With millions of copies of the game pre-ordered, the amount of units that have leaked onto sale early is comparatively insignificant. One way in which such practices are discouraged is for companies running online gaming services – especially Microsoft with Xbox Live – to collaborate with games developers and publishers and to ban those found playing games online before their official launch date.īut distributor Activision said in a statement that "we don't plan to ban players with early legitimate copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3". Mail-order outlets often dispatch pre-ordered games when they receive them, often before the games are officially on sale, so they are often favoured by gamers seeking to get their latest fix before anyone else.Ĭ&VG reports that US retailer K-Mart broke ranks to sell copies of Modern Warfare 3 earlier than it should have. In the past, legitimate retail sources have started selling games early before pleading that they made a mistake – such as Argos, which got in trouble for selling 2009's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 before it was supposed to. So while the industry frowns on such practices, it is effectively powerless to plug every single potential leak. The logistics of getting millions of copies of a game to shops around Europe while ensuring that none go on sale prematurely are fearsome.
The games industry loves to exercise fine control over when its products go on sale to generate the maximum impact at launch. It requested that questions be sent by email – but had not responded by the time it was told this story would be published. The Guardian believes that Computer eXchange may have acquired advance copies from a European distributor.Ĭomputer eXchange declined to answer The Guardian's questions over the phone about where it had got the copies and why it was selling them ahead of the embargo. When The Guardian's journalist quizzed a shop assistant about the fact that the games were on sale ahead of the worldwide embargo – which publisher Activision has fought hard to maintain, forbidding publications and bloggers from posting reviews online ahead of the release – a shop assistant said that the game was "already on sale in Europe". Video games stores are expected to open their doors just after midnight on Tuesday morning to satisfy gamers who will have been queuing outside for hours to buy their copies as Modern Warfare 3 officially goes on sale worldwide.īut London gamers have been able to buy them from the Computer eXchange chain of stores. Shrinkwrapped copies of the games for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 were available in the window at the comparatively high price. The games were on sale at least 48 hours ahead of the official embargo, which lifts at midnight on Monday, at Computer eXchange in London's Rathbone Place. If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.Gamers willing to pay above the odds can get their hands on an early copy of this year's must-have game, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – if they're willing to pay £60, rather than the £35 it costs online. Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it. If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for "privacy", "being anonymous", or "changing your region" or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse. If you are responsible for one of the above issues.
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