The system would be able to draw on your chat history and social media to figure out if you're colluding with opponents.
Like a stern, cigar-chomping general, EA has grown tired of its players befriending their enemies, and has come up with a way to stop it. A new patent from the company, titled"," is meant to catch players on opposing teams who unfairly partner up before they can ruin the game for everyone else., the system would utilise an AI to sift through a wealth of player data and make judgments about whether their in-game behaviour constitutes collusion or not.
If an analysis of a player's out-of-game data and in-game data suggests something up, then it's time for punishment. Unlike the discomfiting AI-based surveillance of the detection system, the proposed punishments are all standard fare, and include being"removed from the match, disqualified from rewards, suspended, banned and so on".
EA says punishments could be automatic or may follow a"a human or algorithmic review" of the collusion-detection system's output, which sounds like quite a major decision to be undecided about. The whole thing already sounds like a privacy minefield with a major potential for error: I'm not sure removing humans from the equation entirely would make me feel much better about playing a game using this kind of tech.
Of course, it's important to remember that this is just a patent for now, and companies regularly churn out patents for systems and technologies they never end up using. Still, it's interesting to see where EA's head is at these days. Another recent patent from the company proposedbased on how well you played.
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