Modern Warfare 2 Online Play Crippled by PS3 Security Breach

One of the biggest fears shared amongst PlayStation 3 owners, after the console’s massive security breach several days ago, was that wannabe hackers would exploit this weakness, and use it for their own gain to cheat and modify games online. It didn’t take long for these fears to manifest themselves as reality, and now one of the most popular online shooters around has been brought to its knees.

[BigWoopMagazine]

And this is precisely why I don’t care if you intend to pirate or not – if you’re hacking the system, you’re pissing me off. Once this trickles into games I like such as BFBC2 and RDR it’s gonna really get me riled up. What’s the point in playing using an aim-bot and other cheat crap like that? It kills the fun, flat out. We had it good, free online support, reliable service, regular updates, but nooooo, that wasn’t good enough. Ahhhh… thank god some devs still believe in making a good single player game – there’s no point in competing to see who the better cheater is.

[NJShadow]

Yeah. Citing the PSP, I think that was a system where many were willing to lose the ability to play online since it was, of course, the PSP. The PS3... not so much, so this really does suck.

[Istanbull]

WHERE were this articles back in 2009?? The hacks have been there the month MW2 got released!

The game just got more cheaters with the security breach.

I hope Sony bans and bricks people using cfw. Show no mercy!

[WildArmed]

@Istanbull

LoL, it gives them another chance to play Sony for their lack of security in MW2.
Because when people hacked, it was ok..
now since the PS3 is hacked, every1 can start pointing fingers @ Sony :)

I mean people talk as if CoD4 didn't have hacks back in '08.. b4 the jail break.

Jailbreak just made it easier 4 10 year olds to hack game.. well kodus to the dumass hackers out there..
You definitely made console gaming a better place

[MWong]

Agreed w/BigWoopMagazine

The entire situation is getting annoying. I keep thinking DreamCast here we go again. I knew it was going to be hacked, but not to this level. The thing that I really find funny is that I keep reading articles saying they only wanted to bring back previously removed features. I still don't see those features.

[Istanbull]

Why bring up the Dreamcast? I know some butthurt fangirls tried to downplay the PS3 and called it a disaster like the Dreamcast back in 2007.

The truth is, Dreamcast is a better console than both of the xboxs.

[FailOverHero]

Xbox? Lol lashing out cos you're angry and frustrated huh? Understandable

[xX-StolenSoul-Xx]

This is already old news

[lil Titan]

Next article im hoping for "Sony Strikes BACK!!! Angry banned gamers cry"

[xAlmostPro]

It was full of hacks before the breach or the jailbreak. The jailbreak just made it more accessible to people who aren't actually hackers, so they could just copy & paste the code and install..

get off of the bandwagon :L

[RonXD]

Lol the game has been crippled since it came out...

[MGRogue2017]

FFS, How many more articles do we need on here about this?!?!

[dragonyght]

Modern Warfare 2 Online Play Crippled by PS3 Security Breach? lol its funny how its only activision games that is affected by this i mean there lots of other multiplayer games on the ps3 im sensing shit of blames here

[FailOverHero]

Modern Combat, the 8 buck CoD lite game has also been hacked...I don't see Activision's logo on that...

[dragonyght]

so you comparing activision to gameloft a small time game dev whos backlog been iphone games nice 1 FailOverHero you just prove how incompetent they are

[InTheLab]

Played all day last night with no problems. The only hack I've seen was posted on this site...

[dukenukemisyourgod]

call of duty black ops is still better than crysis 2.

no multiplayer bots in crysis 2 fail.

plus no prone crawl or leaning like call of duty black ops on pc

[Kon]

haha noob.

[dukenukemisyourgod]

crysis 1 multiplayer u can prone crawl crysis 2 u cant.

DOWNGRADE

[dukenukemisyourgod]

mw2 sucked to begin with

[mrv321]

And how do you explain the problem PRIOR to PS3 being hacked you know...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

I don't remember PS3 being hacked in June 2010, I also don't see how the PS3 hacks can effects 360 and PC but I'm not a developer and so I wouldn't be make up stuff.

THE PS3 HACKS MADE THE SITUATION WORSE, BUT IT WAS A LAGGY/GLITCH FEST TO BEGIN WITH.

[Firstkn1ghT]

Online cheaters just piss the hell out of me. Adding these aim-bots just to boost their score or whatever. Hardcore insecurity issues is the problem. I'm sure Sony is doing something to try to combat this. They need to take a page from the Xbox Live book and look at their superb online security. Cheaters SUCK!

[DingDangDoo]

Jesus, If this site was worldwide news, people would still be reporting michael jacksons death.

[Emperra]

COD is not the only game, Socom: Confrontation is being affected too, sony need to cap this oil leak asap

[bunfighterii]

The game is officially screwed online, which is a shame because I love it and still play it.

[Soldierone]

Id like to play it again, but its impossible. Why do people teach others how to pretend to be hackers? I dont see the sence of victory there.

I mean you suck so bad at a game that you are willing to get your console perm banned for "hacking" or pay a fee to do so? just quit playing games already.

[bunfighterii]

Oh I hope Sony fix this prior to the release of Killzone 3...

If that gets hacked it'll be a total shame. I wonder what's taking them so long to fix this hack- unless it is unfixable as claimed... that'd be a damn shame.

[Kingscorpion1981]

You don't have to worry about that because Killzone 3 will use Dedicated servers!

[bunfighterii]

Woot woot! I don't really know the difference but I'm assuming if the servers are dedicated it means Sony host them and they can't be hacked right?

[Kingscorpion1981]

Exactly, Sony host them and has a root key they use I would've probably agreed with you if their servers were PVP and not dedicated or if you were able to exploit saves like in COD:MW2.

[HeartDisease]

so you can easily get on mw2 and find hacked lobbies? how hard would it be to then ban the people creating them? is there something i am missing here? hell anyone with half a brain and gives half a shit would have made a script to auto ban the people creating them, or keep them from being created to start with.

oh wait its activision and they dont give a fuck for a few reasons. among them being that they are hard at work on the next game to sell you idiots, and its the ps3 so why would they care.

[Gamer_Z]

I dont know what the heck Activision is talking about! This game was hacked when it launched back in 2009.

[Thepro318]

people using the custom firmware and using edited save files for MW2
by them doing that .They get another main menu the so called hackers can get anything they want from ac130 without kills to taking everyone perks away.

[EVO-OM3GA]

You don't need the custom firmware to run the hacks anyone can do it If you have the tool kit

[InTheLab]

The title should read...

"Modern Warfare 2 on all consoles crippled by half assed developers with one foot out the door".

I remember playing the same game on my 360 a few weeks after launch. Every other map was loaded with hacks like the incredible flying man, to infinite noob tubes, aim bots, and everything else.

MW2 has been broken since launch.