Should Exploiters be Punished for MW3 Devs’ Mistakes? Bowling Answers

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The infamous prestige token glitch is coming to an end with the next Modern Warfare 3 patch (1.08), but this particular glitch has raised an interesting debate between the “abusers” and MW3′s creative strategist, Robert Bowling.

Robert Bowling believes that a fix is included in “the next title update for MW3″ to rectify the prestige token glitch, but with all the bans that Infinity Ward issued, this issue definitely left its mark. Some players, who admittedly abused the glitch, are arguing with Robert Bowling that since the team behind MW3 dropped the ball in terms of game design, the exploiters shouldn’t be punished for it. Bowling explained “we will fix it [prestige token glitch]. However, it’s important “we make it clear that its not okay to exploit, even while we’re fixing.” One angry player questioned Bowling on the merit of banning players for exploiting a design flaw, Bowling reiterated players are ”not banned for there being a glitch, banned for abusing it.” In regard to the argument of how can the security team hand out bans for problems in the game itself, Bowling explained why it’s not his (security team’s) fault, “unless I came over to your console and got you prestige tokens that you knew you didn’t earn. Then no, I promise you, I am not.”

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Source: http://mp1st.com/2012/01/15/should-exploiters-be-punished-for-mw3-devs-mistakes-bowling-answers/

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DEAN414Posted:

warinvader
DEAN414
xsuperxsmashx I love it when people use glitches and then cry when they get banned, makes me so happy lol

You're ignorant go kill yourself.


Really bro? Your response tells me you're one of those little kids who cry about getting banned even though they know they would eventually face some kind of 'punishment'. I don't know if you realize this, but you're the ignorant person here.

ohh yeah i'm ignorant and I don't care if I get banned I just hate the fact that little 12 post scuba go and comment on stuff that is stupid, they just get on here to troll because they have no life at home and are hated at school. On the other hand I'm 20 years old and a Computer Software Engineer at UVA so.... U MAD?

3OH3Posted:

cutefluffycat
warinvader
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DrPhil321
Aeowin No. The xbox terms of service state modify of the XBOX CONSOLE itself, is a bannable offense. There is nothing that specifies game specific glitches.

Those are up to the developer. And furthermore, customers are not presented a terms of service before accessing call of duty multiplayer. Which if this is how robert bowling is going to act, then there needs to be. Otherwise, the players really are at no fault.

It's a glitch they abused. But it's also a glitch that IW failed to patch IMMEDIATELY. It should have been fixed the second they knew about it to prevent abusing.

But they left it there, and then banned the "abusers" (which I know people with -7000 tokens who haven't been banned and I had -230 and got banned) and even after handing out bans, still did not fix it. Instead he uses the excuse "it's coming in the next title update".

Honestly, the most efficient to of handled it, would have been to reset all players with negative tokens custom classes to default (to account for double weapon xp) reset negative tokens to 0, remove the double xp from everyone who used negative tokens to get it, and patch the glitch.

And move on. Bans and resets should only be handed out when players modify the game. This glitch was the developers coding mistake. No one should be punished for it.

And by playing MW3, you agree to their Terms and Conditions.

I don't recall agreeing to their terms and conditions. Only Microsofts.


You agree to follow the rules when you start playing. It's like driving in traffic, you don't need to sign anything to be forced to follow traffic rules.

To start driving you must pass tests. When i put in mw3 no one was there testing me making sure i knew all the rules
companies have the right to refuse service in real life even if you haven't done anything. The same goes with MW3. They have the right to refuse service to you.

/thread

RKmodzPosted:

they never done anything with the care package glitch and almost everyone abused that...

cutefluffycatPosted:

warinvader
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DrPhil321
Aeowin No. The xbox terms of service state modify of the XBOX CONSOLE itself, is a bannable offense. There is nothing that specifies game specific glitches.

Those are up to the developer. And furthermore, customers are not presented a terms of service before accessing call of duty multiplayer. Which if this is how robert bowling is going to act, then there needs to be. Otherwise, the players really are at no fault.

It's a glitch they abused. But it's also a glitch that IW failed to patch IMMEDIATELY. It should have been fixed the second they knew about it to prevent abusing.

But they left it there, and then banned the "abusers" (which I know people with -7000 tokens who haven't been banned and I had -230 and got banned) and even after handing out bans, still did not fix it. Instead he uses the excuse "it's coming in the next title update".

Honestly, the most efficient to of handled it, would have been to reset all players with negative tokens custom classes to default (to account for double weapon xp) reset negative tokens to 0, remove the double xp from everyone who used negative tokens to get it, and patch the glitch.

And move on. Bans and resets should only be handed out when players modify the game. This glitch was the developers coding mistake. No one should be punished for it.

And by playing MW3, you agree to their Terms and Conditions.

I don't recall agreeing to their terms and conditions. Only Microsofts.


You agree to follow the rules when you start playing. It's like driving in traffic, you don't need to sign anything to be forced to follow traffic rules.

To start driving you must pass tests. When i put in mw3 no one was there testing me making sure i knew all the rules

System32Posted:

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DrPhil321
Aeowin No. The xbox terms of service state modify of the XBOX CONSOLE itself, is a bannable offense. There is nothing that specifies game specific glitches.

Those are up to the developer. And furthermore, customers are not presented a terms of service before accessing call of duty multiplayer. Which if this is how robert bowling is going to act, then there needs to be. Otherwise, the players really are at no fault.

It's a glitch they abused. But it's also a glitch that IW failed to patch IMMEDIATELY. It should have been fixed the second they knew about it to prevent abusing.

But they left it there, and then banned the "abusers" (which I know people with -7000 tokens who haven't been banned and I had -230 and got banned) and even after handing out bans, still did not fix it. Instead he uses the excuse "it's coming in the next title update".

Honestly, the most efficient to of handled it, would have been to reset all players with negative tokens custom classes to default (to account for double weapon xp) reset negative tokens to 0, remove the double xp from everyone who used negative tokens to get it, and patch the glitch.

And move on. Bans and resets should only be handed out when players modify the game. This glitch was the developers coding mistake. No one should be punished for it.

And by playing MW3, you agree to their Terms and Conditions.

I don't recall agreeing to their terms and conditions. Only Microsofts.


You agree to follow the rules when you start playing. It's like driving in traffic, you don't need to sign anything to be forced to follow traffic rules.

System32Posted:

DEAN414
xsuperxsmashx I love it when people use glitches and then cry when they get banned, makes me so happy lol

You're ignorant go kill yourself.


Really bro? Your response tells me you're one of those little kids who cry about getting banned even though they know they would eventually face some kind of 'punishment'. I don't know if you realize this, but you're the ignorant person here.

LucozadePosted:

What are peoples problems. Robert Bowling has actually got a valid and proper reason.
Hate how people moan and whine at it for saying they did nothing wrong, except for exploiting the glitch! -.-

DEAN414Posted:

xsuperxsmashx I love it when people use glitches and then cry when they get banned, makes me so happy lol

You're ignorant go kill yourself.

TTGxBrucesPosted:

No It`s a mistake in the game, not my fault prestige tokens glitchers shouldn`t be banned or reset only have a reset of the negative tokens.

xsuperxsmashxPosted:

I love it when people use glitches and then cry when they get banned, makes me so happy lol


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