Alternate headline: “EA did a good thing in latest attempt to get off naughty list”
Finally, people with disabilities can experience loot boxes, ads and DLCs at no extra cost
EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming
Submitted 11 months ago by DannyMac@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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TheFerrango@lemmy.basedcount.com 11 months ago
Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 11 months ago
Maybe they do it because of an increasing risk of getting challenged in court and causing a patent law re-evaluation, which would hurt them for other parents. I didn’t think EA does something because of good will.
kubica@kbin.social 11 months ago
A yes, patents is what will help accessibility.
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
this is opening up patents, so yes, in a world like ours having something be patented, but royalty free and anyone can use is much better than the alternative. which is either one company owning it and licencing it. or a patent troll getting it and making it even worse.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 11 months ago
The better alternative would be to not patent it in the first place.
kubica@kbin.social 11 months ago
My bad, I understood it with the meaning of "creating".
hydroel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Doesn’t “opening up patents” means that anyone can use the ideas behind the patent without charge? Which means that it’s actually not locked anymore, so yes it does help?