Monthly Archives: March 2009

Ignoring Necessary Changes: Good for Business

By spamfest | Published: March 31, 2009
If you’ve been following stuff, you’ll already know that the next game in the CoD series is slated to come out November 11th. They’re calling it “Modern Warfare 2″ — apparently dropping the “Call of Duty” bit entirely — in order to distance themselves away from Treyarch and their inability to make a decent [...]
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An Online Social Experiment

By spamfest | Published: March 22, 2009
I’ve been getting accused of hacking a lot recently. It’s not that I’ve gotten any better over the past few months — at least not that I’m aware. What’s more apparent is that the average skill level of the players on pubs has dropped as the game has aged. Whatever it is [...]
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Don’t let noobs admin your server.

By spamfest | Published: March 20, 2009
I just got vote-kicked from a CoD4 server because one terrible player decided I was hacking. He went on a crusade of accusations, brought in some of his butt-buddy clan members, and eventually, after about fifteen failed votes, got me kicked. I’ve mentioned this kind of thing before, and it will probably always ring true. [...]
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The Hardcore Fallacy

By spamfest | Published: March 14, 2009
If you’ve been around CoD4 long enough, odds are you’ve noticed the trend in public server setups. While there used to be a healthy balance between normal mode and so-called “hardcore” mode, at some point the scales became annoyingly tipped toward the latter. It’s now somewhat difficult to find a decent normal-mode server without mods [...]
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