Or you, a gigantic multi million dollar corporation could afford to, you know, pay to license that shit for your own game.
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echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And in no other games! Patents aee truely wonderful aren’t they.
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 8 months ago
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why license endless patents if you can save money by just not doing that
Greedy ceos is a bad justification for software patents
BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 8 months ago
You sound like you need a refresher on basic intellectual property protections and why they are essential.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Remember when Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung Electronics and Tencent all had to come together and form a super group to develop a royalty free video codec because something as simple as compressing and decompressing video was so god damn patent encumbered by people who just existed to suck money out of everyone.
Literally, every time software is patented, it ends up being used to screw with everyone, then eventually the patent expires ten years after the software was useful, or we have to waste huge amounts of effort to sideline it.
You sound like you need a history refresher on patents in the software industry and the disastrous effect that it has had in hurting innovation and consumers and how it is dominated by trolls and squatters.
Mchugho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
As someone who is in the field of intellectual property, Lemmy’s views on IP boil down to “I attended Marxism 101 and want to pirate games”. Most here don’t have a clue how much time, effort and money is spent on innovation. They couldn’t even begin to fathom why protecting intellectual property helps people actually helps people get paid for their work, which is ironic as they are all for people being rewarded for their actual labour.
Mchugho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Patents genuinely are wonderful. The rockstar devs are going to be rewarded for their innovation.
quams69@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Where can I get the crack you’re smoking
Mchugho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s called working in the field and having a direct understanding of how patents protect people every single day.
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Yeah, just like WB did with the Nemesis system, right? Oh wait.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I cannot see how they can reasonably copyright the idea of having characters remember you which is basically all the nemesis system is. There are many ways to implement it that wouldn’t violate patent, of course it’s in WBs interest to not nose that one around too much
dustyData@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can try, but WB will troll you in court for years and drown you out on legal fees to prove it isn’t a violation of a patent. So, most consider it not worth it.
Mchugho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wish people who base their entire knowledge of intellectual property on video games would just stop attempting to have opinions on things they don’t really understand.
If you think it’s fine to have a world in which people aren’t protected for their fruits of their labour, then by all means advocate against IP. I would rather live in a world in which people are actually paid for the ideas they come up with and don’t have to excessively keep corporate secrets.
SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, imagine if there was an area of software development where people could freely view, copy and modify each others works.
dustyData@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Dude, maybe you do work on patents and know your shit. But boy are you clueless about the video game industry.
ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I thought the man was joking then I saw his smooth brained response below. Software patents are cancer and shouldn’t exist.
Mchugho@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe so, but nearly everybody in this thread is irritatingly wrong on how intellectual property works as a concept and in practice.
It’s only when you read internet comments on something you actually specialise in that you realise the average commenter is woefully misinformed.
Regardless, if R* decide not to license the tech that is their prerogative as they created it.
dustyData@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You think that patent abuse is right, and that’s why everyone in this thread hates your comments. You think the system is fine. The fact that you are inside but can’t understand how corporations abuse the system and think others are wrong or misinformed when they oppose this abuse, is troubling. You think we are ignorant or misinformed, but no, we do know how intellectual property works. We disagree and find it disgusting for moral reasons that it works that way. That’s very different.
GreenMario@lemm.ee 8 months ago
We will get like two games out of this before the patent expires cuz Rockstar takes 3 console gens to make 2 games.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
They made GTA V then GTA V again then GTA V again then GTA V for VR, that’s loads of games.
Rockstar have just innovated by releasing exactly the same game every single generation.
WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bethesda will sue them for copyright infringement any day now
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Releasing the same thing is our thing, man!