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Sony wants you to pay for getting together!
Geplaatst op Monday, 23 April 2012 door Speed, bron: Gamedemption
If it's up to Sony, you're going to pay if you want to meet up with your online friends.
Gamedemption is reporting the console giant has filed a patent for "real-world gatherings to promote an online community". Here's the official word from uspto.gov:
Of course, Sony will claim they only want to patent technology that allows such gatherings when using f.i. a PS3, but the descriptions seem quite a bit wider than that... I can see Facebook "events" breaking this potential patent.
Gamedemption is reporting the console giant has filed a patent for "real-world gatherings to promote an online community". Here's the official word from uspto.gov:
Coordinating real-world gatherings to promote an online community, the method including: encouraging participants of the online community to participate in a real-world gathering by providing incentives for the participants; promoting familiarity among the participants by providing and introducing online community titles of the participants at the real-world gathering; and providing online benefits or rewards to the participants for participating in the real-world gathering. Keywords include socializing in the real world, community building and bridging the gap between the game world and the real world.
The patent also contains quite a number of claims from Sony. Such claims include:1. A method of coordinating real-world gatherings to promote an online community, the method comprising: encouraging participants of the online community to participate in a real-world gathering by providing incentives for the participants; promoting familiarity among the participants by providing and introducing online community titles of the participants at the real-world gathering; and providing online benefits or rewards to the participants for participating in the real-world gathering.
If you go into the "Detailed Description", things get even worse:In one implementation, coordinating a real-world gathering involves encouraging players of online game(s) to come to the real-world gathering, and promoting familiarity among the players by introducing titles, characters, and/or guild memberships of the players within the common online game(s) at the real-world gathering. For example, a promoter (e.g., a game service provider) can use the data collected within the online game(s) to introduce a player by identifying an online character of the player using communications with a mobile device carried by each player. Although the participants at the real-world gatherings are referred to as "players," they can be users, consumers, or participants of online social networks other than games
So what Sony seems to say is that people who play together should not be allowed to gather in real life or they would break Sony's patent. At least, if they use whatever online service at their disposal to set up such a gathering.Of course, Sony will claim they only want to patent technology that allows such gatherings when using f.i. a PS3, but the descriptions seem quite a bit wider than that... I can see Facebook "events" breaking this potential patent.
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