Submission + - Activision Patents Pay-to-Win Matchmaker (rollingstone.com) 1
EndlessNameless writes: If you like fair play, you might not like future Activision games. They will cross the line to encourage microtransactions---specifically matching players to both encourage and reward purchase.
Rewarding the purchase, in particular, is an explicit and egregious elimination of any claim to fair play: "For example, if the player purchased a particular weapon, the microtransaction engine may match the player in a gameplay session in which the particular weapon is highly effective, giving the player an impression that the particular weapon was a good purchase. This may encourage the player to make future purchases to achieve similar gameplay results."
Rewarding the purchase, in particular, is an explicit and egregious elimination of any claim to fair play: "For example, if the player purchased a particular weapon, the microtransaction engine may match the player in a gameplay session in which the particular weapon is highly effective, giving the player an impression that the particular weapon was a good purchase. This may encourage the player to make future purchases to achieve similar gameplay results."
