@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish • 6 months agoPalworld ditches Pokéball-style summoning mechanic amid Nintendo legal battlewww.eurogamer.netexternal-linkmessage-square10arrow-up175cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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minus-square@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish27•6 months agoYeah doesn’t seem like a good tactic to me. Honestly this whole thing is gonna set precedence and simple game mechanics are gonna get copyrighted in ways that will only make gaming as a whole even worse than it already is.
minus-square@stringere@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•6 months agoYour video game has characters collecting in-game coins. We have a patent for commercial mechanics existing in games, pay us.
Yeah doesn’t seem like a good tactic to me.
Honestly this whole thing is gonna set precedence and simple game mechanics are gonna get copyrighted in ways that will only make gaming as a whole even worse than it already is.
Your video game has characters collecting in-game coins.
We have a patent for commercial mechanics existing in games, pay us.