• MissGutsy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sounds cool and all but I heavily doubt they would do the work to implement it like that. Replay value doesn't add market value in the view of the producers. So there is not much money to be made from the large amount of work this requires.

    Of course if they ever do it, feel free to correct me, people from the future

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      1 year ago

      The patent shows that the save states stream through an API, it’s likely this isn’t for local save but for people streaming games. It will open streaming possibilities like letting audiences pick up exactly where the person they’re watching is, or other audient interactions like “beat this section quicker than I did.”

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        1 year ago

        In that case there is little difference to just sharing a save file, which everybody can already do. If this is everything that the patent covers, then I'm against them having a patent for it. That idea is so generic and nothing somebody should be allowed to have control over

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          1 year ago

          I don’t disagree as iirc the Stadia had a “Share State” feature that isn’t a far cry from this - though that didn’t rely on trigger points.