>The Nemesis System is system that creates personalized, evolving enemy hierarchies where e.g. Orc captains remember past encounters, develop unique personalities, gain ranks, and form rivalries, leading to emergent, player-specific stories>Warner Bros. patented the system, locking it from other developers until 2036Are you excited for when the patent finally expires?
I could swear it wasn't even possible to patent a way to do things. How is letting enemies remember encounters and advance considered an intellectual property? It is such an intuitive way to design enemy encounters. You wouldn't be able to patent this in Europe or Japan. Why are Americans like this?
You shouldn't be allowed to patent game mechanics.
>>730818726my hope is that people will see this shit barely did anything and will stop pretending adding a buff that when next to a warg increase damage by 10% half the time affects your strategy in any way.
>>730818784america is run by money, the most important thing in the world. pay up or shut up
>>730818784>>730818726There is nothing stopping anyone from doing a "nemesis system", and in fact many games have done similar systems.Anyone can fill for a patent, whether it will hold up in court is a different story. So far Warner hasn't sued anyone that created systems analogous to the nemesis system.In general this means no one can make a very low effort 1:1 copy of what Warner did, but nothing stops them from doing it their own way. The reason why almost no one does this is because they don't want to and they don't think it's that good of an idea.
>>730818951Nah, the nemesis system was great, the problem was the rest of Shadow of Mordor. The game is fucking piss easy, so any competent player never had a chance to actually interact with the nemesis system, as facing your enemy in future encounters would require you to lose or run away (and any that won the dice roll to survive/didn't get the decapitation finisher were wiped out quickly in the next encounter anyways)
>>730818726We already have games with similar systems that at just different enough to avoid infringing. Kuva liches in Warframe for example
>>730818726>What will happen? Nobody will do it because it was literally just a fad caused by Shadow Of Mordor patenting it. Also because it takes effort. Everyone who tried to do their own never went much further than "Dark Soul invader but an NPC".
>>730820541Kuva lich is just the same boss fight 4 times with increasing difficulty
>>730820541Kuva Lich is just a Stalker reskin but they added le epic and funny dialogue
