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