I don’t think you do. (cue explanation between shallow vs deep reading comprehension)
The outrage at that single patent filing is generally done by the demonstrably illiterate. Patents are public domain, and while that link has the “pubwebapp” in it, you could just link directly to it in other ways and cut out the middle man. (US9789406B2 - System and method for driving microtransactions in multiplayer video games - Google Patents) Or ya know, realize that people have talked that to death around here. It’s not some magic secret.
Search for US 9789406 B2.
counter-offer: check my post history for “patent”
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/heroes/search?q=patent%20%40Xenterex-1540
Here’s some sample quotes:
Anyone can do a search for “Activision Patent” on the boards here (or other games :D) and find topics that reference to it; it’s not some magic secret that only you found years later (oh my gosh, we have a GOOGLE DETECTIVE HERE!); ) but your basic gist looks to revel in not knowing about stuff because you already have the “obvious answer” without thinking it through. Despite the span of time from then to now, you’re not bringing anything new, or thought through the implications of such a thing actually existing, or having noted any reference to player feedback and concern if it were applied.
IF that thing were applied, there would be “obvious” consequences that haven’t happened.
- Patents don’t mean something is actually used.
There doesn’t need to be a single line of code written to file for a patent. If they want to prevent an idea from being used, or taken, then a company can file a ‘patent’ to be seen in the public domain, and prevent competitors from using something exactly like their descriptions, or they prevent patent-trolls from trying to claim damages because they ‘stole’ something from a nobody company that only looks to ‘troll’ businesses with litigation and force settlements to avoid protracted court fees.
If a company wanted to protect actual code, it wouldn’t be as a patent.
- Blizzard has its own patent listings, and people never check those for stuff to be angered about in their conspiracies.
If we look up posters that bring up the ‘patent’ a good chunk of them are default-avatar complainers (case and point) with others being posters that burned out with “blizzard conspiracy” complaint spirals that pretty much tried to reason every outlet they could into rationalizing how stuff is all out to get them.
You’re trying to use some 2015 rant as a ‘gotcha’ moment that’s a beaten dead horse. Being able to ‘read’ does not mean someone is well-read, considers the implications of what was read, or has gone out to update the concerns of what they are expressing. So you point at US9789406B2 because it’s readily available information instead of reading through:
a) more recent patents (ya know, surprise people with something that doesn’t show up gamespot articles)
b) blizzard’s patents (instead of activision, cuz they have their own filings)
c) ones that haven’t been decried by their owners (with available statements from acti and bungie that that patent wasn’t used in any games cuz… it’s a patent and patents aren’t used to protect implemented code)
While you might take that to then indicate that “oh well they were considering it and they are thus going to keep trying even if that isn’t the one they used” this is implied speculation and still not concrete. That is the difficult of trying to ‘prove’ something when you don’t seem to know what ‘proof’ entails. If you were better read then you use substances that go well beyond the crumbs of “bad conspiracy 101”
What you ‘know’ is demonstrably wrong and time and again you keep trying to assert that you are knowledgable about something and then use that to rationalize willful ignorance.
