No direct examples, but it states that Activision is using them.
If true AAA gaming is a mess
if Activision can do you this, you tryna tell me Blizz doesn't try to force parity with their matchmaking?.... shiiiit
In a statement, Activision confirmed that this patent was only "exploratory," and such a system has not been used in any games.
"This was an exploratory patent filed in 2015 by an R&D team working independently from our game studios. It has not been implemented in-game," a spokesperson for Activision said.
Cant wait for the industry to implode and everything to reset, and indies will lead the way.It is. Thank god mid-tier devs and indies are on the rise these days.
I pity everyone who only play AAA games.
You called it.It says that, but I dont think its true.
Only Activision game I can think of that would implement them this way currently is COD. And I dont think COD is doing this.
Like I said I could be wrong, but it seems to me they just read the patent and made the assumption Activision is using it. If they actually had any evidence they wouldve included it in the article.
This was an exploratory patent filed in 2015 by an R&D team working independently from our game studios. It has not been implemented in-game.
..."yet""This was an exploratory patent filed in 2015 by an R&D team working independently from our game studios. It has not been implemented in-game."
I know this is a horrible thing to put into practice but gosh darn it this sort of manipulation is so smart I can't help but be impressed.
Somewhere, Jim Sterling just felt a disturbance in the force.
They don't publish Blizzard gamesI know activision own blizzard. What other games are they currently publishing?
so now we're supposed to pretend like we don't know how we got here and Activision is suddenly doing something crazy, when people have been defending every instance of these microtransactions every time they come up and giving people money for these games
these companies will always, ALWAYS push things to the breaking point
we tried to tell y'all, but noooo "they're just cosmetics" or "if you don't like them just don't buy them" or "it doesn't matter that much, the game is still fun"
it's only going to get worse, too.
This doesn't make any sense whatsoever. CoD had gameplay altering MTs for like 3 or 4 titles now, it was never "just cosmetics" in Activision's case. If you've been worried about Activision pulling bullshit they have done that for a long time. Here's a solution: don't buy their damn games. This "oh this thing will be evil in the future" is a dumb argument. Shit, you could do that argument with regular DLC as well.so now we're supposed to pretend like we don't know how we got here and Activision is suddenly doing something crazy, when people have been defending every instance of these microtransactions every time they come up and giving people money for these games
these companies will always, ALWAYS push things to the breaking point
we tried to tell y'all, but noooo "they're just cosmetics" or "if you don't like them just don't buy them" or "it doesn't matter that much, the game is still fun"
it's only going to get worse, too.
so now we're supposed to pretend like we don't know how we got here and Activision is suddenly doing something crazy, when people have been defending every instance of these microtransactions every time they come up and giving people money for these games
these companies will always, ALWAYS push things to the breaking point
we tried to tell y'all, but noooo "they're just cosmetics" or "if you don't like them just don't buy them" or "it doesn't matter that much, the game is still fun"
it's only going to get worse, too.
If I were matched with a much better player who was using highly effective weapons bought through microtransactions, my reaction wouldn't be to also buy those weapons.
Instead, I'd quit playing the game for its piss-poor matchmaking.
I've seen the Activision patent. Patents mean little on their own, but it connects to something insidious I've been looking into. More soon.