General / Off-Topic Why is everything an "IP" now?
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IP, UP, everyone P! Convert your P to RoI!
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Can't we just call games games?
Because IP isn't game.
I know you meant it as a joke, but still. Game companies don't think of games as games, any more. It's intellectual property, now. Trademark, branding, franchise,...
It's a multi-level business, now. New IP means a line of products, not just the game.
This is too complicated for my tiny brain. I just want games to be games again
Tough luck. Just like the film industry will never experience the era of Ed Wood and Howard Hughes, again, the gaming industry evolved into a proper business as well.
But hey, if things were done the old way, we would never have things like The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect.
rootsrat
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Tough luck. Just like the film industry will never experience the era of Ed Wood and Howard Hughes, again, the gaming industry evolved into a proper business as well.
But hey, if things were done the old way, we would never have things like The Witcher 3 and Mass Effect.
Yeah, I know. I'm only joking really
Pros and cons to everything!
This is too complicated for my tiny brain. I just want games to be games again
You can still play them as if they were just games.
That is what I do.
Can't we just call games games?
Actually...it's not that everything is an IP "now."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property#History
"The first known use of the term intellectual property dates to 1769, when a piece published in the Monthly Review used the phrase.[9] The first clear example of modern usage goes back as early as 1808, when it was used as a heading title in a collection of essays."
It's just something the internet has made us all more aware of than we used to be.
Perhaps it is because trendy young millenial's and their beards need to have phrases that are new and exciting... So franchise becomes IP... Appreciating a different culture by wearing a certain style of clothing becomes cultural appropriation, this 'term' is normally used by Americans to berate anyone and everyone... Ironic that they do so in the English language, which they have appropriated and (Insert the name of an infamous politician named Alan) B______dised.
(Post a video clip if you know who it is!)
I suppose it makes them feel a bit more intelligent too.
(Post a video clip if you know who it is!)
I suppose it makes them feel a bit more intelligent too.
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It was so obvious now I think about it... I bet hes also the one who put Tea into triangular bags and put stupid little bits of string and tags on them too... The list of blame is endless.
rootsrat
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If blame was light, TJ would be a black hole.
Just think of England.
have you actually checked if you are licensed to use that ip?
To be fair, there is an actual and relevant difference between the two: in the latter you dont acknowledge (or rather; actively deny) the origins of whatever you appropriate. Baking a pizza is fine, claiming you invented pizza is not.
The most unmanly generation ever to exist and they all rock beards as if they were men. lolPerhaps it is because trendy young millenial's and their beards need to have phrases that are new and exciting... So franchise becomes IP... Appreciating a different culture by wearing a certain style of clothing becomes cultural appropriation, this 'term' is normally used by Americans to berate anyone and everyone... Ironic that they do so in the English language, which they have appropriated and (Insert the name of an infamous politician named Alan) B______dised.
(Post a video clip if you know who it is!)
I suppose it makes them feel a bit more intelligent too.
Except on Twitter: Case in point.
Recently a post went viral of a girl wearing a Chinese style dress to her prom, she looked great in it and had a great time. Then some American of Chinese decent speaking English posts about it being a case of cultural miss-appropriation and that went wild with people agreeing with him at first then the normal minded people got involved... After a few days the poor girl was in tears and issued an apology. Meanwhile the tweet spread to China where upon the girl got overwhelming support from people saying how good she looked and how nice it was to see such a fine dress on a Latin American lady.
As for pizza, I've been to Naples after which the wife had to learn how to make real pizza as I just won't eat the pale imitation we are sold.
Except on Twitter: Case in point.
Recently a post went viral of a girl wearing a Chinese style dress to her prom, she looked great in it and had a great time. Then some American of Chinese decent speaking English posts about it being a case of cultural miss-appropriation and that went wild with people agreeing with him at first then the normal minded people got involved... After a few days the poor girl was in tears and issued an apology. Meanwhile the tweet spread to China where upon the girl got overwhelming support from people saying how good she looked and how nice it was to see such a fine dress on a Latin American lady.
As for pizza, I've been to Naples after which the wife had to learn how to make real pizza as I just won't eat the pale imitation we are sold.
I've seen similar things where people have said white people shouldn't be allowed to have dreadlocks and stuff like that, That seems to be the opposite of tolerance and diversity to me