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[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All I wanted was an Arkham game with the Nemesis system.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

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,

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fuck software patents. Zero advantages to anyone except greedy bastards who fear competition.

They're not "playing it safe," they're just killing art.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Obelix@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] essell@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

European courts don't recognise software patents, no matter where they were filled.

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That seems to be wrong at least according to the ESA.

The software itself is copyrighted, the invention is patented, either way the Nemesis system seems to be protected in europe.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_European_Patent_Convention

The European Patent Convention (EPC), Article 52, paragraph 2, excludes from patentability, in particular

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schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers; [emphasis added]

That excludes video game related patents twice in one line.

[–] MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

That's very neat then, you'd probably get sued anyway cause companies don't care, but it does make me want to make a game like that and see what happens.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully Europe puts an end to those treaties because of Trump

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 months ago

so BS. A patent on the game remembering your previous actions???