Fifteen minutes of fame has turned into Activision temporarily banning the accounts and resetting the ranks of these players. According to the community manager, it is a form of boosting and you don't want to be caught doing it.
That's why the game has been out for 4 months, millions of people have played, thousands and thousands have already hit top prestige and this is the first time we've seen it?
In order to accomplish this, you would have to know exactly where the choke points are and have multiple people lock them down in unison so the spawns are always the same. Even then, you need to have friendlies on the other team to play along. This is not easy, and if someone wanted to bad enough, this could be done in just about any online game that has maps similarly sized to Black Ops'.
Granted, spawn camping is nothing new (for any game), but doing so on this scale with this amount of success is extremely rare.
Oh yeah! Instead of blaming Treyarch for making the system like that to make it possible for stuff like that and calling for them to fix the problem, let's just relieve them of any responsibility, basically tell them that they don't have to fix shit, and blame those that just used the system that Treyarch gave them.
Yeah, THAT'S going to get this obvious bug fixed! /s
Temporarily banning? I am sure a temporary ban will teach them something, just not what they should be taught. And by now COD games should have found a solution to the boosting when the technique is the same.
Spawn camping is inexcusable when there is an easy design solution. Treyarch has been and proves they will continue to be a substandard developer.
@echo You dont remember old FPS titles then. Quake, Battlefield, etc...They all had this issue, and developers fixed it. Treyarch simply overlooked an issue.
"they need friends on the other team" Yeah, thus there shouldnt be any crying about them CHEATING. they deserve to be banned end of story. We already know the game is broken, so dont exploit it or accept the consequences.
Its easy to spawn camp in this game, it happens in almost every game. Luckily there are people like me with enough respect for other players to ruin the stupid trap and run up in there so they stop spawning there. When its blatantly obvious like this game why would you keep doing it? Not only that but if someone is raping the hell out of my game and going 500 and 1 id leave, so would 9 out of 10 other people, thus this is called boosting.
Games broken, its obvious. Treyarch needs to fix it yes. Does that mean you have permission to cheat? NO.
how about treyarch fixes the damn game so you cant get that many kills(spawn kills on the 501-8 kill/death video). its funny that instead of fixing the broken game, they ban player who play it?
they ban boosters, and thats what that guy did...he played with friends that would stand still, shoot to reveal their posistion, etc. to help the other team get the kills...they have been banning boosters for quite some time now, so it isnt something new
HOWEVER, with that being said, i do still think that the 501 kills vid was a combination of boosters and a flawed spawn system...they fixed one problem, now they have to fix the other
Seems like the easiest fix for this would just be to make the user invincible for a few seconds after spawning. This would make spawn camping a way to get yourself killed.
I thought the guy made it to tell treyarch that their spawning sucks(hence him posting it on youtube and saying that he hopes treyarch fixes this). Him getting banned just means that they aren't going to attempt to fix the horrible spawn system right?
The video of that is a fake. Someone on youtube exposed it. He went to theater mode and showed that the guys on the team getting raped were just running and shooting so that the other team know where they are and getting killed and repeating. So pretty much it was just an elaborate boosting scheme with both teams in on it.
To be fair. Like 3 of the people there were probably just along for the ride, and got banned for nothing. 129-7 isn't a big deal, and what do you expect these guys to do whilst the two at the top are doing the real, spawn trapping. Leave the match? pft.
None of them should have been banned though. Just saying that the lower end guys shouldn't have, even under Treyarch's fucked up principles.
I better stop spawntrapping teams on TF2 and KZ3, maybe Valve or GG are gonna' ban me? :o if they didn't want it to happen they shouldn't have build there game so it should. They're playing perfectly, within the games rules breaching no ToS of the games or the platforms, if it was a full PSN/XBLA ban - and it'd was me, I'd see them in court. (although It'd probably be settled before that, I'm sure).
Yes because every black ops match looks exactly like that video. Oh, and thanks for getting your BF3 advertisement in there, just to drive home the point that you have no idea about the game that you are commenting on
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