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Activision: COD Elite will kill cheaters

Amid the ongoing Sony hack furore, Activision has pledged to ensure that Call of Duty: Elite, the new multiplayer-focused service set to launch alongside Modern Warfare 3 this November, will help rid the game of cheaters.

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005396d ago

At the price of your soul.

GarandShooter5396d ago

Meh, what's a soul going for on the open market these days anyway?

tehpees35396d ago (Edited 5396d ago )

so to stop cheats I have to pay? why not make me pay to beat the campaign as well then. why don't Activision and their devs start paying extra money and time into development and sorting cheats themselves instead?

Yi-Long5396d ago (Edited 5396d ago )

... you either pay up, or you end up with cheaters, is that it!?

Getting rid of cheaters should be one of their first and major priorities, and it should be a given, not something you should have to pay extra for.

Typical Activision...(!)

DavidMacDougall5396d ago

Heres a better idea i just don't buy the game if they think non elite players deserve cheaters.

BattleAxe5396d ago

This has me a bit worried about buying this game now. We pay so much for these games year after year, it just doesn't seem right to treat paying customers like this.

jjohan355396d ago

That's a load of BULL. Microsoft Live users pay for their subscription service. There's still a boatload of hackers there playing Call of Duty (not saying it doesn't exist on PSN too, but that's off topic). A lame attempt at falsely justifying for more $$.

DaTruth5396d ago

It will just rid your pocket of money!

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DankJemo5396d ago (Edited 5396d ago )

If they can deliver. Haven't they promised to stomp out cheaters in the past? I'd like to see a proof of concept first, this anti-cheating tech in action before I am willing to pay for it. To my knowledge MW2 and black Ops is still full of cheaters, but i could be wrong I haven't played the game in months... Besides, should be be guaranteed freedom from cheating (within reason,) without paying for a service... Steam seems to offer a pretty good free anti-cheat system known as VAC. Sure, there still are cheaters but there always will be.

Fil1015396d ago

your right I had my suspicians about cheaters on black ops and the other day i was proved right when i was playing s&d on firing range and on the second round someone pulled out a sentry gun not a problem well yeah when the top player on the other side only has 2 kills. i was also playing s&d on mw2 and someone was trying to hack the room we were in it's really sad that cod has become a cheaters playground for 11 year olds and when mw3 arrives they'll be trying to hack that on day one, bottom line this is activisions fault same game engine same exploits.

JohnnyMann4205396d ago

What is this? Blackmail?

BS. You already pay $60+ for the fricken game.

Screw Activision.

BF3 is THE FPS to own.

Vherostar5395d ago

So this is there selling point??? Pay £7.99 a month to stop cheating in a game where by rights there shouldnt be any. There's only cheating thanks to terrible coding! They are asking people to pay because there game is made terrible now?? They have gone too far now..

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mrv3215396d ago

Didn't they say that Blacks Ops would be cheater free? How did that work out again?

sloth33955396d ago

so you have to pay for them to get rid of cheaters

Pixel_Enemy5396d ago (Edited 5396d ago )

Yeah, after they release their games they really don't support them. They release Map Packs for $$ and that's about it. They do patch the games to remove glitches when people start to bitch about them but before you know it, the glitch is back. How many times did they try to patch the infinite care package glitch in MW2.. like 4 times lol

Cheaters aren't really banned on COD ever. Glitchers and boosters have no consequences for their actions. Other games ban users for things like that.

DankJemo5396d ago

I am in favor of a Zero tolerance policy on cheaters. Anyone caught cheating shouldn't be allowed to play online. That's it. Steam does it and it works pretty well. The only people complaining about that are the people who get their accounts banned,but Activision won't do that, at least i doubt they will. Like you said, they barely supported their games in the past, why should they now?

femshep5396d ago

since black ops got hacked and cheated within 6 hours last year i give them 3 hours this year

not to mention the servers the devs will never keep up to date and the huge amount of lag that the game already has.....and allll the glitches and things they never cared for fix

Pixel_Enemy5396d ago

I hope this game gets hacked to shit

femshep5396d ago

hahah its call of duty isn't that promised with every purchase? (joking by the way)

BubbleSniper5396d ago

part of the reason you get lag on call of dookie is because cheaters are doing stuff with the bandwith, in the game.

trippyaaron5396d ago

no, its because activision makes sure not to spend more than it has to on shitty servers

CrimsonEngage5396d ago

Still wont fix all the bugs and shitty re-spawns.

AllroundGamer5396d ago

some of them will be fixed, but you will have to pay for the Elite Ultra Pro package so all the bugs will be fixed ;)

NotSoSilentBob5396d ago

Even then new bugs will pop up due to crappy coding.

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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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OpenGL53d ago

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

galgor52d ago

Can this mother fucker just get lost already

PRIMORDUS52d ago

He belongs in here ⚰️, hopefully sooner than later.

MrDead52d ago (Edited 52d 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.