I just found out Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are suing Pocketpair (Palworld). This was kind of expected, but what was not expected was that they would do it over patent infringement.
I had no clue this was even a thing, but it turns out mechanics like the Nemesis System in Shadow of Mordor and the Objective Arrow in Crazy Taxi are also patented.
How do we have entire genres made of games with such similar and obviously inspired mechanics.
Could Live Service and loot boxes be patented as well? Asking partly as a joke, but considering how valuable some companies think these ideas are I am also asking out of confusion and ignorance.
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On top of everything stated here already, patenting is a very complicated and expensive process. It is not something you just get automatically for making a thing. For this reason, very few game mechanics are even attempted to be patented.
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