• Like the wind...@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    While I think it’s petty and silly to sue over this I think it’s pathetic that PP couldn’t think of any other way to capture and summon monsters, and that the players kept calling this a pokemon game. There are so many games with tons of monsters you can tame and fight and they don’t look like pokemon ffs. I’m with Nintendo on this one. PP, do better.

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      18 hours ago

      There is nothing about this game that resembles theft of anyone’s IP in any way, and in a just world an absurd suit like this anywhere on the planet would result in literally every piece of IP a company owns (piercing corporate bullshit) being released to the public domain in the entire world permanently.

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      I think the patent is about controls more than about the balls, the mechanic would have to work very differently in order to not fall afoul of it. Like maybe if you had to go to the spot and place a mark there, or something, instead of aiming with the control stick, but that would be too clunky to use most of the time.