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Game Patents Need To Die
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Fuck software patents. Copyright made sense when it was a decade or two. Industrial patents seem basically functional. Trademark's mostly truth-in-advertising for consumer choice. But software patents aren't about *how* you do something - they're claiming the entire concept, in the broadest possible terms, and killing it. Straight-up murdering that potential. It is denied the necessary iterative competition that turns dogshit first implementations into must-have features. Nobody's gonna care in twenty years. Entire hardware form-factors have come and gone in a single decade. Can you imagine if swipe keyboards were *still* single-vendor, and still worked like in 2009? Or maybe Apple bought them, and endlessly bragged about how Android can't do [blank], because fifty thousand dollars changed hands in the 3G era. How many games would not exist, if Nintendo had decided they own sidescrollers? A whole genre, wiped out, because a piece of paper says those mechanics are theft.
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WB hasn't used the nemesis system since 2017, and likely won't use it again at this point. By the time the patent expires it might be a lost system.
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Fuck software patents. Copyright made sense when it was a decade or two. Industrial patents seem basically functional. Trademark's mostly truth-in-advertising for consumer choice. But software patents aren't about *how* you do something - they're claiming the entire concept, in the broadest possible terms, and killing it. Straight-up murdering that potential. It is denied the necessary iterative competition that turns dogshit first implementations into must-have features. Nobody's gonna care in twenty years. Entire hardware form-factors have come and gone in a single decade. Can you imagine if swipe keyboards were *still* single-vendor, and still worked like in 2009? Or maybe Apple bought them, and endlessly bragged about how Android can't do [blank], because fifty thousand dollars changed hands in the 3G era. How many games would not exist, if Nintendo had decided they own sidescrollers? A whole genre, wiped out, because a piece of paper says those mechanics are theft.In fact, I'd go so far as to *encourage* copying others. Not plagiarising outright, as in claiming it as your own, but taking a concept and doing it yourself. "Oh that game is just a copy of Animal Crossing." You think you can make a better Animal Crossing? Go for it. Let me decide who did it better and which one I wanna play.
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In fact, I'd go so far as to *encourage* copying others. Not plagiarising outright, as in claiming it as your own, but taking a concept and doing it yourself. "Oh that game is just a copy of Animal Crossing." You think you can make a better Animal Crossing? Go for it. Let me decide who did it better and which one I wanna play.
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WB hasn't used the nemesis system since 2017, and likely won't use it again at this point. By the time the patent expires it might be a lost system.
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Could be your VPN or something. I like to use [PipePipe](https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe) as a backup.
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So Nemesis System is an enemy that you will find multiple times through the game and he will be different according to your choices? How didn't Nintendo sue WB saying they copied it from the first Pokemon game.
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>Video unavailable Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner. Huh. Imagine that.
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I don’t think Netflix care about WB Games at all. > 'We actually didn't attribute any value' to Warner's game studios, Netflix boss says about the acquisition deal ([Source](https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/we-actually-didnt-attribute-any-value-to-warners-game-studios-netflix-boss-says-about-the-acquisition-deal-theyre-relatively-minor-compared-to-the-grand-scheme-of-things/))
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I don’t think Netflix care about WB Games at all. > 'We actually didn't attribute any value' to Warner's game studios, Netflix boss says about the acquisition deal ([Source](https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/we-actually-didnt-attribute-any-value-to-warners-game-studios-netflix-boss-says-about-the-acquisition-deal-theyre-relatively-minor-compared-to-the-grand-scheme-of-things/))
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I have said this to every person that has gushed about the game to me, often more than once per person.
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Somebody modded it into Skyrim if that helps
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Somebody modded it into Skyrim if that helps
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