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Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy
Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy
CVG - January 15, 2008
Submitted by sagexsdx (148) at 5:20AM PST on January 15, 2008
"...we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online)", the developer rep has said of Call of Duty 4 on blog FourZeroTwo.
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1apujanata posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 9:14AM PST on January 15, 2008. RE: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy@feelmyring,
Do you suspect newbie ? or someone highly placed (high rank) ?[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
4feelmyring posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 8:43AM PST on January 15, 2008. RE: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy@welshbloke,
I sent an email, to be sure that they do. It's garbage that a few people can come in and just downbid to their hearts content, with no rhyme or reason. I have my suspicions about who it is.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 351 ]bids
3sagexsdx posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 8:35AM PST on January 15, 2008. RE: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy@welshbloke,
well a vendetta against me and a few other high ranked users like feelmyring and joe80 (and a few others).
anyway back on topic. i remember when starcraft was big and when i played... they had key generators and all to get a valid cd key for installing. but those keys didn't validate on the server. im assuming activision doesn't have an internal list of cd keys to query against? i would think all MP-centric games would have gone the same route...[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 148 ]bids
2welshbloke posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 8:02AM PST on January 15, 2008. RE: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy@sagexsdx,
Looking at this thread sagexsdx it certainly looks like somebody has some sort of vendetta against you. Hopefully the admins will pick this activity up.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 60 ]bids
2welshbloke posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 8:01AM PST on January 15, 2008. RE: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracyI am suprised that a modern game is suffering so badly with cd duplication and cracked keys. These things are normally squashed very early on and the only time I tend to see keys like this used would be on a LAN.
Most games I play now the level of piracy and cheating is relatively low compared to say 3 years ago. The Battlefield series seems reasonable well bolted down with the authentification and punkbuster and Steam games in particular Valve ones that are VAC enabled cheating now just seems to be leveled at players who are just a lot better than you.[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 60 ]bids
3sagexsdx posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 6:57AM PST on January 15, 2008. RE: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy@Powertrade,
indeed. maybe people are assuming the article is rumor/false and have disregarded it due to the downbids[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 148 ]bids
5Powertrade posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 6:50AM PST on January 15, 2008. RE: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy@sagexsdx, that is unfortunate.
I'm surprised this article has not significantly affected the stock of CoD4 (PC). Piracy has always been a risk, but if it is affecting the online gaming as well, this is very bearish for the game's stock.[ Guru ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 219 ]bids
3sagexsdx posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 6:39AM PST on January 15, 2008. RE: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy@Powertrade,
no because there's a group of users that have been going around downbidding any article posts or comments from higher ranked users.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 148 ]bids
3Powertrade posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 6:38AM PST on January 15, 2008. RE: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracybids
13sagexsdx posted on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC) at 5:20AM PST on January 15, 2008. Article: Infinity Ward 'blown away' by PC piracy"...we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online)", the developer rep has said of Call of Duty 4 on blog FourZeroTwo.[ Oracle ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 148 ]
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I have suspicions, lets just leave it at that. No one ranked around me, though. And it's not you. ;)