System and method for making free-to-play and activity suggestions

A system for making in-media activity recommendations, the system comprising:

• memory that stores instructions;
• and
• a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor:
• predicts when a user is available to engage with media content based on information from one or more online accounts of the user;
• identifies one or more multi-user activities that correspond to the predicted availability, the identified multi-user activities associated with one or more media content titles;
• identifies one or more peers based on historical data indicating engagement by the identified peers with the media content titles associated with the multi-user activities;
• generates one or more activity recommendations, each activity recommendation specifying at least one of the multi-user activities and at least one of the peers, wherein the at least one peer is selected for the at least one activity based on an affinity between the at least one peer and the user in relation to the associated media content title;
• and
• provides a display of the activity recommendations to a user device of the user.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for making in-media activity recommendations, the method comprising:

• predicting when a user is available to engage with media content based on information from one or more online accounts of the user;
• identifying one or more multi-user activities that correspond to the predicted availability, the identified multi-user activities associated with one or more media content titles;
• identifying one or more peers based on historical data indicating engagement by the identified peers with the media content titles associated with the multi-user activities;
• generating one or more activity recommendations, each activity recommendation specifying at least one of the multi-user activities and at least one of the peers, wherein the at least one peer is selected for the at least one activity based on an affinity between the at least one peer and the user in relation to the associated media content title;
• and
• providing a display of the activity recommendations to a user device of the user.