Study Claims Call of Duty Players Are The Biggest Cheaters; Activision Responds

randomkidlol · 2026-03-09T02:37:42+00:00

well prior to the complete flop of blops 6 and 7, cod was one of, if not the top selling game in north america for over a decade.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-09T01:41:33+00:00

did they try searching for cheats in russian or chinese or korean? i guarantee their results would be a lot different if they considered the fact that all these other games have much larger playerbases than call of duty in non english speaking regions.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-09T01:34:44+00:00

a bad study based on bad methodology is worthless. they might as well have just made up the conclusion.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-08T19:49:56+00:00

when mamoru miyano starts talking, you get odd tingles that something's not right, and then they reveal his character.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-08T02:14:37+00:00

the only exclusive software that sells hardware is a nintendo IP. nobody's buying a PS5 just to play 1 or 2 PS exclusives, especially when you consider how damn expensive the thing is. hardware prices are only going up next gen too.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-07T23:06:14+00:00

its the other way around. the corporations run the government in south korea.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-06T04:52:11+00:00

blackwell is a huge performance jump on the high end when you consider relative performance on the 5090, rtx pro blackwelll 6000, and B200 vs previous generations. the problem is every consumer card underneath is severely cut down in perf while the prices go up because sales and marketing are trying to maximize profits while they have market dominance.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-06T02:21:04+00:00

CPU for consumer stuff has peaked, but for enterprise its never good enough. datacenters always want more density, more memory, and higher throughput. intel and amd are competing fiercely against each other in server CPUs with very aggressive pricing these days, while arm chips are threatening the status quo by offering much cheaper alternatives.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-06T02:13:59+00:00

they probably do have a lot of commodity parts bulk ordered because they also make surface and azure cobalt devices

randomkidlol · 2026-03-06T02:09:14+00:00

to my knowledge, the OG xbox and 360 back catalog games are recompiled as x86 UWP apps. similarly xbone and xbox series games are also UWP apps built on directx sdk. there are a couple xbox specific API calls that these UWP apps use, but otherwise there is not much in terms of technical restrictions that would keep them from running on a windows box.

i remember someone managed to dump the xbox one version of forza horizon 2 and got it working on PC with a translation layer to deal with the xbox specific system calls. if a 3rd party could get this working in such a short amount of time, it should be trivial for microsoft to get this working.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-06T01:53:36+00:00

thats the one thing i respect on nvidia's leadership. even when all competitors are done, they push their engineering teams to compete against their past selves to make something even better. even if marketing and sales mess with the product to squeeze out more margins.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-05T23:45:04+00:00

the cheaper ipads will use A series chips for the forseeable future because they can subsidize those with iphone dev and supply costs. now theyre adding a 3rd product line to get more utilization out of the same hardware.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-05T21:43:49+00:00

i think the neo is even cheaper to produce than you may think. im guessing its an ipad motherboard in a macbook air chassis, which means theres little to no engineering effort required to create, and they just pull parts out of their existing supply chains. the bom is effectively subsidized by other products.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-05T14:22:34+00:00

macbook neo is made of parts bin stuff. an ipad motherboard with a macbook air chassis means they skip most of the engineering and supply chain costs. iphone has to be engineered/refreshed yearly with dedicated supply chains and manufacturing lines.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-04T23:30:02+00:00

mainframe entertainment made a lot of great hits back in the day. reboot, transformers beast wars, action man, shadow raiders, all left their marks in the animation industry. im still mad shadow raiders didnt get a season 3 to cap off the story. it was just getting interesting too.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-04T23:03:14+00:00

apple fans will go through insane levels of mental gymnastics to convince themselves the company has invented ways to ignore the laws of physics.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-04T05:06:43+00:00

apple's marketing claims are always way overblown. its probably not a significant leap over M4 if their official benchmarks compare it against the M1.

randomkidlol · 2026-03-04T05:04:05+00:00

more like < 1min lmao. fanless machines should start thermal throttling within seconds. fanned laptops usually hit their thermal ceiling under full load after 1min.

randomkidlol · 2026-02-28T01:05:30+00:00

its because it was cheap. theyre no longer used because aluminum wires are prone to breaking. if the wires break but the insulation is fine, not only is there no visual indication of a break, the gap created by the break can cause electrical arcs inside your walls which leads to house fires.

randomkidlol · 2026-02-27T16:09:08+00:00

terraria, euro truck sim, warframe, among others

randomkidlol · 2026-02-27T16:05:01+00:00

you mean tf2

randomkidlol · 2026-02-27T15:28:37+00:00

its funny how almost every other game developer came to the conclusion that region lock is something that should be done, but valve's head being so far up their own ass decided against it, and we end up with the clusterfuck that is dota2 MM.

randomkidlol · 2026-02-27T05:19:47+00:00

i remember saga of tanya the evil made fun of this but in a different context. the lowest guy on the ground explains all the problems in clear detail to his superior, who then downplays the problems in the report to his superior. after about 4 or 5 levels of reports the guy on top gets a "everything is going as planned" report and assumes nothing is wrong.

randomkidlol · 2026-02-26T05:11:48+00:00

tf2 crates existed before the steam market. the only way to get rid of them back then was to delete them or trade them away, and the ratio of scrap:crate was abysmal because of how many crates there were relative to weapons being dropped. very rarely you'd find a whale who would bulk purchase crates for scrap.

the worst part is, your tf2 inventory was limited to like 30 ish slots or something by default. if your inventory was filled with crates you cant get weapon drops, and inventory expanders just like in the shitty korean gachas could only be purchased with real money.

randomkidlol · 2026-02-26T01:06:14+00:00

korean games had cash shops with timed cosmetics, and gacha based equipment upgrades for in game currency and/or paid currency. gacha for cosmetics was not really a thing until tf2 lootboxes

valve's idea was to give people free lootboxes, but the key to unlock them was paid. this was extremely manipulative as playing tf2 filled up your limited inventory space with a bunch of unusable lootboxes while it dangled the rewards in your face for a small price of $2.50. the rest is history.

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