who served as the Pokemon Company’s Chief Legal Officer from 2008 to 2020 and spent almost four years as Bungie’s General Counsel after leaving the role, has offered his views on Pocketpair’s latest release to Game File. “This looks like the usual ripoff nonsense that I would see a thousand times a year when I was Chief Legal Officer of Pokémon,” McGowan said of Palworld, adding: “I’m just surprised it got this far.”
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