With that, however, we bring an interesting news bit focused on Advanced Warfare glitch videos and Activision’s decisive action against them. As the story goes, Activision is hitting YouTube video makers with copyright takedowns left and right if their video contains any Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare glitches.
Popular YouTube network Machinima confirmed the Activision copyright claims by issuing a warning e-mail out to their clients. Essentially, the letter tells Machinima partners that Activision plans to remove any and all videos featuring Advanced Warfare glitches, which in turn will hit the video maker with a strike. Three strikes on a user’s YouTube account and its gone. No more Machinima partnership either.
After word of the copyright takedown surfaced, many criticized Activision for enacting what they believed was a harsh form of censorship. In their minds, Activision is trying to keep videos featuring glitches and bugs away from public view – in essence hiding their game’s flaws.
Activision was quick to respond to these assumptions, explaining that their only goal with the copyright claims was to keep any cheats and exploits from proliferating. They simply didn’t want players learning how to gain an unfair advantage in Advanced Warfare’s online multiplayer.
In this case it seems more likely that some gamers were trying to spin a story against Activision more than anything else. Obviously Activision is an easy target and so is Call of Duty, but in our experience with Advanced Warfare (read our review) we saw very few bugs or glitches. Exploits, on the other hand, there were plenty of those and they soured the multiplayer experience.
Do you think Activision is really cracking down on exploit videos? Have you encountered any game-breaking bugs in Advanced Warfare?
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Source: Eurogamer
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