Treyarch working aggressively to squash Black Ops cheaters

by Griffin McElroy on Nov 11th 2010 3:00PM

Treyarch's David Vonderhaar has considerable emotional investment in Call of Duty: Black Ops, having served as Multiplayer Design Director. That helps explain his fiery comments regarding complaints that players had already hacked the game's online multiplayer component. On the official Black Ops forums, Vonderhaar explained that most of the videos circling the YouTubes feature older dev versions of the game, or use exploits that can be easily hotfixed or patched "just like we said we would."

Vonderhaar expressed disappointment in these complaints, saying, "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." He later added, "We are disinterested in making mini-celebrities out of douche-bags."

Wow, we're actually kind of inspired by his passion, here. If everyone adopted the "no fame for douche-bags" credo, just think how much of a better place we'd be living in! There'd be no reality television at all.

Via: Videogamer
Source: Call of Duty: Black Ops forums

Tags: activision, Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops, cheating, hack, microsoft, pc, playstation, ps3, treyarch, xbox

Reader Comments (55)

"no fame for douche-bags"

@Brando Calrissian
Is that the sequel to No Country for Old Men?

@Brando Calrissian

isn't this a Kanye West song?

i havent seen any cheaters

"There'd be no reality television at all."
what a world that would be!

@MetaArmor : We'd find a way to move on.... somehow.

@MetaArmor

If there was no more reality television, we would only have 2 channels and one of them would be the weather. The other would be that old indian head static screen that was used back in the day people actually went to sleep instead of watching TV at 2am.

If we didn't have reality shows, maybe, just maybe stations would go back to showing what they were meant to.

Animal Planet would show more animal shows, less reality shows.(Involving animals, like animal cops, does not count.)

ABC, CBS, NBC could actually show good programming. instead of relying on reality shows.

SciFI would have less reality shows, but still continue to suck.

And we could end the rash of "I completely suck, and make everyone around me miserable, but I'm a reality TV show star, and that makes me important".

MTV might actuallty show music again. Wait, they stopped showing music before reality shows were even a hit.

No fame for douche bags. That's what we do with our comment vote downs, right?

@The Tim The best is when the downvoted commented gets all incredulous and self-righteous about it. And the replies to their own comment with somethng like "What's wrong, Joystiq? Can't handle the TRUTH???"

@Petebot330 Who needs to actually justify their opinion when you can just click a button, amirite?

@Petebot330

Indeed. "What's wrong, Joystiq? Can't handle the TRUTH???"

My respect for treyarch has increased 100 percent since this game dropped, and this post doesn't hurt either

Well, he definitely sounds like a Call of Duty player.

matchmaking would take so long without douche-bags in the world...

"no fame for douche-bags"

I'm making a t-shirt. Seriously, that should apply universally.

I was playing Search & Destroy on Radiation I saw one of my team mates on top of a building & when he died the bomb just dropped into nowhere respwaned. I should have taken a video of it but I quit because of that it wouldn't let me see the match again

@Prboi

What?

So your telling me all those people in MW2 with 9999999999999999999 kills hacked? What has this world come too?!?

@SackDanDruff

What?!? No wonder they never responded to my messages asking them how they got so many kills...

I haven't seen any cheaters on 360. Not saying there are none (cause we all know they're), but I've had fun playing MP.

@JGray73

A good cheater doesn't get caught. I am not speaking from experience but if I were to cheat I would do it in a way that it wasn't obvious so people would just think I was that good.

@golfs4panzys
right uh huh

And we won't be over charge for crap games that comes out every year with little to no improvements at all.

@monkey with glasses Oh shut up.

@monkey with glasses

Yeah, seriously. Shut up.

I like this guy.

I considered a douche bag someone who make millions off people for any sort of entertainment, and not giving a flying f@#k about them.

If I were them, I would fix the damn game before yelling at/about cheaters.

@walls99

It's not their fault that there are cheaters in the gaming universe. & A beta would only help so much. I saw some cheaters in Halo Reach a few days after launch despite there being a beta. It's the cheaters fault that there are cheaters... if that makes sense

@Prboi

I get what you mean, I hate cheaters myself.

With the whole world pissed at Treyarch about the lag in the PC version etc when playing multi-player, and with CPU usage hitting 100% etc, I was thinking that their priorities have to be different.

@Prboi

not that i doubt it... but im not 100% sure how one cheats on a console, i know with PC its easier to make bots and windowed hacks for various stuffs (based on my experience with FFXI) but im still trying to figure out how, besides exploiting glitches and bugs, someone cheats... unless exploiting is the cheat? (walking behind walls shooting people who cant shoot you back.?) or is it possible to get actual cheat programs and things like that working on a console?

Wow, people cheat? Who knew? Good for him.

One of my primary complaints for MW2 was all the cheating. I doubt they'll be able to stop a good portion of them still.

No fame for douche bags....sounds like a movie title, like No country for old men.

let's have a toast for the douche bags *Kanye voice*

I'm so glad to hear the anti-cheating stance. One of my biggest complaints about Modern Warefare 2 is all the cheating that occurs on the Xbox 360 version on multiplayer. It happened from day 1 and it's only gotten worse. The last weekend, I played against people who had super speed and were practically invincible. Also, I hate when someone sends unlimited rockets to a capture point. And the top 1000 or so players on the leaderboards? Most are obviously cheaters. There's no way you can have that high of score and only have a few minutes or less than a hour of total play time. Why Infinity Ward refuses to fix that alone, I'll never know.

I thought only douche bags played COD.

@Barkley610 Does joystiq not post a comment that has the word fcuk in it?

@Barkley610 apparently it doesn't . I was just saying that I'm shocked you haven't been downvoted. You know, since you're a fcukin dick and all.

Atleast he's straightforward and not sugarcoating it like a certain other FPS game company who released a large fictional warfare game a year ago, then screwed their players by not supporting or fixing anything requested or needed.

"We are disinterested in making mini-celebrities out of douche-bags."

Tell that to video game bloggers and watch the tears flow.

say what you will about treyarch, but they have always seemed more proactive about this stuff than Infinity Ward ever did.

I hate reality TV.

In fact... The only thing I think I hate more than reality TV is Dancing with the Stars. It is reality TV... for celebrities.

Here is a satchel of fire. Eat it!

I'll be the guy who points out that he meant "uninterested." The words "disinterested" and "uninterested" don't mean the same thing.

"just think how much of a better place we'd be living in! There'd be no reality television at all."

Yes. Please!

"Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother,
An' tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone.
But please not one word of the man who had killed me.
Don't mention his name and his name will pass on."

I wonder if theres anyway they can do this with campers...

@sweetbrother

Douchebag refers to hipsters or just pretentious people in general who act like self-centered idiots.

No fame for douche bags huh?...yet treyarch gets another entire article about them...hahaha

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