Activision patent for using matchmaking to push microtransaction sales

Started by Legend, Oct 18, 2017, 03:00 PM

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For instance, the system 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
Holy cow this sounds bad.  

Firstly: it seems like a bizarre thing to patent, but whatever.  

Secondly: this is such a horrible idea.  It's actually impressively bad.  Matching up inexperienced players with more experienced ones just to try to sell something...  

I'd hope this ends up being more damaging than positive.