EA shows that the company may be looking to use CAPTCHA technology to help detect bots in its games.Published yesterday (August 26) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (via SegmentNext), the patent is called ‘Progressive Human User Detection Challenges With Rewards’.
Filed back in February of last year, the idea is that a CAPTCHA is used to detect bots and give players game related rewards.“A user is presented with multiple dynamically-generated puzzles of increasing difficulty,” reads the patent summary. “Each puzzle may include scrambled parts of the in-game reward, for example, a weapon, a skin, in-game currency, etc.”The patent would also sniff out bots by detecting if players are consistently choosing the same/easiest.
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