nanoUFOSony May Soon Let You Decide How Much NPCs Talk In Games
NeatoOf course they’ve patented it. Are they going to patent volume sliders next? Fuck off, Sony.
NightAuthorTbf, it only makes good business sense to try and patent everything you can. Either to hold it as a unique selling point over competitors or to license to others.
I think the real problem here is the concepts of patents in general.
Parents are needed to incentivize people to share non-obvious manufacturing processes, so eventually they become public knowledge. It gets ridiculous and goes completely against the original purpose of patents when it applies to end-user features that are trivia to reproduce once you see them, like software parents.