It has always been said that if it weren’t for the players, a great number of videogames would be dead. Development companies completely ignore their titles, either out of simple indifference or because it doesn’t have any financial impact on them. And it can be both cases, as is happening to Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
Released in 2015, for Activision Blizzard this title is already outdated. After all, the company only keeps the latest game it releases -or at most the penultimate version- constantly updated. It has been doing so for a long time, but the key is that tens of thousands of players are still playing older titles, such as Black Ops 3, which has 5,000 players every day. Where does the problem arise? Well, hackers have completely taken over the game.
According to streamers and users of the title in question, these hackers have taken over the game. “They can join your game, they can kick you out, they can corrupt your DLC, they can crash the game; they can do whatever they want,” one streamer told TechCrunch.
Faced with this situation, and the complete passivity that the title is suffering from Activision, two players have set to work to plug all existing vulnerabilities. And yes, they are succeeding. “The game is infested with hackers. There are tons of security vulnerabilities with severe impact. You can get hacked for simply playing the game. They can steal your information and much more,” says Maurice Heumann, one of these users who is fixing the problems.
“I guess somehow they did log these problems, they were passed on to the development team and then they would end up being lost, probably due to the fact that old games are no longer a priority […] Old games are old, nobody buys new copies anymore, so spending time maintaining them isn’t worth it. Since Activision isn’t doing anything, I’m going to fix things myself,” he said.
You can follow the whole project from the following website.
