David Vonderhaar is a Pot Calling a Kettle Black

If you missed the wonderful comments from this article in which Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer design director David Vonderhaar had some choice words for the Call of Duty community.

Basically he calls people douches, nerds, and threatens bans in an Orwellian type of society.


In a word, this is Stupid.

Ban people because they exploit a glitch? How about you fix your shit instead of banning people. Players make videos to show people how to do it so that the devs get off their asses and fix it. If only a handful of people know about it, then who cares.

I wouldn't like people making videos of how my product wasn't up to par either, but I wouldn't say "oh you paid for it and found a bug? Well I'm not gonna let you play it anymore." Customers are doing your job for you, assbag. Be thankful they are making it public and there isn't just a group of dickheads out there keeping it to themselves and ruining it for everyone without telling anybody.

Games being released glitchy are becoming an epidemic and the ridiculous "oh we'll fix it after launch" mentality that companies have nowadays is bullshit. How about I pay you half of the $70 now and half when the game is working properly? Don't like that idea? Well I don't like paying full price for a game I can't play properly because you didn't QA it well enough.

How about instead of threatening your paying customers with bans, you fix the incredible problems that PC version of the game has. How about even addressing it or *gasp* even apologizing for it. I guess that takes too much effort or you feel you don't need to because you stated, you know much more about your game than we do.

Priorities. Threaten first. Fix and apologize later.