Patent ID: 9283486
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: A63F

Claim Text:
1. A server device connected to a plurality of player terminals through a network and controlling a game that causes an event where a plurality of players can participate to occur, the server device comprising: a storage unit that stores data on player information including information about an amount of virtual currency possessed by each player in the game; an acceptance processing unit that accepts from a corresponding player terminal a priority display request for displaying a player on a priority basis in a notification candidate list in which are displayed players serving as candidates for notification destinations to notify of occurrence of an event; an update processing unit that performs, when the priority display request is accepted, an update by subtracting data on a consideration charged for the priority display request from data on player information about the player requesting for priority display, and allowing the storage unit to store the data on the player information; a probability setting unit that sets a probability of the player requesting for priority display being selected as a player displayed in the notification candidate list higher than probabilities of other players not requesting for priority display being selected; the probability set based on a selection from a plurality of probabilities for being selected as the player displayed in the notification candidate list, each of the plurality of probabilities associated with a magnitude for the consideration charged for the priority display request; and a list creating unit that creates the notification candidate list in which a plurality of players selected based on the probabilities set by the probability setting unit are displayed as players serving as candidates for notification destinations.