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Call of Duty Cheater Provider to pay $14 million to Activision
REDRZA MWS
Member
It’s why I stopped playing CoD since 360. Indicative, hate the time to kill, (prefer strategic shooters), then on top of that the cheating. It’s unplayable and unenjoyable.
Schmendrick
Member
I´m all for cracking down on those guys trying to make a living off of ruining other people`s fun.
Buttfuck them with an Ananas for all I care.
Buttfuck them with an Ananas for all I care.
Anthony Soprano
Member
Hot take, I guess, but I'm not a fan of these deterrence rulings where they make an example out of the person. At the end of the day this isn't going to do anything to stop other cheaters and this is an absurd life ruining figure. Maybe invest in better anti-cheat if they're going to continue being one of (or the?) highest grossing FPS franchise.
splattered
Member
Fuck yeah keep this train rolling till no one wants to make cheat sw and devices anymore. Burn it all to the mf ground!
Lucifers Beard
Member
Good, cheating is bullshit and just ruins the fun for everyone else. Now if they could just make CoD fun again, that would be awesome.
soulbait
Member
It is suing a business that was selling methods for cheating. They did not make an example out of single person cheating. This was someone making money off of their game, by providing ways for people to cheat. Big difference.
willothedog
Member
Company is based in Dubai. Not seeing any of that money and they will continue on as normal.
LordCBH
Member
clarky
Gold Member
Not so much a hot take, more of an absurd one.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
GHG
Gold Member
They are based out of Germany, not Dubai.
Sushi_Combo
Member
"For the last weeks we have been working to identify the latest detection vector and to increase the overall security of our MW3 cheat. We aim to release a test version shortly after the Call of Duty Season 4 release. The cheat will remain in the "Unknown" status for some time so we can make sure there will be no unforeseen issues. Please understand that only after a successful test period we will provide more detailed insights about the detection.
All subs will stay frozen until the status is back to undetected. All users with a paid MW3/WZ sub will be able to use the cheat while its on the unknown status.
There has been a lot of false claims regarding the lawsuit against EngineOwning. All the guys targeted in the lawsuit are inactive and have been for a long time. The project was handed over to a new owner years ago.
Some news article claim that Activision got access to the data of our users. This is completely false and to no surprise those news articles don’t link any kind of source.
All relevant documents regarding the lawsuit are publicly available if you want to look it up yourself.
Now Activision is trying to claim our engineowning.to domain. We have created backup domains (listed below) and kindly ask you to bookmark them.
We hope and think that our domain registrar will not defer to this bogus claim, that would not have been approved by any clearheaded judge with even basic democratic values in a proper jurisdiction.
No matter what happens, the data of our users will always be safe. Privacy has always been a top priority for everyone in our team.
We have also decided to work on a free lite version of our MW3/WZ cheat with full ESP once the paid cheat is back to undetected."
Griffon
Member
What is this shit?! Just sue people who aren't based in the US so that you can get default ruling precedents and ruin the whole system against modding?
What a fucking joke. And to the surprise of no one, most countries don't extradite their nationals to the US. I wonder why...
What a fucking joke. And to the surprise of no one, most countries don't extradite their nationals to the US. I wonder why...
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ReBurn
Gold Member
This is a civil matter so nobody would be extradited anyway.
willothedog
Member
Activision wins $14.5 million in lawsuit against Call of Duty cheat maker
Despite the ruling, cheat maker EngineOwning said it will continue offering its software for sale.
GHG
Gold Member
Activision wins $14.5 million in lawsuit against Call of Duty cheat maker
Despite the ruling, cheat maker EngineOwning said it will continue offering its software for sale.www.pcgamer.com
Well then... Yeh, they aren't getting to them in a hurry.
Fabieter
Member
What? There dozens of non American companys getting sued every year.
Dorfdad
Gold Member
It won’t since they don’t get punished what should happen is activision sue them individually for money made from YouTube / socials where they profited from cheating to boost their “clout” this might slow them down but a provider won’t stop anymoe they will just move to a new one and use a vpn… but I’m glad someone’s getting it in the ass
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
While I totally understand the impulse to celebrate something that cuts against cheaters, I think the precedent is a little concerning for it's potential application to things like mods. I haven't read the full decision, so who knows, but I suspect there's potential for this to be weaponized by publishers.
Stuart360
Member
Has anyone ever watched that guy on Youtube who exposes cheaters?, he doesnt show his face, and his voice is like text to speak voice?. It actually blew me away how many big name streamers are cheating in games, nevermind the general public.
I dont get it myself, i wouldnt get anyting out of cheating in a MP game myself. Sure i have used trainers and stuff in single player games, but i woudl never do it in a MP game, it seems pointless to me.
I dont get it myself, i wouldnt get anyting out of cheating in a MP game myself. Sure i have used trainers and stuff in single player games, but i woudl never do it in a MP game, it seems pointless to me.
Marcinkowski
Member
chromhound
Gold Member
Hawking Radiation
Member
Activision right now
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