Activision Patents Bad Matchmaking To Drive Microtransactions

And how would you be able to know who is and who isn't doing it?

I see you're having trouble existing, luckily we're having a flash sale on SSRIs, weed, and pornography.

Well, if Activision patented it, that means it's exclusive to them unless someone pays them to use their patent.
So, assume Activision for now and then everyone later.

I wonder how shills will try to justify this, especially when they're trying to defend lootboxes as not being P2W.

Unless they license the patent

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WE NEED TO GAS THE KIKES, Holla Forums

I'm confused, did Activision ironically saved vidya?

No. They just created the weapon to kill multiplayer matchmaking and will now charge other people money to use said weapon.

No, they just grabbed a larger market share of microtransactions, because other companies now have to pay to use it. However, they made it worse because they brought this idea up to other publishers and developers. It was the same with bethesda back in the day that first brought the idea of DLC into the light.

I'm pretty sure there are mobileshit games that do this already. The patent is invalid tbh.

Is it public domain which companies purchase said license for their products?

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It probably should be. Like Denuvo. People just know. Anyway, every company will have to either distance itself from it publicly or everyone will just assume they're using this system.

Also, in the patent.

It's not like COD or Battlekangz have any matchmaking. Kangzfield Uno uses a server browser, and COD places you by ping, not skill.
You know this shit is gonna get into fightan games, and you'll have 69th Black Belt Planetfucking Galaxyraper ranks, playing their flowchart characters, fighting Igor, the one armed cripple child from Albania, who picked his character based on cup size.

As if a patent would stop a chink from counterfeiting anything.

Anyone that give money to activision deserves to get this shit jammed up their ass anyway.

the frustrating thing is that normalfags won't notice or simply won't care about this reckless kikery

Oh, so they'll sell you absolute dogshit weapons, and then put you against shitters, so it seems you didn't waste your money. Slowly, you'll get placed against regular players, you'll think the weapon has gone bad or some shit, then they'll sell you another, new, equally as shit weapon, but place you against shitters again. Then repeat the cycle all the way to the bank.

That will screw up matchmaking so much, holy shit. What if one guy is from France and the other's from Russia? Before, they would be matched FrancexFrance and RussiaxRussia, regardless of items. Now that's all in the air.

What are they going to do about it even if they did know?

Of course, we will have to ignore that matchmaking is cancer to begin with, but that is irrelevant because barely anyone adds server browsers to their games nowadays.

I wouldn't be surprised if they gave you newbie bonuses in your first couple matches with your new purchase too

still hurts though
Also there's nothing stopping them from trying this stuff in single player titles, the question is: how will they about it?

Then I guess I'll support every assfaggots maker :^).

don't race mix

do race mix

If a game lets you pay for a gameplay advantage it's shit and you deserve everything bad in the world for playing it.
No matter how the matchmaking works.

That's how you know.

We just witnessed the pilot test of it in the new Middle Earth game.

Just look at that cute little half nip daughteru.

Jack up the difficulty for people who go X hours without buying something? Have NPCs wielding overpowered store items?

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fucking normalfag, get out

Not necessarily, if they've already invested $60 and several hours into the multiplayer progression (because that goes hand in hand with microtransactions).

Well bioware already pioneered the in-game DLC salesman with DAO, and bethesda the in-game paid mods store, so why not? It could be like the old demos on xbox live

"This is where the trial version of NORMAL difficulty ends, you can keep playing the game on INSANE or purchase more time on NORMAL"

This is most extreme judaisim

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So it's MAG, just replacing SVER or whatever it was called with whales.

I wish I could be as optimistic as you user. I'm sure for every one whale they hook it's worth letting 20+ more go.

Weren't SVER the slavshit faction? Was the slavshit faction seriously the whale one? I would've expected RAVEN or whatever the edgy black PMC faction was to be whales.

Still a 50% chance of raising yourself a supreme gentlemen instead.

I'm too retarded to quote the right post:

I bet women are to blame for this.

Yeah, SVER was the slavs. They're comparable to whales in that SVER gear was obscenely overpowered, and their maps were the only ones in the game where the line of sight of their gun turrets overlapped, which basically made it impossible to win against them without a coordinated team. As MAG existed in the same time period as the height of CoD's popularity, every idiot tried to be Rambo in MAG and ended up getting slaughtered. If you weren't with SVER, you weren't going to win, period. This shit balance between the factions was one of the biggest factors in MAG's downfall.

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The only thing surprising about this, is that they didn't work it into the kill-cam, showing off exactly what enhancements to "marquee" player had - and then offering a direct link to buy lootboxes that MAY, (but probably won't) contain that item.

Ah, well. Thanks for the history lesson. I didn't play much MAG, I got a PS3 really late in it's life cycle.

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don't give them ideas

Oh shut up you fucking retard.
It was funny at some point but, like all autism that ruins memes, it's dead, stale and cringy.

Is it bad that I actually want too see her get fucked by the kike?

Yes.

I want to see her get fucked too, but not by that fat greasy kike.

I think it would be hotter seeing her fucked by a fat kike. It's more degrading.

Even worse, in games with several balancing mechanics they could match worse players up with top players using specific tactics or equipment, and then offer to sell the counter to it, particularly if they make hard counter items.

IE: A high level character with a gernade launcher is matched up with a worse player. The less experienced player is dominated and a popup shows that you can buy an 'armor crate' for a chance to get the 'Flak Jacket' equip that's a completely garbage item, but is like 95% reduction in explosive damage so will help them win against this player.

Or if they get even worse and have more direct P2W items like flat damage bonuses, aim assist bonuses, or life bonuses, matching players up against people far above their level to promote buying those simply to even the score.

These people need to be stopped.

The sad part is that the situation I'm describing isn't hypothetical. It's what Bamco did to Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization. People here always say that since it's SAO shit, it doesn't affect them, but you bet your ass it'll affect all of us when this kind of thing becomes the rule rather than the exception.

But that's what makes it so good.

Valves been doing it for years.

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And it can get even worse than that…

Chances to obtain that item are greatly enhanced (but by no means assured), the prices are reduced, and the item is a single-use per match and auto-equips upon spawn.

no it isn't user
they could be having unskilled players get teamed up against teams of high skilled players BY DEFAULT, unless the unskilled players pay money to play against low skill players, AND the high skill players could also pay money to play against high skill players

Please help me restore the post mods
I didn't mean to delete it

So, is this thing paying to get a good/favorable match?
Isn't this like, arranging a match?

wait nvm im stupid

GTFO weinstein

Let's be honest, if (((Activision) didn't come up with a system like this, someone else would have.

Single Use, Timed bonuses, with rates affected by what the opponent is using.

Die to an enhanced weapon, have to buy the counter, forcing the opponent to buy the counter to that, forcing you to buy the counter for that. With bonuses fading after some time.

*tips fedora*

HMM

They were doing this before it's just that they weren't shameless enough to put a patent on it making their (((trickery))) public.

IT'S JUST A (((COINCIDENCE,))) GOY!

Pay per Match. We've come full circle.

dont forget DLC bonus items that you can only use ONCE in singleplayer, new game? buy the DLC again, goy.

They did this arcade shit in Defiance, actually. You got a limited number of plays for a certain gametype. Want to play more? Pay.

(This is about the time I stopped playing.)

I mean pay to win games are shit and I don't play them already, this just makes it less likely that I'll play them

Why this would matter to someone who only plays retro games and PC games before 2010 and only modern indies?

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I'm glad I don't play the latest gen video games anymore

Well, yeah. That was like 50 years ago.

Hey, do you think the retro game Half-Life 2 and its episodes are going to get a modern re-release?

Where does the time go user?

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This is genuinely repulsive. I don't have any other label for it. We all knew that the kikery would only get worse, but it's another thing entirely to see just how far greed can take these dishonorable creatures.

In 2010 I was a young 20 year old neet loser with dreams.

now I want to kill myself.

Probably in the anus. A surprising amount of stuff apparently gets lost up there.

Thanks, Satan.

Isn't there a consumer protection shit or something in america?

can we get a petition to regulate all these jewery?

Is that mah boy EN "almost great one status" B?

America's legal system rules in favor of whoever has more money to pump into legal fees/lawyers/bribes/etc. Even if the verdict somehow goes against the richer party, they can appeal the case an infinite number of times until it does or the other side runs out of money.
The will of an (((international megacorp))) with billions of dollars to spend on lawyers and lobbyists is de facto law.

>too bad he may never see her again

Yeah, don't racemix with niggers.
Japanese and Koreans are a-okay though. Jap/Korean girls tend to look fucking diamond erection tier beautiful in their youth and they have shown to age well at least from my experience and knowledge.

So games just are moving toward the Facebook format, where they milk people with addictions.

3 complete and utter shills I see on a regular basis online essentially defended it with statements like pic related and by belittling people who don't like this shit. "Oh, first you're complaining about Lootboxes, now this? What's the next bandwagon you'll go to?", or "Oh this will just be like the Modern Warfare 2 boycott which people will do absolutely nothing and give in", more or less.

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You fucking entitled manbaby neckbears, you don't get to decide whether the game is fair or not, they need to make money or they can't make any games, if you don't like it don't play it.

But user, asian gurls are kawaii xd

Will Activision charge players for Black Female Nazis next?

Did he really lost the kid and his marrige?

Japanese women hit the big 4-0 like a brick wall. They go from sexy to full blown grandma overnight.

What did he mean by this? Am I retarded or not knowing this?

You need to leave your echochamber once in a while.

Who could be behind this?

Probably the menopause.

East asians are actually Genetically Negroids.

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go back to MPC

You can't make me not fuck a gook nerd

heh, not like it matters to me, I have over 10000 games on my computer.

Here's too, nigga.
There are enough vidya to last me ten lifetimes.

You know there are some people of other races who are also really greedy right? Case in point most Chinks.

Stop buying Activision games. That's what. Spread this shit to normalfag sites.

Why are "Gamers" the most easily fucked consumer? Movie goers, book readers, ect don't have to deal with this shit.

What frontend you using, matey? Do you have a link, magnet or otherwise?

No, normalfags do notice and some of them even profess to care; it's just that they see vidya for what it is: A hobby, and an altogether unimportant aspect of their lives, so they continue to fuel the machine.

Good, I'm glad they patented such a jewish idea. Means I can boycott the fuck out of Activision and not have to worry about other companies following suit.

Plastic surgery, my dude. Koreans especially look freaky.

Japs are different. They are really a race unto themselves. Actually several subraces.

Chinks are the jews of the east user.

Other publishers are much less forward about it, but it's there. You'd best believe that they're actively trying to juice every nickle and dime out of the consumer; they just have the wherewithal not to totally shoot themselves in the foot like Activision did.

wow holy crap dude I love videogames too

Movies have been so beyond utterly pozzed that they have nothing left user.
Same thing for comics and book readers. They just find more ways to milk money out of us because vidya is much more engaged than those hobbies are. They jew sports-retards hard as well.

kek

That's not how it works, faggot. If I wanted Holla Forums shit, I'd go to Holla Forums

I came here to make a joke about how Activision is misunderstood and how it just patented it to stop others from doing this. But then I thought, how would you actually enforce this patent? How could you, in Activision's place, know if a game is doing this unless the authors come out and day they do.

Movie and comicbook lovers have many decades of good shit to play around with. Gamers only have a couple of decades at best so the pain is sharper. Fortunately games do at least have some ability to resist complete pozzing. Games will be good again someday but first AAA, mobile, p2w, and lootboxes have to die. We must pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet.

The industry will die before that happens and we both know it

Nigger.

Games have completely shit the bed and died before it's not impossible.

No, they'll charge players for wanting to play as something other then a nigger female nazi.

An animated corpse can live for a while, look at western cinema.

We could make good games after the dust settles. There's a lot of hopeful and incredible anons in the /agdg/ threads alone.

Not even going into that though, I think western gaming is slowly being redeemed. We've gotten 3 fantastic western games in the last year alone.

And that doesn't even include these other indie games that actually do look like they have potential, even if
AA studios are also doing fairly well for themselves, and as always nipland will have some great vidya for us as well.

I'm pretty hopeful about the future all things considered.

What, you gonna call the mods on every not completely on-topic post in this thread?
quit being a little bitch. This is how conversation works.

What a great sign.

Say what you want, they're order of magnitudes greater than AAA and have actually produced some great games. You can't argue against their quality and more importantly, independent people who make great games actually have a passion for the games they create.
If companies are willing to fund good games, I'm content with that. The problem arises when companies want to be more hands-on with the games themselves.

Thanks, capitalism!

user can we make love

You can't argue against their quality
I can actually, most of these games look uninspired and low budget compared to games I've seen made by guys fanatic about their profession back in the 90s. It doesn't really impress me.

That's not an argument against their quality you retard, that's judging a book by its cover, and on top of this, they look amazing. 2 of the fucking games have everything hand-fucking-drawn.
I'm not gonna bother replying to you after your next post most likely, as I can guess it will likely be a shitpost unless you can provide an actual argument for what you're saying.

JUST STOP PLAYING SHIT GAMES ASSHOLE
Also
webm or gtfo and go suck a dick OP

Of course they're going to do this. Anybody who knows this is happening will just make excuses to never do anything about it.

with all the recent spot light on jewery I bet it's easier to get away with torrents again.

Then

Now

If it has microtransactions, avoid it like the plague.

Chaim, Han Chinese have always been divided into normal yellow monkeys and the Chink upperclassmen. The former are negro tier ant people, the latter are the Jews of Asia. North Korea and Japan are the only two countries where that isn't the case.

Japan has its own problems with being slimy
but I won't go into that for the sake of the thread.

Bit late to the party on that one I imagine but nobody wanted to be as blatant as Activision I guess.

Is this the advanced form of dropbears? Your shitty desert island needs to be glassed, cunt.

What's the point of patenting this? How can Activision possibly enforce the patent when matchmaking system mechanics are always hidden? If EA makes their own Shillengine™ matchmaking system it would be impossible to prove they used anything from the patent.

I guess that might be why the patent isn't actually active. They're doing it but a patent would be pointless.

You know what? Fuck it. I love saying I told you so. Normalfags and this shitty industry deserve each other.

I thought this was always the case, bad matchmaking to drive sales. And people said I am crazy, a conspiracy theory nut. Well, guess who is having their shekels jew'd out of their pockets now.

This shit was going on for a good while tbh.

At least it only affects shitty games.

So everything released since 07?

Trade your Prime shit for plat and buy it. Like you don't have a bunch of duplicate fucking blueprints lying around.

Caucasians are actually closer to Negroes genetically than Asians are.

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The previous AssCreed games (the one with Marx and AC Unity) had an option to unlock the weapons and outfits that you wanted through microstransactions (real money converted into a Ubishit money).

Is this saying that as an American that came from western Europe ancestrally that I am as far from niggers as possible?

I hope hollywood burns to the fucking ground.

See this shit? This is what happens when you crack Denuvo, now all games will be microtransactions and lootbox-based to make up for the septillions of burgershekels piracy is costing, and guess what, microtransactions can't be pirated so you just fucked yourselves over. If only you didn't pirate so much rich publishers would be more inclined to be nice.

Well, at least this shit isn't going to show up in games that aren't call of duty.

Friendly reminder that piracy is literally paedophilia.

He's probably a pedo himself. They tend to project.

Piracy has been around from the dawn of the internet.
It's not going away even if you cry crocodile tears over the death of Denuvo.

Rigged carnival games are as old as Judaism itself. This is the most modern iteration of that and it isn't a far cry from what arcade games have been since the 80's.

but what if micro-transactions become illegal because they can be compared to gambling laws and they don't want them weaseling their way around it?

Well, at least you slimeballs are consistent with your principles.

I want to post in this thread to say that I work for a developer and we get constant pressure from suits to put this kind of stuff in the games we are making. Our current projects won't be done for 1-3 years. Most of the games released right now were in development for 2-6 years. These kinds of features have been in progress for years. If you allow it to be normalized, and the only way you can do that is to not buy it, it will be everywhere. We are very close to korean mmo pay to win being in every game. To the people who say that voting with your wallets doesn't work because of whales you're wrong. Whales only spend money on games where they can gain social power and to display affluence over others. If there is no audience they don't spend their whale money either.

There is more to being a Jew that simple greed, user.
I'd even say their subversive element is much worse than their greed.

It won't be that easy.
On Holla Forums almost nobody will buy it, but for every other place there will be some retards.

I miss when ENB wasnt cancer

Then you will be responsible for the government banning games too, what a hero.

You literally murder games and you dare to call me a slimeball, fuck you, I am on the right side of history.

Piracy is worse than pedophilia. Pedophiles don't necessarily rape children, but pirates are constantly raping the entire games community, thanks to pirates we live in a constant state of rape.

Today I learned a new word: "marquee player". Last time it happened with something similar, it had been "influencers" during the Fyre Festival scam.

ironic shitposting is still shitposting

I have to object to this fucking meme. It has gone too far. Racemixing with squint eyes is fine, but not with niggers? I bet you're the same kind of fuckwit that shits his pants at BLACKED images but would masturbate to slav and jap grills anytime. Fucking double-standards.

what will it take for people to stop playing this shit though? What's the breaking point? Normalfags barely notice this stuff and none of the cucked journos have the balls to take things to task except when it's fashionable/dog piling someone whose cheques didn't clear in time

seriously, I know people that buy games with no thought to quality or principle, just mindlessly throwing cash and trading in for the Hottest New Game(TM) every week. This is the audience that is fueling the turbo-jewing we're seeing

Except they drive game updates as well as sales
See: Overwatch

Write your congressman

Only jews can manage to make the cancer that is microtransations even more cancerous, and fuck matchmaking balance while at it.

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I know you won't :^)

thanks for letting us know user, saved

here you go
EVERY OBJECT BROUGHT TO, (DIS)ASSEMBLED BY A CHINK BECOMES AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF ALL THE CHINESE BUGMEN

Remember to marry a HWITE girl who has really high partner count for that sexual experience, no less than 50 partners, preferably triple digits, and in her 30's, but any woman significantly (7+ years) older than you will suffice.
She's a strong independent queen who made a brave choice to pursue career instead of family, and if you're not into open relationships you need to rethink your choices, bigot.

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Well aren't you just the cutest retard. I put slavs there because I noticed more and more anons going after slavic girls as the new meme of the month. If you think ethicmixing is somehow better than racemixing then you need to die.

Not really much to discuss. I can't see them enforcing the patent, as no one would know.

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She forced herself on all of America, remember? She got repelled pretty badly too.

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Not at all, you illiterate faggot.
>Remember to marry a HWITE girl who has really high partner count for that sexual experience, no less than 50 partners, preferably triple digits, and in her 30's, but any woman significantly (7+ years) older than you will suffice.
She's a strong independent queen who made a brave choice to pursue career instead of family, and if you're not into open relationships you need to rethink your choices, bigot.

I don't get it. If whites are the majority, and whites don't like minorities then wouldn't it make more sense for them to support racemixing to dilute the genes of said minorities?

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whites aren't the majority worldwide, fucking retard.

they were 25% of world population in 1950, but they've been declining and will become 8% in 2050.

The other races will increase their population.

Reported for not even remotely trying to hide that you’re a shill.

But they are the majority in the US right? So couldn't they simply do to other minorities what they did to what was left of the Natives? Nobody should care about the UK at this point. It's already a lost cause and has been for a while now.

I'm not saying you personally should do it, but rather make other people do it.

White majority countries ARE THE MINORITY FUCKTARD.

Most countries ARENT WHITE.

Every hwite man should be a HWITE nationalist fucking marrying only real HWITE women, but only older than him, with brains and bodies eroded liberated by birth control and riding a cock carousel.
If you disagree you're probably a race traitor and a jew!

How to stop this? Is it enough that whites stop paying for other races' dinner?

Aren't most mexicans already the end result of racemixing? What good would that do.

You obviously didn't read my post. I realize you're extremely emotional when it comes to issues of race but I'm speaking specifically about the United States. Reread my post please, and no emotional outbursts.

In the short term yes, but in the long term white genes would dominate if you could just manage to stop so many god damned illegals from getting in.

Why can't these Holla Forums tards stay in their designated shitting board?

Reinstute Apartheid, badabing, badaboom, no more niggers.
If that's not enough sterilize them in "their" countries.
they won't even notice, because IQ too low to make cause and effect of events 9 months apart from each other.
Also, it's more moral and effective than abortions meme

First step : Redpill and educate your own people.

t. brown white supremacist.

Thanks Clayton.

Tennogen cosmetics can only be bought directly with money through steam, not with plat.

I'm a spic.

In summation whites are just ensuring that the genes of the people they despise remain pure. If they're not going to eliminate these people, and not going to assimilate them then it's obvious they're just ensuring that if they're not replaced today then they'll be replaced tomorrow. Whites are actively working against themselves because they can't see the big picture.

Let me fill in on what goes through the head of your average cowabooty player that sadly contradicts your post.
Your average cowabooty player gets new cowabooty game. Gets killed by guy who's a higher level and has a gun they don't because they haven't reached the level required to unlock the gun. Then, instead of reaching the obvious conclusion that they shouldn't play a game that has an arbitrary restriction on what guns they can use, they decide that they need that higher level weapon because that'll somehow make them not shit.
Activision is just patenting and capitalizing on a pre-existing mindset. This will probably make them millions and there's nothing we can do about it. Not that I care, cowabooty sucks, normalfags are retarded and they deserve each other.

Are you a peninsulare living in Latin America, or are you of mestizo or criollo extraction?

brown spic in south america.

Well, either way, I’m proud that you understand the importance of genetic identity and I feel for your potential lack thereof. Maybe you won’t ever be the next Pinochet, but perhaps you could purge jewish communities like Guatemala did just recently.

We need to understand who is our common enemy and not fall for divide and conquer tactics between the races.

There was even black soldiers fighting for germany once.

I was honestly waiting for something like this to show up. First developers charged for better items in games, then they thought it would be a good idea to charge for a chance to get better items à la loot boxes. Then we saw Bethesda's jewry with charging for things other people have made, so it shouldn't be surprising to see others to attempt shit like this. How much worse can it get? Is there no limit to the extend of corporate jewry? Maybe next they'll try to charge you to keep items you earned in game, or make things you buy have a duration period where you need to subscribe to get full effects.

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Chinks have been doing this with cash shop items in their shitty grindan MMOs for years, user.

Thanks for the info dev-user but with consumers who buy every new reskin of Fifa, Madden, NBA games, do you really think that the microtransactions/loot crates can be stopped?

An average Gamer as defined above has a few Characteristics that I believe fit a good majority.

They are likely trying to gain social status through their ability to play video games. This maybe due to a lack of challenge in their life or a want to be more than what they are. In WoW for example you may find people who complain about the game being too easy. The main concern they have is that newer players will be as powerful as their characters due to the game not being hard enough. This shows us that it is not enough for them to be powerful in a game, others must also be weaker.

They think very low of themselves and prefer escapism over self improvement. Over my time observing gamers I noticed that they are willing to spend 10 hours a day being frustrated trying to learn a game but they would not sit down and spend 2 hours a day trying to learn something that had practical applications. This could be due to video games having a faster path to a dopamine rush(around 1hour~1day) compared to spending four months learning Java only to find out that It will take another few years before they could make anything of value. This could indicate that Gamers prefer instant gratification.

They need social validation of their hobby. A gamer plays Counter Strike, World of Warcraft or any other popular game because it provides them with a big social club to be part of. A gamer will not stray far away from what the gamer community has deemed to be acceptable behavior. Gamers are not very curious people, They will never the the first to use a platform or a service. They are very simple and rely on streamers and youtube celebrities to validate their opinions about video games.

They cant explain their actions. If you would like to test this theory find yourself a gamer that watches video games streams on a website called twitch, note it must be twitch as that is the standard place to watch streams and indicates that the gamer does not try to be an individual. Ask the gamer “Why do you watch people play video games? why don’t you just play games yourself?”. Since you contested the hobby they will immediately respond with this phrase “Well why do you watch sports?” or something along those lines(about sports) or they will say that they watch people to get better at the game which is unlikely as gamers get better at games through constant repetition that creates natural intuition.

They cant admit any faults in games that would invalidate their achievements.
Gamers will tell you day and night about the way the developers are ruining the games they play. They will tell you about how they are making them too easy or how they are making them too user friendly and removing challenge. Gamers will never admit to a game being easier to users who pay. A good trigger term to get a gamer frustrated is “Pay to win” the term means that a paying user will have an advantage over a non paying user and it really works at invalidating a lot of a gamers imagined social status and self worth. For example the game League of Legends allows a paying user to own more characters compared to a free user. League of Legends is also known as an “E-Sport”, E-Sport is a marketing term some game companies use to attract young kids who need social validation. If a game is an E-Sport it means that if a user plays the game long enough that user will one day be a millionaire(this is what gamers really think). If you come along and tell a gamer that the game they play is “Pay To Win” they will immediately feel attacked and begin to create excuses as to why its not.

They have bad natural time management skills. Gamers don’t seem to grasp the concept of human mortality. They cant understand that a human has on average 75 years on this earth before they must go back(less if you’re sitting on your ass all day eating chips and playing games). I say this because of a story I must tell. I was playing War Thunder with a friend. It was an alright game about shooting planes. I looked at the unlock system the game had and looked at the amount of currency the game gave per win. I did some basic math and realized that it would take me several months to unlock a jet plane. My friend responded to me “Its only a few months if you play 5 hours a day you will get it in no time”(This person spent around 100$ to unlock a jet a few months later). The same thing happened with League of Legends. I did the math on the unlock system and It would take me 4 years to unlock every character in the game. Again I was met with the same “Don’t worry its only 4 years”. This leads me to believe gamers don’t really value their time or are blind to the reality of change.

How to exploit Gamers

Exploit one: Create the illusion of value through a painful grind that can be bypassed
A gamer will not spend $20 on a game that offers a lot of fun that they can enjoy for hours and hours but they will download a free game that allows them to play 1% of the content and demands the gamer to pay in order to unlock the rest of the content. Essentially the gamer will download your game, They will see that it takes 1 hour to get X they will get X or pay $5, they need to get 10 X now, they will get 10 X. After a few days of this conditioning they will associate X = 1 hour and 1 hour = $(insert their hourly pay). This is a great way that many top games of our time exploit their users and it is probably the most effective as many gamers don’t understand the concept of mortality, they will be more willing to be conditioned through those first few weeks building the association with X = 1 hour and 1 hour = $(insert hourly pay)

Step 1 make the game free as gamers hate upfront costs when they where not conditioned on the value.

Step 2 have X(something that gives the player social status) that is wroth Y(money) or Z(time)

Step 3 Let the gamer play the game for a few months to stronger associate X with Z

Step 4 Gamer associates X with Z. They realize that X can be gained faster with Y(money). Because the gamer now feels that X is worth something instead of not having any value they become more open to exchanging Y for X

Step 5 Gamer feels very smart about their realization and starts trading Y for X instead of Z for X. A common marketing phrase to help sell this type of strategy to gamers is “People who don’t have time to keep up can pay a few dollars”.

Exploit two: Create a social trap. Gamers are very keen on social signals and desperately seek social acceptance. A good way to keep players in your game is to have other players demand players stay in your game or else lose social acceptance. A few examples include League of Legends and World of Warcraft. In League of Legends players demand that their friends improve their ability to play or face reduced social status. In World of Warcraft players are forced to spend months with a Guild or face reduced social status. Overall social shaming from the players themselves works best. Web sites such as reddit use this strategy very effectively to make the website more marketable and carry an aura of respectability as they push progressive politics with zero shame.

Exploit three: Create a system that identifies status in the game. Gamers wont spend months of their life playing your game unless there is some way to show their effort to someone else. Pacman machines had this feature through the use of score boards. A kid may play Pacman 6 or 7 times before getting bored. A kid will play Pacman 40 or 100 times if he thinks that his score will be the top score on that score board one day. The concept can be applied to modern games. Add a number or some visual that identifies a player based on their time commitment or effort commitment and you will get the same pattern. Don’t add a visual that may be unwanted by the player, for example showing everyone in a game that a player has spent money to unlock power gaining items may be unwanted. League of Legends does not allow players to see the amount of characters another player has unlocked to prevent players from feeling cheated if they lost to a player with every character while they only have two or three.

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Despite something like this being able to be seen for a while and not that surprising, it's still disgusting.
This will probably be successful in getting impulse purchasers to buy stupid bullshit, which will only fuel it and similar garbage.
It's only going to get worse from here until either the economy itself crashes at this point, since most people will be outraged, apathetic or supportive of it since, "muh favorite bidya gaem is made by them, you can't say anything bad about it" sort of shit is short lived and is forgotten until the next wave of outrage. Like every other god damn time.

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yeah I mean, it's good for them. I hope it serves them well and it gets implemented into every game down the line. It's a pretty good idea.

gross

Wait, what the legitimate Fuck? I know SAO is garbage but I heard the games are fun but this sort of Judaism is something I thought was only found in the darkest of synagogue or gook grinder.

yeah nigger, is my fault to be born a spic.

retard.

You don't blame lepers. But you quarantine them anyway.

You certainly chose to continue your existence as one :^)

To make matters even worse. If there wasn't a complete edition, years later you won't be able to access the DLC because you can't buy it from the online store that doesn't exist anymore. So even if the game was worth playing, you're locked out of everything.

Marcus, please don't shill here

Namco Bandai, Capcom, and Konami all take note of what goes on in the west and companies like Nexon. They will push consumers to the very edge to see what they can get away with. Tales games are ridden with DLC and then an upgraded version is sold later with even more on disc DLC. SAO:HR was somewhat fun here and there but it also had so many flaws it wasn't worth finished. Shame too because the combat system is actually pretty damn cool. It just need better enemies to fight against to make it worth investing into.

I accept that this is the way people have always been, and always will be. The only good answer is to learn how to counter-manipulate them into doing what you want instead of what the other guy wants.

1. Don't buy shitty games with shitty business practices from shitty studios/publishers.
2. Let them die even if they decide to "get better". It should be a dead sentence.
Which of course will never happen.

Oh anons, but it does happen. Pic related. Some time after the company killing Steam Update went live, the game's population was mostly a revolving door of newbies who kept getting rekt by the handful of die-hard whales who stayed with the game. The game's garbage matchmaking was the number two complaint, coming after the terrible Steam Update game play. It's so bad that Hawken is finally shutting down its PC servers next January. It can happen. It already happens.

Did people forget this exists?

I wonder if they're using the same shit in war thunder.

don't forget premium ammunition

GAMERS DID THIS!
Micro-transactions will have to run its course, maybe a few years from now there might be daylight and games going back but with the international market, it'll have to run its course as well probably pushing this whole shit a decade until there is new decent vidya.

Sure they do

God that's a shame, honestly it would probably be one thing if they had a small happy resolution ending in the vanilla game, and then released the other stuff as an "expansion pack" (preferably with less "Oh this gear is hands down better and the level difference can be 100x greater" kind of thing and more interesting content). Kind of a shame because I was hoping to get into the SAO games, any recommendations?

Don't forget matchmaking ques based on keeping players as close to a 50% Winrate as possible

Not quite but
It's not quite as bad, and player skill is a factor, but some of these are so over the top it's not even funny.

*Tips kippa*

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Don't bet on it. Gooks and Chinks basically expect games to have pay2win shit, the idea you pay for a game upfront and get to enjoy the full experience is foreign to them. Things would have been better if that kike lover Roosevelt had let Japan conquer those two shithole countries.

That's a really jewish condition. Nobody should make a profit out of somebody else's patent, not even 20 years later.

Honestly I hate SAO but HR was fun at times. The plot was very forgettable and the translation was awful. They even changed some of the characters personalities for no reason. It was mainly fun for the romance sections and combat though. Strea best tits girl.

Honestly though, I don't think I would recommend the game until you're able to pirate it. The Vita version is also way too down scaled compared to the PS4 version for me to recommend. As for the other games, I haven't played them. Hopefully, the newest game will be fun.

That just sounds like straight up greed in word format. Whoever made this up has to know they are a greedy asshole.

The biggest problem with all this shit is how badly western gamers are willing to bend over and take the ass raping. When Bamco put out that Tales game where the main girl ends up leaving the party halfway through the game, only for Bamco to sell her side of the story as DLC, Japanese gamers refused to touch the game with a ten foot pole. I saw a Japanese person say that within three weeks of the game's release, he had found a new, sealed copy in a nearby retailer for the equivalent of 2 US dollars, and when Bamco announced their brilliant DLC plan, the girl in question became forever known as the "1000 yen heroine." I've never heard of western gamers doing anything remotely like that. They've even rolled over and accepted paid mods.

You forgot to mention how the translation wasn't proofread at all, but I see you're a man of culture as well. Strea is indeed the best girl. Fucking shame what they did to her in the culturalization, though. Since her lines are almost all voiced, and I know moon, at least I was able to hear the real deal. To this day, I still wish I had been patient and imported the game instead of buying the western release.

Am I bad taste for thinking Lisbeth the Blacksmith girl is best? It's the freckles and her general story in the anime

too bad they never got much more characterization beyond their debut episode

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LOL they're deleting all threads on the Overwatch forums that bring this up. (((Bobby Kotick))) either needs to release an official statement, or he needs to step down. I am shocked their stocks have not taken a hit yet, because as an investor I would be scared as fuck of the negative blowback this would receive

Liz is okay. She's just kind of bland. It feels like not even SAO Abridged could do much with her.

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please use archive.is/articles/activisions-stock-has-been-downgraded-by-an-analys/1100-6453958/

Pretty good article from Gamespot. Activision got their stock downgraded by a pretty good investment management company Cowen & Company. Article goes on to say

Basically all these idiots who invested in Activision are going to end up getting fucked over big time come next year. They all got suckered in by what Kotick was doing and now they're gonna pay the price.

Guarantee you Overwatch has a system similar to this already in place. If anything, when the OW team actually decides to fix the matchmaking, this is what they're going to implement.

I can understand that. And the abridged at least tried, but there was one thing the abridged did wrong, it was **making crafting look way too fucking good, it just gets me angrier at MMOs as if that was possible

You have to go back

See what I mean? Just a downward spiral

You're a product of a culture which has been corrupted by kikes like Weinstein, it isn't your fault - we've all been affected.

Amen.

Recently I made the horrible mistake of commenting on Youtube. It was video discussing the lootboxes for Battlefield 2. I said to boycott them and play BF2 Classic as that's a mechanically more sound product anyway. While many agreed, you still had people sucking their dick just to play the game. Someone told me the newest game is better because "When sniping you can see scope glare on other snipers aiming down their barrel at you. I'll stop at that simple example of attention to detail.". Like that's just a basic game mechanic man, not an attention to detail. Especially when it looks like a damn star is just sitting on the screen that's so bright that it's impossible to miss it.

Do they have photo evidence? Also these people never learn that deleting things off the internet does nothing but peek people's interest even more.

1) I don't play blizzard games
2) whip it out faggot

That's pretty gay, user.

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vid should be called "saddest fuck makes kid slightly annoyed"

I mean sucking dick is gay, not playing Blizzard games is understandable.

hey wait a minute, that third pic is that of a boy!

What a fag

destroy gays

…. and why do you know this user? Is there something you want to tell us?

Thread fucking theme

Well we're still not existing in a state-forced vidya society (although being a Quebecer it means I already pay Ubishit through my taxes at the point of a gun).

Jesus Christ, I figured out how they could make it even worse.

Lootbox Gifting

See, no matter how hard you push and manipulate your customers, some of them just will never engage in microtransactions. They're either too poor or too principled to fall for such obvious jew tactics. That's why so many of these games rely on their whale populations to subsidize the purchases of those who don't pay.

But they are only paying for themselves…

Imagine you're a whale playing on a team of friends, and your group is doing badly, because the algorithm fucked your matchmaking. Your tempted to get microtransactions to help you play better, but in a team based game, you can't carry your squad alone… yet your friends refuse to spend money on microtransactions. What do you do? You buy them FOR YOUR FRIENDS, so that they can do better and win the next match.

And that's just the day to day… they can also offer loot box bundles in digital stockings for christmas you can give to your friends, or in giftwraping for their birthday. Shit, 8 motherfucking days and nights of Lootbox gifting during Hanukkah.

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Gook shit already has this. Matchmaking isn't balanced at all either. If you didn't pay several thousand dollars you will lose. Even if you play 16h a day you will never compete.

glump

You've already seen the early stages of it user.
Unnecessary grinding in crafting or a low amount of experience from killing enemies
with the offer to make these moments a breeze with level up purchase or lootbox filled with high end items
Also time saver packs in any racing & sports game

See Dead Space 3, Shadow of war, Destiny

So people sent emails over Sonic Mania's Denuvo and Ys' bad localization.
How would that even work with Activision?
Even if they never use the patent for fear of bad PR/backlash- could they just sell the Patent to someone else who doesn't give a fuck?

Having the patent owned by someone who doesn't want to us it is better than no patent and everyone does it.