Activision has patented social engineering of Microtransactions

[suicidalfranco]

1 hour ago, Taf the Ghost said:

Most online games operate by selling you cosmetics. Valve has revenue at possibly 1 Billion USD from CS:GO and Dota2 alone doing that. This is the nature of the Business Model.

when was the last valve released a new CSGO and how much do they ask for it?

Meanwhile at Acti:

- 60$ for the game

- 40$ the season pass

- 20$ the individual DLCs non included on the season pass

- microtransaction varying from 2$ to 100+ depending on how many crates you want to get on the get go, cause simply buying the same pixels that that guy who just powned you had would be far too easy and cheap, RNG makes everything better

Experience? which one? the one the makes the base game useless the moment the first DLC gets released?

[Sauron]

Goes to show how stupid the current copyright and trademark system is.

[Ryujin2003]

2 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

shadow of war...

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... assassin's creed origins...

Loved and still love Shadow of Mordor. Isn't Shadow of War behind a paywall or grind?

 

Waiting on Origins now.

[ARikozuM]

Just now, Ryujin2003 said:

Loved and still love Shadow of Mordor. Isn't Shadow of War behind a paywall or grind?

As far as I'm aware, no. The grind for getting your Uruk army full of great fighters is easy as there's an arena that you put them in to level up. You don't need any loot crates since everything in the game is in the crate. 

[ravenshrike]

7 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Can the gaming industry find any more ways to make themselves seem like the biggest scumbags on planet earth?

*Looks at Hollywood* Yes, yes they could.

[Biggerisbetter]

Let's be honest, this has been going on for sometime. Other game developers have implemented this with other online competitive multiplayer games. Activision was just dumb or smart enough to patent it. Activision is the only company caught with its hand in the cookie jar. Gaming as a whole is on a downward spiral. Hopefully, this will be the start of a gaming recession. 

[Master Disaster]

3 hours ago, ravenshrike said:

*Looks at Hollywood* Yes, yes they could.

Err, did you not see the recent article about sexual harassment at Naughty Dog and Sony covering it up with a $20,000 pay off and an NDA?

[ravenshrike]

5 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Err, did you not see the recent article about sexual harassment at Naughty Dog and Sony covering it up with a $20,000 pay off and an NDA?

Which is nowhere near as bad as Hollywood. Let me know when its ubiquitous throughout the industry and includes pedophilia.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

To be fair, this is just the same data-mining Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, etc are doing, just applied to a specific context. It may sound more intrusive because it interfere with the results of your search for players, but the same process interferes with the results of your web searches (which could be more trascendental than your gaming experience).

I think the usual euphemism is "relevant ads".

 

 

[Master Disaster]

3 hours ago, ravenshrike said:

Which is nowhere near as bad as Hollywood. Let me know when its ubiquitous throughout the industry and includes pedophilia.

Tell that to the dude it happened too.

 

Also assumption much, remember that 2 weeks ago no one knew anything about what was going on in Hollywood.

[Jito463]

19 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Wow Activision beat EA and Ubisoft on something like this? what world do we live nowadays [:

I'm more surprised that they actually patented it, which gives us an insight into their actions and motivations.  If they hadn't filed for the patent, they could have kept it secret.  Now the cat's out of the bag (not that we didn't realize it to some extent, but this is the proof we were lacking previously).

16 hours ago, Juniho said:

...money is the root of all evil? nope....not having it is 

Actually, the phrase you're looking for is "The love of money is the root of all evil".

[Doobeedoo]

Quite pathetic and sad there are supporters of such practice. Really, weak minded sheep that fuel this mind of thing. Like, if a game is revolved around microtransactions and that being the main focus and not the game it self, then the game sucks. Cause if you need such shit in game to make drones coming back and keep playing then game is bad. Cause it really seems many care more about that shit than game. 

[MoonSpot]

On 10/17/2017 at 3:37 PM, mr moose said:

And some people on these forums still don't believe social science is a tangible thing.

In a sense it might not be; once the academic institutions whom awarded the individuals involved their psychology and sociology degrees strips them of the credentials.  Creating something with the intent of causing purposeful harm to others for profit, one would think would be strongly frowned upon by those fields in academia in particular.

Heck, even software engineering has ethical responsibilities, as with any engineering field, for public welfare.

[mr moose]

18 minutes ago, MoonSpot said:

In a sense it might not be; once the academic institutions whom awarded the individuals involved their psychology and sociology degrees strips them of the credentials.  Creating something with the intent of causing purposeful harm to others for profit, one would think would be strongly frowned upon by those fields in academia in particular.

Heck, even software engineering has ethical responsibilities, as with any engineering field, for public welfare.

 

All education can be used for evil purposes.   The Atom bomb was born of physicists.  It's tangibility will not change just because companies wish to use it to sell more stuff.    It's a problem with being human, not with our endless quest to understand everything.

[ravenshrike]

23 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Also assumption much, remember that 2 weeks ago no one knew anything about what was going on in Hollywood.

Bull fucking shit. Everybody knew, and Hollywood constantly cracked jokes about it. The idea of the casting couch is a stereotype so ingrained that porn studios parody it on a regular basis. Then you had the whistleblowers like Feldmen. Difference is, ol' Harv was a big enough asshole, was finally running out of money, and his brother probably pushed the story to get him kicked out of the company.