Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Leaked to Pirates 11 days early

"Firstly, we would like to point out that MW2Blog does not support piracy in any way.

It's an unfortunate fact that video games get leaked early, it is also common for images (ISO's) of games to be released even before the game is available in the shops! Halo ODST, for example, was available illegally three weeks before it hit the shelves. Well it looks like this is going to be the case with Modern Warfare 2.

Still eleven days until the hype train comes to a stop and MW2Blog has received word that Modern Warfare 2 is "already ripped and ready for upload region free PAL". We can not vouch for the authenticity of these claims but if the images below are to be believed there will be a lot more spoilers in the upcoming days. Special Ops takeover Oilrig and Special Ops sabotage Cliffhanger… hmmm. Looks like we got a stealth Cliffhanger Spec-Ops mission and takeover on a Oil rig"

[Relientk77]

not suprised

[Madusha]

We all knew it was gonna happen. It always does with hugely anticipated games.

[theEnemy]

;)

[darkmurder]

Serves them right for shafting PC gamers.

[darkmurder]

Double :S

[ifhd]

this is on the 360 ?

[Marcello]

Games are constantly being leaked for Xbox360 weeks before street date yet all i hear is complaints about the PC versions being pirated.

Very rarly are the PC versions leaked early nowadays yet we PC gamers get shafted & no one mentions the Xbox piracy???. Another fact also is that Sony dont seem to be getting any love from devs despite the fact that there is no piracy on the PS3.

This gen has been one of the oddest ever :/

[vhero]

Another reason why the 360 is a plague on a the games market.

[sikbeta]

I'm against Piracy but, TAKE THAT Activision... Muahahaha!!!! Muahahaha!!!

Now, Boycott is working or this is normal? (I'm asking seriously)

[rockleex]

Goes around and around? :P

Take that, Bobby Kotick!

[frostypants]

To those justifying this due to the PC server issue (and though this is the 360 version, we all know a PC rip is coming)...

Newsflash: If a product really sucked so bad that you don't want it, you wouldn't steal it. If you're willing to steal it, you obviously want it, and thus should pay for it. Simple as that.

I don't care so much that people pirate software. Just wish they'd sack-up and admit it for what it is, and not try to make excuses for it.

I'll bet over half the people who signed the petitions were playing pirated copies of MW1 to begin with.

Activision/IW have the right to do whatever the hell they want. If people want to express their anger by boycotting, that is the appropriate way to respond. But theft is theft.

[darkmurder]

We do want it but Activision have ruined the MP for us.

[sak500]

Great let them test it and get banned..

[HDgamer]

They won't get banned. If you honestly believe that then you know nothing about piracy in video games.

[KingKionic]

Hdgamer is right .

Look at the pic .

abgx360 is the patch to stealth it .

Another 5 million customers activision wont get .

Doesn't hurt them though...lol

[PinkUni]

bitter?

[sak500]

@Hdgamer and Kionic

Guys i know about flashing, ixtreme 1.6 and 1.61, wave3/wave4 etc. Just saying there will definately many who will be careless specially when playing offline but they dont know the game info stores in rom on 360 and when u plug it back in LIVE it might upload the info and let MS know that this console played a game 10 days before the release and it is a bad copy..

[KingKionic]

Oh ...ok...

Guess it does happen to people who are misinformed .

[vhero]

@sak500 - Shows how much you knew eh? MS tried to ban people who were playing online before release date in the past to find they were not even playing pirated copies but legit copies of games as companys had broken street dates. So MS no longer bans people for playing the game before the street date they use other methods like WAVE 4 for catching people out but the new patch for drives arrived yesterday and pirates are yet again safe from the ban hammer and can safely play online. Why do companys support this console so much with the sheer amount of piracy?

[Goldenarmz]

no you cant play a game safely online before release it needs to be patched but since that doesnt come until the actual game is released you run the risk of getting banned. Only people who play these games are the pirates who never take their games on Live, other people have tried. And get banned, look at the forza people, all of those people who played Forza online and thought they were "safe" got banned moments later. So now, if you play this game online weeks before and go online you willll get banned. Only an idiot would try this. And M$ will ban you and figure out whos legit or not later.

[Karlnag3]

"Why do companys support this console so much with the sheer amount of piracy?"

Because teh PS3s is too hardz for code to D': waahhh wahhh waaaaah...

Devs need to think about it. Do they:
A. Make the game for 360 and lose out on a lot of money due to piracy
or
B. Put in some time and make a PS3 game and potentially make more money due to there being NO piracy...

I think the logical option would be the latter but then again; when did this gen ever follow logic?

[Millah]

vhero what are you talking about? MS just recently did a few ban waves for kids who played ODST and Forza 3 early. Doesn't sound like you know too much about the 360iso scene.

If you play a game early that is unstealthed and is not verified yet, you run the risk of getting banned, end of story.

[swiftshot93]

lmao

[villevalorox]

hahah. well the wrath of pc gamers will rain down on IW..

[Bloodshedder]

hmmm i thought it was the pc version, its the 360...

[Eiffel]

K K K K K Karma.

[Lilith_Belial]

let IW get what they had coming, they had it coming, now the wrath of millions of PC gamers will rain down upon them

[TOM]

Very short sighted dont you think? You think pc players will get the next COD if it doesnt sell well on pc? Sure you can be a thieving scum but pc sales are dieing as it is. Very little reason to even realease anymore games to pc. I left pc gaming four years back, if people follow suit sales will continue to slide.

[Stationfan]

I Hope you know the chunk of money Microsoft gave you IW, offsets the loss your going to be recieving at the torrent sites.

[OrganicMachine]

well they'll still gonna recoup the money because Call of Duty games are not only hardcore friendly but casual gamer friendly as well, and we all know casual gamers, majority of them does not know how to torrent.

[OrganicMachine]

or is this the first big game that I feel that pirating it feels justice..

putting $10 on top of the standard PC game prices and removing the very thing that made FPS in PC gaming special?

[Anti-Fanboyer]

it's not just you... I can see them getting back at IW by getting it for free

[cpuchess]

Yeah God forbid a company be allowed to set the price for a product they created..

[frostypants]

OMG, it sucks so bad that IMA GONNA STEAL IT!!! Yeah...right.

They'd steal it anyway. This is just a BS excuse to justify it.

If Activision/IW suck so bad, people have a right to boycott. They do NOT have a right to theft. The developers don't OWE the fan base anything. The game belongs to THEM...the people who created it.

If you spent 2 years and millions of dollars developing a program and left out a feature that someone wanted, are you saying you'd be ok with someone stealing it and justifying it by saying "b-b-but you didn't make it the way I wanted it, so I stole it"? No, you would look at them like they were a total arse.

[artgamer]

Can't wait untill the pirated PS3 version...

lol

I can see the PS3 version selling roughly the same as the 360 version because of this.

[darkmurder]

And that's why 360 preorders are 2:1 in favour of Xbox over PS3 ... sigh fanboys.

[ID IR A G 0 N]

the sales still wont even be close...

[DaChinPin]

Since the PS3 has a lot of games this holiday season that many people consider console-sellers. CoD:MW2 is not the only quality game coming out for PS3 this Fall. So, the sales won't compare to the 360's which doesn't have such a bright number of realeses this holiday. Will be fun to watch everyone fighting about the sales instead of playing the game though...=D

[jack_burt0n]

I am sticking to my activision boycott :0)

With the ammount of company closures recently you have to support your fav devs and not support ppl who want to wrangle you for everything you have.

[Neurotoxin]

Probably about 1/4 of the people on n4g are skanky downloaders.

If you can afford the system, buy the games. If your Mum and Dad bought it for you, well most of these games are to old for you anyway.

[OrganicMachine]

lol, well that's for people who can't afford shnit..

for people like me who buys games but if the developers gimp it then it doesn't deserve to be bought.. but deserves to be stolen...

[FantasyStar]

Activision and IW deserve whatever bad luck is coming to them.

[KimoNoir]

good for the PC gamers and I myself. If IW wants to ignore a huge petition for dedicated servers, well us PC gamers can also ignore their sales.

[JonnyBigBoss]

It would sure be nice to play it early. Either way, I have it pre-ordered from Amazon.

[Noob]

I'm surprised this hasn't happened faster.

[DiffusionE]

Show them no mercy, for they deserve none. WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA...

[ZBlacktt]

This game should be free, lol. I mean this is just a map pack from 2007 right? Free downloads for all!!!!! ,lol. To funny, couldn't happen to a nicer guy than loud mouth Bob K......

[killer3aw]

Activision angry if iW wants to ignore a huge petition for dedicated servers,Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Leaked to Pirates 11 days early.Activision and IW got owned,pc gamers plzz Teach those fools at Activision and IW a lesson Show them no mercy

[Madis007]

Now die Modern Warfare 2

No servers, only P2P
No clans
No mods
16 players max
matchmaking system

NOW DIE MODERN WARFARE 2
YOU WANTED THIS. NOW YOU GET THIS!!!!

[KimoNoir]

this is hilarious.

Well I hope IW and Activision see's how much gamers wanna strangle them for removing dedicated servers.

[slave2Dcontroller]

understand the anger, frustration, and resentment alot of the gaming community(PC and Console) is harnessing towards Activision. Charging more money for their games than all other devs, HEAVILY over pricing unproven franchises like DJ Hero, Milking the hell out of the proven ones like GH while doing very little to enhance it, this whole server issue, and a greedy and outright despicable CEO makes it hard for me to have any sympathy for them.

My only concern is that IW is gonna to pay the price for something they "probably" have no control over. If the suits say do this or do that, IW has no choice but to listen. I've really been on the fence about MW2 because I know it will be an awsome game but I'm just going to have to bite the bullet on this and pass.

Kotick feels like Activision can do whatever they want and gamers will b!tch and complain but when the release date rolls around for insert game here _______ its all heads on deck. I wont help Activision bend people over the barrel, more than enough will do it themselves and willingly. I'm standing my ground on this one. If I buy an Activision product it will be used or immensely discounted and I aint just sayin this BOBBY, I mean it.

Sorry IW but your publisher blows giraffe dix!

[Baka-akaB]

Enough with this already . You just cant shift all the blame to activision because kotick is an *ss . Guess what IW's boss is one too .. and many of the controversial decision actually were theirs .

IW isnt some enslaved dev studio , they are again jumping happily into the bed with some expensive sexy lingerie . They do deserve the full brunt of some people's wrath , as much as activision .

[Senden]

Bout time someone started costing activision some money... if only pirates could "sink" the dirty money scabbing twats. Obviously won't happen, but would anyone really miss guitar hero 20?

[Nelson M]

Why does Captin Jack Sparrow deserve a copy before anyone else

[i like jam]

i want the game loads, but in a way its a real big F**k you to activision for charging over the top prices for a game.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

there is totally nothing new about this.

[oldsnayke]

Of course people just HAVE to have to the game earlier than everybody else. Oh well, this is why IW stopped supporting the PC community. I am sure as hell glad they did, too - maybe it'll increase the Xbox population.

[OpiZA]

It happens to every game, way before retail. Nothing new

[Jack_Burton]

This just alerted all the people with modded xbox 360s to run to their "sites" to start getting this..
Got mine on PS3 so either way gota wait.. got no problems with that.

[toaster]

Suck it Activision/IW.

MEANWHILE GO BUY THIS GAME ON STEAM CALLED TORCHLIGHT.
NOW. DO IT NOW. MAYBE SHOW THIS INDIE DEV THAT THEY CAN MAKE MORE MONEY THAN IW. (probably not but you should get this game anyways.)

[PS360PCROCKS]

How's that price hike working out now Kotick? fuc*er

[oldsnayke]

Good enough. This is a prime example why IW doesn't support PC gamers by hosting dedicated servers. Good enough... Let them pirate the **** out of it, 'cause it is clear that IW does not give a **** about the PC gaming community anymore. If they did they wouldn't be forcing people to host their own servers now would they? Haha, all of their attention is now going to the 360 gamers.

[I-SEE-YOU]

Well that's what you get when you allow your game to be realized via Xbox 360 and PC.

They will realize this soon enough.

[PantherDST]

A funny thing about those who justifying pirating because Activision is charging more for their games is that they are charging more in order to offset their losses due to pirating. So who is getting hurt? The honest gamer that’s who. Activision and all other developers need to make money on their games or they will simply stop making them. It’s a business, not a free handout. They do not spend years making a game to give it away at a loss. Piracy is hurting the entire gaming community. While the PS3 is temporally immune due to the Blue-ray Disc it is only a matter of time until it is breached. Piracy raises the cost of all games and hurts all developers and customer.

Those committing piracy should have their thumbs cut off so they are incapable of enjoying the products they willfully stolen…

[Roper316]

I personally don't pirate games and have only bought 2 used games in my whole life ( been gaming for about 33 years now ) and that was this year after the asshat Kodick started running his mouth and I swore I would never support them ( Activision & anyone associated with them ) again.

So I won't be playing this game pirated but will pick it up used after the new year at some point. But if anyone deserves to get their games pirated it is Activision and any dev who associates with them.

[FishCake9T4]

Thats all i have to say.

[Raoh]

Yeah I saw it uploaded yesterday. havent downloaded it yet. for those with modded 360's you need to have ixtreme 1.61 or an activate.iso disc as Modern Warfare 2 is Wave 4 Video Partition

[Carbon]

Do you need a moded 360 to play this? If so what do you need to do?

[Bob Dole]

You do know this article is about the 360 version of the game being pirated right??

[Drake64]

great news! now if only the PC-USA version will be piraed and that would be good

[Senden]

LOL @ Panther.. sure piracy hurts the industry but piracy has nothing to do with the price increase of this game.. it's all about greed and using piracy as a scapegoat. This game will make activision loads of money and they know it.. they also know they have one of the biggest IPs in gaming today and they know fans will pay more for this game regardless.. piracy has very little to do with this price increase.

[Th3 Chr0nic]

its not stealthed at all. as in if you go online with this copy you WILL GET BANNED. if you go OFFLINE and play and then take the game out and then go online ...YOU WILL GET BANNED. Only get this if you are never going to play online or if you already banned

[InLaLaLand]

why are people so desperate for this game, there's plenty of FPS games out this gen so instead of limiting yourself to this grade A monkey crap why don't you get Killzone 2, Halo, Resistance or wait for MAG or BF: BC 2.

[elpresador]

....there is a vid from Adam Sessler aout this where he even says the sense of entitlement these days is out of hand. IW and Activision dnt owe the fans anything. They should be able to charge what they want and if you dont like t, dont buy it. It is/was their hard work and time to make this game and they should be able to releases it however they want for as much as they want. Just because you are a fan of the series (or were) doesnt mean that they should go out of their way to please you and add things that you want.

Basically, get over yourselves and realize that this is THEIR game and THEIR property so THEY can do with it what THEY choose.

[DiffusionE]

"They should be able to charge what they want and if you dont like t, dont buy it."

Uh....yes, they did charge what they wanted and the fans did respond by "not buying the game". What's you point?

[uncharted56]

pc version would had never faced this day if there were not so many pirates
damn all the fukcin pirates! then again infinity ward could had gone for other solutions to stop pirates but they had to drop lightning on pc gamers

[phalanges]

A very small fraction of console gamers pirate their games. For such a huge title like MW2, it'll still sell millions. I don't feel bad whatsoever for Activision. If it was a smaller, independent company I'll feel sorry for, not the big guys.

[ambientFLIER]

Can't they track who leaked the game somehow? Like have unique identifiers in every review version sent out?