WB axes Shadow of Mordor maker in setback for clever, sadly patented game system
WB axes Shadow of Mordor maker in setback for clever, sadly patented game system
Opinion: By playing it safe, WB makes it harder for other games to experiment.
All I wanted was an Arkham game with the Nemesis system.
That would be siiiick, I’d want it to be more goofy in tone (though I only played Asylum and a couple minutes of City so maybe I don’t have a good handle on the whole series) imagine kite man heckling you from the shadows until he gets bathed in gamma rays or dumped in toxic waste and becomes a huge threat,
On the patent - can a European dev not make a game using it and.... Just not release it in the US?
I assume that they would get money stolen from them from any other games they have released in the US? Or could steam be forced to take money from them for non US sales?
Software patents are BS
Countries have treaties around mutually enforcing intellectual property, probably would come into play here and allow for the US party to file a claim against them in a European court.
so BS. A patent on the game remembering your previous actions???
Fuck software patents. Zero advantages to anyone except greedy bastards who fear competition.
They're not "playing it safe," they're just killing art.
Not even just art, they are also just stupid for the most mundane types of software problems too, the kind that everyone would do the same because there is just an obvious solution to a simple problem if it wasn't for idiots patenting the obvious solution.
Yeah - and they also don't seem to licence the patent. They are not using it, so there is no reason to sit on it.