JP2020031935A - Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

To increase the possibility that a desired content is provided to a user.SOLUTION: A computer executes processes of: selecting a content to be provided to a user out of a lottery target content; and excluding a predetermined content from the lottery target, when the predetermined content already provided to the user is selected by the selecting process and a predetermined operation is performed by the user.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing method, an information processing device, and a program.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a so-called online game (network game) in which a terminal such as a smartphone is connected to a server device or the like via a network and plays a game online, has been widely used.

  In this online game and the like, a random item providing method (Gacha (registered trademark)) for randomly determining characters and items that can be used in the online game and providing the determined items to a user is known (for example, Patent Document 1). reference).

Japanese Patent No. 5335969

  However, in the related art, there is a problem that a desired content may not be easily provided to a user.

  Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a technique capable of increasing the possibility that a desired content is provided to a user.

  The computer selects a content to be provided to the user from the lottery target content, and a predetermined content already provided to the user is selected by the selecting process, and the user performs a predetermined operation. Is performed, a process of excluding the predetermined content from the lottery target is executed.

  According to the disclosed technology, it is possible to increase the possibility that a desired content is provided to a user.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of an information processing system according to an embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of a server device according to an embodiment. It is a functional block diagram of a server device concerning an embodiment. It is a sequence diagram showing an example of processing of an information processing system concerning an embodiment. It is a figure explaining the display screen of the information terminal concerning an embodiment. It is a figure explaining the display screen of the information terminal concerning an embodiment. It is a figure explaining the display screen of the information terminal concerning an embodiment. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a process of the server device according to the embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of lottery information concerning an embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of lottery information concerning an embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of lottery information concerning an embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of content information according to the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of user information according to the embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of exclusion consideration information concerning an embodiment. It is a figure showing an example of exclusion consideration information concerning an embodiment.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

<System configuration>
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of an information processing system 1 according to the embodiment. In FIG. 1, the information processing system 1 includes a server device 10, an information terminal 20-1, an information terminal 20-2,... )including.

  The server device 10 and the information terminal 20 are connected by a communication network such as the Internet, a mobile phone network, and a wireless LAN (Local Area Network).

  The server device 10 is, for example, a server (information processing device) operated by a game provider, and provides the information terminal 20 with an online game (network game). The server device 10 provides the information terminal 20 with contents such as characters and items that can be used in the online game by a random item providing method.

  The information terminal 20 is, for example, a terminal (information processing device) such as a smartphone, a tablet terminal, a PC (Personal Computer), and a game console. The information terminal 20 executes an online game provided by the server device 10 using, for example, a Web browser installed in advance. Alternatively, the information terminal 20 may execute, for example, an online game application distributed from the server device 10. In addition, the information terminal 20 causes the server device 10 to execute a lottery by the random item provision method by an operation of the user, and obtains a content that can be used in the online game.

<Hardware configuration>
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of the server device 10 according to the embodiment. The server device 10 in FIG. 2 includes a drive device 100, an auxiliary storage device 102, a memory device 103, a CPU 104, an interface device 105, a display device 106, an input device 107, and the like, which are mutually connected by a bus B.

  An online game program for realizing the processing in the server device 10 is provided by the recording medium 101. When the recording medium 101 on which the online game program is recorded is set in the drive device 100, the online game program is installed from the recording medium 101 to the auxiliary storage device 102 via the drive device 100. However, the installation of the online game program does not necessarily need to be performed from the recording medium 101, and may be downloaded from another computer via a network. The auxiliary storage device 102 stores the installed online game program and also stores necessary files and data.

  The memory device 103 reads out the program from the auxiliary storage device 102 and stores it when there is an instruction to start the program. The CPU 104 implements functions related to the server device 10 according to a program stored in the memory device 103. The interface device 105 is used as an interface for connecting to a network. The display device 106 displays a GUI (Graphical User Interface) based on a program. The input device 107 includes a keyboard and a mouse, or a touch panel and buttons, and is used for inputting various operation instructions.

  Note that examples of the recording medium 101 include a portable recording medium such as a CD-ROM, a DVD disk, or a USB memory. An example of the auxiliary storage device 102 is a hard disk drive (HDD) or a flash memory. Each of the recording medium 101 and the auxiliary storage device 102 corresponds to a computer-readable recording medium.

  The hardware configuration of the information terminal 20 may be the same as the hardware configuration example of the server device 10 shown in FIG.

<Functional configuration>
Next, a functional configuration of the server device 10 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of the server device 10 according to the embodiment. The server device 10 includes a selection unit 12, a provision unit 13, and an exclusion unit 14. These units are realized by a process in which one or more programs installed in the server device 10 are executed by the CPU 104 of the server device 10.

  The server device 10 has a storage unit 11. The storage unit 11 is realized using, for example, the auxiliary storage device 102 and the like. The storage unit 11 stores lottery information 111, content information 112, user information 113, and the like. Each information stored in the storage unit 11 will be described later.

  The selection unit 12 randomly selects content to be provided to the user of the information terminal 20 from among one or more contents to be drawn.

  The providing unit 13 provides the information terminal 20 with an online game. The providing unit 13 provides the content selected by the selecting unit 12 to the information terminal 20. Note that the content provided by the providing unit 13 can be used in an online game.

  The exclusion unit 14 excludes the content from the lottery target by the selection unit 12 when the content already provided to the user of the information terminal 20 is selected by the selection unit 12 and a predetermined operation is performed by the user. I do.

<Process>
Next, the processing of the information processing system 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 5C. FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram illustrating an example of a process of the information processing system 1 according to the embodiment. 5A to 5C are diagrams illustrating a display screen of the information terminal 20 according to the embodiment.

  In step S <b> 1, the providing unit 13 of the server device 10 transmits information (notification) of a lottery event to the information terminal 20. Subsequently, the information terminal 20 displays a notification of the lottery event on the screen (step S2). FIG. 5A shows an example of a display screen of notification of a lottery event. In the example of FIG. 5A, the information terminal 20 displays a message 501 or the like that informs that "Limited time! A chance to acquire a non-overlapping character every time !? A chance to acquire a powerful character!"

  Subsequently, the information terminal 20 receives a display operation of the winning probability (discharge probability) of each lottery target from the user (Step S3). Here, the information terminal 20 receives, for example, an operation of pressing the “view winning probability” button 502 in FIG. 5A. Subsequently, the information terminal 20 transmits a request for acquiring the winning probability of each lottery to the server device 10 (Step S4). Subsequently, the providing unit 13 of the server device 10 transmits the winning probability of each lottery target to the information terminal 20 (Step S5).

  Subsequently, the information terminal 20 displays the winning probability of each lottery target on the screen (Step S6). FIG. 5B shows a display screen example of the winning probability of each lottery target. In the example of FIG. 5B, the information terminal 20 has a pop-up area 511 in which the winning probability of “Character A” having a rareness of “UR” is 1%, and “Character D” from “Character B” having a rareness of “SR”. Is displayed as being 3%, and the winning probability of each of "Character E" to "Character J" having a rarity of "R" is 15%. The rarities of “UR”, “SR”, and “R” will be described later.

  Subsequently, the information terminal 20 receives an operation for performing a lottery from the user (Step S7). Here, the information terminal 20 receives, for example, a pressing operation of the “pull once” button 503 in FIG. 5A. Subsequently, the information terminal 20 transmits a request for a lottery to the server device 10 (Step S8).

  Subsequently, the selection unit 12 of the server device 10 executes a lottery (Step S9), and transmits a result of the lottery to the information terminal 20 (Step S10). Hereinafter, a description will be given assuming that the same content as the content already acquired by the user of the information terminal 20 by the previous lottery event, the current lottery event, or the like has been won by lottery. In this case, the providing unit 13 of the server device 10 may transmit the result of the lottery and the winning probability of each lottery target when the content is excluded to the information terminal 20.

  Subsequently, the information terminal 20 displays a result of the lottery and the like on the screen (Step S11). FIG. 5C shows an example of a display screen of a lottery result and a confirmation screen of duplication elimination. Here, since the same content “character E” has been won again, the information terminal 20 displays a “fix” button 521 and a “duplicate exclusion” button 522 in the example of FIG. 5C.

  Then, since the “duplicate elimination” button 522 has been pressed by the user, the confirmation screen 523 for duplicate elimination asks “Do you want to consume 5 jewels, exclude this character from the lottery target, and re-select the lottery from unacquired characters? ? ", A" Yes "button 524, and a" No "button 525 are displayed. “Jewel” is an example of the name of a currency (game currency) that can be used in the game. The in-game currency may be made available for purchase in an online game, for example. The in-game currency may be made available to the user of the information terminal 20 by, for example, defeating an enemy, performing a job, or selling a character or an item in an online game.

  Subsequently, the information terminal 20 receives from the user an operation of excluding the content acquired in duplicate from the lottery target (step S12). Here, the information terminal 20 receives, for example, an operation of pressing the “duplicate elimination” button 522 and the “yes” button 524 in FIG. 5C. In addition, the information terminal 20 may display the winning probability of each lottery target when the content is excluded in response to the operation of displaying the probability by the user before accepting the operation to be excluded.

  Subsequently, the information terminal 20 transmits an exclusion request to the server device 10 (Step S13). Subsequently, the exclusion unit 14 of the server device 10 excludes the content from the lottery target (Step S14). Subsequently, the selection unit 12 of the server device 10 executes the lottery again (step S15), and transmits the result of the lottery to the information terminal 20 (step S16). Subsequently, the information terminal 20 displays the result of the lottery (Step S17). When the lottery is repeatedly executed, the processes from step S7 to step S16 may be repeated in response to a user operation.

≪ Lottery process ≫
Next, processing of the server device 10 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a process of the server device 10 according to the embodiment. 7A to 7C are diagrams illustrating an example of the lottery information 111 according to the embodiment. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of the content information 112 according to the embodiment. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of the user information 113 according to the embodiment.

  In step S101, the selection unit 12 receives a request for a lottery from the information terminal 20. Here, a predetermined price may be charged to the user of the information terminal 20. In the example of FIG. 5A, each time a lottery is performed, the user of the information terminal 20 charges a fee of “15 jewels”.

  Subsequently, the selection unit 12 performs a lottery based on the lottery information 111 (Step S102). In the example of FIG. 7A, a plurality of sets of content IDs, winning probabilities, and winning flags are set in the lottery information 111 in association with the user IDs. The user ID is identification information of a user of the information terminal 20. The content ID is identification information of the content to be drawn. The winning probability is a winning probability of the content to be drawn. The winning flag is a flag indicating whether or not the content to be drawn has already been won. If the value is "0", the content has not been won (not yet won). If the content is "1", the content has already been won. Indicates that something may happen.

  In the example of FIG. 8, the content information 112 stores a degree of rarity, a name, and the like in association with the content ID. The rarity is information indicating the degree of low probability of winning of the content. For example, UR (ultra rare), SR (super rare), R (rare), N Rareness such as (normal) may be defined. The name is the name of the content related to the content ID.

  In the examples of FIGS. 7A and 8, in the case of the user whose user ID is “user 001”, the winning probability of the “character A” with the rarity “UR” is set as shown in the pop-up area 511 of FIG. 5B. 1%, the winning probability of each of "Character B" to "Character D" having a rare level of "SR" is 3%, and the winning probability of each of "Character E" to "Character J" having a rare level of "R" is 15%. It is shown that Further, in the case of the user whose user ID is “user 001”, it is shown that “character E” whose content ID is “005” has been won.

  Subsequently, the selection unit 12 determines whether or not the content won by the lottery is duplicated (Step S103). Here, in the lottery information 111 of FIG. 7A, when the user ID of the user of the information terminal 20 and the winning completion flag associated with the content ID of the winning content are “1”, the selection unit 12 performs the lottery. It is determined that the winning content is duplicated, and when the winning flag is “0”, it is determined that the content won in the lottery is not duplicated.

  If there is no overlap (NO in step S103), the selecting unit 12 causes the user of the information terminal 20 to acquire the winning content by the providing unit 13 (step S104), and ends the process. Here, the selection unit 12 changes the value of the winning flag associated with the user ID of the user of the information terminal 20 and the content ID of the winning content to “1” in the lottery information 111 of FIG. 7A. The selection unit 12 records the information in the user information 113 in association with the user ID of the user of the information terminal 20. This allows the user of the information terminal 20 to use the content in a game or the like.

  In the example of FIG. 9, the user information 113 stores a set of a content ID and the number of holdings, the number of holding jewels, and the like in association with the user ID. The holding number is the number of contents related to the content ID held by the user related to the user ID.

  If they overlap (YES in step S103), the selection unit 12 determines whether or not the user of the information terminal 20 has performed an operation of excluding the winning duplicate content from the lottery target (step S105). ). Here, the selection unit 12 wins, for example, when the “duplication elimination” button 522 and the “Yes” button 524 in FIG. 5C are pressed by the user of the information terminal 20 (an example of “first operation”). It is determined that an operation of excluding the content from the lottery target has been performed. In addition, for example, when the “enter” button 521 in FIG. 5C is pressed by the user of the information terminal 20 (an example of “second operation”), the selection unit 12 may perform an operation of excluding the winning content from the lottery target. It is determined that it has not been performed.

  If the exclusion operation has not been performed (NO in step S105), the process proceeds to step S104. When the operation of excluding is performed (YES in step S105), the excluding unit 14 excludes the winning content from the lottery target in the lottery information 111 (step S106). Accordingly, if all contents other than the content desired by the user are excluded from the lottery target, it is possible to ensure that the content desired by the user can be obtained.

  Here, for example, in the lottery information 111, the selection unit 12 is set for the content excluded from the lottery target based on the attribute of the content excluded from the lottery target and the attribute of each other content of the lottery target. The value of the probability of being present may be allocated to each other content. Here, the selection unit 12 may use, for example, the rarity of the content and the type of the content such as a character or an item as the attribute.

  In this case, the selection unit 12 may, for example, equally assign the value of the winning probability of the excluded content to other contents having the same attribute as the excluded content. In this case, if the lottery information 111 in FIG. 7A excludes the content with the content ID “005” and assigns the winning probability equally to other contents having the same rarity in the example of FIG. It is changed like 7B. In the example of FIG. 7B, the selection unit 12 changes the winning probability of the content with the content ID “005” from 15% to 0%, and changes the winning probability of each content with the content ID of “006” to “010”. It is increased by 3% and changed from 15% to 18%.

  Further, in this case, the selection unit 12 assigns, for example, the value of the winning probability of the excluded content to each of the other contents in accordance with the closeness between the attribute of the excluded content and each attribute of the other content. Is also good. In this case, in the lottery information 111 of FIG. 7A, the content with the content ID of “005” is excluded, and in the example of FIG. Is changed as shown in FIG. 7C. In the example of FIG. 7C, the selection unit 12 changes the winning probability of the content having the content ID “005” from 15% to 0%. Also, the content of “R” which is the same as the rarity of the excluded content, the content of “SR” which is the next higher rarity, and the content of “UR” which is the second higher rarity And the winning probabilities of the excluded contents are assigned at a ratio of 3: 2: 1. For this reason, the winning probability of each content having a rarity of “R” and content IDs “006” to “010” is increased by 2.04%. In addition, the winning probability of each content having a rare degree of “SR” and content IDs “002” to “004” is increased by 1.36%. In addition, the winning probability of the content having the rare degree “UR” and the content ID “001” is increased by 0.68%.

  Note that the exclusion unit 14 may collect, from the user of the information terminal 20, a price for exclusion from the lottery target in the process of step S106. The processing in this case will be described later.

  Subsequently, the selection unit 12 performs a lottery based on the updated lottery information 111 (step S107), and proceeds to the process of step S104. Here, the selection unit 12 may forfeit the content won in the processing of step S102 and prevent the content of the content from being acquired by the user of the information terminal 20. As a result, the user recognizes that the lottery in step S107 is a retry of the lottery. Alternatively, the selection unit 12 may obtain the content that has been won in the process of step S102 by the user of the information terminal 20. Thus, the user recognizes that the lottery in step S107 has been executed twice.

  After the process of step S107, the process may proceed to the process of step S103. Thereby, when the duplicate content is won even in the second lottery, the content can be excluded.

≫Collection of consideration≫
Next, with reference to FIGS. 10A and 10B, a description will be given of a process of collecting a price for excluding from the lottery target from the user of the information terminal 20 in the process of step S <b> 106. 10A and 10B are diagrams illustrating an example of the exclusion price information 114 according to the embodiment.

  The exclusion unit 14 is based on the number of types of content selected by the selection unit 12 and provided to the user of the information terminal 20, and based on the number of types of content, the amount of consideration for excluding the winning duplicate content from the lottery target. May be determined. In this case, the exclusion unit 14 may determine the amount of consideration based on the exclusion consideration information 114 illustrated in FIG. 10A. In the exclusion price information 114 of FIG. 10A, a price is set in association with the number of unacquired characters. The number of unacquired characters is the number of types of content not provided to the user of the information terminal 20. In the example of FIG. 10A, the exclusion unit 14 determines such that the larger the number of types of content provided to the user (the number of acquired characters), the larger the value of the exclusion. In the example of FIG. 10A, for example, when only the “character E” of the ten contents from “character A” to “character J” has already been acquired by the user of the information terminal 20, the “character E” is In case of winning in duplicate, the price to exclude is shown to be "5" jewels. Further, for example, when nine contents from “Character B” to “Character J” have already been acquired by the user of the information terminal 20, from “Character B” to “Character J” which are not excluded from the lottery target In the case where any of the above is won in duplicate, the value for exclusion is shown to be "85" jewels.

  In addition, the exclusion unit 14 determines the amount of consideration for excluding the winning duplicate content from the lottery target based on the number of times the content has been excluded from the lottery target (the number of contents excluded from the lottery target). You may. In this case, the exclusion unit 14 may determine the amount of consideration based on the exclusion consideration information 114 illustrated in FIG. 10B. In the example of FIG. 10B, the exclusion unit 14 determines that as the number of contents excluded from the lottery target by the operation of the information terminal 20 increases, the value of the exclusion consideration increases. In the example of FIG. 10B, for example, when there is no content already excluded from the lottery target, any of the 10 pieces of content from “Character A” to “Character J” that has been repeatedly won is excluded for the first time. The price to perform is shown to be "5" jewels. Also, for example, if eight contents from “Character C” to “Character J” have already been excluded from the lottery target, the price for excluding “Character B”, which has been repeatedly won, is “85” jewel. It is shown that there is.

  In addition, the exclusion unit 14 determines, based on the number of times that the user of the information terminal 20 has performed the lottery, that is, the number of times that the content has been selected by the selection unit 12 for the user, determines the winning duplicate content. May be determined. In this case, the exclusion unit 14 may determine, for example, that the larger the number of times the user of the information terminal 20 has performed the lottery, the smaller the value of the exclusion. In this case, the exclusion unit 14 may determine the value of the consideration, for example, so as to be inversely proportional to the number of times the lottery is performed. Thereby, the price paid by the user until the user obtains the desired content can be reduced.

  In addition, the exclusion unit 14 is configured to, based on the number of selections of one content for the user of the information terminal 20 by the selection unit 12, provide a price for excluding the one duplicated content that has been won from the lottery target. May be determined. In this case, the exclusion unit 14 may determine, for example, that the larger the number of times that the user of the information terminal 20 has won one content such as “Character E”, the smaller the value of the exclusion is. Good. In this case, the exclusion unit 14 may determine the amount of consideration for excluding the one content, for example, in inverse proportion to the number of times one content is won. Accordingly, as the number of times that a certain content is obtained in duplicate is increased, the content can be more easily excluded, so that the price paid by the user until the user obtains the desired content can be reduced. .

<Modification>
Each functional unit of the server device 10 may be realized by, for example, cloud computing including one or more computers.

  The processing of each functional unit of the server device 10 described above may be executed by the information terminal 20 by installing a program provided from the server device 10 or the like on the information terminal 20. In this case, a process such as a lottery is executed by a process in the user's terminal based on the program.

  In the above-described embodiment, as an example of content, characters and items that can be used in an online game have been described. However, the disclosed technology is not limited to the online game. For example, wallpapers, stamps, music, The present invention is applicable to a system that provides a user with desired content (data) such as a moving image.

<Summary of Embodiment>
According to the above-described embodiment, when a content already acquired by the user is selected by lottery, the content is excluded from the subsequent lottery by the user's operation on the information terminal 20. Thereby, the possibility that desired content is provided to the user can be increased.

  As mentioned above, although the Example of this invention was described in full detail, this invention is not limited to such a specific embodiment, A various deformation | transformation is carried out within the range of the gist of this invention described in the claim.・ Change is possible.

1 information processing system 10 server device 11 storage unit 111 lottery information 112 content information 113 user information 114 exclusion price information 12 selection unit 13 providing unit 14 exclusion unit 20 information terminal

Claims (7)

Computer
A process of selecting content to be provided to the user from the content to be drawn,
When predetermined content already provided to the user is selected by the selecting process, and when a predetermined operation is performed by the user, a process of excluding the predetermined content from the lottery target;
Information processing method for executing. When a predetermined operation is performed by the user, a process of again selecting a content to be provided to the user is performed among the lottery target contents from which the predetermined content has been excluded,
The information processing method according to claim 1. The excluding process includes excluding the predetermined content from the lottery target when the first operation is performed by the user, and excluding the predetermined content from the lottery target when the user performs the second operation. To include,
The information processing method according to claim 1. The selecting process, based on the probability set for each content of the lottery target, to select the content to be provided to the user,
The process of excluding, based on the attribute of the predetermined content, and the attribute of each content of the lottery target, the value of the probability set for the predetermined content, for each content of the lottery target Sort
The information processing method according to claim 1. The process of excluding, the number of types of content selected for the user by the process of selecting, the number of times the content is excluded from the lottery target, the number of times the process of selecting for the user has been executed, And, based on at least one of the number of times the predetermined content is selected for the user by the selecting process, determine an amount of consideration for excluding the predetermined content from the lottery target,
The information processing method according to claim 1. A selection unit that selects content to be provided to the user from among the lottery target content;
When a predetermined content already provided to the user is selected by the selecting process, and a predetermined operation is performed by the user, an exclusion unit that excludes the predetermined content from the lottery target,
Information processing device having On the computer,
A process of selecting content to be provided to the user from the content to be drawn,
When a predetermined content already provided to the user is selected by the selecting process and a predetermined operation is performed by the user, a process of excluding the predetermined content from the lottery target;
A program that executes

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