RightHandOfIkaros @ RightHandOfIkaros @lemmy.world

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Sony is a shareholder and Microsoft has also supportted PocketPair, it will be interesting to see how that works out with Nintendo.

I love when people comment and vote before they actually read the article.

Mario 64 DS had Luigi's Casino, and Mario Kart had the Wario (?) themed Casino map. Its not outlandish to think Mario Party could include such elements in the future.

Mario Party could also be effected if they feature a Casino or Casino-like minigame.

Yeah, because the developers realized that the game being hard and unfun was hurting their player numbers.

Digimon did, right? Why didn't they ever go after that?

Since this is over patent and not copyright, wouldn't this have to be about patents filed after the year 2003 and before 2024? AFAIK, patents don't get extended and cannot be re-filed, and Pokemon has existed since the 1990s, where a lot of its patents would have been created. Unless for some reason Nintendo delayed filing the patents for more than 5-10 years but I don't know that patents are allowed to have such a time gap between publication and filing or not. Perhaps Japan has different patent laws, their laws notoriously favor businesses so I wouldn't be surprised.

Additionally, at least in the USA, some things like gameplay elements cannot be patented if they are necessary for the genre of the product. For example, a first person camera, guns, shooting, etc. are not elements that can be patented as they are necessary for FPS games in general, but some kind of specific new technology like the way Doom draws its 3D world could be patented.

For a Creature Catcher game like PalWorld, devices (very vague and generic term that legally should not be patentable because it is too generic BTW) to catch, store, and deploy creatures is necessary to the genre. Unless it is specifically code or the same exact way that both PalWorld and PokeMon function, I do not see how Nintendo thinks they can win other than by bankrupting their opposition like usual.

Really hope this one turns out like Lewis Galoob Toys Inc v Nintendo of America, but the Japan version.

They had to wait for PalWorld to sell a lot and make a lot of money so they can financially ruin these people instead of just telling them "don't do that."

Literal Comic-Book Villain behavior.

A trespasser is trespassed from a property by law enforcement at the request of the property owner. This is called a criminal trespass.

Illegally trespassing would be an informal term, and legally or criminal trespassing would the the legal term to describe the act of staying on private property after they have been warned/asked to leave. If you are trespassing in a legal or allowed way, then it is not trespassing.

In most places, a property owner must ask law enforcement to trespass the person off of the property before someone is considered legally or criminally trespassing. In most places a warning, either verbal or by sign or other means, must be given before a person can be criminally trespassed, but that is not automatic as the property owner may choose to not enforce it.

The same reason I hope CalorieMate stays in MGS 3 Delta, it was in the original and became a part of the identity of the game. Not having it would feel weird.

Kinda like when something gets remade and is nearly completely different from the original. All the right names and pieces are there, but its off and doesn't feel right. 2010 Nightmare on Elm Street stuff.

Wait until you find out that the list of people and groups that have NOT done terrible things to other people is so small that there might be only one group or person on it, if at all.

Sam Fisher lives on in our hearts. Hopefully one day he can live again. Not from Ubisoft though, their last like 4 games have been total irredeemable garbage.

Seeing Brazil pick Pac-Man and not anyone from a FIFA game is honestly pretty crazy.

Sims multiplayer sounds like it could be fun, but it is highly dependant on how that is implemented. The other "features" just sound like shareholder porn.

I think maybe a better thing to do is to include a new label for the cover of the game box and digital storefronts stating something like "This game contains simulated or real gambling," rather than an instant R18+ rating. Mario Party being R18+ for example is a bit excessive, IMO.

It takes one benefit of using an emulator (digital storage medium) and combines it with the worst aspects of original hardware (physical hardware prone to damage, video output that isn't compatible with many modern displays) and also loses out on the other benefits an emulator has (shader support, save states, emulated hardware overclocking to guarantee max and stable framerates, etc).

To me, this is almost worse because it also permanently alters a console that is no longer manufactured.

Good

Even if he shuts down the emulator, the code is out there forever. He will be playing whackamole with forks and various other projects just like Nintendo does. The analogy absolutely works for what's happening.

Even if he shuts down the emulator, the code is out there forever. Can't put the toothpaste back into the tube. Was this guy born yesterday?

And missing the normal way to play games. You'd have to use ROMs on this, and at that point there really isnt much of a difference between this and just emulating, you are already more than half the way there.

So a game that has a casino in it, regardless of whether it needs the player to spend real money or not, is going to have to be rated R18+? I wonder what this means for games like Mario on the DS or some Mario Party titles.

Also, "in-game purchases with an element of chance," does that mean any element of chance or a chance to not win? As an example, if I spend money for a currency in a gacha game, and then trade that currency for some character pulls, does that count? There is an element of chance, but I am guaranteed to win something. Essentially, I paid for a character, and I still get a character, I just don't know which one I will get. I am curious if there is any nuance to this choice or if they just used the black and white blanket like most politicians do.

EDIT: Also, lol at anyone thinking kids care about the rating system. You all know you played GTA when you were like 7.