5. wtfhaxzomgzz!??! NOOB! - The Community
Whilst Call Of Duty can hardly be blamed for the actions of people on-line it is still one of the major attractions for receiver's of the Darwin Award. In my time I've played a few on-line games and I'll happily admit that each community has its own select group of "special" people, however spend just 5 minutes playing Call Of Duty on-line and you'll realise that it's the 4chan of the gaming world. Insults no matter what you do are common place in most on-line matches, not to matter various remarks about your mother usually screamed by children who haven't hit puberty. The issues however doesn't just remain inside the game with fans raging all over the internet to ensure the world understands that Call Of Duty is the best video game ever made. I'll throw you a bone and agree that the Battlefield community is just as bad, but they seem to be content to sticking to their servers as well as the odd Call Of Duty video on YouTube to rage at other fan-boys in the comments section. That being said, what has Activision decided to do to combat the abuse that occurs on-line? Microsoft have already shown us that they are willing to ban people's account for "excessive profanity" in Xbox One video uploads and EA are willing to not only remove you from their forums and Battlefield, but also stop you from accessing any game you have purchased through Origin. Things seem to be rather quiet on the Call Of Duty side with no official messages being passed to us bar the ToS of playing CoD on-line. In fact, before the game was even released in the UK the server had already been hacked with players using wall hacks and increasing their XP in the lobby. Infinity Ward did confirm that their team was aware of these players, however since then there's been nothing but silence. Modern Warfare 3's on-line game-play was rife with hackers and it seems the same can be said about Ghosts. An argument can be made that CoD is more popular than Battlefield and is bound to attract more people who are willing to break the rules whilst playing, but wouldn't you rather play a less popular game and enjoy it than have to deal with hackers in each new map? Activision even released a statement that read "if your stats are boosted by a hacker there is nothing we can do. Activision will not reset your stats." seems like an a "head in the sand" escape for this publisher.