Guess all that rage about Palworld had some positive effects for Nintendo huh?
I can’t recall any other company capturing a millennia old concept like summoning creatures and making it technically illegal for anyone else to use
At least the Witch of Endor is probably too dead by now to claim prior art?
Last edited 3 hours ago by Stephen
Lily
3 hours ago
There is no way this will actually fly. I am assuming they will use to hassle and threaten a couple of companies for some concessions, maybe scare some people off, and then it is going to end up in court and thrown out.
Bet the Pokémon dev team is outsourced between open ai and the Japanese version of Fiverr at this point.
Kif
2 hours ago
No more playing as a Warlock or Wizzard in fantasy RPGs I guess…
BakaGrappler
2 hours ago
Okay, hear me out. Nintendo and Hasbro, going all out in crazy court BS over D&D Wizard Familiars. Nobody wins except the people who bought tickets and popcorn.
Darkhorse
2 hours ago
I love the source has been added I hate how that site is chewing up my data with commercial movies, every few words is another ad, it took a long time explaining it was a curious case while not going into details, and when it finally got to the point, I got a “do you want to subscribe to our newsletter” full screen. I’m sure Nintendo’s claim on summoning companions was horrid, but right in front of me is an affront of the internet where they keep trying to ram more adds down my throat. Why isn’t there more pushback… Read more »
I know you are smarter than that. I used to buy PCGamer magazine. In the 90’s, or early aughts. Haven’t bought one literally in years. No magazine sales, no ads. PC Magazine was completely ad generated. The only difference is that now, pop up ads are constantly being re-programmed to be as obtrusive and non-skippable as possible. Why? How else is pcgamer.com supposed to stay in business. Are you willing to ‘subscribe’ to the web site for your gamer news? Neither am I. So they pay their salaries with ads, just like they’ve always done. If all online ads were… Read more »
There’s plenty of pushback against these practices. It’s called using an ad blocker. Alternatively, do what you said you usually do, leave the site if the ads make the article impossible to read. They can talk all day about needing ads to make money to make the site keep running, but if their site is so miserable because of so many ads that people don’t want to visit anyway, their site is dead regardless.
Michael Delaney
46 minutes ago
Applying for a 20 year patent on a 30 year old game, is ridiculous.
Nintendo is pretty much patent trolling at this point… the silliest thing is it just reminds me of Apple and Samsung who were patent trolling each other for a decade with “UI patents” until they both lost and only the lawyers made money.
Rufusstan
9 minutes ago
It wouldn’t happen in the first place here in the UK for 2 main reasons.
1). Its very difficult to get a patent for software except in unusual circumstances.
2). More importantly the research into the validity of a patent is done in house. Before the patent is granted.
Apparently in the US, a patent can be granted after minimal research (like does a similar patent already exist). After that its down to the courts
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Guess all that rage about Palworld had some positive effects for Nintendo huh?
I can’t recall any other company capturing a millennia old concept like summoning creatures and making it technically illegal for anyone else to use
At least the Witch of Endor is probably too dead by now to claim prior art?
There is no way this will actually fly. I am assuming they will use to hassle and threaten a couple of companies for some concessions, maybe scare some people off, and then it is going to end up in court and thrown out.
In a sane world with functional law that should be true, but I don’t think current America qualifies as such.
In a sane world, this patent never would have been granted in the first place.
Okay. Who said “at least it can’t get worse”? I’m 127% sure Nintendo going mask off evil is a direct result of one of you all saying it.
I swear their legal department is better staffed than their development department.
Bet the Pokémon dev team is outsourced between open ai and the Japanese version of Fiverr at this point.
No more playing as a Warlock or Wizzard in fantasy RPGs I guess…
Okay, hear me out. Nintendo and Hasbro, going all out in crazy court BS over D&D Wizard Familiars. Nobody wins except the people who bought tickets and popcorn.
I love the source has been added I hate how that site is chewing up my data with commercial movies, every few words is another ad, it took a long time explaining it was a curious case while not going into details, and when it finally got to the point, I got a “do you want to subscribe to our newsletter” full screen. I’m sure Nintendo’s claim on summoning companions was horrid, but right in front of me is an affront of the internet where they keep trying to ram more adds down my throat. Why isn’t there more pushback… Read more »
I know you are smarter than that. I used to buy PCGamer magazine. In the 90’s, or early aughts. Haven’t bought one literally in years. No magazine sales, no ads. PC Magazine was completely ad generated. The only difference is that now, pop up ads are constantly being re-programmed to be as obtrusive and non-skippable as possible. Why? How else is pcgamer.com supposed to stay in business. Are you willing to ‘subscribe’ to the web site for your gamer news? Neither am I. So they pay their salaries with ads, just like they’ve always done. If all online ads were… Read more »
There’s plenty of pushback against these practices. It’s called using an ad blocker. Alternatively, do what you said you usually do, leave the site if the ads make the article impossible to read. They can talk all day about needing ads to make money to make the site keep running, but if their site is so miserable because of so many ads that people don’t want to visit anyway, their site is dead regardless.
Applying for a 20 year patent on a 30 year old game, is ridiculous.
Nintendo is pretty much patent trolling at this point… the silliest thing is it just reminds me of Apple and Samsung who were patent trolling each other for a decade with “UI patents” until they both lost and only the lawyers made money.
It wouldn’t happen in the first place here in the UK for 2 main reasons.
1). Its very difficult to get a patent for software except in unusual circumstances.
2). More importantly the research into the validity of a patent is done in house. Before the patent is granted.
Apparently in the US, a patent can be granted after minimal research (like does a similar patent already exist). After that its down to the courts