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Black Ops 2 #1 Ranked Xbox 360 Player Resets Stats Due to DDOS Attacks

GR - "The global number one ranked player for Black Ops 2 on the Xbox 360 had to reset his stats due to internet attacks..."

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ab5olut10n4119d ago

man, if this is real then W-T-F....why? seriously.

TheGamerDood4119d ago ShowReplies(14)
finbars754119d ago

Maybe now the kid can go back to school and get some education or even see what the world looks like from the outside of his house.

Kurt Russell4119d ago (Edited 4119d ago )

You're on a game site comment section calling out a nerd... You must be soaked in irony right now.

f7897904119d ago

Kurt I don't think you realize how many hours a day are put into being at the top.

Essentially all free time is spent playing a single game and doing NOTHING else.

masa20094119d ago

So what, other people spend their life collecting stamps or old records which you could call just as dumb.
For the record, I've never even played a single online game of COD.

finbars754119d ago (Edited 4119d ago )

Obvisouly Kurt missed the point here.f789790 hasnt.The fact you have to put in pretty much night day hours to be at the top doesnt mean you are a nerd which I never implied here but it means that you have a serious addiction and nothing else in the world matters.Which is where my comment was going.GTF outside and live a real life.Masa2009 just tells me that he has no idea of what comparing apples to oranges means.People collecting items is a whole different thing they dont spend every winking moment doing one thing to be on top.I play alot of games but being educated and going outdoors is a little more important then sitting hours on end destroying my brain cells to be on top of a game.Theres more to life then just that.

Temporary4119d ago

LOL @ people who think collecting stamps is the same as spending 20hrs a day on CoD.

DOUBLE LOLskiiissssssss!!!

Soldierone4119d ago

I think you need to watch a few new TV channels. There are hobbies that do the same thing... Collecting stuff can take all day and night depending on what it is. Organizing it and learning when and where to go. There are jobs for people doing this.....

Its no different than being a gym freak. If you are at the gym 7 hours a day anyone can say "go do something else"

Too much of anything can be criticized....

Dee_914119d ago

"Have Call of Duty players stooped this low that they'll harass people that are better/ranked higher than them? "

Lol welcome to 2008

Tikicobra4119d ago

The comments about him being a nerd and not having a life are really immature and uncalled for. The dude clearly put a lot of time into the game, if that's what he wants to do with his time then more power to him. It's pretty messed up of people to do this to him.

FanboyPunisher4114d ago

Atleast finbar can be on a video game website and still not be an obessed gamer.

Grats for people who are enlightened gamers.

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Derekvinyard134119d ago

and people pay for this? what garbage

JeffGUNZ4119d ago

What, for the internet? Did you read the article? his IP was hacked, not his xbox live account. This can happen to anyone online, PSN or Live. Learn a little before your comment.

ThanatosDMC4119d ago (Edited 4119d ago )

@jeff

He's talking about P2P.

Edit: Nvm, mithril beat me to it. Read below.

mithril4119d ago

ok, it's possible to know ip of other player on both gaming network. But only on games that are P2P. Play games with dedicated servers, your data is not sent directly to another user so your IP is not visible to other user.

Blackdeath_6634119d ago

console users don't understand that concept yet.

Temporary4119d ago

Because the 360 doesnt believe in dedicated servers ... Sony's the only one that really uses them this Gen on consoles from what i've seen.

zimain4119d ago

The platform (ie MS or Sony) doesn't control game servers, the publisher does. Activision doesn't use dedicated for the call of duty series.

And in most cases they only use servers to host playlist settings, lobby creation and the searching platform.

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney4119d ago

I hate cod.. But I have to say that sucks... :(

Ezz20134119d ago (Edited 4119d ago )

every thing have to turn into console war on this site
no need for those fanboy fights every time a problem appear on a rival system

TheGamerDood4119d ago (Edited 4119d ago )

http://n4g.com/news/1151169...

The next Xbox to use Win8 kernel? Scratch my last comment, this would be the reason not to get the next xbox. We're all familiar with the history of MS and Win security. right?

http://www.ign.com/articles...

"Both the Xbox 360 and New Xbox versions of Destiny will be cross-compatible. ****It’s all the same Xbox Live, after all"***

Oh it's all the same alright, security flaws and all. Like I said show me PROOF that this is reproducible on PSN; provide me the links that show a users personal info was acquired in the PSN attack until then it's all just BS.

Mainsqueeze4119d ago

Dude sorry to say but you're an idiot...like many people have stated before, that the DDOS attack has nothing to do with xbox live security and you should probably learn what you are talking about b4 you go blabering on about something you know nothing about. Someone can just as easily DDOS you off your PSN account as they could your XBL account. Oh and maybe you should care a little less about what people are buying next gen...if you don't want the next xbox then don't buy it its as simple as that, nobody else cares about what you think they should or shouldn't buy. True gamers don't align themselves with one single brand.

IAmLee4119d ago

Could of been worst, he could of lost all of his stats on a decent game..

Tonester9254119d ago

Lol people are still trying to reach the top of the leaderboards.

If you haven't been playing the game since release.... EVERYDAY then sucks for you

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Intentions4119d ago

Lol getting upset over a game.

Timesplitter144119d ago

Oh my god poor him. Humanity will never recover from this tragedy.

ab5olut10n4119d ago

it's precisely the lack of humanity that's disheartening. sure, it's just a videogame. not life and death. but to deliberately harass someone over a game, unsolicitedly, just because they're doing better than you? yeah, i'd say that's a ding against humanity alright.

dasbeer884119d ago

Like how Justin Bieber fans are cutting themselves just because he smoked some pot -_-

OdinFallen4119d ago

*facepalm You do realize that was something 4chan started, right?

Nes_Daze4119d ago

#1 in Black Ops 2? Is that supposed to be an accomplishment? ...I kid I kid..lol

SirBradders4119d ago

Its an accomplishment of announcing to the world you have a highly addictive personality problem. Imagine this kid on heroin hell be dead in a day.

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These Call of Duty games are officially dead as servers go offline

Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.

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Call of Duty players are playing this game for the last time before it's taken offline

Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.

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Xbox backwards compatibility sends old Call of Duty games back into the Top Five | UK Monthly Charts

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shadowT249d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty248d ago

Guess that's what happens when there's no good new games to play...

4Sh0w248d ago (Edited 248d ago )

Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.

wiz7191248d ago

@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol

mkis007248d ago

It's going to take 10 years for xbox to generate that much profit...

Rhythmattic248d ago

Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.

EasilyTheBest248d ago

If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.

Rhythmattic246d ago

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

jznrpg248d ago

Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.

shinoff2183249d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai248d ago

Mostly because the new CoD games are garbage. The old games were much better.

Rutaprkl248d ago

Agree 100%. Cod 4, WaW, Black ops 1 & 2, those were the days.

Rhythmattic248d ago

For MP, Unreal tournament , QIII Arena (loved the UT mod) FTW!

RaidenBlack247d ago

Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite

Rhythmattic247d ago (Edited 247d ago )

I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.

thesoftware730248d ago

Wow, good games never get old I guess.

CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.

CrimsonWing69248d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor248d ago

@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts

CrimsonWing69247d ago

I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.

Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.

We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.

I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.

I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.

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