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500 Kills In Black Ops Gets Player Banned

Fifteen minutes of fame has turned into Activision temporarily banning the accounts and resetting the ranks of these players. According to the community manager, it is a form of boosting and you don't want to be caught doing it.

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Warprincess1165436d ago

lol losers, bragging about 500 kills isn't a good thing. I like treyarch even more for banning these losers

Godmars2905436d ago

I'm sure you would have liked them even more if they had made so some slub couldn't get 500 kills without really trying.

rdgneoz35436d ago

Yah, love a company that makes a broken game that you can easily get 500 kills in. I'd like them even more if they fixed their sh!t for a change.

Echo3075436d ago (Edited 5436d ago )

@rdg

Easily get 500 kills in?

That's why the game has been out for 4 months, millions of people have played, thousands and thousands have already hit top prestige and this is the first time we've seen it?

In order to accomplish this, you would have to know exactly where the choke points are and have multiple people lock them down in unison so the spawns are always the same. Even then, you need to have friendlies on the other team to play along. This is not easy, and if someone wanted to bad enough, this could be done in just about any online game that has maps similarly sized to Black Ops'.

Granted, spawn camping is nothing new (for any game), but doing so on this scale with this amount of success is extremely rare.

kancerkid5436d ago

So instead of fixing spawn points (how about adding spawning onto teammates) they ban a person who was playing the game.

Although it probably was boosting because why would you let yourself get killed 250+ times like two of the opponents did.

Also, welcome to Demolition. What do they think people do in that mode?

No Way5435d ago (Edited 5435d ago )

Iduno.. play the game like the dumbass that I am?

Zydake5435d ago

um i think im going to try this LOL im not hacking. I'll just exploit a glitch

JD_Shadow5435d ago

Oh yeah! Instead of blaming Treyarch for making the system like that to make it possible for stuff like that and calling for them to fix the problem, let's just relieve them of any responsibility, basically tell them that they don't have to fix shit, and blame those that just used the system that Treyarch gave them.

Yeah, THAT'S going to get this obvious bug fixed! /s

morganfell5435d ago (Edited 5435d ago )

Temporarily banning? I am sure a temporary ban will teach them something, just not what they should be taught. And by now COD games should have found a solution to the boosting when the technique is the same.

Spawn camping is inexcusable when there is an easy design solution. Treyarch has been and proves they will continue to be a substandard developer.

antz11045435d ago

LMAO, alright guys, we get the game is broken for most of you.

Still, the company is banning people (if only temporarily) and thats never a bad thing. Give them a little credit.

radphil5435d ago

"Still, the company is banning people (if only temporarily) and thats never a bad thing. Give them a little credit."

Banning is simple. Anyone with admin abilities on any game can do it. =|

Soldierone5435d ago

@echo
You dont remember old FPS titles then. Quake, Battlefield, etc...They all had this issue, and developers fixed it. Treyarch simply overlooked an issue.

"they need friends on the other team"
Yeah, thus there shouldnt be any crying about them CHEATING. they deserve to be banned end of story. We already know the game is broken, so dont exploit it or accept the consequences.

Its easy to spawn camp in this game, it happens in almost every game. Luckily there are people like me with enough respect for other players to ruin the stupid trap and run up in there so they stop spawning there. When its blatantly obvious like this game why would you keep doing it? Not only that but if someone is raping the hell out of my game and going 500 and 1 id leave, so would 9 out of 10 other people, thus this is called boosting.

Games broken, its obvious. Treyarch needs to fix it yes. Does that mean you have permission to cheat? NO.

ChrisGTR15435d ago

wtf? thats bullshit. i saw the video and it didnt look like he was cheating , its not his fault the games spawning system is glitched

Maddens Raiders5435d ago (Edited 5435d ago )

this is simply...retarded. What a terrible game.

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aryan_irani5436d ago

how about treyarch fixes the damn game so you cant get that many kills(spawn kills on the 501-8 kill/death video). its funny that instead of fixing the broken game, they ban player who play it?

SixZeroFour5435d ago

they ban boosters, and thats what that guy did...he played with friends that would stand still, shoot to reveal their posistion, etc. to help the other team get the kills...they have been banning boosters for quite some time now, so it isnt something new

HOWEVER, with that being said, i do still think that the 501 kills vid was a combination of boosters and a flawed spawn system...they fixed one problem, now they have to fix the other

DeadlyFire5435d ago (Edited 5435d ago )

Note to Activision. Spawn Trapping. How to fix. Dynamic spawn points. Do it.

OMG 2 spawn points right next to each other? What novice developer did that?

CrazyJ5435d ago

Seems like the easiest fix for this would just be to make the user invincible for a few seconds after spawning. This would make spawn camping a way to get yourself killed.

xxxAnubisxxx5435d ago

In this case, yes. And Black Ops for PS3, yes.

HolyOrangeCows5435d ago

Wasn't positive that people on the other team were helping until 2:32

LOL, he wasted all of that time just to lose everything in the end.

BrokenGamez5435d ago

i agree these guys are obvious wrong and asshole for doing this but i believe part of the blame is on treyarch for such a simple spawn system

Shackdaddy8365435d ago

I thought the guy made it to tell treyarch that their spawning sucks(hence him posting it on youtube and saying that he hopes treyarch fixes this). Him getting banned just means that they aren't going to attempt to fix the horrible spawn system right?

PRHB HYBRiiD5435d ago

so they banned him cause he was spawn camping/killing????its treyarch fault that the spawns are so bad not his :l

syanara5435d ago

banning them isnt going to fix the issue, they need to look at the problem and find a way to prevent that from happening.

RBLAZE19885435d ago (Edited 5435d ago )

The video of that is a fake. Someone on youtube exposed it. He went to theater mode and showed that the guys on the team getting raped were just running and shooting so that the other team know where they are and getting killed and repeating. So pretty much it was just an elaborate boosting scheme with both teams in on it.

Vherostar5435d ago

This is why COD sucks people are just TOO serious with them and care about score.. When did games stop becoming fun and start becoming a competition?

ChronoJoe5435d ago

To be fair. Like 3 of the people there were probably just along for the ride, and got banned for nothing. 129-7 isn't a big deal, and what do you expect these guys to do whilst the two at the top are doing the real, spawn trapping. Leave the match? pft.

None of them should have been banned though. Just saying that the lower end guys shouldn't have, even under Treyarch's fucked up principles.

I better stop spawntrapping teams on TF2 and KZ3, maybe Valve or GG are gonna' ban me? :o if they didn't want it to happen they shouldn't have build there game so it should. They're playing perfectly, within the games rules breaching no ToS of the games or the platforms, if it was a full PSN/XBLA ban - and it'd was me, I'd see them in court. (although It'd probably be settled before that, I'm sure).

lil Titan5435d ago

glad i didn't buy this game lol definitely wont buy the next COD now as if i was BF3 BABY

fullymoated5435d ago

Yes because every black ops match looks exactly like that video. Oh, and thanks for getting your BF3 advertisement in there, just to drive home the point that you have no idea about the game that you are commenting on

lil Titan5435d ago

@fullymoated reading your reply you sound kinda mad...where you one of the guys being killed as soon as you spawn lol oh and i was a dedicated COD player until blops so i think i know about the 40mm kills, spawn camping, the little kids cursing like a sailor, the kill streaks that make it impossible to win a game, the perks, the no team work in this game, everyone thinks there Rambo, just plain camping...you mean that game yeah dont mind my free advertisement of BF3 (didnt see it like that) its obvious you havent played the game ive just discovered and found it to be WAAY better than COD but youll learn in time. back to BFBC 2 for me

antz11045435d ago

@ lil

Dude you sound more mad than he does....bitter even. Frustrated? Probably. This video is an EXTREME representation of a match. I do play alot of CoD and I never see someone getting more kills than mid-high 30's.

Theres nothing wrong with perks, they spec a character out to how you want to play. Nothing wrong with that and some of them you really have to earn the pro version.

Killstreaks don't end a match, just come prepared: attack chooper? use a strela launcher. Attack dogs? shoot/claymore.

Oh and I forgot kids dont swear in BF, sure :/......CoD has a mute button man.

Go troll somewhere else.

fullymoated5435d ago

@ lil
Ha ha, sorry, from your initial post it sounded like you based your whole opinion on a single video, and then decided to blurt out your favourite game, LOL

lil Titan5435d ago

@ant are you specail in the head or something? frustrated no that was along time ago when i accepted COD is like this and is never going to change.

being a troll? i guess thats what everyone calls a person when they point out the truth about a game smh

tell me all the stuff i listed does not consist of a COD game...or are you mad everything i wrote was the truth oh and lil kids do curse on BF too its just that i dont hear as many as i would if i went on a COD game, be honest. and to be honest on my part on BF its really a rare i do hear kids

COD takes no skill to play where as BF takes time to understand, theres a learning curve and someone getting 500 kills...im not saying thats every COD match you must be simple minded if you thought that was what i meant, then i would happly be called a troll for that but no. and killstreaks do change the course of the game does it not...stop me anytime i am making one untrue statement please! but you cant since you know its all true, i used to be a COD player so you cant tell me everything i wrote isnt true i have no reason to lie about a game that shows you everything that i wrote.

and the the perks oh there is a problem with that system not even going to touch that one

@moated you shouldnt have replied, ant had something worth replying back to. You just reminded me of a lil brother saying "YEAH" after the big brother is trying to take up for him and i did blurt out my favorite game at the end you are right about that BFBC 2...but thats going to change when the new one comes out, peace

antz11045435d ago

@ Lil,

No, being a troll is when you spew out your negative OPINION and act as though its a fact. Thanks, your making a fantastic point of that. Then you drop some BF3 bomb, because, lets face it, this article has anything to do with that...:/

The stuff you listed exists in varied forms in ALL FPS's, to single out BLOPS does make you look bitter. Plus, I gave you solutions for all the moans you threw out and you jump into skill level. Its a FPS, all of which have a learning curve, and they're all the same: point, shoot, take cover, throw grenade, duck. The only difference online is mostly how many bullets a player can absorb before dying. CoD is a lot mor realistic in this point than say Halo or Team Fortress. To say it requires no skill is just a stupid response.

As is "and the the perks oh there is a problem with that system not even going to touch that one"...... Real debate material right there. People earn pro perks, some can earn certain ones easily while some can earn others easier. Thats what makes it interesting, and it adds to customization in terms of where you're fighting and how you like to play.

You still sound like "well i don't have this game but I see its broken from other people playing it and I want to have others listen to me." Yeah, that sounds like some form of frustration. Trust me, I'm not the one here thats coming across as simple.

I'm with you fullymoated, props for trying to make it a jk and then he attacks you.

lil Titan5435d ago (Edited 5435d ago )

@ant i see you basicly trying to defend a losing battle as if i didnt think you was going to bring up that "well other games are like that" bull

didnt come here to so called "troll" (even though everything i said was not negative cant say its negative when its the truth NOT an opinion which your opinion on my facts seems funny to me) all did was give BF3 a little shout out as i complete the end of my comment and i didnt think anyone would care to read or take seriously...guess i was wrong you took it to heart and its really sad as i dont care much for any of this what fps is better bull its stupid but BF3 is and will be better lol and i know thats going to eat you up inside and i say things like that to get you mad or say things like "oh this idiot" when really your taking a stupid little comment that didnt have no meaning to me and making it seem as if i punched your "buddy" over there in the face...clam down if it makes you happy blops is the best game ever The End what ever helps you sleep at night anyways only in time will you learn hahaha

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AliTheBrit4205435d ago

Why is it good?

Why are they punishing players for taking advantage of real problems the DEVELOPERS left in the game.

AKA5435d ago

what?
i will not play a cod again for a good while or never again. i play cod4 fore few months and mw2 for few days and will avoid the rest.

but why to blame the player when the game is broke?
he did not glich, the guy was taking advantage of the poor quality gameplay of a broken franchise of a game...

ZombieNinjaPanda5435d ago

LMAO, I love the fact, that due to their crappy spawn system, they ban the kid for taking advantage of it.

How is this a form of boosting?

Volomon5432d ago

Well you know it wasn't possible with IW's games because they never were retarded enough to use TWO fucking spawn points right next to each other. Trearch had an issue with this shit from their first game and never addressed it. This is the result. IW's respawn system checked if their was an enemy near by before it spawned you. If their was it would move to another spawn point.

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Jio5436d ago

Treyarch is doing him a favor. Now he can quit Call of Duty

LunaticBrandon5436d ago (Edited 5436d ago )

Don't fix your game just ban people instead. Got to love lazy developers.

xxxAnubisxxx5436d ago

Wow... seriously? Nothing in this world is ever perfect, why expect it from your games?

Only fat, single dudes who haven't hit puberty yet have time to exploit video games to make them feel their balls are bigger.

Ban'em all.

Quagmire5436d ago

That image burns my soul.

-Alpha5436d ago (Edited 5436d ago )

But to be fair to the issue, that "spawn lock" was only capable on that map when you had all the players on your team positioned in the right spot.

TA should fix it, but since it's already happened it's good that they took action against the boosters.

That sort of boosting was a clear exploit, but regardless of what you think of COD's quality you can't expect developers to catch every exploit, especially one like this that must have taken time to figure out.

Ducky5436d ago (Edited 5436d ago )

It was an objective-based game-mode though.
When one team stops trying, they're going to get spawn-trapped in that mode since the spawn-location is mostly static (or at least... I don't think the spawn locations moves around)

GoldPS35436d ago

How can you fix boosters?

BX815435d ago

The same way you fix a dog!

Harknesss5436d ago

"Wow... seriously? Nothing in this world is ever perfect, why expect it from your games?"

Guess the main issue with all subsequent COD games after 4 is that the online segment of COD 4 was nearly perfect. Something no other COD game has been able to match.

DarkTower8055436d ago (Edited 5436d ago )

"Guess the main issue with all subsequent COD games after 4 is that the online segment of COD 4 was nearly perfect. Something no other COD game has been able to match. "

REALLY?!? We must have played different versions of the game then. The one I played was a 3x Brett Favre fragfest, had glitchers that would hide in walls and rocks, suffered from poor connections of the host and had NO host migration.

The ONLY thing COD4 had was great maps that were EXTREMELY well balanced. I think COD4 still has the best collection of maps of any game.

COD4 is still my favorite installment, but please don't EVER say the online portion was nearly perfect, because that couldn't be further from the truth.

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Kotick claims lawsuit objecting to MS-Activision deal was "tied to Embracer's desire to boost sales"

Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.

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OpenGL1d 2h ago

Yeah, the Microsoft deal has DEFINITELY worked out for everyone.

galgor23h ago

Can this mother fucker just get lost already

PRIMORDUS22h ago

He belongs in here ⚰️, hopefully sooner than later.

MrDead7h ago(Edited 7h ago)

Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.

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Microsoft needs to listen or risk irreparable harm to Call of Duty

Windows Central: "The money may keep rolling in, but Microsoft is the custodian of one of the biggest selling video game series in history. If something doesn't change, I fear we'll reach a breaking point and irreparable damage will have been done."

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StoneTitan51d ago

Because ms is so good at managing studios, surely they will get it right

:P

franwex51d ago

In my view, they should probably merge MP with Warzone and essentially make it free to play like Halo Infinite. The campaign/zombies mode can be $30 yearly DLC. I know this would be insanity as most COD players essentially pay the full price of the game simply for the MP. However-with a shrinking player base they may have to consider it. Making it free would bring in a ton of players.

Profchaos51d ago

To late MW3 should have been a lesson but here we are two years later with a steaming pile a shite called blops7

bsingle4051d ago

Nothing lasts forever, eventually something will come along to make people forget about COD

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1Victor51d ago (Edited 51d ago )

@Oumba:”We’ve heard that story many times before 😂”
You know what we seen many times good franchises been run into the ground by bad management like h___o , f___a and most of the sports game oh I forgot the dynasty warriors
Oh forgot to say
Happy thanksgiving to all the N4G members
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MDTunkown50d ago

Halo killer once arrived and technically call of duty killer also arrived, its name is Fortnite

dveio51d ago

Call of Duty was riding the revenue horse and charts for ~20 years. Whether undeserved or deserved.

But I endorse everyone to remind you that Microsoft could have decided differently when they took it over.

The money was certainly there, and they could have taken their time revamping the franchise:

Current-gen tech, manageable microtransactions, not imitating Fortnite and returning to core values of the franchise's origin.

They didn't.

Let's see next year. Hopefully without the then 13 years old PS4 and One hardware.

blacktiger51d ago

you need to stop saying "let see next year"

XBManiac50d ago

dveo is an alias of Phil Spencer?

XBManiac50d ago

dveio is an alias of Phil Spencer?

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Xbox May Update: Retro Classics Come to Xbox Game Pass, PC Gaming Updates, and More

A variety of new updates are available this month across the gaming platforms. Coming today, Retro Classics games are available to play for Xbox Game Pass members. Players who stream on the Xbox app on PC now have an additional streaming option with GeForce Now. Game Bar introduces quick settings, visual updates for Widgets in Compact Mode, and coming soon, Microsoft Edge Game Assist, an in-game browser that brings an immersive game-centric experience to Edge. And Xbox gift cards can now be redeemed for any amount via Xbox Rewards.

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darthv72240d ago

While i appreciate the gesture.... all of these retro classics have been made available everywhere else. I am hoping to see some other Activision properties make their way out of the shackles of the 5th, 6th and 7th gen. Licensing be damned... bring back the Transformers Cybertron games.

P_Bomb239d ago

Love the Cybertron games! TF games have been shit lately. Would love to see that era revisited. I even did the multiplayer!

MrBaskerville239d ago

Is the retro classics for all consoles?

Obscure_Observer240d ago

Metaphor on Gamepass just announced! O.o

Seriously, this is the best generation of Xbox ever!!!

We can´t catch a freaking break from awesome games arriving all the time!!!

Deathdeliverer239d ago

It’s a HELL of a game. If you like JRPGs in the family of Persona, you will be in heaven… that is until you hear the various battle music…. then you’ll be somewhere BEYOND heaven!

babadivad239d ago

Just finished Clair Obscur. This should be fun.