Maybe, just maybe this'll convince game companies like...oh, say Blizzard to stop copying things from every other MMO out there and branding it as their own.

Too bad GW didn't patent greenskin Orcs, otherwise they'd currently have a suit against (and win) Blizzard's copy of that (among other things that they copied).


But, I also thing that it's stupid that the american government can patent virtual crap like this and allow people "ownership" over a virtual idea. Really, the System and method for enabling users to interact in a virtual space is nothing more than saying "Hey, multiplayer...we 'invented' it and own it." Because that's what's discribed in the clause made by that patent.---And, it's pretty bullshit considering that the internet in whole is everything described by that minus the avitar part...but with STEAM, Myspace, ect..they've all got the avitar part down. Next thing we'll see is them sueing 2nd Life, WoW, PotCO, EVE, and every other MMO out there.