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And what part of the game is infringing a patent?
I tried checking out that first patent there,
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and who boy... is this shit hard to readOkay what the hell did I just read?
From my very very rough and cursory glance though: wouldn't this also likely be infringed by games such as Genshin Impact for their Auto "fuse" (aka enhancement) selection mechanic or does this patent have some more nuanced/specific thing which everyone else did not implement to skirt around it?
After attempting to read through it, seems like a menu to fuse or combine game objects which contain some form of sorting system as dictated by the player.. So I'm going to assume they mean their phantasy star online 2 ~~weapon~~ item fusion system.
It's such a rough definition that this can only be classified as a patent troll case. Not that they care about hiding that fact.