“The specific patents cover a number of things, such as importing and unlocking content from an older title in a new game, and a controller vibration technique to alert players of nearby enemies”
Garbage
Thankfully these patents both expired in 2017:
https://patents.google.com/patent/JP3350773B2/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/JP3295771B2/enThis a been in the courts for a while, does anyone know which titles were found to be infringing?
This is how progress in gaming dies. Big companies abusing the law. This needs to be stopped, but unfortunately nothing will be done and things will continue to get worse.
The worst part? This is going to happen to everything. Not just gaming.
Life sucks. Right now is literally the worst time to be alive, and it will only get worse.
I was with you until the last two sentences and then you just dove overboard. Life is fucking great compared to just about any time in the past. You know refrigerators have only been around for a little over a hundred years? Same with antibiotics, antibacterial soaps, indoor plumbing, electricity, tv, radio, and obviously the internet. Sure corporate bullshit sucks, but the level of comfort we experience while not dying from minor infections by the time we turn 30 is pretty fantastic. Even with stupid rules like this video games are fucking amazing. I’m typing this message with a magic light up box that can play music, order me delivery, pay my bills, look up nearly any knowledge available to mankind, and show me things beyond the wildest imagination of anyone prior to the turn of the century. Life is amazing, we just have to keep fighting the assholes who want to keep all the awesome stuff for themselves.
Therefore, Capcom can go suck a fat shit.
Life is more comfortable, but it’s a lot more miserable too. Incredibly high levels of poverty, overcrowded cities, too many work activites tried to pack into just one day, etc.
Life back in the 1910s, for example, was a lot simpler. There was less work that people were expected to do in a day, so they could take their time getting done what needed to be done. And had more time for themselves when they were off work. The general cost of living was way lower than it is now. A person could have a family with a nice home and a big plot of land on a single income. Cities were less noisy and less overcrowded than they are now. They still had plumbing, electricity, radio even, and they also had ways they could be more social in person. They didn’t have cell phones that their boss could hound them to show up to work at any hour of the day. They didn’t have smart devices that could provide immediate and addicting stimulus in their pocket all day long. They didn’t have social media wreaking all sorts of havoc on the entire global society of humanity. People were much more patient back then because they had to be, unlike now when everyone wants everything done instantly. They had a lot of jobs that are mostly gone now because technology and robots replaced them. Paperboys and Milk Men, for example. The food was less processed, restaurants either had fresh, real ingredients or they served rotten food and lost business quickly. With all the information available to people today, people back in the 1910s were significantly more informed on topics than now, especially on topics about their local community. Depression, anxiety, and other sorts of disorders were way lower than they are today, primarily because the causes of those things either didn’t exist back then or were not accessible to the general public.
All the modern amenities can be nice, but for all the good things like the internet do, they also sure do a lot of harm. Plenty of criminals abuse the internet every day, and commit disgusting, unspeakable crimes they otherwise would not be able to without internet access. Terrorists are able to organize much more efficiently than before when they would have to rely on physical messengers, letters, or some contrived telegraph system.
People may live longer now, but is that really a big win? I mean, what, we get on average 10 or 20 more years of suffering? Being old is not fun, they’re not the good years of a person’s life. Even if you make them more comfortable, they’re still old and still have to lose independence and autonomy. They have to just watch as life takes away the freedoms that they had, and the joy those freedoms gave them fades away.
Should the world reset to the 1910s? I don’t know, and it doesn’t really matter since that will never happen. But looking back on how humanity has progressed until now, I personally can’t say that the condition of humanity has got any better.
Thats a pretty miserable take on modern life, and I’m amused that your golden era is during World War 1. Enjoy your mustard gas and spanish flu!
Poverty is literally the lowest it has ever been worldwide in the history of civilization, what the hell are you rambling about?
Have you ever heard the phrase “the grass is always greener on the other side”? You’re comparing a comprehensive view of current life with a romanticized and heavily edited version of the past and feeling bad about it. This is like a teenage girl driven to anorexia by comparing her real self to the heavily edited photos other girls post online.
