Recently, the gaming community's attention has been drawn to Nintendo's patents. They are structured in such a way that many games could be affected.
This has caused some concern among developers and gamers, for example, World of Warcraft fans are nervous. In the Blizzard game, there are mechanics in the spirit of Pokemon: battles between pets that can be caught in the open world.
FoxBattalion79 started a discussion: "Last week Nintendo patented 'summoning a character and having it fight another'. How will this affect pet battles in World of Warcraft?"
While some are worried, some suggest that such a patent will not work fully and the mechanics will not be affected.
User braumbles made a suggestion to the developers — you can try to patent even more basic mechanics: "Someone should patent turning left and right in a video game."