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[Ragingnight]

To be fair, for the people talking about SF. The community wanted those updates and re-release. Ultra was made just for the competitive scene. Just look at every major trailer of the game. You don't see casuals, you see competitive tournament players.

Some fighting games scenes wished their company pumped out new versions like SF4.

As to the lawsuit, capcom is being stupid

 

[Rixa]

Someone should notify New World Computing that Capcom's gonna be on their case.

Does Dungeon Master & Chaos Strikes Back count also?

The game is therefore pitched at a much higher difficulty level than its predecessor. The player can choose from a selection of moderately high-level characters or can import characters from a Dungeon Master saved game.

 

[Faustek]

Isn't this more a technical thing?
Not the interacting with past games but a unlock via game booting? So it's in the sequence of how it happens, the way there not the end result. You know how Apple is trying to do with the whole world(Samsung)?

Either way its shit and the sites not reporting on this is shit as well for just trying to get them clicks.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

Can't make games worth a damn anymore so let's sue someone.

 

[Trigonometrize.]

Does anyone else get confused between Koei and Toei a lot?

 

[vagabondarts]

So this is how Capcom is generating revenue this financial year.

When will SquareEnix join this club? Capcom be Langdell-ing

 

[Lijik]

Videogame mechanic patents are pretty dumb and there's more than just Capcom with them.

Yeah doesnt Namco have a patent on "minigame during a loading screen"?

 

[Het_Nkik]

Didn't Sega patent that yellow arrow in Crazy Taxi?

As somebody who has played about 5 million hours of Crazy Taxi, the arrow is green.

 

[frogger]

I like Capcom way over Koei as game developer. But this lawsuit makes no sense to me.

 

[Xpliskin]

Is this a first in the company's history ?

 

[TRI Mike]

This is fucking ridiculous.

 

[gigantor21]

Does anyone else get confused between Koei and Toei a lot?

Toei did DBZ, Koei does Dynasty Warriors. That's how I keep the two straight.

OT: This is bullshit. A desperate, cloying grab for cash from the bleeding remains of a once-great publisher.

 

[Throwaway123456789]

I'm looking at the Japanese article, and I don't see anything about a rumble patent. Is there another article? The one linked in the OP just mentions a single patent being violated - one which unlocks additional characters and scenarios in a sequel if there is data from the previous game in the console. (What a bullshit patent!)

Ughh.. This is really low, Capcom.

Smash Bros Melee has unlockables based on save files on the memory card. What about the Pokemon Stadium games? I'm sure tons of games does this.

 

[badgenome]

This is not the Capcom vs. Koei I wanted.

 

[Hollycat]

Ughh.. This is really low, Capcom.

Smash Bros Melee has unlockables based on save files on the memory card. What about the Pokemon Stadium games? I'm sure tons of games does this.

Rachet and clank, dead space, about a million other games. Calvin is just being ducks.

 

[Xpliskin]

This is not the Capcom vs. Koei I wanted.

lol



Panta Rhei means "everything flows" .

Especially cash.

 

[Off-Kilter]

Patent trolling is the worst. Especially for 12 year old games.

 

[Dahbomb]

What game of Capcom actually uses this feature?

 

[sub_o]

Capcom needs money to do remake of bionic commando rearmed, you know.

 

[Jakoo]

Does this patent only apply to Japanese markets? I wonder if this patent is relevant in the USA, and if not, if it's even patentable. If so, I imagine someone must own it.

Don't get any ideas Personal Audio

 

[Videoneon]

What game of Capcom actually uses this feature?

I tried to think about this too. Do any of the Dead Rising (DR2 Expansions) do this? What about Sengoku Basara 3 or Utage?

Actually Street Fighter IV probably does this. I think if you had data for the first iteration of SFIV and loaded up SSFIV you got two extra costumes (#11 and #12, which look crappy anyway)

 

[sleepykyo]

This will be thrown out of court when the patent is found to be invalid due to a spelling mistake.



So why not sue EA, Ubisoft, Activision and pretty much every other publisher?

Any of those 3 would probably bleed Capcom dry in court.

Capcom has now reached Langdell status.

 

[Tailer]

So this is what happens when a company takes a bite of the apple, probably at the lowest possible level at the moment.

 

[M3d10n]

I'm looking at the Japanese article, and I don't see anything about a rumble patent. Is there another article? The one linked in the OP just mentions a single patent being violated - one which unlocks additional characters and scenarios in a sequel if there is data from the previous game in the console. (What a bullshit patent!)

What the fuck? Quite a few games did this. Shining Force 3, most glaringly:

- It's actually three independent games (Scenario 1, 2 and 3) which weren't released at the same time.
- You could carry your save from the earlier games to the later ones, giving you access to characters you couldn't use otherwise.

I also remember Panzer Dragoon Saga giving you bonuses if you had a Panzer Dragoon Zwei save on the system.

 

[hesido]

Software patents need to rot in hell.

 

[NewEraBlood]

Any of those 3 would probably bleed Capcom dry in court.

Capcom has now reached Langdell status.

Wasn't he put in his place once he tried to sue EA over the word "Edge"? I assume the same would happen to Capcom like you said. I actually have fond memories of Langdell, he taught me what a patent troll was.

 

[blackjaw]

Capcom has been relegated to patent trolling. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

 

[ShogunDarius]

between this, Breath of Fire 6 being a mobile game and no more Onimusha, Capcom have really dropped in my opinion of them

 

[Azure Dream]

Capcom needs money to do remake of bionic commando rearmed, you know.

No hating on Rearmed (1).

 

[meppi]

The hell is this crap?

Seriously, fuck Capcom. What a piece of shit company they have become over the past couple of years. :-/

 

[Castcoder]

Tomba! 2 would unlock content if you had Tomba! save file on your memory card, and that was in 2000. Ratchet, Jak, War of the Monsters, Rock Band (Orange Box), and dozens more did this.

Knowing Cacpom, they wrote their company's name wrong in the initial patent and made the patent invalid or something.

 

[Degen]

I knew Capcom was strapped for cash but damn

just open a Kickstarter and get it over with

 

[ReaperXL7]

Doesn't Diablo alert you to the presence of a nemesis with rumble?

And wouldn't Bioware be in violation of the save game effecting another game?

This is some weird shit to have patents on when it feels like other companies have been doing these things longer

 

[Red Mage]

I hope Capcom loses and has to pay the legal fees for this nonsense.

This will be thrown out of court when the patent is found to be invalid due to a spelling mistake.

Awesome.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

Shame Koei/Tecmo can't turn around and blast Capcom for lifting so much stuff off their Musou titles for Sengoku Basara.

As a fan of both franchises the similarities are nuts. Seeing a Sengoku Basara x Musou or even a Capcom x Koei crossover would have been crazy awesome. That bridge has well and truly been burned though.

Too bad Capcom is deciding to go down like this. I've enjoyed all of the prior generations they've made games for.
Hell I even love some of their less popular titles like RE6 and Lost Planet 2.

 

[SapientWolf]

Capcom is possibly violating Namco's patents in their SFIV training mode. It can turn into a real mess if everyone decides to start litigating.

 

[ScriptedReality]

This seems extremely petty

 

[CTLance]

Why I think software patents are stupid, example #577337763733676.

 

[That1BlackGuy]

This seems extremely petty

No kidding, they're really reaching with this.