Lumpy the Cook posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VscseC-rx-8

They keep doing this thing where they make a silly fun new mode and then make it available for like 2-3 days. It's so so hosed up

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Rolling Stone magazine has uncovered a new patent from Activision that was filed in 2015 that talks about how the company wants to design their matchmaking systems in their titles. Activision was granted the patent earlier this month by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

This new patent appears to be about how Activision plans to use “tricks” in their matchmaking system to lure players to purchase more in-game items through the course of playing a game. Specifically (one aspect of the large patent), the patent mentions that high skilled players get paired with low-skilled players to purposefully encourage low-skilled players to spend more money to get better in-game items to match up against higher skilled players.

“For example, in one implementation, the system may include a microtransaction engine that arranges matches to influence game-related purchases. For instance, the microtransaction engine may match a more expert/marquee player with a junior player to encourage the junior player to make game-related purchases of items possessed/used by the marquee player. A junior player may wish to emulate the marquee player by obtaining weapons or other items used by the marquee player.”

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Rolling Stone magazine has uncovered a new patent from Activision that was filed in 2015 that talks about how the company wants to design their matchmaking systems in their titles. Activision was granted the patent earlier this month by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

This new patent appears to be about how Activision plans to use “tricks” in their matchmaking system to lure players to purchase more in-game items through the course of playing a game. Specifically (one aspect of the large patent), the patent mentions that high skilled players get paired with low-skilled players to purposefully encourage low-skilled players to spend more money to get better in-game items to match up against higher skilled players.

“For example, in one implementation, the system may include a microtransaction engine that arranges matches to influence game-related purchases. For instance, the microtransaction engine may match a more expert/marquee player with a junior player to encourage the junior player to make game-related purchases of items possessed/used by the marquee player. A junior player may wish to emulate the marquee player by obtaining weapons or other items used by the marquee player.”

trying to jack off posted:

finally, a game that rewards you for being good by putting noobs in a match to be owned

extremebuff posted:

but only if youre a good player who's also spent money on legendary loot

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Rolling Stone magazine has uncovered a new patent from Activision that was filed in 2015 that talks about how the company wants to design their matchmaking systems in their titles. Activision was granted the patent earlier this month by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

This new patent appears to be about how Activision plans to use “tricks” in their matchmaking system to lure players to purchase more in-game items through the course of playing a game. Specifically (one aspect of the large patent), the patent mentions that high skilled players get paired with low-skilled players to purposefully encourage low-skilled players to spend more money to get better in-game items to match up against higher skilled players.

“For example, in one implementation, the system may include a microtransaction engine that arranges matches to influence game-related purchases. For instance, the microtransaction engine may match a more expert/marquee player with a junior player to encourage the junior player to make game-related purchases of items possessed/used by the marquee player. A junior player may wish to emulate the marquee player by obtaining weapons or other items used by the marquee player.”

Lumpy the Cook posted:

The magazine says that players can actually open their Supply Drops directly in Headquarters with your friends watching you open and see what loot you get. GameInformer says opening the drops this way increases your “social score” in Headquarters. The more you participate in different social events in Call of Duty: WWII MP, the higher chance of earning better loot in Supply Drops.

Even more so, the magazine says that if you open something cool in a drop, everyone around you watching will also be rewarded with some sort of a prize. It is not clear yet what that prize is.

That’s right they actually loving have loot crate score and leaderboards this time

Lumpy the Cook posted:

The magazine says that players can actually open their Supply Drops directly in Headquarters with your friends watching you open and see what loot you get. GameInformer says opening the drops this way increases your “social score” in Headquarters. The more you participate in different social events in Call of Duty: WWII MP, the higher chance of earning better loot in Supply Drops.

Even more so, the magazine says that if you open something cool in a drop, everyone around you watching will also be rewarded with some sort of a prize. It is not clear yet what that prize is.

That’s right they actually loving have loot crate score and leaderboards this time

FactsAreUseless posted:

The world has long speculated as to what, exactly, drove Japanese soldiers to such suicidal levels of devotion. Recently uncovered documents reveal a complex system of social rankings based on the ritualistic receipt of gifts. Select soldiers would hide keys on the bodies of Allied soldiers, which their comrades-in-arms could use to unlock small decorative boxes, many of which contained small trinkets. Yet other boxes themselves contained more keys, fueling a cycle that would lead to the deaths of millions of Japanese soldiers - and leave many more deeply in crate debt.

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Rolling Stone magazine has uncovered a new patent from Activision that was filed in 2015 that talks about how the company wants to design their matchmaking systems in their titles. Activision was granted the patent earlier this month by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

This new patent appears to be about how Activision plans to use “tricks” in their matchmaking system to lure players to purchase more in-game items through the course of playing a game. Specifically (one aspect of the large patent), the patent mentions that high skilled players get paired with low-skilled players to purposefully encourage low-skilled players to spend more money to get better in-game items to match up against higher skilled players.

“For example, in one implementation, the system may include a microtransaction engine that arranges matches to influence game-related purchases. For instance, the microtransaction engine may match a more expert/marquee player with a junior player to encourage the junior player to make game-related purchases of items possessed/used by the marquee player. A junior player may wish to emulate the marquee player by obtaining weapons or other items used by the marquee player.”

FactsAreUseless posted:

The world has long speculated as to what, exactly, drove Japanese soldiers to such suicidal levels of devotion. Recently uncovered documents reveal a complex system of social rankings based on the ritualistic receipt of gifts. Select soldiers would hide keys on the bodies of Allied soldiers, which their comrades-in-arms could use to unlock small decorative boxes, many of which contained small trinkets. Yet other boxes themselves contained more keys, fueling a cycle that would lead to the deaths of millions of Japanese soldiers - and leave many more deeply in crate debt.

FactsAreUseless posted:

The world has long speculated as to what, exactly, drove Japanese soldiers to such suicidal levels of devotion. Recently uncovered documents reveal a complex system of social rankings based on the ritualistic receipt of gifts. Select soldiers would hide keys on the bodies of Allied soldiers, which their comrades-in-arms could use to unlock small decorative boxes, many of which contained small trinkets. Yet other boxes themselves contained more keys, fueling a cycle that would lead to the deaths of millions of Japanese soldiers - and leave many more deeply in crate debt.

FactsAreUseless posted:

The world has long speculated as to what, exactly, drove Japanese soldiers to such suicidal levels of devotion. Recently uncovered documents reveal a complex system of social rankings based on the ritualistic receipt of gifts. Select soldiers would hide keys on the bodies of Allied soldiers, which their comrades-in-arms could use to unlock small decorative boxes, many of which contained small trinkets. Yet other boxes themselves contained more keys, fueling a cycle that would lead to the deaths of millions of Japanese soldiers - and leave many more deeply in crate debt.

FactsAreUseless posted:

The world has long speculated as to what, exactly, drove Japanese soldiers to such suicidal levels of devotion. Recently uncovered documents reveal a complex system of social rankings based on the ritualistic receipt of gifts. Select soldiers would hide keys on the bodies of Allied soldiers, which their comrades-in-arms could use to unlock small decorative boxes, many of which contained small trinkets. Yet other boxes themselves contained more keys, fueling a cycle that would lead to the deaths of millions of Japanese soldiers - and leave many more deeply in crate debt.

FactsAreUseless posted:

The world has long speculated as to what, exactly, drove Japanese soldiers to such suicidal levels of devotion. Recently uncovered documents reveal a complex system of social rankings based on the ritualistic receipt of gifts. Select soldiers would hide keys on the bodies of Allied soldiers, which their comrades-in-arms could use to unlock small decorative boxes, many of which contained small trinkets. Yet other boxes themselves contained more keys, fueling a cycle that would lead to the deaths of millions of Japanese soldiers - and leave many more deeply in crate debt.

FactsAreUseless posted:

The world has long speculated as to what, exactly, drove Japanese soldiers to such suicidal levels of devotion. Recently uncovered documents reveal a complex system of social rankings based on the ritualistic receipt of gifts. Select soldiers would hide keys on the bodies of Allied soldiers, which their comrades-in-arms could use to unlock small decorative boxes, many of which contained small trinkets. Yet other boxes themselves contained more keys, fueling a cycle that would lead to the deaths of millions of Japanese soldiers - and leave many more deeply in crate debt.

FactsAreUseless posted:

The world has long speculated as to what, exactly, drove Japanese soldiers to such suicidal levels of devotion. Recently uncovered documents reveal a complex system of social rankings based on the ritualistic receipt of gifts. Select soldiers would hide keys on the bodies of Allied soldiers, which their comrades-in-arms could use to unlock small decorative boxes, many of which contained small trinkets. Yet other boxes themselves contained more keys, fueling a cycle that would lead to the deaths of millions of Japanese soldiers - and leave many more deeply in crate debt.

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

Ah yes, gentrified lootboxes indicative of late stage capitalism as a means to ostensibly crateshame the proletariat for the win.

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In Training posted:

Ok the thing no one is mentioning is that they shipped this game with an Atari 2600 emulator that you can play on Normandy Beach, lol

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