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Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 11 months ago by Goronmon@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

The description of the patent makes it seem like twitch chat integration, which is already a thing in a lot of games like Cities: Skylines.

[-] BudgieMania@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Wait you are totally right, I thought it was merely about big time stuff like where the story goes next, but when you look in the details, it is so wide that it is also basically a patent for twitch crowd control style integration:

Optionally, the plurality of game event options include an occurrence of one or more earthquakes, meteor showers, storms, rain, wind, fires, lightning, or other natural disasters.

Optionally, the plurality of game event options include a placement or existence of armor, weapons, treasure, or other resources available to specific players in the gameplay session.

and so on with more of this type of stuff.

Uuuuh didn't Crowd Control launch before the filing of that patent? I'm kinda lost here.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I found this article about Twitch and Warp World, the company that developed Crowd Control.

This particular bit is interesting to me:

Warp World reported that in October 2017, the month they launched, over a million Bits passed through the Crowd Control Extension.

[-] BudgieMania@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Damn I must be misunderstanding something then because that makes it sound like my man gets to be called an inventor and activision gets to potentially benefit financially for what amounts to describing in legalese the utility after someone else did all the real technical work of making it a reality

which would be kinda fucked