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IP laws are meant to protect creators, but are backdoored by corporate personhood. Remove corporate personhood and the world of IP law immediately becomes less toxic.
Fuck software patents.
Copyright made sense when it was a decade or two. Industrial patents seem basically functional. Trademark’s mostly truth-in-advertising for consumer choice.
But software patents aren’t about how you do something - they’re claiming the entire concept, in the broadest possible terms, and killing it. Straight-up murdering that potential. It is denied the necessary iterative competition that turns dogshit first implementations into must-have features. Nobody’s gonna care in twenty years.
Entire hardware form-factors have come and gone in a single decade. Can you imagine if swipe keyboards were still single-vendor, and still worked like in 2009? Or maybe Apple bought them, and endlessly bragged about how Android can’t do [blank], because fifty thousand dollars changed hands in the 3G era.
How many games would not exist, if Nintendo had decided they own sidescrollers? A whole genre, wiped out, because a piece of paper says those mechanics are theft.
This is why loading screens don’t have mini games BTW. As if you needed another reason to hate software patents.
In fact, I’d go so far as to encourage copying others. Not plagiarising outright, as in claiming it as your own, but taking a concept and doing it yourself.
“Oh that game is just a copy of Animal Crossing.”
You think you can make a better Animal Crossing? Go for it. Let me decide who did it better and which one I wanna play.
Stardew Valley was totally, unquestionably copying harvest moon. And its fantastic.
Yes someone did exactly this: it’s called “Dinkum” and it’s fantastic, much better than the Animal Crossing game that hit the Switch.
I’d like to see Nemesis used in an IP I actually give a shit about
Somebody modded it into Skyrim if that helps
It would if I could get modded Skyrim to work. Months working on my mod list only for it CTD on start up.
That’s why you enable mods in small batches. When you get an issue it’s a lot easier to find the offender.
Also, if you’re getting a CTD on startup you’re probably missing a dependency. Mod Organizer 2 is a lot better with warnings about that than Vortex
I get warning messages about two mods in particular
Video unavailable
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.Huh. Imagine that.
WB hasn’t used the nemesis system since 2017, and likely won’t use it again at this point. By the time the patent expires it might be a lost system.
Maybe Netflix will?
I don’t think Netflix care about WB Games at all.
‘We actually didn’t attribute any value’ to Warner’s game studios, Netflix boss says about the acquisition deal (Source)
Something about this is absolutely hilarious to me. Sad though when thinking about it critically.
