>patents an intricate game mechanic so nobody else can use them but them

>patents an intricate game mechanic so nobody else can use them but them
lol
lmao

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wonder why id software never thought of patenting FPS games.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      john carmack made his games moddable because of "hacker culture"

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because he would be wrong

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Games were about advancement and comradery back then.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They didn't make the first FPS.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Uhh sweetie, they did. Wolfenstein 3D was released by id software.
        There may have been games before that used the first person perspective but none of them were fps.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Wolf3D was not the first person shooter.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Facts don't care about your feelings.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              not him but see picrel from
              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_shooter

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It doesn't matter, just patent your "Camera to eye level with gun in hands to shoot at enemies" technology

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    give the specific of their patent so i can do something similar but without getting sued so i can show them a middle finger

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nice try but with lawyers israeli enough you can sue for pattent infringement just for that.
      Some IT related company sued their competition for patent infringement by the way of
      >specifically looking at our code to avoid our mistakes and make it run better.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >specifically looking at our code to avoid our mistakes and make it run better.
        LMAO fricking israelites

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The original point of patents are to reserve the implementation of the invention; one type of mouse trap. Any competitor can build a better mouse trap, as long as they don't use the same methods of implementation.
      Software patents are bullshit, reserving the *idea* instead of the implementation. Any alternative implementation of Katamari will still be patent infringement of US20050101365A1 despite not using the same methods to building the better mouse trap.
      If you wanna see anyways, the Shadow of Mordor patent is: US20160279522A1

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        tried reading that for maybe 5 minutes but it just seems that they made an effort to create the most overcomplicated paper possible to make people just give up midway. It's been a loong time since I tried reading something so pretentious and I'm reading at least one paper per day since I majored in 2016 or maybe it's just the format that they use that's shit

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        intellectual """""""""""""""""property"""""""""""""""" is a fricking meme

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I mean if it's an intricate game mechanic at least it's better than shit like
    >FGO makes you upgrade skills one level at a time
    >When asked why they don't just let you press a button to go from level 1 to 10 instead of making you do them one by one, the producer answered that it's because another game has the patent for that

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Kek wtf!? Is this real? Kill all israelites and asians, also the israelites at Capcom sued Koei for a moroner shit too

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I mean if it's an intricate game mechanic at least it's better than shit like
        >FGO makes you upgrade skills one level at a time
        >When asked why they don't just let you press a button to go from level 1 to 10 instead of making you do them one by one, the producer answered that it's because another game has the patent for that

        >be lazy developer for shit game
        >someone asks why your game doesn't have a basic qol feature
        >make excuse and lie

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I was under the impression that patents were made to protect things that needed it. No one has tried to copy this shit because it's not interesting, fun or worthwhile. So what's the fricking point?

    Unless it's just so that they can sue someone who eventually makes something similar but actually fun and it's basically treated like a free money card.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I was under the impression that patents were made to protect things that needed it.
      Lol. Lmao, even.
      >Unless it's just so that they can sue someone who eventually makes something similar but actually fun and it's basically treated like a free money card.
      Yeah it's for that, and also covering their own asses from patent trolls.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/xLQ4O5o.jpg

      >patents an intricate game mechanic so nobody else can use them but them
      lol
      lmao

      An old Japanese SRPG from the 16/32 bit era had precedent to this actually. Enemy armies would have optional midbosses with special randomly generated names that would serve as recurring rival type enemies to your characters, and if you fought a recurring one enough times with the same character he would get stronger with better equipment, and drops from a fully maxed rival was the only way to get the strongest equipment for some characters.

      Can't remember the title, I think it was a Sega Saturn game with a weird German name.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Lansgrisser?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      jesus christ you are a massive moron

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Thanks for your useless comment, moron.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Well he's right. You're a fricking moron that doesnt understand what a patent is. Maybe educate yourself before spewing your moronic thoughts for others to see. Sadly your type is why turnstiles collapsing. Social media and it's ease of use allows your idiot thoughts to be shown to others and influence other idiots.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >No one has tried to copy this shit because it's not interesting, fun or worthwhile. So what's the fricking point?
      No one has to tried to properly replicate because you basically have to revolve your whole game around the system and it takes a shitload of work (programming, voice lines, design) for it to reach its fullest potential that most devs won't even bother.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    If we publicly beheaded the lawyers and judges involved in deciding that shit like this is patentable the world would be a better place.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      we could also go after the underlings like paraglegal and court reporters...maybe we could shame them into spying on their bosses and help us fight the forces of darkness

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >intricate game mechanic
    The only intricate thing about this is the level of marketing

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why are you underage morons pretending patents are a new thing?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Or even this specific patent being new. The nemesis system was patented almost ten fricking years ago. You know, when this game actually came out?

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Didnt unisoft copy this shit in nu assassins creed? Then again ubisoft copies everything i imagine they have good lawyers

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >overrated ai system that makes it so orc clone #62 will be mad if you hit him
    don't understand why people hype this up so much, every orc i've seen is virtually the same, fall into identical categories with copy paste dialogue and are entirely predictable in their behavior in the world. they all act exactly the same in every video of the game i've seen too. to the point that people literally groom the orcs to be better pit fighters, not through some complex method, but by very simply rerolling the rng.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They poured all their marketing money into the mechanic. Shill reviews were everywhere back in 2014, and the ad read was to obsess over the system. I never heard anyone praise Shadow of War, guess people got smart.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's an intricate load of shit. The only thing good about Mordor/War is the orc horde, not the dumb "every general is a speshul snowflake which boils down to HATES NEWSPAPERS/WEAK AGAINST RANGED".
    Star renegades has the same system and it's just an inconsequential boring load of shit there too.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I still dont understand what is there to patent.
    enemies having a recollection of you and reacting to their memory of you and what you did to them or someone that they have a connection to you; that does not seem patentable.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You patent the methodology of how you implement the system, not the idea itself. In this case it's literally the code for how it is executed within the games. You can make a nemesis system as long as you don't plagiarize that exact code, but it is expensive to go to court to prove such a thing so people just don't make use of Nemesis systems to avoid patent trolling.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        How is that different from ordinary copyright?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          it isn't and that's why he's wrong.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's not.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's how all copyright works. Unfortunately there are corporations who abuse the system by suing and then settling for less money out of court. This is why devs just avoid the headache and don't make their own nemesis systems even if they'd like to.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            So while file a patent?

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >le enemy says scripted dialog about you and previous fights
    >WHOLE GAME IS BASED AROUNS THIS GIMMICK
    cool but shallow and ultimately underwhelming as frick. There’s nothing really spectacular about it other than being well labeled as THE NEMESIS SYSTEM that redditards now attach some strange reverence to it. It’s a single mechanic and losers cum themselves over it, I don’t get it.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's a good system and pretty innovative.
    on the other hand..
    >by them
    THEY ARE NO USING IT THEMSELVES AAAAAAAAAA

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Granted I only played the first game, but there all the enemies were so fricking easy to kill it's more or less pointless system.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Played on easy mode

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just want WB to use it on SOMETHING those ' shadow of games ' were a guilty pleasure for me. I loved just dueling those dumb orcs enmass.
    Give me the games yo.

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    What does this patent encompass exactly? Simply their shitty system of hierarchy and other randomly generated gimmicks, or could they sue anyone for basically having recurring characters?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's bullshit, like all software patents.

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >News that came out 5 years ago is now making its rounds again because it was popular on twitter/reddit for attention

    You people need to go outside

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >You people need to go outside
      Can't, the sun is up

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Which company holds the patent to loading screen mini-games? I can't imagine Coco-Cola patenting fizzy drinks and outlawing and non-coke products that are liquid and have bubbles yes this is a food analogy

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It was Namco, but I think the patent went out of date in like 2013 or something.

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >have idea
    >you get to tell everyone else whether or not you can use that idea because you said it first
    This is so childish and moronic. How fricking stupid are we?

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the guy that invented the internet refused to patent it for the good of humanity

    We will not see such men again

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >NOO YOU CANT JUST PRIVATISE A SYSTEM YOU HAND MADE FOR YOURSELF, YOU HAVE TO LET OTHER SHITTY COMPANIES RUN IT INTO THE GROUND!!!

    Theres a reason nobody likes souls-likes anymore, theres a reason OPEN WORLD SURVIVAL CRAFTING ZOMBIES is a graveyard

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      See

      >the guy that invented the internet refused to patent it for the good of humanity

      We will not see such men again

      It was a dream of a better time and a better humanity than exists in reality

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      and these genres would be in a better state if for 20 years after the first game was made no other developer could have made one?

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Japanese developers create a mechanic that innovates and inspires
    >"We're glad our games have touched the hearts of so many people [laughs]."

    >Western developers create a mechanic that no-one really talks about but the developers are extremely proud of
    >"Only WE get to use Shadow of Mordor's trademark Nemesis System™! It is OURS! We don't want anyone else stealing our ICONIC IDEA!" heeheeheehee... *giggles and kicks feet*

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