Comment on Modern Warfare Remastered climbs Steam charts as MW2 multiplayer mod prepares to launch [VGC]

SnugZebras@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nice, and they waited til the end of the Steam sale, too. Real classy.

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  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This mod was hyped previously. DMCAing it right before its release date is a different kind of dick move; especially considering the game is vulnerable to an RCE exploit and the mod would likely patch it to have things move more securely.

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    • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The timing of this move makes me want to never buy another game from Activision (or Microsoft, by extension). Just such a blatant exploitation of the community.

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      • bastionntb@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think that’s been the move for awhile now. I have not or will not buy anything Activision or Blizzard, I would rather pirate if I wanted it that bad. But I’m finding that their games now a days are just copy and paste someone else’s usually. This really was a dick move though.

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  • GingeyBook@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They had to have known about it for a while too.

    So they sat and let the devs get it to a finished state only to pull this

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    • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re happy to let it drive sales for their game.

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      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, apparently not. They could have had even more sales once the mod released, but I guess they don’t like money.

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• pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fan projects or mods should be never pre-announced, just released once they’re ready. Once it’s out there the big companies can’t stop it.

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