Sony, Turbine, Jagex, Activision-Blizzard, and NCsoft being sued
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[QUOTE=sheyzok;17367199]true enough... blizzard and sony wont feel a thing if they loose a couple of millions >.> especially sony.. they can get the same amount of money they lost in months if not weeks.
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It's not the amount of money that's the problem, it's the principal of the whole thing. Sueing MMO's today, banning of the entire internet next.
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[QUOTE=sheyzok;17367251]ofc i have played it..... but still MOST OF THE PEOPLE DONT PAY. you cant argue with me there. its just true. and over a million? big fucking deal. Blizzard charges 10 bucks a month for 8 million players.[/QUOTE]
You missed the point ENTIRELY
~gives up~
I got a new patent: Games involving humans kicking against a ball.
There goes the FIFA series.
God damnit patent trolling should be punishable by death.
Shitty patent, you can see the same environments in any multiplayer game so I'm calling bullshit on that patent
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brb patenting "and" being used in the English language
This is very retarded.
[QUOTE=sheyzok;17367251]ofc i have played it..... but still MOST OF THE PEOPLE DONT PAY. you cant argue with me there. its just true. and over a million? big fucking deal. Blizzard charges 10 bucks a month for 8 million players.[/QUOTE]
Last I checked it was 11-12 million players, and about 15 bucks.
Patents in an industry that moves as rapidly as the computer industry need a serious overhaul.
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However, it's a valid court case, and they probably just want some money.
I'm gonna predict the outcome of this one:
ALL involved companies settle out of court.
patent trolls
The reason we're having these kinds of problems that the system was never designed to cope with an industry that grows and changes this quickly.
In any other industry patents usually run out long before it ever comes to this.
[QUOTE=Sh33p;17369710]Patents in an industry that moves as rapidly as the computer industry need a serious overhaul.
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I agree with this.
The industry is evolving too fast and the patents aren't expiring fast enough. They're lasting long enough to significantly impair innovation.
and nothing of value was lost
(incoming boxes)
Let's hope jagex dies! Please!
[QUOTE=wingless;17370378]Let's hope jagex dies! Please![/QUOTE]
Why?
What do you gain if Jagex dies?
Quick, patent as much as you can.
[QUOTE=DeadWeight;17358576]Valve has not made any MMO's[/QUOTE]
tEAM FORTRESS 2
[QUOTE=wingless;17370378]Let's hope jagex dies! Please![/QUOTE]
You realize if Runescape goes, it's displaced "community" will spill fourth onto the internet and user in a new reign of stupidity?
[QUOTE=admiral_Cola;17370577]tEAM FORTRESS 2[/QUOTE]
Hurr.
But you're actually right, Team Fortress 2 would be affected by this patent, as it allows multiple players to see the same enviroment.
They sued Microsoft for Halo, and Microsoft gave up.
This is just stupid.
How can they seriously say
"GIVE US MONEY WE CAME UP WITH MULTIPLAYER FIRST SEE WE HAVE A PATENT FOR IT HURR"
I thought all this patent bullshit was rediculous already, but SERIOUSLY?
[QUOTE=Simplemac3;17371331]This is just stupid.
How can they seriously say
"NO MORE MULTIPLAYUR GAMES WE CAME UP WITH IT FIRST SEE WITH HAVE A PATENT HURP DE DURP"
I thought all this patent bullshit was rediculous already, but SERIOUSLY?[/QUOTE]
They're not saying no more multiplayer games, they just want a cut of profit in every multiplayer game in existence.
[QUOTE=power-mad;17371872]They're not saying no more multiplayer games, they just want a cut of profit in every multiplayer game in existence.[/QUOTE]
Duly noted.
... Still crazy though. What are they going to sue next? "A monitor in which entertaining programs are Displayed?"
Ah! How can you patent such an abstract concept? That's like patenting the idea of websites, or the colour blue.
Yeah, I'm patenting the colour blue. See all the blue in this forum theme? Yeah, Garry's going to have to give me a settlement for it.
They're sue Blizzard, Blizzard hires dickloads of lawyers, Blizzard wins and their CEO yells "Blizzard has denied a tower!" and huge speakers will yell "DENIED!"
this company is run by evil geniuses
creating the technology, letting it out, then suing once its users are filthy rich
genius.
That is so stupid same as getting all democratic coyntries in the modern world sued because they are democratic and somebody says he invented democray in the late 90s!
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