[casual_games] Gameplay patents

[Lennard Feddersen]

Adam, I agree that we have the same point of view on this.  Your 
sentence fragment was "or has fundamentally failed to satisfy the needs 
effectively" and I am saying that the current system gave the consumer 
something that they did want.

Tom, despite your assertion that they invented it, legally it isn't 
their right.  But in the hypothetical world where we would have gameplay 
patents (and, seriously dude, not enough value add even though we would 
all like to think up a thing and then not let anybody else ever have 
thoughts in that direction without paying us...) then they would likely 
have been squashed by Atari claiming that they invented 3d game play 
with Battlezone.

Lot's of people are saying what I'm thinking so I'm hopping off my 
soapbox now - thanks, it's been a fun discussion.


Lennard Feddersen
CEO, Rusty Axe Games, Inc.
www.RustyAxe.com

Lennard at RustyAxe.com
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Adam Martin wrote:

> On 14/02/07, Lennard Feddersen <Lennard at rustyaxe.com> wrote:

>   

>> I don't agree with your last sentence Adam.  We got from Wolf 3d to

>> Unreal Tournament - IMHO pretty clearly a good thing as far as FPS

>> players are concerned - because id software did not (in fact, quite

>> likely Carmack created some of his competitors with his amazing code

>> release policy) stop future innovation and enhancement upon which

>> consumers got more and better products that they seemed happy to

>> purchase.  Many people were employed and new and strong companies were

>> built.

>>     

>

> But ... how does that relate to what I said? I was claiming that

> patents are not necessarily the solution to the problems whose

> symptoms include large numbers of clones - rather than having a

> central authority *ban* clones, I advocate individauls making better

> games that outdo the clones, or make them not what people want (etc).

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