Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes
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Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes
The filing points to a possible ad-supported model for PC and console games that is less disruptive than the approaches commonly used in mobile titles.
Watching an ad would earn players another block of ad-free play time, called a “credit”
The patent system is broken. This is such a simple concept, even if a terrible one that sucks.
This is a patent application. Many applications are filed for terrible and/or fundamentally unpatentable ideas. Even by huge companies.
Yeah, I was wondering if they are trying to use USPTO incompetence to destroy the mobile gaming industry.