As part of its commitment to making gaming as accessible to as many people as possible, EA has pledged 23 new patents t…

As part of its commitment to making gaming as accessible to as many people as possible, EA has pledged 23 new patents to share across the industry via its accessibility portal.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Maybe I’m just too skeptical of companies, but I don’t think this is all that well intended. I see lots of genAI patents mentioned in the article. To me, this feels a bit more like EA hoping others will pick some of these patents and develop something they could take advantage of it later.

    • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      They’re probably just trying to appear to be doing good so that legislation doesn’t start looking at digital patents more closely

    • MudMan@fedia.io
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      8 months ago

      I get that it’s fun to dunk on EA, but from what I know they have a super engaged team working on accessibility across all games who are really passionate, into it and have solid corporate backing. This isn’t super new.

      Hey, getting people to do better also involves recognizing when they do good stuff, not just being pissed when they do bad stuff. Get some carrots in there with the sticks.