[cod]Disappointing... & on Cheating

Geoff Goas gitman at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 20:22:51 EST 2005


looks like MPC work

On 10/30/05, Perry Golden <goldenp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fuel for the fire.  Found this looking to see if there were any CoD2 hacks
> out.
>
> http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/127/asmcod29ie.jpg
>
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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, 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 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...
> >
> >
> S4,-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Mark J. DeFilippis                    defilm at acm.org
> >                                       defilm at ieee.org
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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