Nebaku18d ago
“You just admitted in your own post that the intention of the patent is to prevent competing games in the creature capture genre”
There is no “creature capture” genre. Capturing new allies in battle is literally what Pokemon brought to the table, and Is the content of the patent. All the other forms of monster obtaining that came before and after, like negotiating with monsters(SMT) or renting monsters(DragonWarrior Monsters), it doesn’t affect.
Also, creativity literally comes from limitations. No one calls a knock-off or Pokemon clone creative because it’s not. It’s the new monster IP’s that accept “okay we can’t do what Pokemon is doing, let’s do something else” that actually stick around.(Persona, Monster Hunter Stories, etc.)
