Treyarch Responds To Black Ops Glitchers

NowGamer: Treyarch has issued a statement in response to the emergence of Black Ops videos by 'douche-bag' glitchers...

[zoks310]

David "Vahn" Vonderhaar wrote on the CoD forums;
"What many of these people want is to be Internet nerd famous. I'm not going to make them famous and you shouldn't either. Internet hysteria from normal people is exactly what they want and that's how many people reacted today. You gave them exactly what they want."

What? Really?! "we gave them what they wanted"??????
OMG fail Treyarch, dont try and blame people for what you guys lack, we did not give them what they wanted, rather you did, you and your devs released a broken hack bait feast and guess what? the sharks came and devoured it.

[im-12-years-old]

Way to overreact

[Red_Orange_Juice]

Come on you buy CoD and complain, it almost has the sticker on the cover saying "multiplayer experience may change due to glitches and hacks".

[HolyOrangeCows]

Black Ops is full of exploitable glitches...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[PS360PCROCKS]

orange cows you made my day. lmao sarcasm at it's best! I was wondering what the fuck that guy was doing

[bviperz]

"This is the most overpowered thing in the game, because it doesn't even adhere to the laws of gravity."

LOL!

[dgroundwater]

Hohohoho! Oh dear that whole video is golden.

[Baka-akaB]

seriously you have very little leeway to complain ...

The previous cod game was buggy and glitched to death .. you knew it .

There was no open beta for the new one , nor much way to try it beforehands .. you rush in to purchase a game that will never be sold out and played all year long .

The smart thing would have been , if worried about that crap , to wait and see how the game performs with glitchers , hackers and what not .

[frostypants]

So, glitchers AREN'T douche bags?

Sorry, this Treyarch guy is 100% correct. The truth hurts.

[Heartnet]

Haha im-12-years-old :P couldnt agree more :)
Treyarch didnt release what u say a "Broken hack bait feast" if people played the game normally they wouldnt have discovered as many glitches lol

and you really are over reacting i bet ur one of those people that cant play without those glitches and your furious at treyarch for calling YOU a douche bag :)

[DirtyLary]

same ole buggy engine. How many more games do we get with this?

[xAlmostPro]

now lets hope they fix the servers for PS3 because its laggy as hell :( i dunno if you 360 guys are having the same issue, but as it stands every game is stuttering with lag and the server even crumbled a little bit earlier and sent out tonnes of errors :/.. the party system is horrid, if the host backs out the only option is to "leave lobby without leader" and a bunch of other things..

i think they maybe under-estimated how many people would be playing on ps3 or something like that because its pretty damn bad :(

im not gonna hate on them though because mistakes happen as do glitches and bugs and its the 1st day but i do hope what he's saying here is true and they hurry up about it

[huzzaahh]

I've experienced minimal lag on the PS3.

At least we can actually play our version. A bunch of my friends have the PC version and they say that the lag is so bad that the game is unplayable.

[jonnyp777]

...seems very sluggish and not very smooth a lot of the time. Not on par with MW2 in those departments online. Hopefully it can be fixed. It's not PSN, 'cause all the other CoDs run fine online. Hmm?

[TukkerIntensity]

I played for 3 or 4 hours last night without any lag (maybe 1 or 2 matches had lag - which will happen in p2p games)on the PS3

[xAlmostPro]

it wasnt bad early on in the day or late at night but at its peak it was pretty damn bad, dont worry guys im not hating on ps3(i think thats why i got disagrees) but yeah it was bad for a good few hours.. havent been back on today though, hopefully its died down and was just abit of an overload

[NoOoB101]

hahah "floating apple is the new one man army" hahahahaha

[Organization XII]

lol

[vhero]

So they say they are gonna do something about it?? Didn't Activision same the EXACT same thing about MW2??

[Marceles]

LMAO OrangeCows...that video sums up every game's harsh reviews just to find a reason to hate a game.

[VenomProject]

"Internet hysteria from normal people is exactly what they want and that's how many people reacted today. You gave them exactly what they want."

Translation: "Next time this happens, be quiet about it so that we don't look like idiots."

[visualb]

lazy f*cking devs...

[darksied]

I know, right? It's almost genius, blame the people showing and reporting glitches, not the idiot devs who didn't fix them/don't want to acknowledge them. What a douche-bag.

[Incipio]

Well done VenomProject.

May I borrow your bullshit translator so I may truly understand other industry tools?

[Akagi]

"Internet nerd famous". Wow. A lot of these "nerds" are hardcore fans. Way to isolate them.

[marichuu]

I doubt hardcore fans would exploit and glitch the game on purpose just to complain like that.

The more hardcore fans are probably the ones he said were constructive in their posts.

[dragon82]

I actually have to agree with him. The only reason these douche bags do stupid stuff like this is for internet fame. Pretty sad if you ask me.

[visualb]

is because the game is broken enough to allow that...

a good game always counters hackers, be it through moderation, or a solid engine.

this game doesn't have that

[darksied]

These people might be only showing their frustration with the game because it's so glitchy. Calling them out on it and saying they'll ban people who "glitch" the game is ludicrous, because the game is allowing them to do that. Saying nothing and quickly fixing the bugs is what they SHOULD be doing, not sounding like a moron by blaming them for what is clearly the developers' fault, along with this idiot "multiplayer designer."

[dragon82]

If someone leaves their front door open it allows me to take whatever I want but it doesn't mean I should. "They allowed me to do it" is not a justification for being a douche bag.

[IHateYouFanboys]

@dragon82: spot on.

just because theres a way to glitch and get unlimited care packages doesnt mean you need to do it. i played who knows how many days worth of MW and MW2, well into double digits, and not once did i EVER glitch intentionally. not once. never did the javelin glitch, the unlimited care package, the 'getting in a rock', or any of them.

i dont play online to ruin other peoples games and try and break the game. i play online because i want to have some fun and i enjoy the game the way its supposed to be played.

im just hopeful now that with the theatre mode as soon as we upload a video of someone repeatedly glitching and report it to Treyarch/Activision, they will bring that ban-hammer down hard and fast. i personally will be uploading videos each and every time someone glitches intentionally in a match im in, and filing a complaint.

[dragon82]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that way.

[gaden_malak]

For all the talk of COD and glitching issues, I've played a fair bit of MW1 and 2 and WaW and never come across anything that seemed strange.

[Steve_0]

@dragon82
"If someone leaves their front door open it allows me to take whatever I want but it doesn't mean I should."
No, but if you don't want someone to break into your house, you should lock your door.

[aviator189]

What a stupid response from Treyarch. Maybe they should have released a more polished game. The campaign is excellent but Treyarch should have realized that more problems tend to occur online. I'd take Killzone 3 beta over this heap of copy-and-paste/refine anyday.

[Sparticus_1]

What a putz....he calls someone an internet nerd...yet he is a damn programmer....This dude is a fucking loser...he is a programmer Im sure he isnt much of shit...Id like to punch the fuck out of this guy over and over in his throat.....he is just mad someone popped his game already...thats it...he lost..the internet nerd wins....fricken chump. His game needs to be in the toilet...right where it belongs...next to a turd.

[Panthers]

No, he was saying that this guy wanted to be internet famous, which is worse than reality show famous. And he is right. The only reason to post hacks on the internet and showing the world is because he wants people to think he is cool. Hackers/Glitchers are freaking losers. Every game has glitches. Exploiting them is what is wrong.

[Shackdaddy836]

Well, to be fair, they are at least admitting there are problems in the game and that they want to support it. I have to give them that.

But these things would have never happened if they just released a beta.

[darksied]

If he wanted to admit there were problems, he should have just said that, instead of calling these people out, saying they're douche-bags and wanting to ban them. All he showed is that he's been thoroughly embarrassed by these glitches and videos, and he's more upset at these people for posting these problems than he is willing to fix them.

[Shackdaddy836]

True. Still, he did admit it. Just not in a good way.

[duplissi]

perhaps he was pissed.

[DirtyLary]

By calling them out he did just what he's asking us not to, give them attention.

[Panthers]

I think he admitted it in a great way. No game is glitch free, even with a beta. You can beta test the hell out of a game and it would still have glitches on it come release. I just hate people that exploit those glitches.

[dalibor]

Wait this game didn't have a beta? What the? You would think it would have had a beta after all that MW2 fiasco. Damn that is not a good thing.

[sajj316]

There will be bugs. Fix them and move on. PR 101, keep your mouth shut!

[GoldPS3]

How about fixing the glitches before releasing the game Treyarch and you wouldn't have this problem. That's what betas are used for.

[Baka-akaB]

agreed 100% , but when a serie got such an history , and when you are worried , knows about the lack of beta , you check it before rushing to buy it .

As long as guys keep making it a huge midnight launch success , they (as in treyarch or whoever will do the future next cod games) wont care , and will keep it a game they release every november no matter what .

[SgtRock]

I like that Treyarch seem to be very serious about supporting this game. But it also seems they could have avoided this with some really aggressive QA- this glitch was identified pretty quickly by the community. To beat the douche-bag, you must think like the douche-bag, and do not provide him the bag with which he douches...or something like that.

I am confident the glitch stuff will be worked out. After the MW2 experience, I am more concerned with prevention and banning of cheaters.

[Incipio]

lol +1

[gam3fr33k]

Boy some people are just dumb. Let's see you try to make a game like this that absolutely no one can find a glitch for. Expect the same shit to happen in KZ3 when it releases to the general public...that's why I never buy these games day 1.

[VenomProject]

Oh waaaaaah, you can try to defend Treyarch all day.

They had the chance to have a PUBLIC beta, but they didn't want to. They wanted to keep it behind closed doors and build the hype up to ridiculous levels.

[Koromaro]

The Problem with public betas is that 70% of the people with it just want to play it.

[Sparticus_1]

yeah but if 70% just want to play it..that still gives the devs 30% chance to find glitches....better than 0%

[Raider69]

I start laugh the moment he states that the glitch is due to people using the old dashboard and older versions of the game!To my knowledge the game works fine (original or backups ) on the old dashboard and there were no older versions of the game released!Even the pirate versions are backups of the retail!Every body knows all the fuzz Josh Olin and Activision made wend the first original retail versions end up on pirate hands!So if there are glitches is due to the lack of polish!

[edoman20]

Yeah love KZ3 on my jailbreaked PS3

rigth guys? XDXDXDXDXD

[_Q_]

I was gonna get this stupid game today. Activision needs to figure out what DICE is doing because I never see this level of BS on BFBC2 ever...Maybe some lag but full on exploits and hacks? No.and calm down whoever is first to run and correct me,I'm talking about personally experiencing cheaters

[PotatoClock]

Betas make the difference. Money hungry companies who care about the amount they sell rather than the quality of what their selling will never bother with betas.

In all fairness after the mess of MW2, you would of thought any resonable company would do a beta to correct old mistakes. But no, Acti want your money, not your respect.

[_Q_]

That's the problem with Activision they have their heads up their asses. They know people are gonna buy their game anyway but how long until the masses start thinking of COD = low quality? I think its coming soon.

[Dazel]

and fixed fast, no good talking the talk if you can't come up with the goods. Had a few games tonight where it was care package after care package, it will be rampant in a week or so. Best thing to do would be to remove them altogether?

I'm gonna take this guy at his word, for now.

[Bromeslice]

There are glitches in most multiplayer games, it's just the sheer magnitude of people that play Call of Duty online that make the glitches seem abundant. The game just launched today people, god damn. There are always going to be glitches, humans aren't perfect, and cant create a perfect game. The players that are glitching are the bad guys, not the developers.

[ZBlacktt]

COD has always been broken. There is no surprise here at all. Not sure why some should be so shocked that it still continues game after game after game. It all falls back on those who made the game period. If you can't prevent it and police it. Then you've sold a broken system....again.

[dkgshiz]

So that means there was already two patches? WTF?

[The_Nameless_One]

That's a very ironic statement from Treyarch given that they have a one of the biggest douchebags in the video game industry running the company they work for.

[xKARxPaul]

can't believe people are glitchin already just goes to show how sad some people actually are

[na-no-nai]

they did have a beta but it wasnt public

[Garnett]

I highly doubt that Black Ops is filled with glitches, its every battlefield fanboy trying to make Black Ops look back because their game flopped.

[jmallymav]

Agreed, played like over 100 online matches, never encountered any glitches, or cheaters, their were lag though, but that's with every shooter, this is n4g, ppl will hate