Video games the next crime wave

[Texashiker]

Highjackers steal 2 trucks loaded with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/07/hijackers-steal-1m-worth-new-call-duty-video-game/

The loot was worth $1 million.

How do you get rid of 2 truckloads of video games? Do you stand outside the local high school and sell the games for $10 each, or put them on ebay?

 

[airdata]

craigslist, son.

or ebay.

 

[Ninjahedge]

You would think that these games, especially ones with online content available, would have serial numbers.

All they had to do was track down the buyers and trace a common payment trail.

 

[airdata]

Kinda funny.. Same thing happened w\ MW2.

 

[Nebor]

Truck drivers should have used martyrdom.

 

[KlokWyze]

Truck drivers should have used martyrdom.

:biggrin:

 

[Cheesetogo]

You would think that these games, especially ones with online content available, would have serial numbers.

All they had to do was track down the buyers and trace a common payment trail.

They definitely do. I wonder if they could easily determine which numbers were on the trucks and invalidate them.

 

[DrPizza]

It's not worth $1 million if you know what the activation codes are & make them invalid.

 

[Howard]

Pretty much worthless.

 

[lothar]

It's not worth $1 million if you know what the activation codes are & make them invalid.

Even with those inactivated codes, won't you still be able to play single player?

 

[Bateluer]

Highjackers steal 2 trucks loaded with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/07/hijackers-steal-1m-worth-new-call-duty-video-game/

The loot was worth $1 million.

How do you get rid of 2 truckloads of video games? Do you stand outside the local high school and sell the games for $10 each, or put them on ebay?

1 million my behind. The trucks are worth more than the MW3 products.

 

[davmat787]

The console versions won't use activation codes right? The article does not say if they are PC or console versions. Assuming they are console versions then, I doubt they could track the stolen discs online unless I am missing something.

 

[Howard]

Wait, how exactly is this a crime wave again? Were people going to buy these games with credit cards?

 

[Jdmathew]

How do you get rid of 2 truckloads of video games? Do you stand outside the local high school and sell the games for $10 each, or put them on ebay?

You sell them by word-of-headset to all your other lazy, bum, mindless, jobless, wannabe-rich, loser friends who you've met online over the last 10 years of living in the sea of dirty laundry that is your mother's basement.

Wait, wait... I got a better one.... Let's make a GTAV video game where players can rob semi-trucks filled with.........VIDEO GAMES!!!! YAAYY!

Freakin grow up thieves.

 

[Screech]

Even with those inactivated codes, won't you still be able to play single player?

for PC you have to do everything from the online system, ie, you don't launch even the single player from your own computer -- you do so through the battlelog website.

This is all besides the point as the single player is absolutely god-awful, lol, but the multiplayer is kickass. That said I'm not sure how consoles security works (like someone else said above).

 

[davmat787]

for PC you have to do everything from the online system, ie, you don't launch even the single player from your own computer -- you do so through the battlelog website.

This is all besides the point as the single player is absolutely god-awful, lol, but the multiplayer is kickass. That said I'm not sure how consoles security works (like someone else said above).

Does CODMW3 use the battlelog system too, like BF3? The games that were stolen are Modern Warfare 3, not BF3 from what I understand.

 

[Screech]

whoops....ignore my comment....I don't read.

....but.....evidently there is some analogous setup for cod mw3 (elite). I'm not sure if it applies to everything in the same way as far as being absolutely required.

edit 2: doesn't sound like it is. Perhaps someone around here from the beta would know.