Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters

Faithbleed writes "IW's Robert Bowling reports on his twitter account that Infinity Ward is giving 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters the boot. The news comes as the war between IW and MW2's fans rages over the decision to go with IWnet hosting instead of dedicated servers. Unhappy players were quick to come up with hacks that would allow their own servers and various other changes." Despite the dedicated-server complaints, Modern Warfare 2 has sold ridiculously well.

Comments

Re:How about non USA/Europe players?

[DamienNightbane]

To be fair, nobody wants Brazilians on the internet on the first place, let alone on our game servers.

By the way, Brazil is a third world country.

Re:VAC

[Angeret]

Or, perhaps, an alternate storyline where you would do your utmost to stop the massacre from going ahead or at least minimise innocent casualties instead of joining in (some people just enjoy killing, don't care who or what or why), walking through without firing (as you can do) or simply skipping (less for more). It might change the outcome of the game if you got an alternate option or two, but life isn't particularly linear and these games are trending towards a real-life model. The only thing is that IW probably wouldn't have considered anything additional for the game unless it was something to make it shorter and extract more cash from the player.

What's the point of being one of the so-called good guys when you can chew your way through unarmed men, women & children - without consequence? "But it's only a game" is the standard response. Lemme ask you this... What would happen if a game was released from somewhere not too happy with the West that involved killing a large number of civilians in a realistic manner in, oh, say New York? That would garner calls for the big retail banhammer worldwide, if not stir up enough to get the troops out for a little visit.

If an alternate path was provided, I might have considered buying it, but the lack of that option (after all the other crap) was enough to make me think my interests would be better server by waiting for BC2. On the strength of the look of that, I bought BF2 - and wonder why I bothered with COD5 at all.

(And I'm glad someone knows the phrase is eat before have.)