Infinity Ward Blames PS3 Hack For Online Cheating

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Infinity Ward blames the recent PS3 hacks for online cheating that is, according to some, ruining the online experience. Apparently, they choose to ignore the fact that both Modern Warfare and MW2 were hacked via save files on both the 360 and PS3 long before Sony's keys were made public.

Infinity Ward community head Rob Bowling has said that it will no longer solely rely on the first-party security of consoles, following reports that Modern Warfare 2 online stats were affected on PS3.

PS3 Modern Warfare 2 players have reportedly had their stats hacked and, in some cases, fully deleted.

The news comes after PlayStation 3 was fully compromised by hackers this year.

One user on the IW forums described the situation as “horrible, just horrible”.

“Games rely on the security of the encryption on the platforms they’re played on, therefore; updates to the game through patches will not resolve this problem, unless the security exploit itself is resolved on the platform,” said Bowling.

“Regretfully, Call of Duty games are receiving the bulk of the hackers’ attention, due to its high player counts and popularity. However, the number of legitimate players severely outweighs the bad apples.

“If you are concerned about playing with players who are hacking, I encourage you to play exclusively with friends by utilizing the party or private match options in Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty 4 to avoid such players as much as possible until this issue is resolved by Sony.

“Let me assure you, while we are very reliant on Sony updating their firmware and security to address the core problem of this issue. We are looking at EVERY option available to us to help any user affected.”

Bowling concluded: “This only applies to legacy games such as Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2.

“In the future we plan to adjust our approach to not rely solely on platform security and reduce the ability for this to happen in our games, as has already been displayed by the work Treyarch has done on Call of Duty: Black Ops to prevent similar measures.”

News Source: VG247

[chesh]

Now what's their excuse for shitty ping times, continuously dropped connections, lag, character pumping, server issues, downtime, etc?? Can't blame it all on the PS3 keys being dumped. ****ing devs not wanting to take any responsibility for their failures.

[Incognitus]

huge copout, it's like they're not even trying.. how does Blizzard and Valve stop cheating? magic? IW just doesn't want to even try and they're making the PS3 jailbreak the scapegoat.

[FarenHeit]

One word:
MUPPET!

[biglo]

Infinity Ward sounds really stupid! right about now.

[beggin]

Actually, the hacks are more serious than described above. Nearly every game has a player with a full aimbot, godmode, flying around with unlimited health and shooting unlimited AC130s. It's like the noclip days on quake3 and half-life. It's terrible. I guess this is the real negative side of the PS3 being hacked. It won't be long before we see hacks in every single multiplayer game. It's a shame there have to be negative sides to running homebrew on your PS3. Sony are going to have a nightmare from now on - I would hate to be in their shoes, but I can't help thinking they brought this all on by themselves.

[luisgarcia87]

One user on the IW forums described the situation as “horrible, just horrible”

Are they talking about in-game cheating (like infinite n00b tubes and stuff) or just about stats hack... because I could care less about stats hacks... but trowing n00b tubes like it were paint ball gun... that piss me off..

[Erikih]

Why are people playing their pirated games over psn?

[TEflonD]

This is why dedicated servers are needed.

[Xeauron]

Why are people playing their pirated games over psn?

That's a bit like asking why people take drugs. Because they enjoy it...