https://gamerant.com/nintendo-palworld-lawsuit-character-summoning-battle-new-patent/
So how’s this going to affect WoW with summoning pets, Final Fantasy’s summons, Beat 'em Ups, etc.?
What a disgusting company
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What is this nonsense. How does one patent thousands years old concept of “to call someone or something”
Who are the imbeciles at patent office approving such ridiculous requests.
It’s like those car manufacturers suing each other over usage of what is essentially a circle or a rectangle.
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Short answer : it won’t effect wow .long answer : it is to stop companies like palworld from making clones of pokemon . It is not going to effect games that are not competition for pokemon
I wonder how come they haven’t patented the concept of pressing buttons altering the pixels on the screen.
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Patents as ‘broad’ as this can be challenged on court, they’re defs not bulletproof. Blizzard’s lawyers can most likely fight this back and win.
IIRC it’s actually very specific and the patent is something like ‘the player walks in tall grass up to an entity, which triggers a duel in which the player throws an object that summons a creature to fight another creature also summoned by a thrown object.’ Something along those lines.
I’m not defending Nintendo they suck, but unless you’re specifically copying Pokemon this patent won’t do squat.
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It wont. Its patented for Pokemon and designed to help them in the legal battle with Palworld.
If Nintendo did try to patent summoning or pet collecting they’d be laughed out of court like King was when they tried to patent the word “Candy”
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It won’t mean much for WoW, it’s not like Demo locks or pet battles are suddenly illegal, the patent is purely so Nintendo can slap down any Pokémon clones, they’re so scared of their cash cow getting decent competition, imagine, they’d have to put actual effort into the series again, perish the thought…
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As far as Im concerned with Nintendo, Palworld has my full support after what Nintendo did to EMUParadise.
Because they didnt like that people could emulate games that Nintendo had no intention of allowing people to play legally (ie, give Nintendo money…) they wiped out of existence tens of thousands of videogames that will never be played again.
I still think they make great games, but are incredibly petty, I remember when they issued a DMCA takedown on that great freeware Metroid 2 (AMR2) fan remake.
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Especially now after someone took over the company top position after someone died…the heart and soul of Nintendo !
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Patents do not retroactively apply to anything created before it is approved.
So WoW is fine, as is everything that got created before this patent.
Great games.
I just wish I could still play most previous gen games and not just a select few spread out on various different consoles with 20 year old games having the price tag of a brand new AAA game.
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It’s even worse if you want to play older pokemon games on cartridge thanks to them being considered collectors items. Can easily go for 100 € or more.
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They’re gonna patent breathing next I hear
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Yup.
I don’t mind paying for classic titles but it gotta be reasonable.
It’s not a surprise why emulation and pirating is as big as it is.
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I think I’ve got a ZX Spectrum emulator on my PC somewhere. Those of a certain age (looking at you, Souly 
) can probably remember tape to tape copying of games, the eternal struggle in Manic Miner, and programming in BASIC
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Perhaps, at some point, we have to let people write stories about the heroes they want.
Perhaps we’ll have to let people use the building blocks built by everyone.
Perhaps it’s not your world, but mine too; ours.
I don’t believe in patenting. I believe that if you have the production capacity, you should be free to produce whatever it is that you are producing. And that intellectual property should be openly available in a library for everyone to partake freely in.
And yes, you may quote me free of charge.
If we shared ideas, we would all be wealthier in mind and fun.
Of course you copy a successful concept. Everyone make cars the same way, with wheels.
We can’t wait hundreds of years to be able to produce that, cause we ain’t got that.
Besides, producing a combustion engine or an electric one is really difficult.
Wish I could share my ideas. Then they could maybe come true. But if I do then they’ll just get stolen and then I’ll be sued if I try to use them. That’s how cool things actually are.
I’ll just wait some more for the super A.I. With that I’ll make the thing. And then Microsoft claims the ownership, but maybe I can be a partner (non-profit ofc) so that I can develop my own idea? Probably not. But hey, then it’s on the map at least.
We’re all sharing unless we got money, then we greedily protect our works with laws benefitting only us.
Indeed.
That happened in my country for algebra books. Someone patenting x + 1 = 2 and such.
Went for a long time. Not sure how it ended but it’s pretty much totally insane.
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Pft, let them come!
I have Flawless Amethyst Baubleworm which is have great synergy with Omnipotential Core and if theirs “pokewhoos?” win this battle, i will just do a classic Micromancer spam next round.
Patent this! %cool_finger_emoji 
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New thread, 18 replies based on the title, and no one actually opened the article.
Meanwhile the article states the pattern they got:
" The new Nintendo patent covers a system that lets players move a main character, summon a separate “sub-character,” and branch into combat based on where the helper appears. If the helper is summoned onto an enemy, a player-input-driven battle begins; if not, the helper automatically moves to a player-designated direction after a second input, and combat proceeds automatically upon encountering an enemy. Because all steps mentioned in the concept—player movement, summoning, location-based branching between manual and automatic battle modes, and the second directional input—must be present, the patent appears to cover a specific combination of mechanics rather than every summoning system in general. Even so, it appears to be fairly broad."
So yeah… whole thread got clickbaited.