Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Fun fact: some mechanics never came back cause they got copyrighted and the studio with the copyright went “no, we’re not doing that kind of game anymore” and as soon as anyone goes “okay, can we try?” they sue them into oblivion for IP infringement
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
You mean patent. You don’t choose to copyright things or not, all media is inherently copyrighted. This comment is technically copyrighted once I hit send. It sounds like your referring to Shadow of Mordor’s/War’s Nemesis system being patented.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Potato Pohtato
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Copyright infringement, trademark infringement, and patent infringement are all very different.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Cool, but the difference doesn’t matter for this context, the result is the same