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External link →Activision has a patent for making highly skilled players aim worse at times, if they are highly skilled.
This is in order to give lower skilled enemies a chance.
Links to details on Activision's patent
- The actual patent
- YouTube video discussions
- News article
This will kill all eSports overtime, or at least, take the "skill" away... which in turn will kill the "magic".
Plausible that Riot is doing the same, perhaps?
u/Evrmoar designed Valorant's new ranked system for Epsiode 2, if you remember.
What do you think, does this system exist u/Evrmoar?
At Activision I never even talked to the people who filed patents, they were very far disconnected from the game making process. I didn't even know this existed, nor would I have a reason to implement.
I like the conspiracy idea around it tho :)
I don't see a reason to make something like this, in fact the goal of match making is to get the most fair matches possible. Lots of research, from tons of games I've worked on, has shown that the more fair a match is the more satisfied the player is. There is no reason to make players miss more, or be worse, plus you would have to balance that against the human element. It's already difficult to get fair match making, due to players countering each other based on playstyle alone(not even taking into account good/bad games); what benefit would you get from trying to have fair matches while also handicapping players for no reason?