MYSTERY BOXES THAT ADJUST DUE TO PAST SPENDING BEHAVIOR
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1. A system that delivers offers to users of an online game, the system comprising:
- one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to;
execute an instance of a game space such that users participate in an online game in the game space through client computing platforms, the users include a first user;
effectuate presentation to the users on the client computing platforms of a shop interface that includes offers to sell virtual items in exchange for consideration, the virtual items including probability item bundles, the individual probability item bundles being associated with individual sets of potential awards where the individual potential awards include one or more virtual items usable in the online game, the offers including a first offer to sell a first probability item bundle associated with a first set of potential awards;
monitor purchase histories of the users through the shop interface;
in response to receiving acceptance of the first offer by the first user, effectuate purchase of the first probability item bundle by the first user by adding the first probability item bundle to a user inventory of the first user;
characterize a purchase history of a first user as a first user'"'"'s spending metric;
obtain distribution probabilities for potential awards included in the first set of potential awards associated with the first probability item bundle purchased by the first user, one or more of the distribution probabilities being determined based on the first user'"'"'s spending metric;
in response to activation of the first probability item bundle by the first user, stochastically selecting one of the potential awards in the first set of potential awards as an actual award based on the obtained distribution probabilities; and
distributing the actual award to the first user in the online game.
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Abstract
A system and method for varying the distribution probabilities of individual potential awards associated with probability item bundles depending on a purchase history of a user activating a probability item bundle.
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18 Claims
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1. A system that delivers offers to users of an online game, the system comprising:
one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to; execute an instance of a game space such that users participate in an online game in the game space through client computing platforms, the users include a first user; effectuate presentation to the users on the client computing platforms of a shop interface that includes offers to sell virtual items in exchange for consideration, the virtual items including probability item bundles, the individual probability item bundles being associated with individual sets of potential awards where the individual potential awards include one or more virtual items usable in the online game, the offers including a first offer to sell a first probability item bundle associated with a first set of potential awards; monitor purchase histories of the users through the shop interface; in response to receiving acceptance of the first offer by the first user, effectuate purchase of the first probability item bundle by the first user by adding the first probability item bundle to a user inventory of the first user; characterize a purchase history of a first user as a first user'"'"'s spending metric; obtain distribution probabilities for potential awards included in the first set of potential awards associated with the first probability item bundle purchased by the first user, one or more of the distribution probabilities being determined based on the first user'"'"'s spending metric; in response to activation of the first probability item bundle by the first user, stochastically selecting one of the potential awards in the first set of potential awards as an actual award based on the obtained distribution probabilities; and distributing the actual award to the first user in the online game. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer implemented method of delivering offers to users of an online game, the method being implemented in a computer system that includes one or more physical processors executing machine-readable instructions, the method comprising:
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executing an instance of a game space such that users participate in an online game in the game space through client computing platforms, the users include a first user; effectuating presentation to the users on the client computing platforms of a shop interface that includes offers to sell virtual items in exchange for consideration, the virtual items including probability item bundles, the individual probability item bundles being associated with individual sets of potential awards where the individual potential awards include one or more virtual items usable in the online game, the offers including a first offer to sell a first probability item bundle associated with a first set of potential awards; monitoring purchase histories of the users through the shop interface; in response to receiving acceptance of the first offer by the first user, effectuating purchase of the first probability item bundle by the first user by adding the first probability item bundle to a user inventory of the first user; characterizing a purchase history of a first user as a first user'"'"'s spending metric; obtaining distribution probabilities for potential awards included in the first set of potential awards associated with the first probability item bundle purchased by the first user, one or more of the distribution probabilities being determined based on the first user'"'"'s spending metric; in response to activation of the first probability item bundle by the first user, stochastically selecting one of the potential awards in the first set of potential awards as an actual award based on the obtained distribution probabilities; and distributing the actual award to the first user in the online game. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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