Fuck software patents. Zero advantages to anyone except greedy bastards who fear competition.
They’re not “playing it safe,” they’re just killing art.
Not even just art, they are also just stupid for the most mundane types of software problems too, the kind that everyone would do the same because there is just an obvious solution to a simple problem if it wasn’t for idiots patenting the obvious solution.
All I wanted was an Arkham game with the Nemesis system.
That would be siiiick, I’d want it to be more goofy in tone (though I only played Asylum and a couple minutes of City so maybe I don’t have a good handle on the whole series) imagine kite man heckling you from the shadows until he gets bathed in gamma rays or dumped in toxic waste and becomes a huge threat,
On the patent - can a European dev not make a game using it and… Just not release it in the US?
I assume that they would get money stolen from them from any other games they have released in the US? Or could steam be forced to take money from them for non US sales?
Software patents are BS
so BS. A patent on the game remembering your previous actions???
Countries have treaties around mutually enforcing intellectual property, probably would come into play here and allow for the US party to file a claim against them in a European court.
European courts don’t recognise software patents, no matter where they were filled.
Hopefully Europe puts an end to those treaties because of Trump
At which point the US copies a ton of European IP and floods the world market with less expensive replacements.
There are very good reasons why in general we recognize IP rights
Honestly, the US doesn’t have the high skill workers to copy all the stuff actually worth patenting from Europe.
Lol, sure we do. We might even have more simply because global wealth inequality pushes them towards the USA.
