Microsoft Studios Patents A Camera Control For 3rd Person Game

[bardicverse]

senortaco said:

bardicverse said:
The tech should be interesting. I think I'm more annoyed with the whole patenting of functions within a game though. Its nothing new, I know. I just feel that ultimately every concept will be patented down to shooting a weapon at an object on a screen, and it will cripple development, and seal the fate of any new/upcoming developers. Imagine a place where one company has all forms of enemy AI patented, another that has all weapon forms patented, and another that has all types of level design patented. No one would have the permissions to create a game again.

All the properties in the monopoly game are being bought up. Only Baltic Avenue and Water Works are left.

I didn't think you could patent in-game actions like this...I don't like your future sir, nope not one bit.

I know. It's going to have to come down to patent violation sooner or later and a major attack on the patent system, hoping for an overhaul. That or an alcohol-fueled genocide.