2y ago

GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations"

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"GTAV has patented"

Videogames now go to patent office and do things!

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Software patents should not be a thing.
- They absolutely should. It makes sense in the business world. You develop a technology, it makes you money. That’s what drives innovation. I think there should be different requirements and duration though
  
  "Profit motive is the only reason things get invented."
  Go back to the circus you clown 🤡🤡🤡
  
  Economic innovation drives poverty for aslong as profit will be its motivator.
  Don’t get me wrong programmers and digital artists alike all need the means for a decent standard of living but in the digital world where everything can be copied indefinitely any kind of engineered scarcity or exclusivity other then being part of an in game world should be illegal.
  What if this code developed by rockstar is the missing key to allow robotic prothesis to function smoothly? What if someone still held patents on cogs wheels and insulated copper wired. Copyright may have its uses but its curse against progress.
There's no way this patent is allowed to stand. I'm pretty sure other games have already done this, or at least something very similar. Even if not though, it's kinda fucked-up to patent something like that.
- Agreed reminds me of the nemesis gameplay mechanic from the Middle Earth games. No no one is able to repeat that feature. And they have not really used it either since.
  
  Or loading screen mini games. However it’s expired
- It's not a rational process. You can't make predictions about it like that.
Sounds like inverse kinematics. That's been around a while tbh.
This patent is pretty bad, or the article is badly written, but it doesn't sound like an innovation to me. More like spending more money, on an already existing feature of other games. Most RPGs I've played have some sort of exhausted, sweating or wet movement animation.
Shenmue 2 had NPCs taking out an umbrella andò keep walking while raining... but I guess there are videogames that do sort of thing since the era of 2D gaming
Failing project ahead, another game with a lot of promises, from a company basically dead who lays on gta-online profits, in a globally economic crises that rises more that ever where gaming is become a luxury because overpriced hardware and softwares. How pretending.

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