Mobile video game platform Skillz is suing competing platform Papaya for allegedly luring away customers by deceptively getting them to play against algorithms.
“While Papaya’s players believe they are engaged in competition with similar (human) players, Papaya is surreptitiously and artificially filling its player pool with computerized bots,” according to Skillz’s complaint, filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. “By using bots to control the rate at which players win, Papaya can maximize its profits by letting players win just enough that they don’t quit.”
Skillz Platform Inc., a Las Vegas-based public company ...
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