I think Infinity Ward did it on purpose: they wanted people to cheat

This thread is for honest Call of Duty players. If you're not, well...

So... do you remember in Call of Duty 4 when people used cage matches to boost their level by cheating? If you don't: what they did was entering a cage match (1 vs 1) and ask the opponent to cheat by taking turns at killing each other for easy points. The only "problem" was finding someone willing to do this but believe me, there was plenty of people doing it. I say 70-80% of the people playing cage matches did so for the sole purpose of cheating.

To prevent this, Treyarch cut off cage matches from CoD WaW, which was sad, because it's a fun mode. Now, you'd hope that with Modern Warfare 2 Infinity Ward managed to devise a way to make cheating impossible, but no, the situation has gotten worse.

Did you ever notice, when playing free for all, a player getting killed every two seconds by another one? Well, basically what they do is this: a player enters a free for all lobby and invites the other one, then they sit in some out of sight nook with tactical insertions and they take tuns at killing each other.

Why did IW make this possible? Why can people invite friends in free for all matches? I seriously think they did it on purpose. Add to this the cage match glitch that allows you to join a friend from the dashboard and you'll get the picture.
Why create a level based game if you're going to provide easy ways to work around it by cheating?! I swear, I was playing a match and 4 people out of 8 were doing the trick. half the server was minding their business instead of playing the game!

Are you annoyed? I am annoyed.

Disagree, they'll patch it right out. In the mean time, back out if you see the lobby show "private match, free for all, rust".

Well, seeing that no human is perfect and we all make mistakes, I'd believe that IW simply overlooked this and not that they actually approve cheating.

Besides, players find ways to cheat around EVERYTHING.

Well, seeing that no human is perfect and we all make mistakes, I'd believe that IW simply overlooked this and not that they actually approve cheating.

Besides, players find ways to cheat around EVERYTHING.

MadVybz

Why would they do it on purpose? You just said that you think they did, but never gave a real motive for them to do so. Tactical insertions were added not for cheating, but as something new to the series. Infinity Ward would not want their game to be ridden with level exploiters. I'm pretty sure this is all players trying to exploit the game for what it is, and not Infinity Ward giving the exploits to the players on purpose. 0Tyler0

What about the search and destroy riot shield EXP boost matches? I watched my brother try it out (once and only once to see what it was like. he thinks boosting is dumb too) and he got damn near 40,000 exp in one match, and they even screwed up the first bit.

This is why they have betas for multiplayer games. IW chose not to have a beta, and now their game is all but ruined by cheaters/exploiters.

What will boosting do in the long run, really? You may be a high level with Fall Camo and every attachment, but without in-game skill you will still suck. There are some people who really do play cage matches for other then just boosting.

I couldn't care less about people boosting. And the glitched matches on rust are really fun I think.

I really don't care as long as they make these superb CoD games :)

This is why I don't play "Level" shooters like COD, but seriously, why worry about it! If they don't have the skills to back up their rank, just destroy them when you play against them.

on Modern Warfare 2. It's everyone for themselves.

Then again I'm talking about the PS3 version.