alt Hacker News> I think a system like this could really work well
Too bad, it's patented! https://www.eurogamer.net/shadow-of-mordors-brilliant-nemesi...
Fuck software patents and every single person who has ever filed one.
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mannanj • today at 5:04 PM
Ah. Well, maybe we could improve the patent system instead? If most property is going digital, and we agree as a society that idea generators and executors deserve compensation for their effort, I think the answer would be better more evolved compensation systems and I agree stopping patents that are clearly a troll though would be better to be fucked.
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It’s not really, the patent is very narrow
https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1iyrbzd/clearing_up_...
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10926179B2/en
The patent was filed in 2016 and granted in 2021. If the system was so useful we would’ve seen it in another game before then, or a very similar system after.