[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@soh_toa](/creator/twitter/soh_toa) "@TyoN7598 Aight so I asked Chatgpt about Hoyos patents vs Kuros recent patent and here are the results"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945849582841115034) 2025-07-17 14:14:27 UTC 1239 followers, 1230 engagements "Final piece on the WuWa patent. Turns out NO it doesnt have to be 1:1 to sue. It just has to be very similar. So congratulations WuWa fandom you guys just championed Tencent crushing its competitors"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946000087999787044) 2025-07-18 00:12:30 UTC 1242 followers, 4851 engagements "Patents Nothing as their patents are more technical. But lets say Hoyo decided to patent the BoTW style movement and traversal they could theoretically get something niche in there which WuWa also does and they could use this to go after WW before launch at least. They could also patent seelies to go after WW as WW has its butterflies that do the same thing mechanically. If they did then Kuro would be in hot water and would be forced to change the game. They have done no such thing. Whatever the case I expect the same from Kuro to not sue or threaten to sue their competitors. Also astro turf"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946038067246055663) 2025-07-18 02:43:25 UTC 1240 followers, XX engagements "@Niconicobanned1 @VfxJulion45280 I asked follow ups consistently. The general trend is GIs patents to do with gameplay is more on an engineering level rather than abstract rules. Kuros is walking that thin line much more"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945885645186167141) 2025-07-17 16:37:45 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements "Absolutely garbage practice. Blatantly anti-competition and anti-consumer. WuWa patented quickswap a game mechanic. Imagine if Genshin patented elemental reactions as a concept. Absolutely garbage behaviour most likely on the part of Tencent upper management"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945476983523311683) 2025-07-16 13:33:52 UTC 1242 followers, 15.3K engagements "Theyre coping trying to say it was a draw.lmfao"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946362556790305191) 2025-07-19 00:12:49 UTC 1241 followers, 4388 engagements "@despawner95 @aesthetic_birdy @Fedealegri7 @chascaism What matters is team DPS not Personal DPS. I think this might be the source of the confusion as most people aren't running abyss teams in the open world"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1944613059391279327) 2025-07-14 04:20:57 UTC 1243 followers, XXX engagements "@LordSangar67 Both of their games PGR and WW are blatant HI3rd and GI iterations. The fact that they of all Companies would patent game mechanics is just plain insulting"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945499560459305125) 2025-07-16 15:03:35 UTC 1238 followers, 19.3K engagements "@super_kk12 @banana_large At least on Youtube I dont think so. Act V of Natlan in particular has some pretty well received videos criticising it. At the very least its not toxic positivity"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946089428147183623) 2025-07-18 06:07:30 UTC 1237 followers, XX engagements "Why is the hype so muted then You can say lack of events but were getting at least one new region. And why isnt the storys either climax or close to it enough to carry the hype Why are the events of all things more important than us finally confronting two of the biggest antagonists in the game"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946576657084756254) 2025-07-19 14:23:35 UTC 1243 followers, XX engagements "@Christi82894602 @nochrist_nolife You say this bcs you dont like what I say. But from my pov you havent adequately criticised the game and its led to issues with the story"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946718147236819098) 2025-07-19 23:45:49 UTC 1238 followers, XX engagements "If non-Gacha Tower of Fantasy comes to Global any oomfs wanna play it"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946762778385281187) 2025-07-20 02:43:10 UTC 1243 followers, XXX engagements "@super_kk12 @banana_large With regards to Natlan most of it is negative"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946076544742596609) 2025-07-18 05:16:19 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements "Yeah so Kurobots should never EVER even utter the term Hoyoshill again. To support game mechanic patenting is truly disgusting"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945519206591873041) 2025-07-16 16:21:39 UTC 1243 followers, 24K engagements "@nochrist_nolife @AvidyaRehab Sure send me an inv to discord via DMs"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946841779304874181) 2025-07-20 07:57:05 UTC 1239 followers, XXX engagements "There are exactly zero units whose premium free to play(5* C0R0 4* C6R0) teams are destroyed by C6 Bennett. The DPS units it messed with before(Eula and Keqing) are dog shit in the modern meta and have better teams today(leaving Hyperbloom wheelchair aside)"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1947165986752499776) 2025-07-21 05:25:22 UTC 1242 followers, XXX engagements "I got blocked for providing diff calcs showing Arle and Tao are similar DPS wise and Arle isnt anywhere near Mav tier. Bruh. I have NEVER seem a character more carried by hype moments and aura. Arlechinno gets into top X rankings through sheer reputation wtf"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1944565405122805887) 2025-07-14 01:11:35 UTC 1239 followers, 4050 engagements "@zneshnaya X million mora do these everyday for mora and artifact exp. Thank me in a year"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946014226033836354) 2025-07-18 01:08:41 UTC 1240 followers, 1108 engagements "@super_kk12 @TyoN7598 Ill just say this if Kuro actually sued Hotta over NTE I hope nobody here makes any excuses for Kuro"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946066253921255499) 2025-07-18 04:35:25 UTC 1238 followers, XXX engagements "The image you provided does not translate to anything suggesting it is code being patented. Frankly code ALREADY falls under copyright and cant be copied to begin with. The claim you made is suspect and if it is true Id recommend please provided more evidence. The image is just the abstract of the patent application again. Nothing new"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945838851064533141) 2025-07-17 13:31:48 UTC 1242 followers, 12.8K engagements "The current X star ratio is 2:1. Its the same as overall game ratio and the gender ratio. In fact before it was extremely unbalanced at one point it was almost 1:1 during the start of Fontaine due to a fem char drought in Sumeru. This Male char drought was in fact just a rebalancing back to the post Inazuma norm"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946749113649049608) 2025-07-20 01:48:52 UTC 1239 followers, XX engagements "Nope XXX was really good. AQ and Skirks SQ both had really good stories"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1940700812042555669) 2025-07-03 09:15:04 UTC 1242 followers, 367.3K engagements "@AvidyaRehab @Wuthering_Waves Judging from the trailer I doubt were getting much Carlotta Cantarella Lupa or Cartethiya this Act. Maybe the trailer is just hiding them but I dont see it"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946170228804931974) 2025-07-18 11:28:35 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements "WW fans unironically celebrating Kuro monopolising game mechanics via patents. Yeah good to know that the whole pro-consumer angle for Genshin hate was bullshit. It was pure Gacha tribalism this whole time"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945483548221477033) 2025-07-16 13:59:57 UTC 1238 followers, 15.4K engagements "@super_kk12 @TyoN7598 From the WuWa reddit itsslf. Nope turns out even if not 1:1 still can sue"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946002171780325631) 2025-07-18 00:20:47 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements "@king_of_games34 Instead of fostering a wider subgenre fandom like Souls-likes or Block Sandbox games a lot of WuWa CCs decided to go the dramaslop route and this is the result. Constant comparisons and cope and toxic positivity"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946411365566173660) 2025-07-19 03:26:46 UTC 1240 followers, XXX engagements "@longlivemyron She deserves T1 at least since Hu Tao is T1 and I will accept no dissent on Hu Taos viability"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946883252201148660) 2025-07-20 10:41:53 UTC 1243 followers, XXX engagements "@super_kk12 @banana_large Did any Genshin CCs say that they hoped Hoyo would sue Kuro Any as popular as Saint Yes they are a minority but its undeniably worse rn bcs of some larger CCs backing it than in the WW-GI case"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946109284162699758) 2025-07-18 07:26:24 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements "@ShotgunShogun1 @Timiboy33126280 @Raspabollos1 @AndreDarmFranco @_VectorPrime @mirailightesum @LordSangar67 I am a sith fanboy afterall Darth Talon has me down bad"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946022383606956514) 2025-07-18 01:41:06 UTC 1239 followers, XX engagements "You have a myriad of people calling the patch filler too and it needs to be asked why they feel that way. Given this is the penultimate Act of the chapter and for all we know the next Act is an afterstory that deals with the Black Shores/Overarching plot like To the Shores End. Theres the hype The tension The sense of stakes. I need to ask you do you feel like from Act X to now it feels like the action has risen That we are reaching a climax Do you think every patchs story themes character arcs have flowed smoothly from one Act to the next Bcs personally I dont"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946542014084112536) 2025-07-19 12:05:55 UTC 1243 followers, XX engagements "@AvidyaRehab @Raspabollos1 The Kuro patent isnt technical its exceedingly abstract but sure go ahead suck off Tencent"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945882958256361486) 2025-07-17 16:27:04 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements "Supporting Nemesis system level patents just to suck off Kurogames. Pathetic"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945729283466633372) 2025-07-17 06:16:25 UTC 1237 followers, 1925 engagements "Its gameplay mechanic patents that are the issue not just patents in general. And you dont see the issue here This is a form of monopoly. If you specifically like WW combat it means no one else can provide it. Imagine if COD ensured ADS iron sights sprint etc and CODs mechanics overall could never be used by anyone else Every other FPS can not ironsight ADS. COD4 is the only game of its kind instead of the start of a nee era of FPS. Worse still you have sloptubers like Saintontard who support using the patent to sue WuWas competitors which hurts the consumer directly"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1945871221830348806) 2025-07-17 15:40:26 UTC 1238 followers, XXX engagements "@kyouya_makoto @GrenkiDesuNe @liliopiopert @AsherFortunae @Tempest174801 FRover has aura"  [@soh_toa](/creator/x/soh_toa) on [X](/post/tweet/1946385857474392474) 2025-07-19 01:45:25 UTC 1239 followers, XX engagements
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"@TyoN7598 Aight so I asked Chatgpt about Hoyos patents vs Kuros recent patent and here are the results"
@soh_toa on X 2025-07-17 14:14:27 UTC 1239 followers, 1230 engagements
"Final piece on the WuWa patent. Turns out NO it doesnt have to be 1:1 to sue. It just has to be very similar. So congratulations WuWa fandom you guys just championed Tencent crushing its competitors" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 00:12:30 UTC 1242 followers, 4851 engagements
"Patents Nothing as their patents are more technical. But lets say Hoyo decided to patent the BoTW style movement and traversal they could theoretically get something niche in there which WuWa also does and they could use this to go after WW before launch at least. They could also patent seelies to go after WW as WW has its butterflies that do the same thing mechanically. If they did then Kuro would be in hot water and would be forced to change the game. They have done no such thing. Whatever the case I expect the same from Kuro to not sue or threaten to sue their competitors. Also astro turf" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 02:43:25 UTC 1240 followers, XX engagements
"@Niconicobanned1 @VfxJulion45280 I asked follow ups consistently. The general trend is GIs patents to do with gameplay is more on an engineering level rather than abstract rules. Kuros is walking that thin line much more" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-17 16:37:45 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements
"Absolutely garbage practice. Blatantly anti-competition and anti-consumer. WuWa patented quickswap a game mechanic. Imagine if Genshin patented elemental reactions as a concept. Absolutely garbage behaviour most likely on the part of Tencent upper management" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-16 13:33:52 UTC 1242 followers, 15.3K engagements
"Theyre coping trying to say it was a draw.lmfao" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-19 00:12:49 UTC 1241 followers, 4388 engagements
"@despawner95 @aesthetic_birdy @Fedealegri7 @chascaism What matters is team DPS not Personal DPS. I think this might be the source of the confusion as most people aren't running abyss teams in the open world" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-14 04:20:57 UTC 1243 followers, XXX engagements
"@LordSangar67 Both of their games PGR and WW are blatant HI3rd and GI iterations. The fact that they of all Companies would patent game mechanics is just plain insulting" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-16 15:03:35 UTC 1238 followers, 19.3K engagements
"@super_kk12 @banana_large At least on Youtube I dont think so. Act V of Natlan in particular has some pretty well received videos criticising it. At the very least its not toxic positivity" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 06:07:30 UTC 1237 followers, XX engagements
"Why is the hype so muted then You can say lack of events but were getting at least one new region. And why isnt the storys either climax or close to it enough to carry the hype Why are the events of all things more important than us finally confronting two of the biggest antagonists in the game" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-19 14:23:35 UTC 1243 followers, XX engagements
"@Christi82894602 @nochrist_nolife You say this bcs you dont like what I say. But from my pov you havent adequately criticised the game and its led to issues with the story" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-19 23:45:49 UTC 1238 followers, XX engagements
"If non-Gacha Tower of Fantasy comes to Global any oomfs wanna play it" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-20 02:43:10 UTC 1243 followers, XXX engagements
"@super_kk12 @banana_large With regards to Natlan most of it is negative" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 05:16:19 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements
"Yeah so Kurobots should never EVER even utter the term Hoyoshill again. To support game mechanic patenting is truly disgusting" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-16 16:21:39 UTC 1243 followers, 24K engagements
"@nochrist_nolife @AvidyaRehab Sure send me an inv to discord via DMs" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-20 07:57:05 UTC 1239 followers, XXX engagements
"There are exactly zero units whose premium free to play(5* C0R0 4* C6R0) teams are destroyed by C6 Bennett. The DPS units it messed with before(Eula and Keqing) are dog shit in the modern meta and have better teams today(leaving Hyperbloom wheelchair aside)" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-21 05:25:22 UTC 1242 followers, XXX engagements
"I got blocked for providing diff calcs showing Arle and Tao are similar DPS wise and Arle isnt anywhere near Mav tier. Bruh. I have NEVER seem a character more carried by hype moments and aura. Arlechinno gets into top X rankings through sheer reputation wtf" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-14 01:11:35 UTC 1239 followers, 4050 engagements
"@zneshnaya X million mora do these everyday for mora and artifact exp. Thank me in a year" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 01:08:41 UTC 1240 followers, 1108 engagements
"@super_kk12 @TyoN7598 Ill just say this if Kuro actually sued Hotta over NTE I hope nobody here makes any excuses for Kuro" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 04:35:25 UTC 1238 followers, XXX engagements
"The image you provided does not translate to anything suggesting it is code being patented. Frankly code ALREADY falls under copyright and cant be copied to begin with. The claim you made is suspect and if it is true Id recommend please provided more evidence. The image is just the abstract of the patent application again. Nothing new" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-17 13:31:48 UTC 1242 followers, 12.8K engagements
"The current X star ratio is 2:1. Its the same as overall game ratio and the gender ratio. In fact before it was extremely unbalanced at one point it was almost 1:1 during the start of Fontaine due to a fem char drought in Sumeru. This Male char drought was in fact just a rebalancing back to the post Inazuma norm" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-20 01:48:52 UTC 1239 followers, XX engagements
"Nope XXX was really good. AQ and Skirks SQ both had really good stories" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-03 09:15:04 UTC 1242 followers, 367.3K engagements
"@AvidyaRehab @Wuthering_Waves Judging from the trailer I doubt were getting much Carlotta Cantarella Lupa or Cartethiya this Act. Maybe the trailer is just hiding them but I dont see it" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 11:28:35 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements
"WW fans unironically celebrating Kuro monopolising game mechanics via patents. Yeah good to know that the whole pro-consumer angle for Genshin hate was bullshit. It was pure Gacha tribalism this whole time" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-16 13:59:57 UTC 1238 followers, 15.4K engagements
"@super_kk12 @TyoN7598 From the WuWa reddit itsslf. Nope turns out even if not 1:1 still can sue" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 00:20:47 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements
"@king_of_games34 Instead of fostering a wider subgenre fandom like Souls-likes or Block Sandbox games a lot of WuWa CCs decided to go the dramaslop route and this is the result. Constant comparisons and cope and toxic positivity" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-19 03:26:46 UTC 1240 followers, XXX engagements
"@longlivemyron She deserves T1 at least since Hu Tao is T1 and I will accept no dissent on Hu Taos viability" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-20 10:41:53 UTC 1243 followers, XXX engagements
"@super_kk12 @banana_large Did any Genshin CCs say that they hoped Hoyo would sue Kuro Any as popular as Saint Yes they are a minority but its undeniably worse rn bcs of some larger CCs backing it than in the WW-GI case" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 07:26:24 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements
"@ShotgunShogun1 @Timiboy33126280 @Raspabollos1 @AndreDarmFranco @_VectorPrime @mirailightesum @LordSangar67 I am a sith fanboy afterall Darth Talon has me down bad" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-18 01:41:06 UTC 1239 followers, XX engagements
"You have a myriad of people calling the patch filler too and it needs to be asked why they feel that way. Given this is the penultimate Act of the chapter and for all we know the next Act is an afterstory that deals with the Black Shores/Overarching plot like To the Shores End. Theres the hype The tension The sense of stakes. I need to ask you do you feel like from Act X to now it feels like the action has risen That we are reaching a climax Do you think every patchs story themes character arcs have flowed smoothly from one Act to the next Bcs personally I dont" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-19 12:05:55 UTC 1243 followers, XX engagements
"@AvidyaRehab @Raspabollos1 The Kuro patent isnt technical its exceedingly abstract but sure go ahead suck off Tencent" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-17 16:27:04 UTC 1236 followers, XXX engagements
"Supporting Nemesis system level patents just to suck off Kurogames. Pathetic" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-17 06:16:25 UTC 1237 followers, 1925 engagements
"Its gameplay mechanic patents that are the issue not just patents in general. And you dont see the issue here This is a form of monopoly. If you specifically like WW combat it means no one else can provide it. Imagine if COD ensured ADS iron sights sprint etc and CODs mechanics overall could never be used by anyone else Every other FPS can not ironsight ADS. COD4 is the only game of its kind instead of the start of a nee era of FPS. Worse still you have sloptubers like Saintontard who support using the patent to sue WuWas competitors which hurts the consumer directly" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-17 15:40:26 UTC 1238 followers, XXX engagements
"@kyouya_makoto @GrenkiDesuNe @liliopiopert @AsherFortunae @Tempest174801 FRover has aura" @soh_toa on X 2025-07-19 01:45:25 UTC 1239 followers, XX engagements