nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 days agoPalworld ditches Pokéball-style summoning mechanic amid Nintendo legal battlewww.eurogamer.netexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down10cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
arrow-up175arrow-down1external-linkPalworld ditches Pokéball-style summoning mechanic amid Nintendo legal battlewww.eurogamer.netnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
minus-squareThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·11 days 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-squarestringere@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 days 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.