Jake Thomas of Gaming Unwrapped writes:
Activision is at war. Their properties Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are subject to litigation by Worlds Inc., a company that claims the patent for “online interactions in games” since 2001.
Having previously brought NC Soft to court in 2009 (and formed an unclassified settlement), Worlds Inc. has set its sights to one of today’s largest publishers and two of today’s largest intellectual properties. We got a chance to interview the CEO of Worlds Inc. to learn more about his motivations, plans and expectations as he takes on an industry goliath in search of justice. Here is what was said:
Call of Duty games used to be streamlined experiences, but COD 2024’s UI could be another nightmarish clutter of streaming tabs.
If we’re beating that drum, can we also stop forcing anyone who wants to play only the single player to download Warzone and all updates BEFORE they are then able to do another download from the menu of the single player campaign. I don’t see why I need 150gb of downloads in several ways to play the single player mode only from a bloomin disk which should have that campaign on it already.
The UI is confusing to me because I have not purchased a Call of Duty iin like 8 years .Only bought CoD MW3 because 3 of my friends I have known since to 70s are playing zombies . But I am used it now .
The UI is the least of the franchise many problems these days. But yes the UI is also terrible.
Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.
Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.
Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?
I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.
Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.
The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.
Summary: "We like to patent random vague ideas that we've never fully developed / made use of. That way someone else may come along and do something along those lines (though doesn't have to be any where close), so that we can sue them. Since we don't actually make anything of any value..."
I conducted this interview. You have no idea how hard it was for me to stay unbiased. I think the guy is a loon.
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal recently about this very subject... Its not only in gaming, but cellphones, etc. One example is companies who are fighting over how you move your finger over the screen of your phone to "open" them.
The craziest part about some of the patent litigations is companies who own a particular patent, but have never made use of it, and only troll other companies who may or may not be infringing.
I love when Mark Zuckerberg stated about the Facebook court case, "If you were the inventors of Facebook, you would have invented Facebook."
Patent trolling is becoming ridiculous and hurts not only innovation, but also the price to consumers.
This is ridiculous...
They want COD IP in short.