Dear Steve,
I am going to keep my video game out of here. My assets and my comments need a separation. Just like my politics and my assets need a separation.
I have a provisional patent application. That is called patent pending. In the application, I added economy. Things like buying a new vehicle or a character.
I am not going to have any economy in the game. People love Fortnite, but new games after that with economies are falling flat. Getting people to waste money does not make them subscribers. It is greedy and mean-spirited.
The reason to have it in the application, if someone completely copies my game and adds an economy it is a different game. They can patent that. But if I included the economy in my application, that is mine. They can not make that change to get around my patent. I thought of that, not my lawyer, but he agreed.