Nintendo has been granted a patent for summoning characters and making them fight.

[yankii]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...-just-landed-a-summoning-and-battling-patent/

Hell yes. Get fucked, Nintendo haters.

 

[lightwo]

• (1) There must be a PC, console or other computing device and the game is stored on a drive or similar storage medium.
• (2) You can move a character in a virtual space.
• (3) You must be able to summon a character. They call it a “sub character” by which they mean it’s not the player character, but, for example, a little monster such as a Pokémon that the player character has at its disposal.
• Then the logic branches out, with items (4) and (5) being mutually exclusive scenarios, before reuniting again in item (6):
• (4) This is about summoning the “sub character” in a place where there already is another character that it will then (when instructed to do so) fight.
• (5) This alternative scenario is about summoning the “sub character” at a position where there is no other character to fight immediately.
• (6) This final step is about sending the “sub character” in a direction and then letting an automatic battle ensue with another character. It is not clear whether this is even needed if one previously executed step (4) where the “sub character” will basically be thrown at another character.

Sounds quite vague. Wouldn't this effect RPGs to an extent?

Not like it necessarily matters, as I'd expect N to act towards Pokemon-inspired games only. Not that I approve of this, I argue that patents are amongst the biggest reasons intellectual property laws are a detriment to creativity and innovation.

Now I'm starting to imagine games shifting to a more "physical", mechanical medium to work around point 1. I mean, wouldn't that be neat to an extent?

 

[bjaxx87]

Funny, when I read the thread title I though this was about Smash Bros., not Pokémon.
I guess we won't get another Coromon... At least not without huge changes.

 

[yankii]

I guess we won't get another Coromon

I sure hope not. Random encounters in video games should've died long ago.

 

[Skelletonike]

Funny, when I read the thread title I though this was about Smash Bros., not Pokémon.
I guess we won't get another Coromon... At least not without huge changes.

It shouldn't affect Coromon and other games like it.
All of the steps must be followed for the Patent to be valid, Coromon and most creature collector games don't really fit. It seems to be more akin to Pokemon Scarlet/Violet and Legends.

 

[CMDreamer]

[...] I argue that patents are amongst the biggest reasons intellectual property laws are a detriment to creativity and innovation.

[...]

Quite not.

Creativity and innovation should overcome such hurdles instead of using them as a pretext for not having them.

Many developers seek to mimic products (software and hardware) that had success, instead of trying to create -using creativity and innovation- their own products to try and compete by their own means.

Creativity and innovation is not directly tied to money.

Even huge companies as Sunny of a Beach do that. Many of their software products are a direct copy of other producers'/IP's.

 

[lightwo]

Quite not.

Creativity and innovation should overcome such hurdles instead of using them as a pretext for not having them.

Many developers seek to mimic products (software and hardware) that had success, instead of trying to create -using creativity and innovation- their own products to try and compete by their own means.

Creativity and innovation is not directly tied to money.

Even huge companies as Sunny of a Beach do that. Many of their software products are a direct copy of other producers'/IP's.

I would agree if it was clear cut. New blatant rip offs of new patents obviously don't help innovation, but this is a game genre that existed for a very long time. Patents only last for so long, so making a new patent for a game genre that has existed for this long feels like straight up patent trolling.

While I don't play Pokemon series, from what I can tell, Nintendo is hurting innovation by bringing nothing substantially new to the series every entry. If they patent it, chances are they will continue doing this until the end of time.

 

[Lostbhoy]

This is a patent for video games yeah??
Not, like tech to summon them in real life??

There's a few characters around here they could summon...

 

[Bladexdsl]

all this is just so they can force palworld to shut down. they just keep getting worse and worse what a petty pathetic company they have turned into. they are over 9000 times worse than apple ever could have been! and they guy in charge now is a real life mr burns

 

[IceBlazeWinters]

all this is just so they can force palworld to shut down. they just keep getting worse and worse what a petty pathetic company they have turned into. they are over 9000 times worse than apple ever could have been! and they guy in charge now is a real life mr burns

except apple is programming people to be compliant with a $2,000 iphone

 

[OilFreak]

Yeah ok, we've crossed the line from "you can simply not purchase and consume Nitnendo and be happy" to "This company is an active detrement to all games and must be stopped".

 

[QuestionEmulation]

all this is just so they can force palworld to shut down. they just keep getting worse and worse what a petty pathetic company they have turned into. they are over 9000 times worse than apple ever could have been! and they guy in charge now is a real life mr burns

I'm going to assume it's deeper than that, especially since any monetary damages they requested from PocketPair is less than the amount they pay an employee a year if I remember correctly. Just another game of control.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

all this is just so they can force palworld to shut down. they just keep getting worse and worse what a petty pathetic company they have turned into. they are over 9000 times worse than apple ever could have been! and they guy in charge now is a real life mr burns

Can you patent an idea that somebody else already made and sue them for their existing creation? I'm genuinely not sure, but that seems like abuse of the patent system if that is how it works.
This might not be to target Palworld specifically but to prevent another Palworld from ever happening again. I think it's already too late to go after Palworld.

 

[MPRTwice]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...-just-landed-a-summoning-and-battling-patent/

Hell yes. Get fucked, Nintendo haters.

The last person to say this lost badly.

Edit: The character apparently cannot appear on the battle when defeated; that's an easy one. Just have the character who was defeated in the battle under some "stats" display.

Edit 2: Many specific clauses here to fill the patent; reminds me of the convulted techniques in grappling that a heavy Gen X ROK Marine thought he pinned me down with (and I let him do so to prove the point) and my subsequent response to defeat him: "very light tap to the completely exposed head; KO." The more specific, the more limited these patents are.

 

[VinsCool]

They really are angry over Palworld uh.

 

[MPRTwice]

They really are angry over Palworld uh.

 

[NitroShell]