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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?
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.
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.
I believe Microsoft has a patent for launching different functions if a button is double clicked versus a single click.
What if they just single click twice, instead of double-clicking?
make a shitty game in godot with all these things and file for patents before all the big players do
I am copyrighting the T pose for player characters and will sue everybody who ever shows it.
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.
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…
The issue is it’s not a copyright on the ball, it’s a patent on aiming to summon a creature.
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a patent that was issued after palworld came out. its a sham
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Damn.
This is how gaming as a category gets ruined.
Use cubes.
Prepare yourself…
for C U B E
Those guys should patent cubes and collecting things.
Pika pika, mofuggas
I hope someone mods it back in.
They will.
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.
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.
There is nothing about this game that resembles theft of anyone’s IP in any way, and in a just world an absurd suit like this anywhere on the planet would result in literally every piece of IP a company owns (piercing corporate bullshit) being released to the public domain in the entire world permanently.
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