Currently I have x3 copies of Ghost on pre-order. I have played over about 1300 hours on BO2 and almost 500 hours of MW3. BO2 was a pretty good experience for me... a few hackers but not many. BO2 also made it easy to report cheaters (whether much was done about it I don't know but at least it felt good and the games seemed pretty fair).
Now after having not played MW3 for months I have been playing it a lot over the last week (at least 30 hours worth). Damn game is nothing but a hackfest! People flying around, invincible, etc. So here is what pisses me off. IW makes it very difficult to report people. It can't be done in game and the players change their names often. If I am positive someone is hacking I have to spend 40 minutes of my time changing to the hackers view in theater mode and make a video of it which I then have to upload to Youtube and go to some dumb page to report them.
What ticks me off is the IW doesn't seem to care at all about how messed up MW3 is. The only thing I have to gauge their future actions and response with Ghost is to look at their past responses. For BO2 I bought x4 copies of the game and x4 season passes. I told my son that I have a hard time supporting a company doesnt' give a .... about its customers.
I already have x4 copies of BF4 and x4 Premium season passes for BF4 ordered. They have a decent anti-cheat system, have ranked dedicated servers, have battlelog (equivalent of Call of Duty Elite), and actually have implimented in BF4 many of the requests from Battlefield fans. MW3 has absolutely no anti-cheat (and IW doesn't care) as well as no ranked dedicated servers,etc.
Now with Ghost IW seems to be moving in a positive direction with dedicated servers (even if they likely will use matchmaking) which should cut down on some of the hacking/cheating. At the same time though they have removed theater mode so it becomes even harder to prove folks are hacking. I'd like to know does Ghost have the ability to report hackers built into it like BO2 does? I'd also like to know what they are going to do anti-cheat wise that will improve the situation over MW3.
Now some of you might say.... "but MW3 is an old game" but I'd say first, it is really IW's current game (since Ghost is not out yet), and second, some companies still support their games (like BF3 which is just as old as MW3 and has far, far fewer hackers and cheaters).
I'm upset and ranting not because I'm a Battlefield fanboy (I do love it and have played close to 900 hours on BF3), but because I am also a COD fanboy but I feel like PC' players on COD of abused, mistreated and forgotton step-children.
Please IW... please tell us you are actually going to invest some money in a good anti-cheat team and software development... don't let this be like MW3......
Matthew