Activision To Ps3 Black Ops Player: Shutting Down Psn Servers An Option

[UND3RxOATH]

If you have already read our story about Call of Duty developerInfinity Ward blaming Sony for the rash of hacks and exploits, then you get a good sense of how the PS3 Call of Duty community feels. They are pissed off, frustrated and feel like no one wants to help them. No doubt, Infinity Ward and Treyarch are equally frustrated with the problems they have encountered on the PS3 related to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops.If you need further evidence of that, this blog post by Jason Koblovsky sums up the level of frustration that every player feels. The blog post focuses on the author's problems playing a decent online multiplayer game of Call of Duty Black Ops on the PS3. Users have been complaining about problematic multiplayer connections over PlayStation Network for quite some time, and Koblovsky felt it was time to reach out to Activision. Here is how Dov Carson, Senior Tester/Senior Support Representative at Activision responded:

Well I have nothing else to offer and I too follow forums and have many friends who play and enjoy the game for all of its features. As an avid gamer, I would also disagree with any legalities involving a single aspect of a game as online experience may change at any time. The publishers have the right to shut down the servers for their game at any time as well which based on the number of reported posts from users may be a viable solution over the free PSN.

In any event, if you would like to send your game disc into us, we can either;

a) Exchange for a sealed (unopened) copy of the game that you can take back to the retailer

b ) Swap for another platform

c) Exchange for another Activision title of equal or lesser value.

These are the options that we are able to offer to you as a one time courtesy.

Let us know how you would like to proceed.

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....oh wow.

[LGWyant]

WOW...... thats almost......WoW

[Ragna Dante]

This won't end well. If hackers begin to overwhelm the PSN, Sony and the third-party publishers will have a real problem on their hands. This is not as big, considering the MW2 and Black Ops were not that polished to begin with, but it can turn real bad when things like Killzone 3 and Crysis 2 launch. We'll have to wait and see how this plays out, but it can end really badly, or kind of badly, depending on the approach Sony takes to the situation.