Turns out you have corporate greed to thank for the existence of Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 8 days ago

Turns out you have corporate greed to thank for the existence of Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system

Phen · 8 days ago

Eh, any game can pick up the good parts of the nemesis system and change it just enough to not be a 100% match of the patent and they’ll probably never be sued for it.

MudMan@fedia.io · 8 days ago

Hah. Let me introduce you to one of the most dreaded sentences of doing creative work at an industrial, corporate level:

“Get that cleared by legal.”

Why risk being patent trolled by WB when you can just… you know, design literally anything else.