Did you know that there’s no real IP protection for video games? We didn’t know that either; we seem to recall a lot of lawsuits filed over copyright infringement for IPs. According to Brendan Greene of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, however, there’s a big issue wherein games do not offer sufficient protection for an IP to avoid having a larger studio come in and steal your idea, thus making it more difficult to develop new games.
At first glance, one would think that Greene is talking less about IP copyright (which covers things such as characters and storyline) and more about mechanics, which would apply his statements to games like Fortnite and H1Z1. However, he also states that he’s happy to see other takes on the same battle royale structure and that he hopes it advances the genre as a whole. It’s a bit ambiguous, in other words.
