Hackers Make Modern Warfare 2 Ded. Server?

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By Marcus Yam
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When news came that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would come without dedicated servers for the PC version, gamers were upset and disappointed at the removal of one of the advantages of the PC platform.

Some PC gamers even decided to boycott the game. Of course, that didn't seem to hurt sales too much as Modern Warfare 2 went on to become the fastest selling game in history. Clearly Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers weren't fazed by what was happening on the PC front.

Interestingly, and perhaps not too surprisingly, it appears as though some crafty PC gamers have been able to hack together a dedicated server for Modern Warfare 2, complete with mods such as superjumping and grenade spamming galore. So far all we have is a video of it in action, but we'll let you know if we hear more.

Source: Joystiq.

Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
53 Comments Comment from the forums
  • brendano257
    This may be worth it if, but only if it becomes widely used, +1 for the developers.
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  • foody
    What do you care Marcus? You can't play it on a Mac anyway.
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  • alyon
    Modders making IW look like a joke. On top of this you are able to play online, on IWnet, and with whatever lvl/pretige you want with a pirated copy. Excellent security... right. All this within a week of release.
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  • deadlockedworld
    "Hackers Makes Modern Warfare 2 Ded. Server?"

    Pluralize either Hackers or Makes -- not both.
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  • the_one111
    deadlockedworld"Hackers Makes Modern Warfare 2 Ded. Server?" Pluralize either Hackers or Makes -- not both.Toms.
    HIRE. A. EDITOR.
    Or better yet use a decent spellcheck. How damn hard is this for you to do?
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  • frozenlead
    It was bound to happen. I hope IW isn't so dumb as to think they can control this kind of action.
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  • frozenlead
    the_one111HIRE. A. EDITOR.
    You should note that, since "Editor" starts with a vowel, you should use "An", not "A".
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  • the_one111
    frozenleadYou should note that, since "Editor" starts with a vowel, you should use "An", not "A".Most unused rule in the english language also. But thanks.
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  • 1898
    Since when is 'makes' a plural and how would a spell checker have helped here?
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  • wildwell
    What is this, English class!? Thank you Marcus, for this relevant news post.

    I hope you are taking great pleasure out of fragging your haters from your Mac running Windows/Bootcamp on this modded server. Cheers!
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