{"id":188005,"date":"2021-02-07T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T22:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/electronic-arts-in-game-context-communications-patent\/"},"modified":"2021-02-07T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T22:06:21","slug":"electronic-arts-may-be-developing-a-new-method-for-in-game-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/02\/07\/electronic-arts-may-be-developing-a-new-method-for-in-game-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Arts May Be Developing A New Method For In-Game Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chatrooms and audio communication have been a part of online gaming for decades, with the forward-thinking Sega Dreamcast<\/a> launching with built-in audio chat support back in the late 1990s. Unfortunately,\u00a0online toxicity has plagued virtual communication for just as long,\u00a0but it appears\u00a0Electronic Arts<\/strong>\u00a0might be\u00a0planning to introduce a new means of communication in future games that could help solve this problem.<\/p>\n

EA has filed several patents in recent months that aim to change the way some of the seemingly set-in-stone elements of modern gaming function. One such patent is for a system that could change the way advertising in EA games works<\/a>,\u00a0but more recently the company filed another patent for a “Contextually Aware Communications System In Video Games” that seeks to change the method players use to interact with one another.<\/p>\n

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The most recent patent filed February 4 describes a system that will understand what items or objects a player is focusing on and select the proper type of “communication action” based on this contextual information. The system would allow for many context-driven communications to be mapped to a single button. Given that the system appears to provide an alternative for the increasingly\u00a0monitored voice chats<\/a>\u00a0of present day gaming, it could potentially provide an alternative solution for gamers who want to wave goodbye to their headsets once and for all.<\/p>\n

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Any gamer who has ever played online without a headset\u00a0knows the frustration of\u00a0their character dying on the field two feet away from a med pack while the team medic is off in another part of the map. That could be a thing of the past, as Electronic Arts’ patented system could provide a way for the player to simply look at the med pack and press the dedicated communication button.<\/p>\n

The game would interpret the context, in this example a dying player plus med pack, and send out a message to the rest of the team letting them know that someone needs healing. Even for players that own headsets, some\u00a0games like Sea of Thieves<\/em> have had to\u00a0stop their voice chat features<\/a> due to toxicity in recent years, though it’s\u00a0unclear whether Electronic Arts intends for the system to replace voice chats all together.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that\u00a0these implications are speculation. It’s unclear when the patent could be implemented into a game, if it ever sees the light of day at all.\u00a0Of course, just because one company has a patent on a particular concept doesn’t always mean another company won’t come along and develop\u00a0a similar\u00a0idea, whether that results in legal action like with Valve’s Steam Controller design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those who prefer old fashioned voice chats, other companies have been looking into ways to use artificial intelligence to solve toxicity issues<\/a> on that front, but Electronic Arts<\/strong> is suggesting that there might be other solutions to the problem.<\/p>\n

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