Activision Hates Call of Duty
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Activision recently sent cease and desist letters to two Call of Duty mod teams, Xlabs and Sm2. These mods attempted to make playing the older COD titles safe and restore features and support the devs have abandonded. Yet another entry in how awful Activision is as a company.
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Introduction - 0:00
Cease & Desist - 2:31
What Was Xlabs? - 5:25
Why it’s a big deal - 7:53
How Activision Treats Older COD Games - 9:36
EA is Better than Activision?! - 12:00
Nickmercs Controversy - 15:32
Conclusion - 18:35
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Activision recently sent cease and desist letters to two Call of Duty mod teams, Xlabs and Sm2. These mods attempted to make playing the older COD titles safe and restore features and support the devs have abandonded. Yet another entry in how awful Activision is as a company.
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That was f-cking hilarious
Nah I like touching grass especially when it’s summer
Reject weeaboo bait advertisement filled mediochre games, return to anime sex games for 3,99 on STEAM
The only "Call of Duty Killer" is Activision...
I-Is this the real M3RK? But I don’t know what to say about all of this.. Call of Duty makes so much money!! They can pay everyone.. so why can’t they listen to us? And why do they rush to make a game? I much rather wait years then have to play a game that is only made by the end of its life cycle.. if Call of Duty reads this.. please, please don’t do it for the money.. I promise yall make so much you won’t have to worry!! Can y’all just please make a game out of love and passion for the fans? PLEASE
Ironic.
True
Lmao
Just like Halo... 😔
When you’ve lost the moral high ground to EA, you’re beyond saving
Oh I believe Activision had beaten EA since 2021.
The bar they had to cross is so low it went straight through the center of the earth, went flying down the other side of the earth, flew down until it arrived at another universe, and it went through another earth. And Activison failed to pass it
@@pepijn23 2021? Nah, Activision has had EA beat since MW2. Anything bad you can say about EA over the last decade, was most likely something Activision had been getting away with long before EA tried it. Nobody remembers that the loot box craze of the late 2010s started with Overwatch. There wasn’t a massive controversy over removing content people paid for from destiny 2. Once you add the Jason West and Vince Zampella incident, all the once great IPs they’ve killed with awful entries built to be simple money grabs, and all other random debacle that got swept under the rug, and the patent they made for a matchmaking system designed to sell micro transactions by pairing low skilled players against higher skilled players with new weapons, idk how anyone could say Activision isn’t the worst.
Actiblizz has been worse than EA for over a decade now. It just took the whole sexual harassment lawsuit for people to finally open their eyes to it.
Ea literally doesn't care.
@@pepijn23they’ve done it since 2017 I feel like Star Wars bf2 was overhated not that they didn’t deserve it but cause Activision got away with the same thing
I really don't understand why gaming companies even shut down fan projects and mods. It straight up keeps games alive. There's no downside for them.
Simple, it isn’t making them money.
Why would they let you play their old games when you should be buying skins in the new ones?
There is indeed downside for them because Black Ops 3 was selling more than MW2022 despite being a 8 year old game
There is a downside. Why would pay for remasters/remakes/re-releases if there are mods that do that for free. It will negativity impact Activision's bottom line
Because they don’t want players old and new alike to experience what “gaming” used to be like and want people to buy season passes and loot boxes. 🥱 everything is based around warzone nowadays. Played it once and will pick it up again.
The amount of hackers in older games seriously needs to be addressed. I'm blown away by the fact these companies just leave them abandoned in that state.
This is like asking security fixes for ms windows xp
@@RottenMuLoT Interesting way of thinking but I think you missed the point. Do they sell windows xp in 2023 for full price? NO? But they still do for call of duty!
They want to force people to play the newer shittier games whenever they like it or not
That’s nothing compared to PvZ gw2
I truly believe that Activision wants their older games to be unplayable. It forces players to buy the newest, more profitable "game".
And that’s why I’m happy playing battlefield 2042! Completely taken all my time from cod. Surprisingly still finding battlefield 1 lobbies
Well now that you mentioned it?
Look what they did to crash lmfao
The thing is, they would've made more money from a single player buying a shit load of Supply Drops in a single day; than that same clown buying one of their $15+ bundles.
Because let's be honest, we all had to take out two mortgages in order to buy Supply Drops and Gobblegums at one point.
@@byroncole6149 battlefield 4 is still populated too
I can't believe we live in a timeline where Activision is more EA greedy than EA themselves
They have been wdym? At least EA does discount and deep discount. Best you can get is $30 for BO2.
They’ve been greedier for half a decade hell the problem now isn’t greed but actual malice like r*pe
Really? I saw it coming since 2008. Which is why the last Activision game I bought brand new was Guitar Hero World Tour
@@Web720 true dude..true.
They have allways been worse. People just notice it more now.
The fact Activision doesn't update these games yet still charges full price and only goes on sale for $20 when the games are so old is infuriating.
You eating your own words
The pricing on old Call of Duty is absolutely ridiculous and I’m glad you brought it up. I was actually anticipating Microsoft’s acquisition so that they could finally drop their games on GamePass for a reasonable price, but Sony is being a real hassle with that.
yea they are the only games who never lower the price it's totally overpriced these days and filled w/ hackers to point of unplayability like battlefield 4 n 5
@@GrandDukeMushroom Speaking of hackers, it’s crazy how these old Call of Duty games are still on sale with all the people warning users not to download any of these games on PC because some users have implemented malware directly in the lobbies which can access your computer files
@@SilverGeFer I probably fell victim to that playing COD Black Ops Cold War as I was enjoying myself in multiplayer and all and like a week in a friend told me people can track my IP etc. meh
@@GrandDukeMushroom Yeah. Every CoD game running on that older version of the engine had a bunch of exploitable backdoors due to the engine sharing a similar architecture to its original Quake counterpart.
@@SilverGeFer `this makes me sad
I got Ddosed'd through chivalry 1/2 too if that interests you.
I loved when activision said, “it’s activisioning time!” And managed to make the problems worse.
Definitely their most iconic catch-phrase
A soviet storm and guerilla warfare must begin
We have made the decision to Cease And Desist this comment because you are using our trademarked slogan without buying the blackcell bundle first - Activision
@@TheActManalso remember their “it’s micro transactioning time” and they micro transactioned all over our hopes and dreams
Me when i accidentally stole breast milk 🤭
Who would've thought that when EA got voted "Worst company in America" Activision would take that as a challenge instead of a warning.
When was the last time EA was actually bad?? Like, 2017, 2018??
@@Sheridan2LT battlefield 2042
@@Sheridan2LTcorporate shill here
@@Sheridan2LTthe more appropriate question is asking when they weren’t
@@theonlyjoe_To give EA a little credit I haven’t seen them sexually harass their employees like Blizzard
Stop letting history be forgotten. Im so glad there are so many people who bring light to the bullshit of this world. Thanks Actman this was just a good video and n general.
Why are hakers playing the old games in the first place
Hey Act Man, love the work you put out, brother. I have a theory why Activision suppress their older titles.
If players were to go back to the older titles, that means they newer COD (i.e MW1, Cold war, MW2) would not get as many players and thus best interest (from a corporate standpoint) to get as many people on the newer titles and in their BR modes to maximize profit.
TL;DR : Old titles take away players from new titles and thus let hackers suppress old Cods to funnel the players back to new titles.
I'm not a business major, so if anyone can chime in or correct my theory. Go for it!
Have a good one, everyone!
That makes too much sense
It's the obvious conclusion
And the fact that these old games are still $50-$60 is insane
Like come on, it is time people knew about piracy
Common Activision L
On the other hand you can get bf4 for only 5$ yeah that the shink in.
@@spectex304AB is the new EA
@@spectex304and it's still the top dog after all these years
I've had this conspiracy theory for years now that Activision employs these hackers on the older games so you're forced to buy and play the newer titles.
Probably just took the funding from QA and gave to the hackers
They just don't bother protecting them after 2 years. They shut down the non profit mods as well so you have to buy their newer titles. Terrible company
It explains how good they are at hacking since they would be given all the code, and why they still play the games, as well as why nothing is done about it. Hold up why does this make sense
i was wondering who is hacking these old cod games like is your life that bad that all you do is hop on your pc and hack these really old games and steal peoples ips and ruin others time
@@HughJ876 Yeah, you would think that would get boring after a couple of hours
There's no one who hates games more than game companies.
Man I remember when I started playing MW2 in dedicated servers from Uruguay and Argentina.
I'm from Uruguay, and at that time we had no direct connection to Brazil (where the official servers where located), our routing would go all the way to the US and then back to Brazil. So, I could only play COD at 220 ms or at 300 ms (which for a FPS is basically garbage, you can't even sprint).
The dedicated servers where SO FRIGGING GOOD. I spent so much time playing Isnipe, even joined clans to do SND Isnipe matches, good times.
I remember a server very fondly, where they modded gun game to have 102 guns, with infinite reloads and sleight of hand as a kit. It was so goddamn fun, you even became the AC130 in your own character.
This stuff destroyed my social life when I was a teenager, fuck man, those were the good ol' days
Activision Blizzard is clearly taking notes from Nintendo on how to be the most anti-consumer company.
“WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!!!”
what did nintendo do?
@@aneishinobinomono Oh just copyright striking any fan content with a shred of their IP
I dont have much time left but remember this words , if a publisher doesnt care about you , make a revolute credit card , buy a vpn and move in turkey and buy your favourite call of duty for 2€-20€
Aaaaahhhhhhh
* flies away in the heaven *
And fanbois love it. Gotta love them simps
“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue,” - Gabe Newell
Activition isn't giving us good services for the old titles even at full price!
Steam and GoG didn't stop piracy but it sure limited it - I own fallout 1 and 2, damned if I know what happened the original CD's and i downloaded them. I eventually bought them on steam, they didn't work, so i downloaded them again. found them on Gog, found out what gog is, and now i've bought them twice, and gog actually works.
I buy a good mix of games between the two, though most are on steam. Anything I want to be timeless, for example, fallout new vegas, i buy on gog.
If games had demos, i would never pirate anything - hell, bought dragon quest 11 just because of the 10 hour demo got me hooked, otherwise I wouldn't have bought it
funny thing is that there was a developer who made action henk who endorsed piracy for his game to fight against seller sites like g2a since g2a sellers use to use stolen credit cards to pay for the keys they had back then
1000000%
It is also partially a pricing issue, there is absolutely no reason a 10+ year old game should still be listed at full price
if they are planning on dropping an mcc style compilation of old cod games, i feel like it would be genuinely beneficial to bring these modders on as developers for help.
Dumb lawyer in-progress here: Companies need to protect their Trademarks (i.e. brand names like Activision) to preserve their right to legally keep others from using their TMs, but that rule doesn’t apply to a company’s copyrights. Those just have a set number of years the IP will be protected; it begins at the creation of the IP and, once that timer runs, the IP falls into the public domain. For example, Disney’s character Steamboat Willie will fall into the public domain in 2024 because their copyright timer is over.
Makes me wonder if Activision deliberately let people hack these games making them unplayable so that players are pushed to purchase the newer ones.
I've wondered the same, otherwise I'd still be playing BO 2
It's more they just don't want to put in the effort to fix their older games.
More like they're using these old games as an excuse to implement more and more invasive and anti-consumer anticheats and drms that do nothing besides opening their consumers' systems to vulnerabilities and performance issues.
That is a great theory. I approve that kind of critical eye.
Well, it might’ve work if their recent games weren’t utter garbage.
Here is my conspiracy theory. The hackers work for Activision in an attempt to make the previous games so unplayable that you are forced to buy the newest one just to play COD
Very plausible.
Real take, the hackers and the modders fixing the hacks are the same people
There is something similar too that where activision whitelists their streamers too keep the community at large
Honestly I could buy it as I can't fathom a reason for hackers being on bo2 just insta killing everyone. There's not monetization gain as selling ips or personal information of strangers is not super profitable and it's not like they're selling accounts or having fun with doing literally the equivalent of nothing so I genuinely think they probably work for Activision to get more people to just buy the new cod for their cod fix
@@JokerChany I've found that these hackers all come from the same locations as well...
I've literally been in a multiplayer match in BO2 where before the match even started, the start timer is counting down, hacker changes the map to nuketown and force changes everyone's class to a sniper class, and had the auto kill shit on so they could shoot in random directions and instantly kill anyone, dropped tac nukes and was invincible and invisible...I only play multiplayer with bots now
Imagine if Microsoft or 343 sent a cease and desist to Masterz and the CMT crew over SPV3. Or Inferno over Cursed Halo. Imagine the sh*tshow that would generate.
Let's be real here Activision hates everything but money.
True.....that's why they need an MPLA guerilla tactic, time to get rid of them
This just isn't true. Many, MANY companies are embracing ESG and grooming shit despite the loss in revenue and stock price. It's almost religious.
EA and Activision really love our wallets
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I dunno, I hear they're big fans of kids.
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I think removing that operator skin was a good move and not about the money because that skin would have cost money to get. And if they double down on the pride thing by doing that then it reinforces that statement instead of doing nothing
My takeaway from this is that Activision wants people to pay $60 to install a backdoor on their PC.
Activision needs to be hit with a class action lawsuit over this. It’s ridiculous that they’re selling unsafe products and doing absolutely nothing, let alone even publicly acknowledging the existence of security flaws, to protect their players. Preventing people from playing older COD titles does not incentivize anyone to purchase the latest ones.
Maybe we could scare them into action with the threat of a lawsuit.
@@alistairsnowshroud8069 they would just stop selling the old games
They are already under like FIVE class action lawsuits. The lawsuits aren't working, we NEED to break out the fucking guillotine
Lobbying exist aka bribe so yeah hit them with the lawsuit all you want they will juast walk free out of it
3/4 of Activision Blizzard's biggest shareholders are Vanguard, Blackrock, and Statestreet. These 3 investment firms have direct access to federal reserve loans. So, any company, that they invest in, can't actually be hurt. They will inject more money into the company that's literally printed on demand. The Mega Corps are invincible to lawfare. The only thing that the people can do is take their business to a company that cares about the consumer.
It’s insane that Activision are just letting hackers destroy their old titles and punishing anybody who tries to create safe and playable ways to enjoy them. At this point I’m convinced it’s a deliberate effort to force anyone interested in playing cod online to play the latest cod.
It absolutely is because they can force you to play the hyper monitized garbage instead of the actual good games
It's almost like they want hackers to do this so that people feel like they have to play the newest titles that just so happen to be filled to the brim with microtransactions and deceptive practices that let bad players beat you so that they keep swiping.
@@kingjoe3rd Joke's on them, can always play other games. I haven't bought an activision game since...2011? 2012? Whenever Diablo 3 released.
100 percent. because their game sucks and if they didnt force us to play it, no one would. not to mention hackers are prominent in mw2 as well so it doesnt make a huge difference
Wouldn’t surprise me
bro that rant around ten minutes with the black ops 2 music in the background really fuckin hit hard, mix of nostalgia and dread
Every time Activision Blizzard does something stupid, everyone acts surprised and I don't understand why
“To beat piracy, you just have to create a far superior service.”
-Valve’s Gabe Newell.
Take note, Activision. If you tools started supporting your classic games, none of these mods would exist in the first place.
Amazing quote!
"Valve's Gabe Newell"
there's any other Gabe Newell? 😱
@@Jiffy309 "Death to the enemies of the white race!" - Gabe Newell, Farifield Kentucky
Proceeds to build a monopoly like a chad
@@plompedu More like accidental monopoly
Also, winning without doing nothing, remember when EA pulls out all of their game out from Steam, only for them to put it back later?
Jev made a very good point and it made a lot of sense. Activision wants us to forget about these games. They don’t want us to remember how games used to be. How a team could put their heart and soul into a game and make something incredible. They want us to forget how such a minimalistic game can be so incredibly great. They want us to forget that games could be made with great launch content and no battle passes. It’s honestly sad and I’m glad I got to experience these titles in their prime.
Joe just shut up if you dont know about IP Violation and Piracy
Modern Warfare 2 was an unfinished dumpster fire that had a couple of patches and then saw no new patches after just a few months. It was much more fun than whatever calla doody games are now though. Just don't get it twisted.
@@moodycxnt Not the remake, @joe was referring to the original MW2
I think they just realize that most gamers are just toxic psychopaths these days. Game development companies haven't ruined these games, the users have. I can list at least 10 ways off the top of my head how people have already ruined DMZ. I don't blame Activision for just taking your money.
While I agree that Activision wants people to forget about the older games, there's no need to ascribe such an abstract reason - it's more profitable if the only game that anyone who plays CoD is playing is the new one. Especially since matchmaking services require a constant churn of players to reach that "critical mass" necessary for an online matchmaking system to work.
Additionally, for Activision, they lose a lot of the free-to-play audience if mod projects are allowed to provide a better service than, say, Warzone (which they've stuffed full of sawdust in the form of grind, battlepasses, lootboxes, cash shops or whatever). It's the result of more and more services being turned into walled gardens where the users have less and less freedom for what they do on the platform. "Oh but we need to get rid of the racists and protect the children and ban the "toxic" people" - Such justifications ring hollow when you see what they've allowed hackers to do to the older games. I suppose if the hackers aren't saying slurs and just grabbing your IP and bricking your PC it's fine. Look up "anarchotyranny" and it will start to make sense.
PET PEEVE:
I don't understand people who don't think critically about this - it all comes down to incentives. Show me an incentive, and I will show you an action. Nothing happens because of pure malice that spontaneously springs forth from Bobby Kotick's fetid maw, even if it might seem like that sometimes. It is aggravating to hear "Well, that would be nice, but it would never happen..." and the WORST one of all "Why can't they just do...?" Because NOBODY "just does" ANYTHING. "Why can't the big company just be nice? Why can't the big company just not be greedy?" Magical thinking. UNDERSTAND the reasons why, then you will be able to try to form a solution.
Hackers have always been a problem for Call of Duty. I remember playing World at War on xbox back in the day, and once I got into a zombies match on Der Riese with a hacker, and after the game ended, they did something to my account that made it so I couldn't even play ANY multiplayer. It said my level wasn't high enough to play multiplayer OR Zombies online. I never played WAW again until I got it on PC years later.
So glad you brought attention to their pricing of VERY old titles such as BO2
Acti-Blizz saying
"pride month good" is about as effective as a guy who smokes telling you vaping is bad
LMAO
The Cosby suite photo alone should render them unable to shill to LGBT ever again
😂😂😂😂
Oh my god this made me think of this one vaping ad where the teen in it was like, "I couldn't go 6 or 8 hours without a vape." And I fucking died XD
So you’re saying what? What’s your point? Is it that pride month is bad?
They don't hate Call of Duty, they hate that you aren't playing and paying the most recent Call of Duty. I wouldn't be surprised if those hackers actually work for Activision.
Bingo!!
You are probably right 😂😂
Aside from a hand full of maps that cost an extra donation, there aren't any other monetizeable additions to the older titles. Makes sense why they would push the most egregious and preyfull games
Activision is playing both sides so no matter what, they win. (If players play newer titles, they’ll probably spend money on it. If they play the older titles, then the hackers will spawn kill them for 8 hours straight until they have an aneurism and go play the new titles and they are forced into choosing the first option.)
Bro, if that happened to be true; the lawsuits would be everywhere!
So the thing about needing to protect copyright is true, if a company allows things like these to go through it sets a precedent and it actually makes it pretty damn impossible in the future just shut down other things that may be in bad faith
Its disgusting how much a 20 year old game is still charged
I believe Activision wants their older games to be unplayable so that people will be forced into buying the newest titles where all the micro transactions are.
yes and partially because them not caring for these older games anymore saves them some money
Fr tho Activision is trying to force players to play some new cod titles yet filled with hackers and bugs. Smh
Bet They didn't realize l chose to quit
If that were the case, they wouldn't spend money on keeping the servers up.
But the people that want these old games arent playing the new CoDs anyway... so they're actually just not attracting a certain player full stop. Their market research department are rather incompetent or they are just blindly ignored
Activision definitely hates CoD. They keep doing stupid things and messing up the community
And the community keeps buying the games despite the problems
Again and again the same errors…
Thanks for this mindless comment. Maybe watch the video before fishing for likes
And keeps putting the community at risk.....worst of it all, people are gonna keep playing, mostly though who are either naive and unaware of what Activision has done or simply dgaf
So they do with every game. The games makes money , they don t hate it. It s incompetence
It's frustrating how failure to preserve your IP and video games' history is akin to the much debated horrible preservation of history. A lot of politics have kind of swooped into our schools, mostly from my own experience back in high school, and we glossed over or flat out didn't learn important aspects of history. I remember being pissed, as I'm an avid history buff, its really fascinating stuff.
Call of Duty was a huge chunk of my life as well, and seeing people be greedy, selfish and act only out of their self-interest, and not preserving what is important to some people out there is a just a damn shame, and a disservice to my fond memories as a teenager playing CoD with friends, among many other people.
History and gaming go hand in hand with preservation, that way we can look back on past generations or moments in time decades from now and remember them fondly, badly, or for analytical reasons. Great video Act Man, this stuff isn't talked about enough, preservation of various things or how Activision refuses to keep their older games still somewhat relevant.
i feel like ABK should be held accountable from a legal perspective for permitting such destructive levels of hacking in their games. it's one thing to have someone shoot through buildings to instakill you and another thing altogether to mess with your PC through the medium of the game. For a developer that is actively charging money for their product, to turn a blind eye and allow their own customers to be predated upon... isn't this aiding and abetting?
Everyone forgets a woman took her own life, after being sexually harassed working for Activision.
No wonder they virtue signal so hard, they're awful!
Eh. I don't like Activision, but I've also seen so many bullshit claims of "sexual harassment" that I am numb to them, unless they are fucking on camera or from someone I know and trust. Especially since the one person I know who has had to endure the most consistent, ongoing sexual harassment was a male nurse, and no one gave a shit.
The implication here is that Activision was somehow harbouring the sex offender. there is a difference between a company harbouring sex offenders and a person who works for a company committing a sex offence. Do you know if Activision was actively protecting the offender or if they fired them and denounced the behaviour?
A minority doesn’t represent the majority. Activision as a whole is a shitty company no doubt, but accusing all the people who work there of sexual misconduct or defending it is crazy. The person who did that to who her is nothing more than the dirt on our shoes, but the whole company can’t be held responsible for the actions of 1 “man”.
@@GrifShears multiple parties were involved when harassing her. The harassment happened at work, and nobody was fired. They’re clearly protecting the offenders.
In moments like these I see Activision as a soldier, lying in the dirt, bleeding out, yet teamkilling every medic that tries to revive them.
😂😂
Fucking facts bro
It’s like playing old school hardcore TDM on older CODs and griefing on your whole squad and hearing all the people raging through the speakers. These were the golden days of gaming
@@hobomaninabox841They were, we lived through some absolutely beautiful days
Apt
Oh Activison doesn’t want you to play against hackers, it’s much simpler than that….
Activison-You cannot continue playing older COD games! You can only play modern warfare 2(22)..that is where you must spend all your time and money! We support a game for year, then you must buy the next one which we will only support for a year!
Fans- but we payed for these older games! Can’t we just keep playing what we payed for?
Activison-4:14
This is the underlying problem I believe that most games are a form of Art and need to be protected and cataloged and some developers believe this too. The other school of thought is that it is a product, and products are consumed or replaced, never preserved.
Activision doesn't hate their games, they hate their community.
they hate them both
They don’t hate either, they just only love money.
Oh no- Activision absolutely hates their games. Take Modern Warfare 2 2009 for instance. That game is a sweet example of a one and done purchase and boom: you have access to the amazing campaign, the multiplayer in its entirety, and the spec ops. There's only TWO optional DLCs you can get for MW2 2009 that you literally don't need to play it. Activision today spits on a game like that because it doesn't fit with the modern day narrative of making them money. (Hence why it costs like, 40 bucks on steam without a sale)
Companies are controlled by their top share holders
Technically the same tbh. Can’t have 1 without the other
Which is weird in itself because a franchise like this has naturally printed money so you’d think they’d want to treat it the best they can but then again I guess Activision’s version of printing money is “modern gaming” techniques
If my channel is anything to go by, tapping into nostalgia can be pretty goddamn successful so it's a complete mystery why Activision chooses to not only neglect the old COD games but also punish those that try to fix them
CoD after 2018, it all became a modern pay to play BS, it's sickening and sad how far it's been a decline
The idea is that it won’t generate enough revenue for old cod’s to be worth it so by deleting the mods ppl are forced to play the new titles that bring in cash
@@TheActMan Remember seeing in a post that they don't have the "money" or "time" to maintain them. Also if you own a COD4 Xbox 360 copy, read the fine print at the back and you'll find an interesting detail into also why Activision won't maintain these games.
intelligent marketing : tweet about how great this mod is, drop the price on steam to 20 bucks for a limited time. Spike the sales of an old game for a week or two for doing literally nothing and reap pure profit and some community good will
Blizzard Marketing : anything that doesn't make them look like an asshole never even occurred to them
Imagine developing a video game franchise for so long that everybody loves and it's clear why they love it and yet somehow all of a sudden manage to ruin it and keep ruining it.. It's such a shame...
I want to play the original mw2 again. But I don’t want a hacker to turn my pc into a c4
As a modder myself, I feel pain for the cease and decease being forced upon these great men from the CoD modding community.
F with a heavy heart.
Hope for better times.
It'd be nice if modders grew some balls. C&D is just a letter, companies send them constantly but it's not a legal action, it's just a letter. That's why they do it, because the modders always get their tail between their legs and run away. You can literally just ignore the C&D's. They are NOT a legal action being taken against you. They are just a threat that companies can easily send and look how effective they are, so of course they're going to keep doing it.
@@PlasticCogLiquidright because activision blizzard dooesnt have a huge history of handing out lawsuits like candy.
@@PlasticCogLiquid A C&D is the warning you send before you sue the balls off someone, AND MAKE NO MISTAKE modding is 100% copyright infringement and Never protected under fair use.
Cease and decease lmao the Activision secret police is gonna get em...
If they really want them officially fixed, they can always officially hire them. Otherwise leave them alone and continue scrooge mcducking it elsewhere, Bobby!
You know its bad when EA isn't even doing the shady shit Activision is
You sure about that?
What about titanfall, they keep putting the first one on sale even though the servers have been under attack for years and they just dont want to fix them
@@anormalguy8407i don't see tf 1 being on sale in steam and in fact it was removed from steam,idk what are you talking about
@@anormalguy8407eh, Titanfall has always been more of a sp title in my mind anyways. The campaign is well worth the money imo.
What exactly is shady to stop mod developers who had an angreement with Activision ?
SM2 Devs own fault, cant believe how people can be so stupid to officially announce that you pirate the game 😂
@@foxtrotsierraproductions8626 you being serious? is that how your brain works?
EA even allows unofficial modtools for Battlefield because it's reverse engineered, because it demands legit copy and doesn't sell the tools.
I heard from a youtuber called Fooly that activision may or may not be purposefully allowing these hackers to infect the older games so you HAVE to play the new ones but if I were me either play offline in the old cod games or dont play cod at all. It's sad honestly because this game was THE FPS game back in like 2013 but sadly Activision turned sour and...well here we are
Activision is truly one of the companies ever.
Truly the least funny joke ever.
@@LAST_STAND_FANthat’s true, this joke was decent but got overused
Undeniable for sure 😂
They deserve an old fashioned guerilla warfare take
I'm sure that a Imp is secretly controlling Activision to make Stupid Decisions like those.
Gotta love how Activision considers people putting protection from hackers into their games to be a threat to their IP, but the hackers are somehow NOT a threat to the IP, despite also using it in ways prohibited by the terms of service and for actual malicious reasons.
go figure LMAO
When Activision making the math not math
@@TheActMan Holy! I wasn't expecting to get a response directly from you. O.O; I'm honestly honored. :D
Though, I'm not too surprised that we have the same opinion on this aspect of the issue. ^^;
Also, my gosh.. Wasn't expecting my comment to explode in likes either. ^^:
Man this is the exact reason I've always stepped back when I've thought about going to replay stuff like this.
It sounds fun at first but then I just think about a whole lobby except myself as cheaters and decide to do something else. Ain't worth the headache and risks.
There needs to be a change to copyright law as it pertains to game preservation
I don't understand why people keep buying Activision products despite all this. You'd think there'd be a mass boycott by now.
the problem is, the oenes buying the content is kids or people who have such a hard on for COD they don't see it.
Ever heard of Stockholm syndrome? The kids combined with that and there you have your answer. Basically the only way to actually hurt these companies at this point would be to DDoS their games so no one plays their games anynore, since the stupid masses can't help but be fucking morons who settle for low tier bottom of the barrel shit because it's all they know at this point.
the percentile of people who care is minut to the overall player base
Because I like playing MW2, it's a big and fun game. Me and a few million other people. You are just a vocal minority and a very small one. You can be offended by this comment, but it's just a fact.
since these are old COD titles, Im sure most of those people have already owned those games for at least 5 years...
It’s strange to hear about modders trying to make multiplayer fair and safe again.
There's a difference between modders and cheaters, modders often make games more fun. Cheaters ruin everyone else's experience for their own pathetic little ego.
thats been mostly true for a while, before master chief collection there was some really awesome MODs for Halo, but I think they had to shut it down because of the same thing that activision did.
Similar thing happened to BF2.
@@moderndemon84 and titanfall 2
Clearly you have never used mods for a game
Of course Activision is willing to take responsibility for these games when someone buys a 7-year-old loot box or DLC but not when people are infected with malware
I never understood why companies block these mods over the obviously smart option , hire them
When it comes to Activision, I've learned that the only winning move is not to play.
Ahem to that
I'll clear my throat to that as well
Fucking underrated, too bad poeple would rather play diablo 4 than listen to some sound advice.
Activision talking about ethics is like asking a homeless man how to make money, they give you a baseline answer but fail to add to it
Bruh, plenty of reasons why homeless people are homeless. It's not just about being jobless.
@@Sheridan2LT based
@@Sheridan2LT Thank you
@@Sheridan2LT Usually they just fucked up in life. Their fault
@John Lemon that's "financial assistance" and they only get about 600/monthly. (I don't live in an area where they give assistance in the form of money to homeless people, so the concept is real weird for me to read about lol)
This is why I don't play online game. Hackers. And what sucks is it feels like more and more companies are doing their best to make all their games MMOs and I don't want that. I play Fromsoft offline because I don't want to deal with potential hacks.
Going through the Willamette mall makes me want The Act Man to do a video titled "Why is Dead Rising SO AWESOME"
Thank you for bringing awareness to this. It’s not right to punish people for wanting to enjoy a game that’s infested with hackers.
Same happens with Halo Master Chief Collection
Those hackers are so miserable and such losers in life
Same for TF2.
@@cristianroy21I swear, actual scum. Can't just play the damn game the way its intended just because they suck at it.
@@cristianroy21 Fr, that's what I'm wondering. Like how boring is your life that you find enjoyment hacking a 15 year old game lol
@@GiganticPyroatleast in TF2 theres community servers, and atleast you can still play with others without having to do a Private server
I will always firmly believe that the introduction and financial success of the crates in Advance Warfare is the catalyst that kicked off everything
Cod fans are just as much to blame because they actually spent money on those horrible loot boxes telling Activision please be greedy and charge us for everything.
Opens crate "ELITE!"
@@thedarksideoftheforce6658 Predatory business practices and enticing people with super over powered weapons and better cosmetics than you could unlock by just playing the game...seems to be the number 1 priority when overseeing development of games
So true soooo true
its really more so the content creators opening "1000 loot boxes" and making unboxing vids
7:25 That's how AAA sounds like in my mind
I just want to add I talked to some random people on bo3 after they came out with the patch for it and they said they had no idea they were at risk.
EA, Ubisoft and Activision competing to see who can be hated more, 343 is lucky to be hiding behind them.
343 is on the radar, its just overshadowed _for now_
To be fair they dont even get actual employees, just contractors.
Microsoft. Its always microsoft.
Tbf, Ubisoft is hated kidna too much. They still update The Crew, The Crew 2, other old games, and theirs games overall are just..Mid. AC: Valhalla is forgettable, but compared to something like Redfall or Forespoken - goddamn GOTY contender
I dont understand why EA is part of this... besides FIFA cards I think EA has been releasing bangers.
@Cynt Destroyer ubisoft just makes terrible games. The only actual good game they made was Siege, but they ruined that a lot too over the years. Assassins creed is over hyped garbage
I think they don't want you to play old titles or for those communities to thrive because it pulls players away from the latest titles. They'd rather you buy Loot Boxes and Battle Passes in those games, so they're incentivised to let the classic COD titles fester and make them as unenjoyable as possible.
Honestly we will probably see old titles getting removed from steam and other platforms already in the near future to increase sales of new games. In their place we will get bad remastered versions and young people entering the gaming world won't know what the old games were. Just look at what Rockstar Games has become for example, very sloppy remastered versions of some of the best gaming titles ever.
trust me, the people who play these COD games in modded servers have no love for the newer titles, thats why they take the time to download the mods and prepare their games for it.
I don't think they'll buy the newer CODs even if they shut the old ones down. At least I know I won't.
Bingo
I could've sworn loot boxes where outright illegalized as it's essentially gambling for children. Don't play any MMO other than ff14 and fortnight anymore though so it's like I'm discovering something good that happened was never the case and the world is complete bs after all
What blows my mind that that there are actually people out there playing on god mode with aim bots on games that are over a decadd old. Honestly I cant get my head round how someone can do it, what sort of enjoyment can be found doing that???
I have fond memories with MW2 X labs when I was playing it, custom made trickshot servers were so much fun.
the fact that there are this many security loopholes just makes me wonder if people at Activision are using it to spy on their players....
Right I have no idea what these hacks look like but using pre existing loopholes/tunnels whatever the term is the easiest way in as far as my very limited knowledge. Some kind of power user remote control and the hacker just figures out how to control it and gets all its functions already in place. Probably how aim bots and stuff happen. I wonder how much of hacks for games that don't get patched isn't just a separate revenue stream for the devs under the table in a lot a lot of games.
i mean, 10 cent bought it, anything google, MS, facebook, or 10 cent is included in is all about getting your data
@@Bjorick 10 cent bought what?
@@doomfanboy9413Activision
@@Bjorickhuh
Whatcha mean
Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard
Activision never disappoints me with how bad they can be
Just because I expect it doesn't mean I'm not dissapointed
You are definitely got it right all they really want you to do is buy the newest cod every year.
i hope they should have been bankrupt and rot in hell
Evil Agency has handed them their crown.
Depending on how long Xlabs and Cm2 came out they had a 5 year timeline where they could’ve taken legal action if for example they came out 6 years ago Activation would be hit hard with a statute of limitations
I see the trick here, allow older games to be infested by hackers to encourage people to always buy the yearly release. Next level gaming industry tactics.
The saddest part is that Activision, basically, has people fixing their older titles for free and are giving the biggest middle finger to them. All their time and effort in fixing their older titles to make them safe/playable just thrown out the window because they were forced to.
They have little incentive to stop them. Hell, allowing them to do that will bring free advertisement and good will
They, a multimillion dollar company, is this petty and malicious
To be fair they dont care, why push someone elses update from the community of pc hackers, why risk that and be held legally accountable?
They don't make money from older titles. If anything, they prefer if older titles are unplayable. That way, you are feeling like playing COD, you have to play with newer titles.
i love how in the ned he actually had to tell people not to post their IP adress in the comments . this just shows what humanity has become
What makes it so much goddamn worse is, most of these people would have gave full control to Activision and all the credit for fucking free if activision would have worked with them.
Activision and EA are in a competition with each other to see who is truly the scummiest company
Activision, Ubisoft, EA, Valve, all are scum
and you've fucked up when EA lost the scummy contest
Nah At least EA has some moral high ground Activision are morally bankrupt
I decided to look if EA was claimed of sexual harassment and it seems like they aren’t or are doing a good job of sweeping it under the rug so they at least have that over Activision
@@ChandranPrema123 EA cares more about money than Activision, their shenanigans are just hidden better. EA still has a growing graveyard of franchises, they are completely utilitarian in their pursuit of infinite profits. They are a different kind of bad.
What's shocking is how ANYONE still supports Activision at this point!
It’s mostly like 12-14 year olds who don’t know any better
Stockholm syndrome is a hell of a thing.
@@faiz8840 Unfortunately it is us adults who are brainbroken. Imagine buying call of duty nowadays lmfao. Last CoD I bought was BO2, havent touched CoD since.
Sunk Cost Fallacy.
@@faiz8840These children still steal money from their parents just to buy Activision’s bullcrap games. It’s downright unbelievable. :(
Really is shocking honestly how they can get away with shutting down free fan projects that literally are NOT making a single penny of profit but are okay to leave their old games swarming with hackers and serious security risks. Activision couldn't care less about us they only care about profits therefore instead of supporting old games that we used to love, they make a awful cod each year and chuck a $70 price tag on it
Woah was that the =3 transition music??
I was really confused as to why they would go out of their way to shut the mods down, then you said it would mess with the loot boxes, and it all made sense
Xlabs was just putting pirated links to their games on their site, they are NOT completely innocent here, but that's a far, FAR safer alternative than playing the officially sanctioned versions. That should have told Activision something!
The fact that Activision did many things worse than EA, which is well known for anti consumer practices, is f*cking insane and maybe the award for worst gaming company goes to Activision now
actually activision won that award many times
It has always been Activision and EA battling between which is worse.
@@turntprophet7960 well we cannot do anything about it we just hope that someday things can return to normal like they were in the early 2000s
@@mohsen8215 Will never happen while everyone keeps throwing money at them.
@@alienfish8521 well i guess we are doomed then
You can actually lose copyright if you don't enforce it. For example the word elevator was copyrighted but because it was used massively the company that copyrighted the word lost access to it
9 Months later and we got a 80$ Melee💀
"Those memories are all that's left when the bastards have taken everything else" Price in MW3
That's how I feel about these old CODs being hacked
This fits so fking well
This quote is so epic. Reminds me of a time when CoD had a soul. Now it’s a money machine.
@@deathshead556 and when CoD actually had some balls. They don't do shit in the newer games. MW2 2022 is fun and all but come on for a supposedly "mature rated military shooter" it's painfully childish.
Let me get this straight, hackers keep managing to get in and mess everything up and Activision seems asleep at the wheel. But when modders, who just want to make the game more fun and safe, get cease and desist messages to keep them from doing something that _helps_ the community?
Stupid and stingy. Guess that's Activision for you.
Won't be surprised if the hackers are actually Activision employees or bots. Sent to make old COD games unplayable so everybody who wants to play COD is forced to buy the latest one.
@@akmal94ibrahimXDefiant Needs to copy older cods and stick to that and actually listen to their player base and xdefiant may take over. I love CoD I play competitive, but I’m fucking done with those pedos.
I don't think helping the community has ever crossed their minds or wallets.
@@kingdomlamb7741 sorry, what pedos?
@@akmal94ibrahimBobby Kotic
Remember, he is on Epstein's black book
He also threatened an employee to be killed
And the worst part is all the old COD games that compromise your files, computers, address. Are still full price.......full price for malware
Where now the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?
Where is the helm and the hauberk,
And the bright hair flowing?
Where is the hand on the harpstring,
And the red fire glowing?
Where is the spring and the harvest
And the tall corn growing?
They have passed like rain on the mountain,
Like a wind in the meadow;
The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.
Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning,
Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?
How did it all come to this….?
~Théoden , King of Rohan.
I've never seen a company try so hard to kill its playerbase
rockstar games eh hem
@@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza not really, they just need to release GTA 6 and that fanbase forget everything in second
@@minhgiangtuan96 that's the sad part.....and it's not been a great impression, even die hard rockstar fans start to lower their expectations
And yet their fanbase continues to reward them with millions of copies sold with each release🤦🏾♂️
@@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanzatf all their games have been bangers
EA went from the most hated AAA company to the most chill one not because they got better, but because others got worse
Ea does nothing somehow becomes not as shitty by comparison
EA generally is quite nice to their customers. You can still play older battlefield games without much issue and they even fixed old battlefront some time ago. They still do scummy stuff (eg. Taking down bad company 2) but they’re not scum of the earth.
I don't think they've gotten better or worst lol.
If it wasn't for what they did to "Alice: Asylum", I would actually agree with you.
Yeah, I dislike renegade x and its 32vs32 orgy overcrowded server but at least it keeps renegade legacy alive because the vanilla servers are good as dead.
Wow.. remember when devs used to sell more games BECAUSE of moders? And even brought them into their team, and fully released there title as a separate game... yeah, those were the days 😒
A little story. So I played cod bo3 on steam around 2020, and some random person I was playing zombies managed to unlock every achievement even for zombie dlc maps I didn’t have