Tag: Greed
The Year Of The Loot Box (The Jimquisition)
Guild Wars 2 Fans Outraged By Loot Box Chicanery
Call of Duty: WWII – Call Of Looty (Jimpressions)
Call Of Duty: WWII Drops Loot Boxes Onto Normandy Beach So They Can Be Opened In Public
It seems that Activision’s patented method of using matchmaking to sell microtransactions really was a tipping of the hand. COD: WWII has a public social area, Normandy Beach, where you can open your loot boxes in full view of other players. Activision’s plan to manipulate its own customers by appealing…
Activision Patents Microtransaction-Based Matchmaking
Full patent page here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=9789406.PN.&OS=PN/9789406&RS=PN/9789406 After receiving loads of emails about this, I woke up ready to give this patent a good going over. While patents never guarantee real-life implementation, they can be reflective of a business, and boy does this one – a matchmaking system based on selling microtransactions…