Player banned for 14 years in Modern Warfare 3
Some people just try too hard. Or at least cheat too hard.
One gamer, who apparently goes by the name of “HotShot_01”, has been banned for 14 years on the PS3 version of Modern Warfare 3 or more specifically – 5000 days.
“HotShot” was caught boosting in the game by using 6 copies of the game on 6 different PS3 consoles. How exactly this was used to actually boost is beyond me right now, I still can’t get over the idea that someone would buy six of the same console just to prestige several times. You get the same guns each time you know! Even more hilarious is his twitter account which appears to be created for the sole purpose of telling everyone about it:
Five reasons why Battlefield needs to stop trying to compete with Call of Duty
Peter Moore, EA’s vocal COO, just told MCV that Battlefield 3 has made some sort of dent in what he considers the Call of Duty money pie. His comments re-lit a concern that I had about EA during this year’s release season. I think EA may be putting too much emphasis on Battlefield (and therefore, DICE) as some sort of Call of Duty-killer. I’m ultimately concerned because I love Battlefield and I don’t want some EA executive a-hole to look at the numbers and say “this ‘Battlfield’ franchise isn’t making the kind of money Call of Duty is, let’s scrap it.” Maybe all of you out there think that is ridiculous, but when the “dust settles” as Moore put it, I think they are going to be surprised by just how small of a pie piece they are really taking.
“I think when the dust fully settles, maybe when we’re looking at the end of our fiscal year, we’ll do an analysis and I think we will have taken [market] share.” – Peter Moore
Maybe all of you out there are thinking “well so what if Battlefield doesn’t do as well? I still buy it, they’ll be fine, I don’t give a rat’s ass about CoD.” You are then missing the entire point of what Battlefield 3 was: EA wanted to draw a line in the sand and make a stand. They wanted to say “us too” to all of the Call of Duty buyers and prove that because their game is about modern warfare and that they could spend lots and lots of money on marketing that CoD players would flock to their franchise and never turn back. Well to put it bluntly: THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN.
These are the main reasons why the Battlefield franchise needs to stop trying to compete with Activision and Call of Duty:
Skyrim only makes third place on Xbox Live
Is anybody else just a little bit surprised by this list on Major Nelson’s blog? Its almost a little insulting. Not only could Skyrim not top Modern Warfare 3’s towering list of fans, it couldn’t even beat Black Ops! Its just….a little disappointing to those of us who have sung so many praises for Bethesda’s latest open-world RPG. I recently admitted defeat to MW3’s addictive and enjoyable formula, so obviously I’m a part of the problem.
But for every hour I’ve played of MW3 I’ve played about 5 hours of Skyrim…on my PC. And I think that is the problem right there. Not only are many Skyrim owners on different platforms, they likely aren’t going online much to play a single player game on their Xbox. Steam numbers in particular for Skyrim have apparently been quite good compared to Modern Warfare 3:
This screen was taken on 12/1/11
So maybe this arbitrary list from Major Nelson means nothing…or maybe it does. Maybe Skyrim sells a hell of a lot more on the PC than the Xbox and MW3 blows everyone out of the water on consoles. Maybe not. We’ll see when Bethesda and Activision release their final sales numbers respectively.
Yes, I’ve started playing MW3 and OMG it is fun!
Looking down the sights of my future wasted nights
Call me a hypocrite, I don’t care. I said I had a problem with Modern Warfare 3 and frankly I still do, but it doesn’t really matter. I also said I was willing to give the game a fair shake and I have. You know what? Its a good game. Activision be damned, I love this game. Stats upon stats. Kills upon kills. Deaths upon countless deaths. Its FPS nirvana.
Modern Warfare 3 generates more than $775 million in 5 days
If there was any thought that the occasionally-infamous Call of Duty franchise may slow down this year, then take a look at some of these numbers. About 3/4 of a billion dollars accrued in only 5 days. It is now topping $6 billion across the entire franchise’s history (though I would bet the lion’s share of it is from Modern Warfare 2 and beyond). Plus some extremely arbirary numbers: More than 7 million multiplayer hours were logged by the end of launch day and 3.3 million concurrent users were logged in on Nov. 8.
As for me, I decided to hold out. With reviews pretty much being stellar across the board, I’ve decided its worth checking out and I’ll probably grab it this weekend.
Modern Poetry
Penny-Arcade does a great send-up of the stereotypical Call of Duty players duking it out in match, but in beautiful prose, check it out!
My problem with Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 released today to what will likely be an ungodly amount of sales. There’s a lot of hate riding in this writer’s mind about the franchise, and maybe some of you out there won’t understand it. Why hate on a video game series, one that is so popular and obviously has struggled to reach the lofty heights that it now sits on? Hit the jump for my explaination (rant).
What will Modern Warfare 3 score?
Its time to play another round of “What will it score on Metacritic?” Activision just so happened to put some sort of lock-out on reviews until release, so there is currently nothing on metacritic, yet the game releases tonight. Interesting.
Modern Warfare 3’s Metacritic page for Xbox 360
My barometer on this one is all over the place. Typically CoD games have always done well on Metacritic, even the ones by Treyarch. However, with each yearly release the CoD franchise looks just a bit longer in the tooth, after all, they are all pretty much the same game with a little more polish and unlockable guns. I have a feeling the bubble may finally burst on Activision’s cash cow this year. So its a toss up, I predict anywhere between 65 and 90. Vote for what you think below:
What’s the real point of Prestige mode?
Maybe this is a bit rant-filled, but hear me out.
Modern Warfare 3 is purportedly going to have several updates to the MW menu format (which is to be expected), one of which is a new system for prestige mode which gives you “prestige tokens” which you can then use on buying various permanent improvements to your game. Now I was a bit dismayed at this news. I personally thought prestige mode made the most sense in Call of Duty 4 and to a lesser extent Modern Warfare 2. Yet it seems like with every new CoD iteration they are trying to take away the original “feel” and purpose of what prestige mode really does.
Using prestige mode has always been to me a true sign of confidence in your abilities at CoD. Instead of being worried about having the best equipment or perks all the time, you can do great without them! Plus, your skill is so great that you will regain those abilities before long.
Not prestiging is a sign that you don’t trust your ability to let go. You need that super powerful gun with laser-see-through-wall-camo-attachment because you can’t do well without it.
Expecting rewards for prestiging because you think you deserve them is not really the point of it. In CoD4 it had little meaning other than you were willing start over again. I hope everyone takes this into consideration the next time they either press the prestige button or whines about the lack of things you get for doing it.
“Prestiging is a right not a privledge!”
I am also going to just place my bet right now. This “prestige shop” is really just a smokescreen for some pseudo-market thing where you will be able to purchase tokens with real world monies. I don’t believe this has been mentioned anywhere yet, probably for fear of über-fan-rage, but I can just see the writing on the wall at this point.
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