Eurogamer:
Activision has admitted that combating Call of Duty cheaters is a "struggle" - but it refuses to wield too heavy a hand when it comes to banning players.
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While i appreciate the gesture.... all of these retro classics have been made available everywhere else. I am hoping to see some other Activision properties make their way out of the shackles of the 5th, 6th and 7th gen. Licensing be damned... bring back the Transformers Cybertron games.
Love the Cybertron games! TF games have been shit lately. Would love to see that era revisited. I even did the multiplayer!
Metaphor on Gamepass just announced! O.o
Seriously, this is the best generation of Xbox ever!!!
We can´t catch a freaking break from awesome games arriving all the time!!!
It’s a HELL of a game. If you like JRPGs in the family of Persona, you will be in heaven… that is until you hear the various battle music…. then you’ll be somewhere BEYOND heaven!
According to a developer working on the title, Activision is working on a narrative-based open-world game based on a new engine through its new studio.
It was recently revealed in an exclusive episode of the 'Grit' podcast that EA once passed up acquiring Blizzard, Activision, and Call of Duty.
Only a big company that has interest in gaming like Microsoft or Tencent could have acquired Activision. Extremely low interest rates at that time certainly helped.
Not exactly sure that a merger with EA would’ve benefited any of their franchises or gamers. I imagine it would’ve been like the activision blizzard one were each publisher retains their own identity. So Activison-Blizzard-EA. But who knows.
If it was owned by EA, COD could’ve disappeared a looong time ago. They have no clue how to manage franchises.
It's a shame EA didn't buy them then, COD should die, it's past its prime and has been since black ops 2, I started playing it when cod 4 mw first came out and it has been downhill since.
Not only cheaters are an issue them haters might be another group to focus on....I'm just saying because there are a lot of people who hate CoD. Looks fun to me just not my cup of tea but I don't hate it by any means either.
How about using a new engine that at the very least delays wallhacks and aimbots? I've seen hacks from MW2 that were almost instantly usable in MW3. It's un-friggin'-believable.
I've played about 35 hours of MW3 on the 360, about the same on PC, maybe had one or two games with someone you might consider to be "cheating". No aimbots or whatever.
To be honest I'd say COD is no worse than any other online game (PC) I've played, it's just the sheer player count means you get more bad eggs.
With the obscene amount of money that CoD generates, I really don't understand how difficult it can be to deal with this problem, be it independent advice or relevant expert staff. Even just getting trigger happy with the ban hammer, ok they may lose a few thousand sales as a result but let's face it, those kind of numbers won't make a dent.
I don't understand why people cheat in online games.
Cheating on tests, I get, Cheating on wives, I get. Cheating for money, makes total sense.
But what's the point in cheating to win an online match? You don't gain anything from it and you certainly aren't fooling anyone else into thinking your a good player.
I suppose griefing is fun, but that's a short lived kind of fun. The "fun" part is the competitiveness of online games, the chance that you might win or lose. If you win all the time because you're cheating all the time then victories become hollow and it ceases to be fun.
Or at least that's how I feel.