I was playing Call of Duty multiplayer a
few days back and right when I was about to sign off and call it a night I
received a message.
After investigating it a little…only because I didn't recognize the person who
sent it…I found it to be someone I just played with.
Now it was a voice message, so I made sure
no one was around when I listened to it because I figured it was someone about
to go off on me for sucking really bad and ruining their life.
Once the room was clear I played the message and strangely enough it wasn't
someone going off on me…it was someone who seemed to have sucked all the helium
from a balloon right before recording it…asking me if I wanted to join a
"boost lobby".
I wasn’t exactly sure what a "boost lobby" was and if I should have
been concerned…I picture it is the equivalent of taking e-steroids or some
other kind of performance enhancing drug…but I just wasn’t sure.
Did I do the right thing by alerting the
proper authorities and forwarding him a link to the "this is your brain on
drugs" commercial? I thought about even calling in McGruff the Crime Dog
to take a bite out of this cyber-crime…but I figured that would be overkill so
I passed on it.
Someone told me it was a form of cheating…a
way to rank up your player without actually playing the game the way it was
intended to be played…a quick and easy way to unlock everything in the game.
Now I know I'm old…and even a little short
bus…but I just don't get it…why do that? To me that sounds extremely boring and
a waste of good gaming time…besides why would I cheat…so I can have an asterisk
by my name in the record books like Mark Mcgwire…no way man…not me…no how!
I guess the bottom line is if we're going
to play games like Call of Duty online we need to learn to live with it or move
on. Granted it does suck but we all know bitching about it doesn't help…well
that's not entirely true…it does keep us from walking into a McDonalds and
going postal.
MJM
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