[cod]Disappointing... & on Cheating

[Perry Golden]

Fuel for the fire. Found this looking to see if there were any CoD2 hacks
out.

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On 10/29/05, Mark J. DeFilippis <defilm at acm.org> wrote:
>
>
> Man, You got to play on a few public servers in the
> states. I can not believe how many wall hacks I am
> seeing, and Aimbots.
>
> As I stated, I was offered a cracked version of COD2
> and a host of other games a week before they came out,
> including the new BF2 add on which is not due for another
> 4 weeks (as of last week when the offer was made).
>
> It is clear that the cheat coders were ready with their code
> before we even got the servers up. I know a wall hack and
> Aimbots when I see them.
>
> On the positive side, I have not found any sharking or exploits
> yet, but I have to ask my clan. They seem to find every one of
> them :). Off it goes to punksbusted.com <http://punksbusted.com>, and TWL
> AntiCheat team
> to be banned at least in competition play....
>
> The way I see it there are two possibilities:
>
> 1. The EA Games/Apple Corporate method:
>
> I have to wonder... Did ACTV get the EA Games virus?
> Or the apple Corporate virus?
>
> Case in point:
> Apple puts out a poor ipod with battery issues
> Class action lawsuit spawned
> On settlement, Apple has to replace battery of all bad Ipods and
> provide a $50 apple.com <http://apple.com> store credit.
> COst to Apple = $14.5 Million dollars (OUCH) Right???
>
> Wrong...
>
> Based on sales of the ipod and Apples income, accounting
> shows that Apple made $14.5 Mil every 9 hours!
>
> Point is.. Do you think Apple is sweating the class action suit
> of the scratched Nano screen now? Hardly! EA's sales of BF2
> similar scenario, and no class action suit is the only real difference.
> So EA ignores their customers. Why shouldn't they? The difference
> in sales is minimal. People complain, but still buy the game.
>
> Why in the world would we expect ACTV to be different?
>
> Possibility 2:
>
> The only possible answer is because in the past they have NOT
> been an EA, or Apple. They have been a corporation of people that
> seemed to care. Individual pride in ACTV and IWN seemed to
> reach outside the company to it's customers. Almost like a
> family business.
>
> That is unique in this industry. I hope remain that way. I believe in
> short time we will get a yea, or nay on anti-cheat, perhaps just
> not as instantaneous as we all would like it to be....
>
> ACTV has a record of "Doing the right thing" in the past. I just
> have to believe that has not changed over night.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> At 10:12 AM 10/29/2005, you wrote:
>
> For the PB/anti-cheat... It's sure that if some cheat comes around the
> game will be dead so let's just hopes they are working on something against
> that... and don't freak too fast before it is really cheat...
>
> Can't wait to get it in europa...
>
>
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> Mark J. DeFilippis defilm at acm.org
> defilm at ieee.org
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