CODMW2 now has dedicated servers (but it didn't come from IW)

[AstroManLuca]

Hey, if you still want to play it then they made the game good enough to deserve your money.

People need to stop trying to justify piracy and just admit they're cheap. Buy the fucking game or don't play it. If you still want to play it, then obviously the game was still good enough.

Is it still piracy if you buy the game and then also download an illegitimate version and play using that one? Sort of like how some people hack OS X onto non-Apple computers... Hackintosh communities always advise people to buy a copy of OS X even if they end up downloading an unofficial version and using that instead. Then at least you can say you did buy it, even if you violated the TOS.

I guess legally speaking it IS still piracy, but if you pay for it I don't see the issue. In the past I believe the biggest legal problem with that has been the fact that in downloading the game you are also uploading to other people who may not have paid for it.

 

[aigomorla]

anyone else find it funny that since we dont have dedicated servers, we are forced to pirate the game to get one?

 

[Fallengod]

Also just so you know, its not like its going to be a "true" dedicated server anyways.....

If you think about it, a true dedicated server would be impossible without support from IW.....

 

[SunnyD]

Also just so you know, its not like its going to be a "true" dedicated server anyways.....

If you think about it, a true dedicated server would be impossible without support from IW.....

What exactly do you mean by true? In the sense that the World of Warcraft (illegal) shard servers aren't true WoW servers, as in not actually Blizzard code? Or what?

 

[aigomorla]

Also just so you know, its not like its going to be a "true" dedicated server anyways.....

If you think about it, a true dedicated server would be impossible without support from IW.....

clients connect to a server to play.

server dictates which maps are allowed and also allow which mods can be run.

So how is it not a "true" dedicated server?

You mean its not an "official" dedicated server..

 

[gorcorps]

Is it still piracy if you buy the game and then also download an illegitimate version and play using that one? Sort of like how some people hack OS X onto non-Apple computers... Hackintosh communities always advise people to buy a copy of OS X even if they end up downloading an unofficial version and using that instead. Then at least you can say you did buy it, even if you violated the TOS.

I guess legally speaking it IS still piracy, but if you pay for it I don't see the issue. In the past I believe the biggest legal problem with that has been the fact that in downloading the game you are also uploading to other people who may not have paid for it.

While that's a grey area, I'm fine with things like that. I jailbroke my iphone to get what I can't get otherwise, so I still get what I want and the company still gets the money... win-win. But the guy I quoted made it clear he wasn't going to pay for anything.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Infinity Ward just took their forum down. LOL. Is there anyway to extract the text from my cache? Or does it not work like that? hmm maybe google cache...

 

[lupi]

The links are already posted in the OP. You have to do the legwork yourself though. BTW: Discussion of/and instructions on piracy are expressly forbidden in AT.

don't think this is anymore than jailbreaking and that's all over the place here.

 

[SunnyD]

don't think this is anymore than jailbreaking and that's all over the place here.

They're not my rules. They're the forum rules.

 

[lupi]

They're not my rules. They're the forum rules.

and they're enforced by the mods, whom give links for jailbreaking, so I'm sticking with I think we're clear here.

 

[fearless47]

i heard there will be a patch coming out in december to fix all those problems..

 

[zerogear]

Those "problems" are all developer made choices to screw the pc gamers. I have no sympathy for IW.

 

[Jschmuck2]

i heard there will be a patch coming out in december to fix all those problems..

I heard that dinosaurs were bad at racquetball - that doesn't make it true.