Today MMO ATK takes a relatively short look at a disturbing trend that's started to surface with alarming frequency in the world of video games. Swatting.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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Swatting is nuts law enforcement needs to do more to investigate and go after the people involved in this otherwise it won't stop.
They will never get me...
Being an ex-KGB has a lot of advantages.
I think we all know this is just a vital marketing campaign for Call of Duty: Swat Ops
This is....one of the most vile things I have ever heard in my life. It's one thing to always try to look on the brighter side of things and find humor where and when you can, but this is just atrocious on so many levels. How vindictive do you have to be to do something like this? How low do you have to sink just to get a laugh?
And before anyone says (because there will be guaran-damn-teed one person to say this), "Oh, they are just having fun", this is not fun! This is not funny, this is not an ordinary prank. This is a person's life being messed with.
This is the first time I'm hearing about this type of (I can't even call it a prank) crime. This is exactly what this situation is: it's a crime. Calling in a phony 911 call, getting SWAT involved, wasting city resources and everyone's time, and for what? To get a laugh at the misery caused?
To any would-be hacker who even thinks about doing this to someone else: You think it's funny to hack into someone's life and get them physically and mentally tormented? You think you're some genius who is able to do all of these things by attacking someone digitally from the comfort of your home and ruin someone else's evening to this kind of magnitude? Reporting a fake crime so a SWAT team shows up is a major crime in itself. Reporting someone on Twitch as the perpetrator is not funny. You are not being a comical entertainer here. You are putting people in a very dangerous situation! I say again, this is not funny!
I'm truly amazed that incidents such as these actually happen. It is unreal how some brains work.