Eniko Fox on Nostr: LB: I don't care how you feel about Palworld, Nintendo doing literal patent trolling ...
LB: I don't care how you feel about Palworld, Nintendo doing literal patent trolling to shut down legitimate competition is bad for everyone
EDIT: since this doesn't seem clear to everyone, the problem here has nothing to do with Palworld. If Nintendo is manufacturing shitty patents after the fact to go after Palworld what's to stop them from using those same half baked patents to shut down all sorts of other games? And before you go "they wouldn't do that" (because Nintendo is so known for being merciful) I'd like to point out that if something is patented by Nintendo lots of developers will just not do it
Remember minigames in loading screens? Yeah. It's like that. This could smother so many game ideas before they even get past the concept stage, just because Nintendo wanted to go scorched earth on a competitor they didn't like
EDIT: since this doesn't seem clear to everyone, the problem here has nothing to do with Palworld. If Nintendo is manufacturing shitty patents after the fact to go after Palworld what's to stop them from using those same half baked patents to shut down all sorts of other games? And before you go "they wouldn't do that" (because Nintendo is so known for being merciful) I'd like to point out that if something is patented by Nintendo lots of developers will just not do it
Remember minigames in loading screens? Yeah. It's like that. This could smother so many game ideas before they even get past the concept stage, just because Nintendo wanted to go scorched earth on a competitor they didn't like