NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo . . . . . . Not games !!!!

[Japher]

oh! Patent the creative thought process!

[alva]

Originally posted by Pekka
Yeah I see 2 big winners. EA and Blizzard. The rest can get the hell out. And maybe Ubisoft.

Ubisoft is about to be bought by EA

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
You can't patent concepts.

But in a capitalist society, anything is possible! *


* Possibilities may be relative to the size of your bank account.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Pekka
Less games means less game purchases means less money. Except for few. All in all, capitalism would suffer from this, not benefit.

Don't confuse revenue with profit. Less competition means more profit. Capitalism always needs more profit to survive and progress.

Competition is the key. Protecting and forbidding competition is not capitalism.

Pricing power is the way capitalism has been able to survive for at least the last 70 years.

[Pekka]

Less competition means morem profit for few. More competition means more profit overall for many (revenue). It means more quality, or at least where the critical point is quality/price is at its best when talking about mass products.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Pekka
Less competition means morem profit for few. More competition means more profit overall for many (revenue). It means more quality, or at least where the critical point is quality/price is at its best when talking about mass products.

The rate of profit stays high when there is less competition for everyone. That is, when every producer can differentiate their product to get more profit. That's the way capitalism works. If you can't differentiate your product you don't make **** for profit.

[Pekka]

That's not how it's supposed to work. That's how it can go if it's going wrong but that's not the general idea.

Just curious.. you're not a commie, are you? I mean no offense, it would just explain a lot.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Pekka
That's not how it's supposed to work. That's how it can go if it's going wrong but that's not the general idea.

I'm not the complaint department for those who are just finding out that it doesn't work the way it's suppose to.

[Pekka]

so you are a commie, aren't you?

[Zkribbler]

Re: NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo . . . . . . Not games !!!!

Originally posted by aneeshm
It has begun . Now game concepts are going to start getting patented . . . . . . . . .

Cool, I'm going to patent the concept of 3-D games where you walk around shooting people.

[Japher]

Ya Zkrib, and call 'em "First Person Shoot 'Em Ups", just to ruin the FPS acronym

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
You can't patent concepts.

You're not supposed to be able to patent pure concepts in a capitalist political system . The current system is a perversion . Politics and economics are to be seperated as much as possible - no "corporate donations" to political parties are allowed under capitalism .

Software patents are even more obnoxious because software is fundamentally math , and most useful patents are just patenting some formula that academics knew about for decades .

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Pekka
Just curious.. you're not a commie, are you? I mean no offense, it would just explain a lot.

You don't need to be a commie to know that a monopoly in a market sector can make ungodly amounts of profits. For example, Microsoft. The company could sell a combined package of Windows and Office for USD37 dollars and still make money. What does this say about its normal pricing scheme?

The closer you get to a monopoly, the more $$$ gets into your pocket. Thus, Disney bribedinfluenced a number of politicians to extend the copyright duration, avoiding Mickey Mouse to fall into public domain.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by aneeshm
You're not supposed to be able to patent pure concepts in a capitalist political system.

The good thing about the gaming industry is there are no new concepts. No broad new concepts anyway. Everything has been done. 4x, TBS, RTS, FPS, simulations, action games, sports games, trivia games, RPG, etc. You name it, it has been done. As a result, I don't see any patents, if absurdedly granted, could stand.

Originally posted by aneeshm
Software patents are even more obnoxious because software is fundamentally math , and most useful patents are just patenting some formula that academics knew about for decades .

Another thing is, you don't need to have something working to apply for a patent. Therefore, you can patent any "invention" no matter how idiotic it is, because it doesn't need to work. Otherwise, all these perpetual motion machine schemes wouldn't be there.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


The good thing about the gaming industry is there are no new concepts. No broad new concepts anyway. Everything has been done. 4x, TBS, RTS, FPS, simulations, action games, sports games, trivia games, RPG, etc. You name it, it has been done. As a result, I don't see any patents, if absurdedly granted, could stand.

Who else wants to live in UR's world of no new ideas?