Treyarch: Black Ops Exploiters Are "Douchebags"

[Tom Goldman]

Treyarch: Black Ops Exploiters Are "Douchebags"

Treyarch's game design director has some colorful words for the exploiters taking advantage of Black Ops glitches.

Call of Duty: Black Ops [http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-Black-Ops-Xbox-360/dp/B003JVKHEQ] is evidently not without its share of early bugs that online players are taking advantage of, but Treyarch wants everyone to know it's watching. In a recent post on the Black Ops forums, Treyarch design director David Vonderhaar told exploiters of these bugs to think twice or face possible consequences.

He also called them "douchebags." Vonderhaar's opinion is that the players showing off glitches are just trying to become "internet nerd famous" and that the best thing to do is ignore them. "Internet hysteria from normal people is exactly what they want and that's how many people reacted today," he wrote.

Though he says he'd personally ban exploiters if he could, Vonderhaar points out that Treyarch has a "well-managed" team that is working to take care of the game's issues instead. "We said we would support the game," he continued. "We are going to support it."

Treyarch recently asked gamers [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105129-Activision-Wants-Black-Ops-Owners-to-Report-Bugs-Please] to report any Black Ops glitches that are found to help get rid of early issues as soon as possible. Vonderhaar wants players to know that Treyarch cares, but it'd rather fix bugs than talk about them on forums to popularize exploiters. "I'm not going to talk about it publicly," he added. "We are disinterested in making mini-celebrities out of douchebags. You better think twice before you glitch. You never know who in your game doesn't like glitchers who reports you and saves the game in their File Share and tells us about it."

With the ability of players to save screenshots and video of matches, it's less smart than ever to use bugs to get ahead in Black Ops. You don't want to be a "douchebag," right?

Source: Black Ops Forums [http://www.callofduty.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=309378&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=am39e0uva24hklem9latp7eiq0]

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[Korten12]

Good job Treyarch! I am starting to like them.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Is he nuts?

Its tradition!

 

[Michael Logan]

Ive been calling exploiters douchebags for years! and noone made a newspost about me

 

[Destal]

I would really like to see more games adopt a policy of banning exploiters and giving the means to do so in a verifiable fashion. They really ruin the game play for others.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

I was playing on PS3 with my friend yesterday and it said that over 7k people had already achieved Prestige, this was at around 7pm, not even a full day of the game being out, HOW IN THE HELL IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE!!!!!

 

[CCountZero]

Good job Treyarch! I am starting to like them.

Yeah. I bought Black Ops for Nazi Zombies, but seeing the campaign and multiplayer, I'm actually starting to forgive Treyarch for World at War.

I'll pass final verdict when I finish the CoOp campaign with three friends on Saturday, but so far it's a damn fine product if I do say so myself.

 

[Unhappy Crow]

Good thing they care about their games and their customers who bought the game.

Is it wrong to say we need more companies that aren't afraid to call exploiters "douchebags"?

 

[Tim Latshaw]

I can see this guy visiting people's homes Jay and Silent Bob style:

"Are you n00bpwner69?"
"Yes."
*WHACK* "Douchebag."

 

[Korten12]

Good job Treyarch! I am starting to like them.

Yeah. I bought Black Ops for Nazi Zombies, but seeing the campaign and multiplayer, I'm actually starting to forgive Treyarch for World at War.

I'll pass final verdict when I finish the CoOp campaign with three friends on Saturday, but so far it's a damn fine product if I do say so myself.

theirs only zombie co-op, no campaign co-op.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-13-no-campaign-co-op-for-cod-black-ops

 

[Goldeneye1989]

"Cue Piracy ad"

You wouldn't by gold
You wouldn't use a trainer
You wouldn't exploit glitches

Taking advantages of lacking code is being a doucebag

 

[Rainboq]

*offers highfive to the ex-employers of his uncle*

Now THAT is the way to deal with cheaters!

 

[starrman]

Am I the only one that thinks 'If you'd bothered to sufficiently playtest this game and ensure it was glitch free instead of releasing it before it was finished (like almost every other bloody game that's come out in the last 5 years), then glitching wouldn't be a problem'?

I don't glitch, I prefer to act fairly in a game, but I mean seriously, you bring out a product which isn't properly designed/built and then blame others for using it in ways you should have foreseen/safeguarded against? That's a joke right?

 

[Rainboq]

'he'd personally ban exploiters if he could'

Amen.

I hope they are able to stay on top of this.

I'm really interested as to what kind of glitches those are. If it's something minor, I really doubt it's reasonable to advocate bans for having fun with something the developers themselves fucked up on.

There's a difference between finding glitches and reporting them and finding glitches and exploiting them, one results in cheating, the other not so much...

 

[Whichi]

Good job Treyarch! I am starting to like them.

Its enough to forgive them for the crap of World at War

I was playing on PS3 with my friend yesterday and it said that over 7k people had already achieved Prestige, this was at around 7pm, not even a full day of the game being out, HOW IN THE HELL IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE!!!!!

I heard a story that a gamestop was robbed at gunpoint for all of its copies of Black Ops. That and Treyarch leaking copies to friends, and people boosting from friends....

and #4><0|2Z. definately teh #4><0|2Z

 

[CCountZero]

There's only zombie co-op, no campaign co-op.

Excuse me when I say; GARD DAMNIT!

I was looking forward to playing that with my mates >.<

Oh well... while I will certainly mourn that sad, sad fact, I maintain that Zombies retain the ability to keep the game on my computer until my drive crashes or a better Zombie game is released.