Activision Hates Call of Duty

[@TheActMan]

Download the game with my link hoyo.link/19LCDBAd and use the following redeem code BSN2EWMHA4RP for an extra 50 Stellar Jades 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.

[@TheVillageBeast]

Let’s hit some calisthenics workout bruv

[@Tagformemez]

ok papi actman

[@ArbiterPrime]

0:14 That was f-cking hilarious

[@lrobin-is8dg]

Nah I like touching grass especially when it’s summer

[@milliman4]

Reject weeaboo bait advertisement filled mediochre games, return to anime sex games for 3,99 on STEAM

[@M3RKMUS1C]

The only "Call of Duty Killer" is Activision...

[@ElectricMan3444]

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

[@TheActMan]

Ironic.

[@Pieceofdatoast]

True

[@matthewp.1484]

Lmao

[@morallyemptycorruptedmaggot]

Just like Halo... 😔

[@michaelc5373]

I truly believe that Activision wants their older games to be unplayable. It forces players to buy the newest, more profitable "game".

[@byroncole6149]

And that’s why I’m happy playing battlefield 2042! Completely taken all my time from cod. Surprisingly still finding battlefield 1 lobbies

[@Marinealver]

Well now that you mentioned it?

[@drinkinbuddy8264]

Look what they did to crash lmfao

[@N-GinAndTonicTM]

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.

[@Dsnyder23]

@@byroncole6149 battlefield 4 is still populated too

[@JackedSunBeare]

When you’ve lost the moral high ground to EA, you’re beyond saving

[@pepijn23]

Oh I believe Activision had beaten EA since 2021.

[@thomasedwardharrison2879]

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

[@Ph03nix1]

@@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.

[@paulrasmussen8953]

Ea literally doesn't care.

[@Deathmare235]

@@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

[@shaunlevin5081]

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.

[@shcdemolisher]

Simple, it isn’t making them money.

[@mr.s9783]

Why would they let you play their old games when you should be buying skins in the new ones?

[@ChandranPrema123]

There is indeed downside for them because Black Ops 3 was selling more than MW2022 despite being a 8 year old game

[@Legion849]

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

[@hobomaninabox841]

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.

[@TyThe1Guy]

And the fact that these old games are still $50-$60 is insane

[@HaveanOreshnik]

Like come on, it is time people knew about piracy

[@fbi3526]

Common Activision L

[@spectex304]

On the other hand you can get bf4 for only 5$ yeah that the shink in.

[@WhiskyWombat556]

@@spectex304AB is the new EA

[@chrisa8863]

​@@spectex304and it's still the top dog after all these years

[@ironnatepup]

I can't believe we live in a timeline where Activision is more EA greedy than EA themselves

[@Web720]

They have been wdym? At least EA does discount and deep discount. Best you can get is $30 for BO2.

[@Deathmare235]

They’ve been greedier for half a decade hell the problem now isn’t greed but actual malice like r*pe

[@effen_aey_man]

Really? I saw it coming since 2008. Which is why the last Activision game I bought brand new was Guitar Hero World Tour

[@Alc0h0lic_G4mer52]

@@Web720 true dude..true.

[@tostadorafuriosa69]

They have allways been worse. People just notice it more now.

[@TheBristow55]

Who would've thought that when EA got voted "Worst company in America" Activision would take that as a challenge instead of a warning.

[@Sheridan2LT]

When was the last time EA was actually bad?? Like, 2017, 2018??

[@acat6145]

@@Sheridan2LT battlefield 2042

[@dwightd.eisenhower2031]

@@Sheridan2LTcorporate shill here

[@theonlyjoe_]

@@Sheridan2LTthe more appropriate question is asking when they weren’t

[@acat6145]

@@theonlyjoe_To give EA a little credit I haven’t seen them sexually harass their employees like Blizzard

[@420rogerz]

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.

[@RottenMuLoT]

This is like asking security fixes for ms windows xp

[@420rogerz]

@@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!

[@Blitzwolfer_mobile_edetion]

They want to force people to play the newer shittier games whenever they like it or not

[@autismandgaming4532]

That’s nothing compared to PvZ gw2

[@DrkTheNewGuy]

​@420rogerz Fr, at this point, Call of Duty is practically selling malware to their customers, I don't know anything about Legal Stuff but wouldn't this count as False advertising?

[@totemarts]

Thank you very much for mentioning us! We are still actively developing Renegade X and adding more stuff to it, Also, we are currently working on a new game called Firestorm, an upcoming FPS set in the Tiberian Sun era and it's different from the traditional Renegade style but still has that CnC and RTS element to it.

[@ABLIINDGUY]

I hope that yalls vision of the game prospers

[@TheActMan]

YESSIR! KEEP UP THE FANTASTIC WORK!!

[@l01230123]

New game sounds dope! 😊👍

[@kylenegaard6461]

I never knew about this and I loved CaC Renegade! So I definitely be checking this out, thanks Act Man as well as the wonderful people making Renegade X, I always played the original game and just kinda checked out empty lobbies, all quiet and empty, the story is awesome, but always felt lonely.

[@neonbatteries4389]

I loved when activision said, “it’s activisioning time!” And managed to make the problems worse.

[@TheActMan]

Definitely their most iconic catch-phrase

[@HaveanOreshnik]

A soviet storm and guerilla warfare must begin

[@RussianAiden]

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

[@deal151]

@@TheActManalso remember their “it’s micro transactioning time” and they micro transactioned all over our hopes and dreams

[@nick33ee]

hate them cuz they close tf:wfc and foc servers.

[@NotMyOriginalHandle]

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.

[@foxtrotsierraproductions8626]

Joe just shut up if you dont know about IP Violation and Piracy

[@moodycxnt]

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.

[@mikehawk5722]

@@moodycxnt Not the remake, @joe was referring to the original MW2

[@Iceberg_Farigamu]

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.

[@AccountProto5X]

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.

[@DeadBaron]

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.

[@produceboi127]

You eating your own words

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

Activision Blizzard is clearly taking notes from Nintendo on how to be the most anti-consumer company.

[@eric6rock]

“WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE THAT DOWN!!!”

[@aneishinobinomono]

what did nintendo do?

[@senabecool7232]

⁠@@aneishinobinomono Oh just copyright striking any fan content with a shred of their IP

[@gordonfrimin753]

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 *

[@kagerouge9007]

And fanbois love it. Gotta love them simps

[@davidthorson2036]

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.

[@acewolfgang276]

Probably just took the funding from QA and gave to the hackers

[@hustler666100]

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

[@Turvold]

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

[@HughJ876]

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

[@davidthorson2036]

@@HughJ876 Yeah, you would think that would get boring after a couple of hours

[@Firthmax]

Makes me wonder if Activision deliberately let people hack these games making them unplayable so that players are pushed to purchase the newer ones.

[@christianedwards9025]

I've wondered the same, otherwise I'd still be playing BO 2

[@kdog350]

It's more they just don't want to put in the effort to fix their older games.

[@abadenoughdude300]

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.

[@12ealDealOfficial]

That is a great theory. I approve that kind of critical eye.

[@alexbasha0508]

Well, it might’ve work if their recent games weren’t utter garbage.

[@TIOLIOfficial]

There's no one who hates games more than game companies.

[@tiktokalnuke]

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.

[@Ace924]

It absolutely is because they can force you to play the hyper monitized garbage instead of the actual good games

[@kingjoe3rd]

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.

[@JohnSmith-zf3yk]

@@kingjoe3rd Joke's on them, can always play other games. I haven't bought an activision game since...2011? 2012? Whenever Diablo 3 released.

[@TheSpencerHaines]

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

[@MrMattaiusify]

Wouldn’t surprise me

[@Daniel_Frise]

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.

[@alistairsnowshroud8069]

Maybe we could scare them into action with the threat of a lawsuit.

[@canaldoloading]

@@alistairsnowshroud8069 they would just stop selling the old games

[@Sonichero151]

They are already under like FIVE class action lawsuits. The lawsuits aren't working, we NEED to break out the fucking guillotine

[@ibrahim5463]

Lobbying exist aka bribe so yeah hit them with the lawsuit all you want they will juast walk free out of it

[@real_reZmi]

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.

[@artingevondyan1613]

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

[@A7XKoRnRocks1]

Very plausible.

[@LisaSimpsonLiberal]

Real take, the hackers and the modders fixing the hacks are the same people

[@sirballin9016]

There is something similar too that where activision whitelists their streamers too keep the community at large

[@JokerChany]

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

[@Nick-ge7ug]

@@JokerChany I've found that these hackers all come from the same locations as well...

[@KAIBIL_08]

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!

[@Chikensandvich153]

That makes too much sense

[@Mattznick]

It's the obvious conclusion

[@pillbox2079]

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.

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

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.

[@xzp]

@@PlasticCogLiquidright because activision blizzard dooesnt have a huge history of handing out lawsuits like candy.

[@nonamenoname9352]

@@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.

[@shelflord1686]

Cease and decease lmao the Activision secret police is gonna get em...

[@KawaiiNeko333]

If they really want them officially fixed, they can always officially hire them. Otherwise leave them alone and continue scrooge mcducking it elsewhere, Bobby!

[@deltalord6969]

Let's be real here Activision hates everything but money.

[@HaveanOreshnik]

True.....that's why they need an MPLA guerilla tactic, time to get rid of them

[@philthestampede]

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.

[@fbi3526]

EA and Activision really love our wallets

[@TechMage299]

((()))

[@GiveMeBackMyUsernameYouTube]

I dunno, I hear they're big fans of kids.

[@WhiskyWombat556]

Activision definitely hates CoD. They keep doing stupid things and messing up the community

[@thekiller7994]

And the community keeps buying the games despite the problems

[@IdentifiantE.S]

Again and again the same errors…

[@sambo9174]

Thanks for this mindless comment. Maybe watch the video before fishing for likes

[@HaveanOreshnik]

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

[@ShadwRavn]

So they do with every game. The games makes money , they don t hate it. It s incompetence

[@devinfox1236]

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.

[@handyplayer4005]

Why are hakers playing the old games in the first place

[@DarkKnightofAnime]

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

[@TheActMan]

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

[@HaveanOreshnik]

CoD after 2018, it all became a modern pay to play BS, it's sickening and sad how far it's been a decline

[@loliger_noob9665]

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

[@adrianost074]

@@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.

[@petriew2018]

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

[@Xatriox]

“One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue,” - Gabe Newell

[@Xatriox]

Activition isn't giving us good services for the old titles even at full price!

[@Bjorick]

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

[@IfritBoi]

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

[@argmon9090]

1000000%

[@Slender_Man_186]

It is also partially a pricing issue, there is absolutely no reason a 10+ year old game should still be listed at full price

[@thesupersonicstig]

It’s strange to hear about modders trying to make multiplayer fair and safe again.

[@rafox66]

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.

[@Aoekin]

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.

[@moderndemon84]

Similar thing happened to BF2.

[@rohaankhawaja5727]

​@@moderndemon84 and titanfall 2

[@MuffinManProductions3D]

Clearly you have never used mods for a game

[@GumGob1in]

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.

[@silverwing5254]

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.

[@TheActMan]

go figure LMAO

[@Neridian_]

When Activision making the math not math

[@silverwing5254]

@@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. ^^:

[@Maevolent]

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.

[@MathewGarcia-v4x]

😂😂

[@Richtofen5]

Fucking facts bro

[@hobomaninabox841]

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

[@arthurfleck629]

@@hobomaninabox841They were, we lived through some absolutely beautiful days

[@believer431]

Apt

[@Solaires_Little_POG_Champ]

I will always firmly believe that the introduction and financial success of the crates in Advance Warfare is the catalyst that kicked off everything

[@thedarksideoftheforce6658]

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.

[@wt8213]

Opens crate "ELITE!"

[@Solaires_Little_POG_Champ]

@@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

[@skate4planb889]

So true soooo true

[@iiNuance]

its really more so the content creators opening "1000 loot boxes" and making unboxing vids

[@Void6-]

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

[@toconnell88]

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.

[@100xasd]

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.

[@Void6-]

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.

[@mr.s9783]

Bingo

[@richiecook5259]

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

[@matthewheistand2340]

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.

[@cristianroy21]

Same happens with Halo Master Chief Collection Those hackers are so miserable and such losers in life

[@GiganticPyro]

Same for TF2.

[@Zetsubo_RM]

​@@cristianroy21I swear, actual scum. Can't just play the damn game the way its intended just because they suck at it.

[@travisharnedmusic]

@@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

[@History_Nurd]

​@@GiganticPyroatleast in TF2 theres community servers, and atleast you can still play with others without having to do a Private server

[@MaximillionPegasus88]

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.

[@BrokeandFamousPR]

Bingo!!

[@supakuma8200]

You are probably right 😂😂

[@jackplumb2091]

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

[@alexandraadamus3131]

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.)

[@jacksonhopp2003]

Bro, if that happened to be true; the lawsuits would be everywhere!

[@SpartanX317]

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

[@Midnighthalo]

Activision is truly one of the companies ever.

[@LAST_STAND_FAN]

Truly the least funny joke ever.

[@thekiller7994]

@@LAST_STAND_FANthat’s true, this joke was decent but got overused

[@heroman1322]

Undeniable for sure 😂

[@HaveanOreshnik]

They deserve an old fashioned guerilla warfare take

[@arnaldoalange3869]

I'm sure that a Imp is secretly controlling Activision to make Stupid Decisions like those.

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

Everyone forgets a woman took her own life, after being sexually harassed working for Activision.

[@mrjohnnyk]

No wonder they virtue signal so hard, they're awful!

[@BWMagus]

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.

[@GrifShears]

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?

[@thatonelocalauthority2809]

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”.

[@ma.2089]

@@GrifShears multiple parties were involved when harassing her. The harassment happened at work, and nobody was fired. They’re clearly protecting the offenders.

[@tombosley3048]

You know its bad when EA isn't even doing the shady shit Activision is

[@anormalguy8407]

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

[@Mi_tala]

​@@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

[@balinthehater8205]

​@@anormalguy8407eh, Titanfall has always been more of a sp title in my mind anyways. The campaign is well worth the money imo.

[@foxtrotsierraproductions8626]

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 😂

[@tombosley3048]

@@foxtrotsierraproductions8626 you being serious? is that how your brain works?

[@Chloe-wj9ck]

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.

[@SloopyKoopy]

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

[@kyokusagani8869]

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!

[@farawaytundra008]

"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

[@primemachine146]

This fits so fking well

[@deathshead556]

This quote is so epic. Reminds me of a time when CoD had a soul. Now it’s a money machine.

[@gamrknight8060]

@@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.

[@Pietromagg]

Activision doesn't hate their games, they hate their community.

[@Sirius1914]

they hate them both

[@707romo707]

They don’t hate either, they just only love money.

[@ryanjw15]

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)

[@Aluttuh]

Companies are controlled by their top share holders

[@Shamurai0612]

Technically the same tbh. Can’t have 1 without the other

[@AlphaAlarmClock]

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

[@bashdzy]

Activision never disappoints me with how bad they can be

[@sammco6704]

Just because I expect it doesn't mean I'm not dissapointed

[@MasonMartin-dj4yc]

You are definitely got it right all they really want you to do is buy the newest cod every year.

[@masterdyeapp4512]

i hope they should have been bankrupt and rot in hell

[@Marinealver]

Evil Agency has handed them their crown.

[@doomfanboy9413]

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....

[@Drak976]

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.

[@Bjorick]

i mean, 10 cent bought it, anything google, MS, facebook, or 10 cent is included in is all about getting your data

[@doomfanboy9413]

@@Bjorick 10 cent bought what?

[@therealrongu6599]

@@doomfanboy9413Activision

[@mateuszkrytyk5711]

​@@Bjorickhuh Whatcha mean Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard

[@FizzyFizze]

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.

[@CBRN-115]

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

[@yourdemiseishere]

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?

[@alan5506]

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.

[@dillonlabella4980]

Its disgusting how much a 20 year old game is still charged

[@BlufyreAudio]

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.

[@Feras_Plays]

yes and partially because them not caring for these older games anymore saves them some money

[@rishenryan2880]

Fr tho Activision is trying to force players to play some new cod titles yet filled with hackers and bugs. Smh

[@medivh1035]

Bet They didn't realize l chose to quit

[@Orcawhale1]

If that were the case, they wouldn't spend money on keeping the servers up.

[@tommartin6384]

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

[@jjsparty8844]

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

[@Sheridan2LT]

Bruh, plenty of reasons why homeless people are homeless. It's not just about being jobless.

[@SquaulDuNeant]

@@Sheridan2LT based

[@TwintailsLover]

​@@Sheridan2LT Thank you

[@grizzzymd]

​@@Sheridan2LT Usually they just fucked up in life. Their fault

[@bigben9492]

​@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)

[@fritzvanhalen1359]

I don't understand why people keep buying Activision products despite all this. You'd think there'd be a mass boycott by now.

[@c0ntriL]

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.

[@robertsteiner4696]

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.

[@feverdreaminww]

the percentile of people who care is minut to the overall player base

[@KeksimusMaximus]

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.

[@nabawi7]

since these are old COD titles, Im sure most of those people have already owned those games for at least 5 years...

[@TheFacelessStoryMaker]

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.

[@keeysOST]

I'm honestly grateful I was there during the golden age of BO2. Probably the most fun I've ever had with a multiplayer game.

[@dennismetzger9287]

I was a Christmas noob that year 😂

[@xCaPz]

Same but for MW2

[@ImCarpet]

I was 14 when that game came out and there hasn’t been a CoD game like it since then. Bo3 was good but idk Cod hasn’t been the same since Bo2

[@Roguewrrior56]

Amen to that. Bo2 is the goat 😢

[@raizer1946]

Same but I played Ghost. Back then it was hated but considering the state of COD today? It looks like a masterpiece 😂

[@BigWhiskey09]

Activision and EA are in a competition with each other to see who is truly the scummiest company

[@TheSMR1969]

Activision, Ubisoft, EA, Valve, all are scum

[@redactedgamersgd1788]

and you've fucked up when EA lost the scummy contest

[@ChandranPrema123]

Nah At least EA has some moral high ground Activision are morally bankrupt

[@acat6145]

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

[@aouyiu]

@@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.

[@johnnytacosauce]

Blackops 2 was an amazing time to be alive, and i am so grateful i was there to spend my time with that game and everyone who played with me. That game was honorable and may now rest... 💪

[@KEVENSIN]

🙏

[@kanagi4414]

Yeah i even still am in contact with 2 or 3 friends i met back then

[@NexusKin]

Black Ops 2 is a masterpiece, and I'm so glad Treyarch was able to create their own united trilogy to stand alongside Infinity Ward.

[@bizcut]

BO2 nukejacked 24/7. Shoutout to BO3, smooth arena style vertical movement with cool specialists.

[@GrievousReborn]

Watching the ngt zombies content around Black Ops 2 was such fun makes me sad ngt zombies isn't around anymore

[@blackgamer2018]

It feels pathetic that I didn't know this was a 1 year old video until he said that the closure of SM2 and X Labs was recent. Why do we have to be in the same situation AGAIN?

[@PNarbz123]

EA, Ubisoft and Activision competing to see who can be hated more, 343 is lucky to be hiding behind them.

[@jameswalton5733]

343 is on the radar, its just overshadowed _for now_

[@freshmoor9357]

To be fair they dont even get actual employees, just contractors. Microsoft. Its always microsoft.

[@cyntdestroyer69xd]

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

[@100dayGamer]

I dont understand why EA is part of this... besides FIFA cards I think EA has been releasing bangers.

[@RTB3550]

​@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

[@starsuper64]

Acti-Blizz saying "pride month good" is about as effective as a guy who smokes telling you vaping is bad

[@TheActMan]

LMAO

[@JK-gm6kk]

The Cosby suite photo alone should render them unable to shill to LGBT ever again

[@ITSSIRWAN86]

😂😂😂😂

[@Mrgiggles9007]

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

[@lordofthebuckets2676]

So you’re saying what? What’s your point? Is it that pride month is bad?

[@HelloChief117]

When it comes to Activision, I've learned that the only winning move is not to play.

[@InfinityTrooperSaru2]

Ahem to that

[@mason4354]

I'll clear my throat to that as well

[@thechugg4372]

Fucking underrated, too bad poeple would rather play diablo 4 than listen to some sound advice.

[@RegulatedNinja]

bro that rant around ten minutes with the black ops 2 music in the background really fuckin hit hard, mix of nostalgia and dread

[@emorykent957]

This video is awesome. As a older COD fan it makes me happy to see you point out Activision Blizzards hypocrisy and continued stupidity. I’m sure it’s been discussed a thousand times but another mod EA has not shut down so far is the Northstar Client for Titanfall 2. My favorite fps title ever, and I’m currently able to play against real people and not insane cheaters. I genuinely hope EA decides to do a little good for themselves and not shut it down. Thanks for the video ❤

[@Jetblast01]

What's shocking is how ANYONE still supports Activision at this point!

[@faiz8840]

It’s mostly like 12-14 year olds who don’t know any better

[@robertsteiner4696]

Stockholm syndrome is a hell of a thing.

[@midnightvibes5485]

​@@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.

[@jordandino417]

@@faiz8840These children still steal money from their parents just to buy Activision’s bullcrap games. It’s downright unbelievable. :(

[@zodiacthundaga7264]

This video R E A L L Y needed to be made. Thanks, Act Man. You're always there for us.

[@TheActMan]

you got it, champ

[@laakerisolki7276]

​@@THE_FBI_the Female Body Inspectors are here

[@StillBornSweatShopMusic]

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

[@dracomalfoyvevo]

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

[@mohsen8215]

actually activision won that award many times

[@turntprophet7960]

It has always been Activision and EA battling between which is worse.

[@mohsen8215]

@@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

[@alienfish8521]

​@@mohsen8215 Will never happen while everyone keeps throwing money at them.

[@mohsen8215]

@@alienfish8521 well i guess we are doomed then

[@andrewowens4421]

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.

[@akmal94ibrahim]

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.

[@kingdomlamb7741]

@@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.

[@KT11204]

I don't think helping the community has ever crossed their minds or wallets.

[@akmal94ibrahim]

@@kingdomlamb7741 sorry, what pedos?

[@CBRN-115]

​@@akmal94ibrahimBobby Kotic Remember, he is on Epstein's black book He also threatened an employee to be killed

[@Devildogfrazier]

I've never seen a company try so hard to kill its playerbase

[@HaveanOreshnik]

rockstar games eh hem

[@minhgiangtuan96]

​@@HaveanOreshnik not really, they just need to release GTA 6 and that fanbase forget everything in second

[@HaveanOreshnik]

@@minhgiangtuan96 that's the sad part.....and it's not been a great impression, even die hard rockstar fans start to lower their expectations

[@Astrothunder_]

And yet their fanbase continues to reward them with millions of copies sold with each release🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Deathmare235]

@@HaveanOreshniktf all their games have been bangers

[@Aozora333]

So glad you brought attention to their pricing of VERY old titles such as BO2

[@themancalledjbob]

It’s a real shame how far most big game companies have fallen. Back in the day it was about the quality of the game and the player, now it’s just how much money they can squeeze out of you and almost everything is locked behind a paywall and half the time the things locked behind a wall are unjustified and just there for cash.

[@mrjohnnyk]

Yup, they're all about crash grabs now a days.

[@LoopN]

It’s because they know they can be lazy and make billions still. Madden, COD, NBA 2K all make the same game every year and people still buy them

[@shcdemolisher]

Time to stop these yearly releases permenantly.

[@WarBirdGhost]

Big game companies stopped being gamers, when they made loads of money by milking out their money cows.

[@numbah1550]

Activision trying not to be a shitty company *Difficulty impossible*

[@HaveanOreshnik]

Hmm rockstar has close competition

[@anonymusmysterious5401]

It's harder than COD 1 and World at War in veteran with Spec ops (MW2019 at release) combined.

[@ericdesjardins1854]

@@HaveanOreshnik Also Ubisoft and Square Enix

[@JessieTheFox]

It’s absolutely insane that you can’t enjoy playing old Call Of Duty games without a security risk. Activision truly is the worst.

[@Sheridan2LT]

Titanfall 2, go buy it. It's SOMEHOW in a better state than the multimillion dollar old CoD games...

[@asdergold1]

​@@Sheridan2LT Hahahahahahahahahahaha good joke. Titanfall 2 is also unplayable for very, very similar reasons.

[@Kata167]

@@asdergold1Northstar client

[@C2Talon]

My takeaway from this is that Activision wants people to pay $60 to install a backdoor on their PC.

[@Skreamworks]

Once upon a time, gaming companies would recruit people who were this dedicated to improving their games. Now they just send them cease and desist letters. Imagine what games we miss out on that could be the next Team Fortress Classic or DOTA.

[@chimerakait]

Now they seem to just desire complete domination of the market by destroying competition.

[@CBRN-115]

We already hit the golden age of gaming and it's all downhill from there There is no more good times anymore. I pity the young people who never experience the really good games like us generation

[@laowmartinez5546]

Expecting Activision to do something consumer friendly is like expecting a blind guy to point a direction in a map, and even then a blind guy would probably be more help

[@indenkellerag]

This comment helps

[@sgtcreasegrease]

We would just use Google Maps tbh.

[@austinmeyer_238]

As a blind guy, I find this funny. Another thing we would do is say somewhere.

[@mannysilver211]

​@@austinmeyer_238 How can someone navigate the internet by themselves?I don't mean to offend I'm just curious.

[@realmario979]

​@@mannysilver211 skill

[@imperfectpixel9768]

I feel like they're putting a lot more working into making the older games not playable then they are to make the newest game playable

[@thedingleberrybush6076]

Lawyers gotta earn that retainer fee.

[@curtism8707]

I never understood why companies block these mods over the obviously smart option , hire them

[@liquidrufus]

I think Marty O'Donnell said it best when telling the goose story. When Marty was out with an Activision exec he mentioned not wanting to harm the Golden goose. The exec said "You know what I like? A nice foie gras."

[@Sonichero151]

This story seems bittersweet now..... considering the fallout with bungie.....

[@liquidrufus]

@@Sonichero151 Yep who then left Activision anyway. Now Bungos monetization is worse than when under Activision. Shit suuucks

[@Delta_Kream]

On a similar note, bless the RPCS3 team, they're doing such an amazing job of preserving games. It's just incredible what these guys have accomplished

[@primemachine146]

Same with the guys at PCSX2, been playing all the ratchet and clank games, and its phenomenal with the upscale resolution

[@qu1253]

Nintendo's currently going after the Dolphin emulator and trying to get it shut down. If they succeed (and they most likely will unfortunately), other emulation projects like PCSX2 and RPCS3 will likely be on Sony's hit list.

[@jenjoe4359]

⁠@@qu1253correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I remember Nintendo are the only ones who really go after emulators and rom sites, the other console companies(Microsoft, Sony, I’m including sega too for this) most of the time just ignore or didn’t know about most of them. So I think rpcs3 and pcsx2 will be fine(for a while at least)

[@doltBmB]

@@qu1253 and nintendo is shit out of luck because emulators have been proven legal in court over and over

[@lunaticwastaken]

@@qu1253 I’m not a lawyer, so i might be wrong, but No single emulator that i know contains anything of nintendo’s property, neither do they provide any tools to dump/get games. I’d honestly be very surprised if they can sue them. Cuz then They would sue the shit outta valve for providing linux gamers with proton, cuz in the end its also just kind of an emulator.

[@XxkrazymagexX]

My favorite cod was mw3 . As far as child hood memories go . Running around the Aztec map with the mp7 and playing huge infected private matches with everyone pulled up on top of that roof glitch on the city map. Everyone had a striker shotgun and all the infected had was a tactical insertion,and a melee knife . That shit was so fun

[@tommymaxey2665]

Yep it's almost impossible to have that experience again. I think you would have better luck getting 18 360s and system linking them together

[@therealScopolamine]

Aztec map?

[@XxkrazymagexX]

@@therealScopolamine I don't remember the name of it . I just know it was a lot of ruble and falling apart stone structures . I think it was called erosion not sure though

[@DPXSolo]

Every time Activision Blizzard does something stupid, everyone acts surprised and I don't understand why

[@sorrowmg278]

Allowing people to create things like Xlabs can allow judges to make an inference against Activision, allowing bad actors to get away with silly shit. The solution is to sign contracts with people at Xlabs rather than being corporate lawyers and shooting on sight.

[@Wavedashnoir]

Worked for Sega, valve, blizzard(old),ect. League and Counter strike should be enough for them to hire these guys to make another billion dollar game

[@TheActMan]

that makes sense! I'm sure that's what happened with the Renegade X mod I talked about

[@sorrowmg278]

@@Wavedashnoir You would think.

[@sorrowmg278]

@@TheActMan Sounds about right.

[@Sonichero151]

And signing contracts would mean having to pay Xlabs and paying Xlabd means the shareholders and exectuctives make a few pennies less billions, and that means they will start murdering devs and cutting open pregnant women to eat their unborn babies...... *allegedly*

[@konradzukowski213]

The even more shitty part about Activision is how not only they attack modders who want to make older CoD safe to play without fear of getting hacked, but how they still sell you 5+ year games for full price and don't provide any form of support to them. Even EA pulled out Titanfall 1 from stores once they realised Respawn can't combat hackers or allow a modded client on TF2 so people can run community severs. Because of Acti-Blizz, EA looks like they're on their redemption arc in comparison

[@raptor_opextinct8899]

I genuinely feel like they are. Titanfall 2 is still playable fyi. On xbox you can find matches for frontier defence even

[@ImInForAWuppin]

Not only did EA take down a hacker infested online only game, they didn't decide to send cease and desists to Titanfall 2 modded clients. They had the exact opposite response. Really is nuts. If you'd told me 10 years ago that Blizzard and EA made polar opposite decisions, and Blizzard was the bad guy in all of it, I'd have called you crazy.

[@raptor_opextinct8899]

@@ImInForAWuppin my pops likes to say its a cycle. We as consumers dont buy their products they either change or shut down. And people with the mindsets of “everyone else is still playing it me playing it wont change anything” will keep us stuck. One person starts to add up quickly. Me im currently boycotting mcdonalds n such along with cod and halo. Bc we as consumers dont deserve this the amount of time we have put into their franchises the things we have put up with over the what the past 12-14 years is ridiculous its time for a change. And if you would have told me halo would be a dead franchise 6 years ago i wouldn’t believe you. Bethesda and EA have been making a change for the better and it shows. Lets hope they will keep it up.

[@CryptTheNecromancer]

Everything they do is from a competitive money making standpoint. And the only thing investors care about is if stocks go up. So to beat last years sale, they sanction off the community. If they block people from playing older call of duty games, then everyone will just buy the new one. What they DONT take into account are the anomalies. I'm talking about XDefiant. And because Activision has beat up its player base to an irreputable degree, and also walled off its classic community, if XDefiant is successful, Activision will go under. Congrats Activision, your greed is about to essentially kill the company

[@casartherandom3010]

If DISNEY even lets people create fan made servers for Toontown, I seriously don't understand what Activision is smoking right now.

[@andredayton1424]

I never would have thought there would be a gaming company worse than EA. Scary times we live in.

[@karmabad6287]

CIG are gunning for the title also.

[@amspook]

Fun fact, EA didn't cancel Titanfall 3, it's Respawn

[@DanjArsenalFC4lyf]

Nothing better than playing CoD during the golden age! So glad i played CoD 4- Blqck Ops 2 when i was 13-18. Literally was the best gaming experience at the time

[@DGSolorioAS96]

Fr, I remember I got MW2 for Christmas back in 09 and it was the first time I had ever experienced multiplayer and my mind was blown, I was in the 8th grade bout to go into high school. I remember specifically the 1st lobby we loaded into was groundwar on wasteland😂

[@chromeheartsonme]

it was great, but definitely wasnt the best lol you need to expand your tastes bro

[@__-fi6xg]

@@chromeheartsonme id say fps shooter, the original MW 2, BO1 was top 3 ever played.

[@nathandrake9737]

​@@chromeheartsonmeIn terms of multiplayer, those days were definitely the best.

[@gerald3389]

Man I was introduce to that generation when I went to my friends house and he had halo 3 and cod 4. After that my mom bought be a 360 and the rest was history

[@Borgmatha1027]

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.

[@Ink_Addict93]

Correction, Activision hates their core dedicated playerbase that got them to where they are now lol.

[@Lartron]

Truly an Activision moment

[@meechomedium]

Never have I hated a company more than Activision lately 🤬🤬

[@Stormtrooper-384]

same

[@Hengilore]

yet you might a buy a new game of them in the future

[@GBobbyFergison]

@@Hengilore haven’t since cold war and i’m glad for it even more now

[@sgt.squeegee1720]

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.

[@NamedMyTaco]

I would definitely still play those games if I didn't have to worry about all the extra BS. Also, I'm glad that Act Man reiterated that these companies only care about money. Not solidarity.

[@sirisaac6225]

I agree, and if you question anything you’re a bigot….

[@acat6145]

Their corporations making money is their main mission if their not making profit then something is wrong

[@NamedMyTaco]

@@acat6145 Lmao! 🤣🤣🤣 I bet you think that your a clever individual, huh? I bet your a good little rule follower, too. It's that kind of smooth brained logic that made this world into the mess that it is today. Grow up. You don't understand how corporations work or how markets work! 🤣🤣🤣 Corporations don't exist to make money. They exist to provide a service. When people stop utilizing the services provided by the corporation, then they fail. Look at the collapse of Bed, Bath and Beyond. They couldn't adjust to the market, people stopped using their services, and now it's fizzling out. I hope you're at least getting paid to write a low effort comment like that. Otherwise, you should ask yourself why you're defending a corporation for nothing.

[@yup1219]

Why would a fucking company care about solidarity

[@bradleye660]

^ Right but it’s gone beyond just “making money.” They’re being lazy & making shit games because they KNOW they can get away with it because they’re a massive company that has endless resources & your normal man can’t take them to court over the shit. My point is that the passion is gone, and that goes for all games! They can still make tons of money (if not more) making solid games!

[@SpiritOfHalloween31]

You know Activison has gone off the deep end when EA is considered to be a better company by comparison

[@zymosan123]

Doesn’t matter, lol it’s still one of the highest playing games. Nothing will happen until people actually boycott and major streamers stop. Not even nikmercs stop playing.

[@Malam_NightYoru]

​@@zymosan123 lol is from riot games, no?

[@ericdesjardins1854]

Eh to be honest, quite a few other gaming companies dethroned EA in the last few years

[@MichaelFormoso]

I love the Act Man videos so much. I love the fact that he brings focus to the stupidity that some Developers and/or Publishers do on a daily basis within the gaming community, and keep the gamers informed. He's like the PhillyD of gaming. Common Sense in an entertaining, well thought out video. More awesome content please.

[@Br1cht]

" PhillyD of gaming" is an insult though.

[@MichaelFormoso]

Only if you don't have Common Sense maybe, not when it comes to being respected within you're specialized field. Think a little, before trying to be negative all the time, will ya?

[@jakehoward2493]

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???

[@malefic5254]

Modders are not a threat to maintaining control of the IP. The reason they're doing this is because they always want you playing the newest games only.

[@rand0md00d]

Modders are also almost 100% playing pirated copies of games too.

[@Robertinater4546B]

If I had a computer i would probably play one match of older cods and getting the computer corrupted than play the new pile of shit that is MWII.

[@beastmode1915]

This is also the reason why they won’t fix the issues of MW2. They just let them persist and “fix” it for the next CoD to make it more appealing. Then everyone just eats it up and doesn’t realise. I was oblivious to this cycle at first but I’m done with CoD until I see the proper changes I want. Kinda hoping MS fixes them into shape if the deal goes through

[@RomnysGonzalez]

Activision probably pulling those mods out so they can "add them" to the remastered or whatever and scream out of their lung "WE FIX IT. WE DID IT ALONE!. WE DID IT FOR YOU GUYS BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU!"

[@TheFrankvHoof]

Sounds like it's time for a class-action lawsyit against Activision for selling broken games with false advertising. As well as one for the potential harm they're putting the devices of anyone who plays their games in.

[@joeryan9166]

@@thebowler5506probably 7 figure if we’re being honest😳

[@Legion849]

Good luck with that Activision has lawyers with 6 figure salaries. I don't think so you need to come to terms with reality and stop living in your fantasy world

[@hobomaninabox841]

@@Legion849yeah unfortunately…

[@johnwatkins3883]

Agreed

[@KoalaPlus]

​@@Legion849I bet you're real fun at parties, huh?

[@PainfullySubjective]

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?