• @[email protected]
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    1810 hours ago

    This change is actually really annoying. Being able to summon Pals far from you was great in fights so that you wouldn’t both be in range of the same AoE, and some Pals like Croajiro have have skills that benefit from being able to decide where you place them (Croajiro can act as a launch pad to help you gain height in the early game before you have a flying Pal saddle).

    I was cautiously optimistic for Pokémon Legends Z-A but I’m definitely skipping it now, fuck off Nintendo.

  • @[email protected]
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    2212 hours ago

    I wish they would just switch the spheres for a scroll and mark the summon spot on the ground at point of view with a summoning hex. Also make other scrolls for one off uses for you to use a pal fruit skill.

    Also, F Nintendo…

    • @[email protected]
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      68 hours ago

      The issue is it’s not a copyright on the ball, it’s a patent on aiming to summon a creature.

  • @JeeBaiChow
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    3314 hours ago

    Strange that you can patent a game mechanic in software. What’s next, the superhero landing? The vpose with a bent leg? Running a certain way with a gun between waypoints?

    • @Kelly
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      1711 hours ago

      What’s next, the superhero landing?

      A different branch on IP law but for decades Marvel and DC had a shared trademark on “Super Hero”.

      If either felt they could argue it was a unique trade identifier they would have claimed it exclusively but instead they claimed shared ownership and used it to lock out competition in the space from 1979 to 2024.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 hours ago

      We are still suffering the effects of bad software patents. Tons of garbage patents were granted in the form of “common everyday thing, but on a computer.” A notable one was the digital shopping cart that was eventually invalidated.

      • @JeeBaiChow
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        18 hours ago

        I believe Microsoft has a patent for launching different functions if a button is double clicked versus a single click.

    • @[email protected]
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      713 hours ago

      make a shitty game in godot with all these things and file for patents before all the big players do

  • Like the wind...
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    -1710 hours ago

    While I think it’s petty and silly to sue over this I think it’s pathetic that PP couldn’t think of any other way to capture and summon monsters, and that the players kept calling this a pokemon game. There are so many games with tons of monsters you can tame and fight and they don’t look like pokemon ffs. I’m with Nintendo on this one. PP, do better.

    • @[email protected]
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      710 hours ago

      I think the patent is about controls more than about the balls, the mechanic would have to work very differently in order to not fall afoul of it. Like maybe if you had to go to the spot and place a mark there, or something, instead of aiming with the control stick, but that would be too clunky to use most of the time.