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

• 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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      • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        you’re right about that. I just thought maybe things would be different under Microsoft, but clearly that is not the case.

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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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