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Microsoft Patent Offers New Ways To Get DLC
Microsoft has a patent pending with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for an automated system that would allow players to download DLC or downloadable games if they're sent an invite by a friend who already owns that content.
Dubbed ATDDC (Automated Direct Transaction and Deliver System for Digital Content), it would prompt players who don't own content to download it if sent an invite from a player who does. The person who sends the invite could also remain in a multiplayer party while the other player is downloading the DLC. This would also apply if you're sent an invite for a downloadable game you don't own.
Microsoft isn't the only one looking at how to offer DLC more seamlessly. Recently, Peter Molyneux mentioned that Fable III would have in-game ways to offer DLC to players that didn't require you to pull out of the game and go the dashboard.
Do you think that this method of DLC prompting – as well as knowing that your friends already own the DLC – would get you to buy more DLC?
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