ActIvision needs ro fix the problems on call of duty black ops 2 before they worry about any new expansions or add ons. The one repeating problem both me and my. GameTrailers is your destination to see official trailers first. Powered by IGN, you can expect to see worldfirst exclusive gameplay and the hottest new tra. Maps Nazi Zombie Maps downloads are here. Check all the latest Maps files, mods, patches, demos and betas on FilePlanet. Firearms mod for Half Life Mod DBI saw this at the Firearms site and knowing that not everyone will visit their site I thought I should post it here. Firearms was a great mod, wasnt it Here was the final news post and all the content of what remains of the site This is an official public service announcement. The Lesson If someone wants to steal or take over your mod and use its name, there is nothing you can do. The Short Version. When Source was out and FA was still in production, a Source mod started up under the name Firearms Revival. We, the FA Team, spoke with them and came to an agreement. Contacting Treyarch Customer Service Center. Treyarch is the design company responsible for Call of Duty Black Ops Call of Duty Black Ops II. Though Call of Duty. They could recreate FA from scratch, but they agreed to not use our name. The same cant be said for the Firearms 2 Team, who kicked off their mod in August 2. Firearms Forums, FTP, and servers using back door access supplied by our server provider, Recon. Gamer. Every single team member and most of the forum adminmod staff were banned, and we lost all of our art source and personal files stored on the server. The server takeover didnt affect the domain names, so the FA Team still controls those. For a while, they redirected to the site of our follow up mod, World at War. The FA Team argued with the FA2 Team for quite awhile, to no avail. Valve also refused to get involved. Eventually, the FA Team prevailed upon former FA Team Leader Eric Zerk Smith to intervene. When he found there was no legal ground to stop the FA2 Team, he lent them his conditional support. Thus ended the FA Teams quest to stop the FA2 Team from making Firearms 2. However, a year later, the FA Team now the World at War Team is still angry. Firearms 2 continues to capitalize on the good name of a mod that they neither created nor stewarded. They wish to sweep the hijacking incident under the rug, as if it werent relevant to who they are and what theyve done. For us, the aftermath of this was like being kicked in the groin and others telling us to just forget about it, that the crushing pain was in the past. At this point, we accept that these people will continue trying to make FA 2. We cant stop them. But for the players out there, remember that this is a mod started by fellow players who perpetrated this against us. For fellow modders out there, remember this could happen to you. And if it does may God have mercy on you, because you cant do anything about it. The Long Version. In the summer of 2. I gained leadership of Firearms for HL1 from then leader Ben Irwin, who had already disappeared from public internet life and needed a sabbatical from the pressures of leading a mod. I also became team leader of World at War, the FA Teams follow up mod to FA. I worked on and off with several others to shepherd the release of FA 3. As most of the FA Team was already working on Wa. W, the general consensus had been to stop development on FA after 3. Agree or disagree, that right was the Teams prerogative. However, we kept the webpage up and the forums running after 3. We did not set a date for Firearms to die. We did not wish to stifle any and all access to FA. When the time was to come, we were going to write a final news post on the FA site and give links to the Wa. W site, where FA discussion would continue in our subforum and would include download links. Before any of this could happen, I came home from a party in early August of 2. PMs splashed all across my IRC screen and my inbox flooded. All of my fellow FA Team members and all of my forum admin staff had been banned from our own forums during a hostile takeover. Furthermore, my Team members and I did not have FTP access anymore. My own FTP access had died a week or two earlier, and Id pestered Recon. Gamer, our host, to fix it by email. They didnt. So, we were locked out of our own system, with a resultant loss of control over our forums and Ben Irwins VBB license and the use of our domain name. After some deft maneuvering by my friends on the FAWa. W staff, the VBB license was yanked and the domain name was redirected as it continued to be until today. At this point, the hijackers had nothing under their control except for the FTP. Investigation and confrontation revealed the hijackers to be, at least Jonjon, Dean Sgossard. Gagnon who was eventually removed from the Firearms 2 Team by Jonjon, and Snap. Although the rationale is murky and inconclusive, it seemed that theyd hijacked the server and forums to prevent the FA Team from killing off FA andor to use the hijacking as leverage to convince Ben Irwin to grant them permission to create drumroll Firearms 2 for Source. The FA Team had already declined to make FA2 again, our prerogative and had even confronted another mod called Firearms Revival that sought to use the name. After some negotiation with those mod leaders, we reached a consensus an FA remake was okay, so long as it didnt use the name Firearms. The FA R Team agreed and was reborn as Fireteam Incursion, now the Incursion mod. But I digress. Whatever the case, the FA website was now down, pretty much for good. The redirect sent visitors to World at War. The VBB license was back in our hands too, used by Ben and our administrator, Lucky, to host the Wa. W forums. The Wa. W forums became a pseudo lifeboat for the remnants of the FA community. We gave them a home there and opened up our forums and, shortly, our website to the public, months ahead of schedule. Heres where things continue to go downhill. Despite the hijack attempt being thwarted, Jonjon, Sgoss, and their ilk had renamed themselves the FA2 Team and were pressing ahead with the mod, our objections be damned. It turned out that by talking with Recon. Gamer who, as I noted, were less than cooperative with me Jonjon had gotten control of our server and FTP. This was to be the basis for the FA2 website and mod effort. I feel the need to point out that when the FA Team lost control of the FTP and server, we also lost everything wed ever stored on the server. Art source for FA, personal photos and writings, the website, all gone. We havent had these returned to us, and really dont expect to see them again. Still aggravated and upset by what had transpired, the FA Team sought to take action against FA2. Various lawyers recommended a cease and desist letter or, at worse, a civil action, but those were serious and unnerving steps to take. In the end, I approached a former FA Team Leader, Eric Zerk Smith of DICE Canada, who had run the mod before Ben and had a signed a contract to have Firearms 2. Valve on their Platinum Pack. I didnt approach Zerk because of some weighty position he still held with the Firearms Team. Zerk had relinquished leadership to Ben five years ago during the development of 2. He left the team shortly thereafter. I approached him because I thought his contract would be important to our case were he to side with us. He agreed that the FA2 Teams actions were egregious and warranted a reaction. Despite my hesitance on stepping into legal matters, Zerk shot them a cease and desist letter. The FA2 Team quickly got in contact with Zerk to try and reach an accommodation. During this period, Zerk consulted with the DICE legal team and learned that, despite having signed a contract, no legal action could be taken against the theft of intellectual property online. So, Zerk cut his losses and sided with the FA2 Team. The deal Zerk would give them his approval, provided that they treated the intellectual property properly and behaved themselves. That was pretty much the end of our last option against the FA2 Team, and the end of our efforts to have FA2 stopped. It wasnt because of Zerks approval, which certainly stung it was because he proved that there was no legal course to take. If theres nothing more that we can do, why am I writing this Isnt this all in the past The FA2 Team continues to capitalize on the Firearms name. Supporters and developers continue to flock to them on the merit of something they did not create. In carving out their own personal niche on their webspace and through their PR releases, the FA2 Team has been able to control the discourse on FA2. No mention is made of the website hijacking. And for good reason It doesnt look good. FA2 revolves around our intellectual property.
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