Things were relatively quiet about the lawsuit Nintendo and Pokemon Company filed against Pocketpaira, a Palworld developer. The lawsuit, which seeks compensation for damages due to a violation of multiple patent rights, has resulted in several changes in Palworld in response, and further change comes with Patch V0.5.5.
With this patch, all the skating will be done with sailboats, not on the back of a friend. In Pokemon Legends: Arceus, the players would eventually unlock the skating ability using hissial braviarria, and in Scarlet and Violet skating the skating and miraidone ability would eventually be unlocked, so changes are likely to be related to this feature.
The full statement of the developer is below:
