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David Voderhaar, the design director for Call of Duty: Black Ops' multiplayer, has some angry, angry words for gamers who "twit-bomb" him with videos displaying glitches and/or exploits in Black Ops' multiplayer.
On the Call of Duty: Black Ops message board, Voderhaar posted:
"We are disinterested in making mini-celebrities out of douche-bags... I got Twitbombed today from dozens of people with the same two links... 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. Internet hysteria from normal people is exactly what they want and that's how many people reacted today. You gave them exactly what they want."
Voderhaar went on to say he'd like to permanently ban "anyone who thinks he is clever by abusing any glitches. Good thing I don't have the opportunity that often and we actually have a constructive, measured, and well-managed live ops team."
The miffed design director goes on to promise the company will issue patches and hotfixes for reproducible errors, "just like we said we would," and thanks gamers who sent in "polite, constructive messages without the hysterics."
Granted, It's probably a very stressful time to have anything to do with squashing multiplayer bugs in Black Ops, but still, all those people who are forwarding those videos are (presumably) people who bought the game, and care about the multiplayer mode enough to send you videos of glitches. In other words: Your company's most committed customers. Because I am not afraid of being banned from my own site, I will say this publicly: Chill out, man. Yes, many people on the internet are insufferably, unbearably jerky, but still, gamers who find glitches in your game are doing you a service, even if you don't appreciate the reasons they do it or the "hysteria" they create.
Or to put it another way: If there weren't any glitches in the game, there wouldn't be anything to exploit and no one would complain.
(Via Kotaku)
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fpsjoe
although I am not a huge fan of Call of Duty (MW2 ruined it for me) I rented Black Ops and I'm liking it so far, I might pick it up when it gets closer to christmas and goes on sale. What the developers need to do is to focus on getting the PC version cleared up. I was at my friends apartment yesterday and it was nearly unplayable, it would always stutter and freeze and his computer is top of the line to.
DPsx72
Not to stick up for a terrible game like CoD but glitches can be useful, a tool for the elite. I remember back in the UT99 days some tricks that were never supposed to be. Always wondered how players pulled them off, and then when I found/figured them out I felt better about it and learned how to prevent them from doing it. Nothing better then stealing their opportunity or using their tactic against them. Rocket or piston jumping, flag dropping, shock boosting, etc. All within the game rules so it's all good.
Then again this was back in the day when real gamers played games. You learned and adapted or lost. Today it's just a ton of damn children crying on their 360's when they lose so ANYTHING they aren't smart enough to perform must be cheating. Sissies...
droenn
Lol... seriously.
SonicATL
It makes me wonder how these pathetic sacks of flesh would feel about losing access to the internet permanently. If you're somebody that finds glitches and sends out videos so they can be fixed, kudos. If you find them and use them to you're own advantage, then I would like to tell you something from the bottom of my heart:
May you remain lonely, depressed, poor and disease-ridden for however many minutes you have left to live on this Earth.
adam.benoist
I have a friend that was a video game tester for Sony. $9 an hour didn't quite cut it though.
zobocho
they need to fix their glitches; and Voderhaar (who the hell is that?) needs to stfu and stop trying to be "nerd famous" himself.
PinkCrayon32
there may a few glitches, but this is way better than the mw2 lauch. hats off to you treyarch.
ww2_honor
Um shouldn't he be thanking them? They find the holes in the game that weren't found before launch and exploit them so that they can, hopefully, be patched. They don't get money for doing this stuff but they do it because they enjoy it. It's technically a form of problem solving when they figure out that if you do "x" then the outcome will be "y'. But I guess when you work for Craptivision you're too good to hold public betas and think your game has no issues. So you sir are the douche-bag here.
yayap001
all video games have the occasional glitch and just because mw2 was a glitch fest does not mean black ops is the same way, i see why he is getting mad, its annoying that a few kids can make a big deal out of nothing
blueboykc
"Yes, many people on the internet are insufferably, unbearably jerky" and many of them post here..
wh0urdady
You would think some of the people who find these glitches could get a job for a game company as a tester to find glitches. I have friends who when they first get the game spend 2 weeks testing every map for possible glitches that they can use in ranked to get an advantage
sy_cred
They are just trying to cover their own butts for sending out a game that has problems. Most of these glitches are probably found by accident. They should just admit it and say ya when sent out a glitchy game just like every other COD with online connectivity because we can fix it later. Honestly no one becomes famous from showing glitches.
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