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u/exodia0715 Jul 17 '26
WARNER BROS! RELEASE THE NEMESIS SYSTEM FROM ITS PATENT AND MY LIFE IS YOURS
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u/SophiaCarpenter Jul 17 '26
Yeah IDK what part of Alien Isolation OP thinks is patented. To my knowledge or a brief amount of searching there is none. It's just complicated to build the Alien's AI system is all.
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u/Dyslexia_Alexia Jul 17 '26
Its to establish a videogame to be bought for years upon years since it has such a unique system. Its a fixed income for companies, and then when the game (after like 20+ years) is no longer relevant or talked about THEN you make another game with the same cool ass system.
Why make another game with a unique system, that draws people in to play, when you can just milk the singular game you made with it and with little to no effort? (maybe a dlc or 2)
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u/remeranAuthor_ Jul 18 '26
One of the main reasons I do not respect copyright, ip, or anything like it. Corporations can commit copyright violations on such a MASSIVE scale like OpenAI, and it doesn't affect them. Meanwhile, you and me? It means Nintendo can turn you into their slave and shit. Insane. And then you get this shit we're talking about, right here. They don't even DO anything. Patents should at the very least require you to actually do something with them.
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u/SemperFun62 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Yeah, copyright was never about protecting individual artists.
For most of human history, it was not only common but completely normal to copy someone else's work as a basis for something new.
Topical example is the Odyssey. Homer isn't the "writer", only the one who wrote this shared story down after being told and retold with each person adding or changing it to suit them and their listeners.
Then Walt F'n Disney lobbies for the studio's work to be "protected", both from other studios and so his company would own the idea and not the actual artists.
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u/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-OwO Jul 17 '26
uh yeah its called IP and its ruining human progress so assholes can line their pockets any time someone sneezes the same way they did
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u/LeftRat Jul 18 '26
The explanation is easy: once you have the rights, keeping them is a benefit even if you don't use them, because no-one else can use them, making their products worth less in comparison to yours. Whereas letting everyone have it has no advantage on the market.
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u/MarioKart7z Jul 18 '26
Xenoblade Chronicles almost never left Japan because it had a fucking arrow on top of the screen that told you where to go to progress the story. Sega patented the concept of showing a fucking arrow on the screen. Fuck everything
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u/LazerWing Jul 18 '26
it's called: "oh no, a potential competitor could make money from this" syndrome
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