22nd September 2024, 9:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 22nd September 2024, 9:47 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Again, this isn't a copyright suit or you'd have a point, it's a software patent suit, and frankly, no, absolutely not. By that logic, Sonic "exactly copied" busting blocks to get powerups, and Duke Nukem 3D exactly copied collecting health packs to recover health in that particular "Doom clone". Art of Fighting, and literally every other fighting game beyond "Street Fighter II" and anything Capcom made, wouldn't exist. You do NOT want to take Nintendo's side on this ABF. They're wrong, and you know it. Not to mention, though I already have, how this extends far beyond video games. Operating systems themselves, for example, or web browsers, or any web site using a "shopping cart". You should look into why "software patents" as a concept were ruled invalid by the Supreme Court.
You think Palworld's the first game to use a small object to catch a big creature? It wasn't even Pokemon. Artistically it looks pretty close, but that's irrelevant in a patent suit. All that matters is the function, and the function has existed since certain Dungeons and Dragons spells to capture familiars in small jars.
You think Palworld's the first game to use a small object to catch a big creature? It wasn't even Pokemon. Artistically it looks pretty close, but that's irrelevant in a patent suit. All that matters is the function, and the function has existed since certain Dungeons and Dragons spells to capture familiars in small jars.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)