Harder to ignore (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 19:25 (2394 days ago)
edited by Cody Miller, Tuesday, October 17, 2017, 19:30

https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/news/how-activision-uses-matchmaking-tricks-to-sell-in-game-items-w509288

Activision has a new patent on a system to convince people to buy microtransactions:

"For example, in one implementation, the system may include a microtransaction engine that arranges matches to influence game-related purchases," according to the patent. "For instance, the microtransaction engine may match a more expert/marquee player with a junior player to encourage the junior player to make game-related purchases of items possessed/used by the marquee player. A junior player may wish to emulate the marquee player by obtaining weapons or other items used by the marquee player."

In a particular example, the junior player may wish to become an expert sniper in a game (e.g., as determined from the player profile)," according to the patent. "The microtransaction engine may match the junior player with a player that is a highly skilled sniper in the game. In this manner, the junior player may be encouraged to make game-related purchases such as a rifle or other item used by the marquee player. "

Of course, Deej says it's not in Destiny:

https://twitter.com/DeeJ_BNG/status/920401730684166146

I'm not really that comforted by the response. They didn't say they would never use that system in Destiny. They didn't say that they disagree with the system, just that it currently is not in there…