A (Game) Industry Insight Into Activision's Monetization Patent

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Assassin's Creed Origins
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Today's Industry Insight goes over two recent troubling pieces of news out of the Game Industry. First, I talked about Activision getting the patent for new ways of monetization tactics for their games, and then talking about the Assassin's Creed Origins preorder mission lock. Here's the post detailing the patent -- https://kotaku.com/activision-patents-matchmaking-that-encourages-players-1819630937
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