For Activision, it’s “register the goddamn domain before you announce the game”. (They appear to have taken this to heart.) For cybersquatters, it’s “Don’t be a dickclown and you can probably make a ton of cash selling a domain, instead of having it seized from you.”
To recap, Anthony Abraham got a lot of chuckles when it was discovered that he owned ModernWarfare3.com and, after setting up anti-MW3 rage site, then decided to just redirect the URL to Battlefield 3‘s official page. That got everyone’s attention, as Abraham’s ownership was concealed at the time and some thought it was shenanigans by Electronic Arts.
Thus roused, Activision sicced the lawyer-mans on Abraham, and that rarely ends well. Well, it did for Activision, which took control of the domain in early September. But wait! modernwarfare3.co.uk is still available!
Finally, ModernWarfare3.com points to official Call of Duty MW3 website [Fusible]
Dave
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 10:40 AMLame! I liked it when it redirected to Battlefield.
doubleDizz
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 10:53 AMhahahaha oh well. Dude shoulda taken the cashola
Tom
Monday, October 10, 2011 at 1:08 PMPlaying an hour of CoD Black Ops online was enough to redirect me back to the Battlefield games :)
TheDoc
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 12:00 AMAfter EAs despicable behaviour in the past 6 months I really would not of been surprised if it was them behind it.
This all has to stop, the asshats who go on every mw3 vid posting “bf3>mw3″ then provide no decent reasoning when called out, EA constantly dropping MW3′s name etc.
Dice doesn’t give a shit about all this, IW and Sledgehmmaer don’t give a shit about this. Both have praised each other, so why is it that the hardcore hipsters of the internet and the publishers cannot do the same?