Activision patent for using matchmaking to push microtransaction sales

[Legend]

So Activision just Patented bad matchmaking to sell microtransactions... : gaming

[the-pi-guy]

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.