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richardhutnik on 18 November 2009
Xelloss said:
IllegalPaladin said:

Wow, that's pretty serious if true.

Is it happening while people are using IWnet and the matchmaking? Or is this related to the dedicated servers?

 

Matchmaking. This is happening through IWnet official matchmaking service, and is unrelated to the cracked console or dedicated server hacks. Basically, if you go online in MW2 on PC you are exposing yourself. I feel bad for all the legit folk who gave IW the benefit of the doubt , paid for MW2 on PC hoping against hope it wasnt as bad as people were saying only to get slammed by a trojan and get all their game accounts hijacked.

 

 

People engaged in this behavior are particularly dangerous, more than pirates in fact.  Such individuals who do this believe they are acting in the name of justice and think that they can punish a company by doing this, to get it to change its ways.  What possibly could happen here is that, if this continues, Activision decides to no longer do a PC version of the game, and just focus on consoles.  And if the virus and trojan invaders have their way, is the next step to demand a company not implement anti-piracy measures?



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SHMUPGurus on 18 November 2009
richardhutnik said:
Xelloss said:
IllegalPaladin said:

Wow, that's pretty serious if true.

Is it happening while people are using IWnet and the matchmaking? Or is this related to the dedicated servers?

 

Matchmaking. This is happening through IWnet official matchmaking service, and is unrelated to the cracked console or dedicated server hacks. Basically, if you go online in MW2 on PC you are exposing yourself. I feel bad for all the legit folk who gave IW the benefit of the doubt , paid for MW2 on PC hoping against hope it wasnt as bad as people were saying only to get slammed by a trojan and get all their game accounts hijacked.

 

 

People engaged in this behavior are particularly dangerous, more than pirates in fact.  Such individuals who do this believe they are acting in the name of justice and think that they can punish a company by doing this, to get it to change its ways.  What possibly could happen here is that, if this continues, Activision decides to no longer do a PC version of the game, and just focus on consoles.  And if the virus and trojan invaders have their way, is the next step to demand a company not implement anti-piracy measures?

Aren't we taking this a little bit too far? Why would Activision, the company of evil, no longer support PC versions of their most powerful franchise? Losing money is not an option.

There's always the single player!



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mirgro on 18 November 2009
richardhutnik said:
Xelloss said:
IllegalPaladin said:

Wow, that's pretty serious if true.

Is it happening while people are using IWnet and the matchmaking? Or is this related to the dedicated servers?

 

Matchmaking. This is happening through IWnet official matchmaking service, and is unrelated to the cracked console or dedicated server hacks. Basically, if you go online in MW2 on PC you are exposing yourself. I feel bad for all the legit folk who gave IW the benefit of the doubt , paid for MW2 on PC hoping against hope it wasnt as bad as people were saying only to get slammed by a trojan and get all their game accounts hijacked.

 

 

People engaged in this behavior are particularly dangerous, more than pirates in fact.  Such individuals who do this believe they are acting in the name of justice and think that they can punish a company by doing this, to get it to change its ways.  What possibly could happen here is that, if this continues, Activision decides to no longer do a PC version of the game, and just focus on consoles.  And if the virus and trojan invaders have their way, is the next step to demand a company not implement anti-piracy measures?

To be honest, if their future plans for CoD was to release the same pile of garbage that was MW2 then it will hardly be missed.



JaggedSac on 18 November 2009

^^

People seem to be enjoying it:

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

          Current Players/Peak Players 24 Hours/Game Title

       
 
  83,542 86,032   Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
  71,843 83,641   Counter-Strike: Source


Mudface on 18 November 2009
richardhutnik said:

People engaged in this behavior are particularly dangerous, more than pirates in fact.  Such individuals who do this believe they are acting in the name of justice and think that they can punish a company by doing this, to get it to change its ways.  What possibly could happen here is that, if this continues, Activision decides to no longer do a PC version of the game, and just focus on consoles.  And if the virus and trojan invaders have their way, is the next step to demand a company not implement anti-piracy measures?

Um yeah, apart from the fact it's down to a false positive....



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mirgro on 18 November 2009
JaggedSac said:

^^

People seem to be enjoying it:

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

          Current Players/Peak Players 24 Hours/Game Title

       
 
  83,542 86,032   Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
  71,843 83,641   Counter-Strike: Source

That's interesting, the amazing MW2 that just came out can barely compete with a game which came out nearly a decade ago....

Also wasn't the peak 89k a day ago?

I'm also wonderinghow many of those people are using the pirated version, which can play online on steam just fine.



richardhutnik on 18 November 2009
Mudface said:
richardhutnik said:

People engaged in this behavior are particularly dangerous, more than pirates in fact.  Such individuals who do this believe they are acting in the name of justice and think that they can punish a company by doing this, to get it to change its ways.  What possibly could happen here is that, if this continues, Activision decides to no longer do a PC version of the game, and just focus on consoles.  And if the virus and trojan invaders have their way, is the next step to demand a company not implement anti-piracy measures?

Um yeah, apart from the fact it's down to a false positive....

Fortunately it is.  The mindset is still out there, which is why I and others ended up responding here to it.



shio on 19 November 2009

probably a false positive.



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