According to this page, Atari has received a patent for cooperative multiplayer gaming with independent player entry and exit, and they got it all the way back in 94 too.
Interesting.
They never attempted to try and enforce it though, despite pretty much every FPS released since the original Quakeworld would appear to infringe as well, at least from a casual glance (I never bothered to read the actual patent text itself). Maybe they knew themselves it was a bogus patent from the start, who can say...
Interesting.
They never attempted to try and enforce it though, despite pretty much every FPS released since the original Quakeworld would appear to infringe as well, at least from a casual glance (I never bothered to read the actual patent text itself). Maybe they knew themselves it was a bogus patent from the start, who can say...
