{"id":15459,"date":"2011-11-09T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"psa-modern-warfare-3-banhammers-are-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15459-psa-modern-warfare-3-banhammers-are-go","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Modern Warfare 3 banhammers are GO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m sure it seems kind of obvious to most people, really, but here&rsquo;s a reminder to everybody anyway &ndash; cheating is bad, and it&rsquo;s going to get you banned sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>And from now, probably sooner than you think.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20473-Infinity-Ward\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Infinity Ward<\/a>&rsquo;s Robert &ldquo;fourzerotwo&rdquo; Bowling, they&rsquo;re already banning those lamers who want to spoil Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;1st round of #MW3 bans going out,&rdquo; he announced over <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19976-Twitter\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Twitter<\/a>. &ldquo;Any player attempting to play unfairly or boost rank will be banned from leaderboards and from playing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m assuming that probably includes the level 48 guy I saw playing Team Deathmatch early yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, if you&rsquo;re going to cheat, maybe be a bit more subtle about it.<\/p>\n<p>He added later that this means &ldquo;banning them from playing, removing them, and making it so they can never rank on the leaderboards again&rdquo;, just in case there was any confusion about that.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/fourzerotwo\/status\/134019076489093120\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modern_Warfare_3_screenshot_1_617885811.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20451-Modern-Warfare-3-cheaters-are-getting-banned\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forum Link\"><strong>Modern Warfare 3 cheaters are getting banned<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play nice, kids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"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-15459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459","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\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}