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Activision said it brought the 2009-released game offline while it investigates "an issue."

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[โ€“] PrinzKasper@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MW2 had many iterations of fan servers. It started with alterIWnet, and ended with IW4X, which was recently shut down by Activision with a cease and desist. Fan modded versions of the game with dedicated servers and a server browser, with known security vulnerabilities like this one already patched out. Thanks to Activision, there's now no way to safely play this game anymore.

[โ€“] ampersandrew@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, that's cool. Cool that the alternate networks ever existed, I mean. Not cool that they got shut down, but this is from the same people who shut down vanilla WoW to sell it back to you again.