Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes

clucose@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Wait, someone should make a gaming organization that just thinks of the most outlandish and ghoulish things to patent them so the big corpos can’t.

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait, that’s a cool idea

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    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And then sue the shit of them whenever they implement it without realizing its patented.

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• MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Truth be told, that actually might be a neat thing to do. Imagine trying to think up really scummy ways to inject advertising into games, create new forms of mtx, etc. just to patent them and sit on those patents.

  I feel like it would do a bit of the Streisand effect since by patenting them you’re making them known, but that could be a bit better than letting someone else figure it out and get exclusive use of that patent for years. Either way anyone checking gaming patents can learn about it, but in one situation it’s used for the duration of the patent and in the other its not.

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• IamMoonPie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You think Microsoft has consumers best interests in mind? Are you serious? Like are you genuinely caping for Microsoft or am I missing something here?

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah you are missing the /s at the end

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    • IamMoonPie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well to be fair it wasn’t there when I first commented bud.

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  • clucose@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My comment is sarcartic.

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