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    404 days ago

    “moving characters to a virtual field when an event is triggered” (entering a battle)

    How is that a legit patent, when there are so many obvious instances of prior art?

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      464 days ago

      Even if there weren’t a million examples of prior art, the fact that patents on game mechanics are even allowed is just awful for the industry as a whole, and we as players should absolutely rail against this. Every game borrows from other games’ ideas and mechanics - I’d bet money that there hasn’t been a single fully “original” game in 20+ years. If companies are allowed to patent every little mechanic (even ones they didn’t come up with), the industry as a whole will just become impossible to operate in.

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        124 days ago

        Every game borrows from other games’ ideas and mechanics

        It’s not only games, this is just straight-up how art works. Culture develops over time. Of course capitalism had to get a middleman in there lol

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        104 days ago

        the fact that patents on game mechanics are even allowed is just awful for the industry as a whole

        Yes, definetly.

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      144 days ago

      It’s a Japanese patent. I’m not sure how it would hold up internationally, but Pocketpair is also a Japanese company and this lawsuit is entirely within the Japanese legal system. That probably gives Nintendo a bit of an advantage since they’re such a large and iconic Japanese corporation.

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        184 days ago

        Copyright is already cooked, no matter where it’s located. But the way japan acts as if Pokemon invented JRPG battles is simply ridiculous.

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          14 days ago

          the way japan acts as if Pokemon invented JRPG battles is simply ridiculous.

          Am I missing some bit of context? Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy still exist (and came first).

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            44 days ago

            That’s what I meant with “prior art”. Nintendo’s second patent basically explains how any old JRPG worked.