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Sony Patent Aims To Change Game Difficulty In Real Time As You Play (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] Blamemeta 131 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Isnt this done by many games already?

[–] [email protected] 100 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but now we get to be robbed of a feature, like we were when Namco patented playing mini-games on loading screens. We needn't have suffered as much during the worst years of loading.

[–] schmidtster 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sometimes, just sometimes a company also patents it so no one else can use the terrible idea, not even them. Sony has done it a few times in the past. They patented yelling at ads to do something iirc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

🙌 McDonalds!!!!

[–] weariedfae 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

;_; TIL....that would have been awesome.

[–] Omegamanthethird 3 points 11 months ago

It's kinda like the dinosaur on Chrome when your internet goes out. It's plays a little minigame until it comes back online.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A lot of arcade games already do this.

[–] cosmicrookie 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sony is making sure they can't do it in the future

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only if no one challenges it, which is a big problem.

Patents are supposed to be given for new ideas, and also a certain degree of non-obviousness.

In the event that something has been done before by others, it should be open and shut to challenge the patent, but it still costs money. So it's often easier not to, and the patent doesn't get challenged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Needs "loser pays"