IW admit MW2 and CoD hacks but blame PS3's lack of security

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IW finally admit MW2 and COD4 have been hacked, but... say its still not their problem its more to do with Sony as its their machine that has had its security breached and cannot fix it until Sony sort it out. Here is what Fourzerotwo (Infinity Ward Staff, Community Moderator) has to say on the matter:

"Sony has recently acknowledged a breach in security on the PS3 which resulted in games to become exposed to exploits and hacks. Modern Warfare 2 is no exception to this security exploit and we understand that some of you have experienced problems with stats and other issues associated with this.

Games rely on the security of the encryption on the platforms they're played on, therefore; updates to the game through patches will not resolve this problem, unless the security exploit itself is resolved on the platform. Regretfully, Call of Duty games are receiving the bulk of the hacker's attention, due to its high player counts and popularity. However, the number of legitimate players severely outweighs the bad apples.

If you are concerned about playing with players who are hacking, I encourage you to play exclusively with friends by utilizing the party or private match options in Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty 4 to avoid such players as much as possible until this issue is resolved by Sony.

At this time, we do not have the ability to restore or adjust individual stats.

Let me assure you, while we are very reliant on Sony updating their firmware and security to address the core problem of this issue. We are looking at EVERY option available to us to help any user affected.

This only applies to legacy games such as Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2. In the future we plan to adjust our approach to not rely solely on platform security and reduce the ability for this to happen in our games, as has already been displayed by the work Treyarch has done on Call of Duty: Black Ops to prevent similar measures."

http://www.maxconsole.net/content.php?44079-IW-admit-MW2-and-CoD-hacks-but-blame-PS3-s-lack-of-security

Posted: Jan 16, 2011 6:39 am

Comments

whitecoxsonix2020Posted: Mon. Jan 17, 2011

if you had a ps3, you would understand how hard it would be for IW to patch this.

It is mostly fail on ps3's behalf, but as most people have realised, this is the first statement in a long time from iw. they haven't done anything to try and resolve the hacks :o.

pvtpunchuPosted: Mon. Jan 17, 2011

I think that Sony should put out a firmware update that has somewhat of the previous firmware, because geohot clearly states "This will NOT work unless you are on the REAL 3.55..." Sony will not have ban waves because about 15%-20% of their players are jailbroken most likely. As for IW, thats old news.

JonnyLUFCPosted: Mon. Jan 17, 2011

Just keep them. They make the game more popular aswell..

ryanridesPosted: Mon. Jan 17, 2011

"as has already been displayed by the work Treyarch has done on Call of Duty: Black Ops to prevent similar measures."

Hahaha, biggest lie EVER.
That explains the 15th prestige lobbies, and the game being hacked DAYS before it came out.. Good job Treyarch.

EcKoPosted: Mon. Jan 17, 2011

All i have to say is they take on the best people to make these consoles etc to patch does to block hacks and we have people around the world who are aged between 16-25 who give them 2 week find away how to hack exploit etc..

come on iw,treyarch micrsoft sony get a grip.

TTG_ZANEPosted: Sun. Jan 16, 2011

Scream4MYCream LOL ps3 has **** it up bad this time, and people were laughing at how hacked xbox was! pah! lol

I know right!

FlipperPosted: Sun. Jan 16, 2011

They're just playing the blame game to take the heat off of them.

iTs_ReSoLuTiOnZPosted: Sun. Jan 16, 2011

AmbiiTiioNz Its funny how they blame Sony but yet Black Ops is keepin up pretty good on patching everything.

AGREED!

hi_Posted: Sun. Jan 16, 2011

IW still fails, allowing 1000's of lobbies... Now there trying to blame it on someone else... /facepalm