Activision has been granted a patent this week that allows it to use matchmaking in games to make spending money on microtransactions more enticing.
The patent was filed for in 2015 by a research and development team at Activision.
“This was an exploratory patent filed in 2015 by an R&D team working independently from our game studios,” Activision said.
Uncovered by Glixel, the patent’s description reveals that a game’s matchmaking system can be controlled to make microtransactions-based items more appealing.