I had no idea you could patent game mechanicsWhat other cool mechanics are patented?
>>737767229pretty sure Capcom has patented the Dragons Dogma pawn system so no other dev can even begin to try it. <pic unrelated>
>>737767229Thank you, activision. I don't have to wait for 20 additional seconds before leaving the match in games that are not cod.
>>737767229>one of the coolest mechanics
>>737767229>Play of the game>Something inconsequential to the game is the play of the game 99% of the timeWooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
>>737767229This guy doesn't play any video games
>greentexting on twitt*r>posting said screenshots here
>>737767229Patent trolling in any case because it’s literally what redzone had been doing for ages in the NFL. The problem is America doesnt punish patent trolls. If you take them to court and beat them youre still down hundred thousands and they just laugh at you, so the only ones who can do it are other large companies who may not even care.
>xitter indian threadI'll bite.There's no benefit for such a system and is fundamentally against good game design, in a well-designed multiplayer game, a good play is the result of multiple people executing different moves and abilities with good coordination, each being enabled by the previous one and enabling the next one. Who should get "credit" for it?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDaJes0T1IgHere's an example of every single player perfectly executing a different move with intent, if one move was botched then the entire thing doesn't work. Who gets credit?
What was the mechanic? I haven't played OW in 8 years. Satanvision have also patented the way matchmaking makes you play against players with microtransactions to make you buy some yourself. People argue that Activision do not rig their matchmaking in any other way.https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160005270A1/en
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>>737767229I blocked this guy on twitter. Please respect that and stop posting him on my board. Thank you!
>>737767806>What was the mechanic?It's specifically a patent of the way they determine what the "play" is and how it gets displayed to the players. So you could tinker with this diagram a little, and it would probably give you some wiggle room to have a "play of the game" feature without getting dinged for infringing the patent. Pic related is taken from the link below.https://patents.google.com/patent/US10456680B2/en
>>737767229>don't explain the mechanismWow, thanks for the vaguepost
Surely, it wouldn't take a huge AI model to parse each image on the catalog and determine>is this a twitter screenshotthen automatically filter those threads, right?Fuck it, I'll actually vibeslop an extension like that right now.
>>737768180Thanks, these threads will for sure miss the presence of such wonderful posters that have to go into every social media post, declare that its a social media post, and that they dont like it
>>737767549You're not forced to watch the potg
>>737767229Aren't video game patents absurdly narrow? Like you couldn't make a 'play of the game' but you could play a 'highlights reel' after the match, because actiblizz can't patent the concept of a highlights reel
>>737767462source?
>>737768097thanks my african american nigga, hope you fuck bitches and get money
>>737767229being spitroasted by shitpostrock and crowbcat... *sigh* can't a girl dream?
ban twitterpost threads
>>737767229I'm pretty sure the Nemesis system from those LotR games is one of them
this tourist guy makes bharatsoftware and grummz look like true hardcore gamers
>>737768369Some are, but the play of the game one is what I would actually describe as pretty broad for a software patent.>couldn't make a 'play of the game' but you could play a 'highlights reel' after the matchI don't think that would work, but not because it's 'highlights reel' vs 'play of the game'. Rather, you'd have to concoct a different way of organizing the way the server determines what the "highlights" are and sending instructions to players so they can see the "highlights". And I can't immediately think of a viable alternative. The 'highlights reel' that most people would implement would likely follow the same event flow as the patent, but just presenting the players with multiple smaller windows instead of one big one.
>>737767229Twitter screencap threads should be punishable by death, especially if it's that guy
>>737769681Which guy?
>>737768369Mario Kart 8 has a highlight reel for races and cups.
>>737770012The patent is just for a single play of the game >>737768097 so a highlight reel wouldn’t count
>>737767229>you could patent game mechanicsyou can'tany judge will throw it out in a heartbeat
>>737767229Is this just some bait thread to talk about Nintendo and Pokemon? If you want examples of how ridiculous patents can get, look at Nintendo and TPC (plus Sony.)
>>737767229>play of the gamehow can you patent something you didn't invent
>>737767462I don't think any other devs would even try it.
>>737769604A different method for determining the windows sent to players would also be fine.I think it’s more likely that other devs just don’t care to make one.
>>737768481There's no other game with it. This is an industry of copycats. Only reason nobody is copying something that's half decent at worst are patents.
>>737767229Capcom used to have the patent for "minigame during a loading screen" IIRC from Okami, you could hit buttons in time to the paw prints to get items.I heard they lost it or didn't renew it or something.>>737768625Owned by Warner Brothers.
>The game is over, but before you get to move on and play another match, have a look at this random thing that happened in the match that just ended>either boring whatever, often just reinforcing how annoying some characters are>or guy blatantly hacking gets an ace or something (best case scenario)
>>737770340You are the first person in the thread to bring it upTell us about Palworld, how did they troll the Tendo?
>>737768180>>737768238boorish complainers filtering themselves out of discussions they bring zero contribution toward? yes, please
>>737767229Rivals has something similar, each person gets their own PotG, however, you can only see them if you click on the player's character after the match ends, nobody is forced to see it
>>737770864>implying I need to cover that again, when it was talked about nonstop for years
>>737771023yeah but there's been updates, they had some of their patents thrown out
>>737767693Twitter and 4chan are exactly the same now, people didn't gatekeep hard enough and ban screencap threads 8 years ago when it was becoming a problem.
>>737767229IIRC Metroid Prime 3 basically patented a system where you can power up using a hazard but if you use it too long you have to vent it out quickly by unloading your weapons or it'll kill you it's not an especially bad example by Nintendo standards but I always thought it was too cool of a concept to be trapped in Prime 3 of all games
