{"id":12902,"date":"2011-07-13T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"infinity-ward-hires-glitchers-exploiters-to-test-modern-warfare-3-for-glitches-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12902-infinity-ward-hires-glitchers-exploiters-to-test-modern-warfare-3-for-glitches-exploits","title":{"rendered":"Infinity Ward hires glitchers, exploiters to test Modern Warfare 3 for glitches, exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&rsquo;t lick &lsquo;em&#8230; hire &lsquo;em? That seems to be Infinity Ward&rsquo;s current strategy with Modern Warfare 3, with the company confirming they&rsquo;ve brought in a team of glitchers and exploiters to test the game for glitches and exploits. It&rsquo;s so crazy, it just might work.<\/p>\n<p>The hired goons would be the mapMonkeys, &ldquo;a community of gamers who have become infatuated with discovering and sharing glitches, exploits, tricks, and strategies found in the video games they play,&#8221; according to the group&rsquo;s founder,<a href=\"http:\/\/mapmonkeys.com\/#community\/forums\/thread\/42436\" target=\"_blank\"> Rezzo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re out at the studio to help us run Modern Warfare 3&#8217;s multiplayer through its paces,&rdquo; Infinity Ward&rsquo;s Robert Bowling tells<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/311399\/news\/infinity-ward-talks-up-rigorous-modern-warfare-3-qa-process\/\" target=\"_blank\"> CVG.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we&#8217;ve been hammering away testing on it since it&#8217;s been up and running, these guys focus specifically on exploits that can potentially be used to an unfair advantage, such as getting outside a map&#8217;s playable area, inside geo, or find weapon \/ equipment exploits that were not intended by the designer so that we can catch and address these before it gets out to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re a great addition to an already rigorous QA process that the internal team here at Infinity Ward \/ Sledgehammer and additionally at Activision have been doing since development began.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be launching in November, while the Call of Duty Elite subscription service beta drops tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It makes a mad sort of sense, though, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}