“It’s in total shambles and unplayable.”

That’s how one reader over at Joystiq describes Modern Warfare 2 on PSN. With PS3 system security in disarray, hackers and cheaters have run rampant on Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty games. Players unwittingly placed into a hacked server can meet the unfortunate consequence of losing all their stats and, unfortunately, it doesn’t appear a fix is in sight.

“Games rely on the security of the encryption on the platforms they’re played on,” … “Unless the security exploit itself is resolved on the platform … updates to the game through patches will not resolve this problem,” he admits, adding, “at this time, we do not have the ability to restore or adjust individual stats.”

Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling explained on the game’s official forums.

Although Bowling adds that “we are looking at every option available to us to help any user affected,” it appears the situation is quite dire, especially when one considers the workarounds Bowling suggests. You can submit a PSN grief report, play exclusively with friends via private matches, or play Black Ops, which does “not rely solely on platform security” — something Infinity Ward promises to learn from in future games.

You can follow Robert Bowling of Infinity Ward at http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo

Source: Joystiq | Infinity Ward Forums

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• Fix for “infinite care package” exploit.
• Sentry Guns: Improved placement detection, preventing cases of Sentry Guns inside geometry.
• Model 1887: Bling using Akimbo and FMJ combination now has same range and damage as non-Bling Model 1887s.
• Fixes to prevent various XP hacks (including the prevention of negative XP)

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#MW2 Update in Test now: 1887s Balanced. Public “private” Match fix. Infinite Ammo fix. Prestige Hack on PS3 fix. Texture Hack on PC fix.

I’m really happy as well as most of you I’m sure, to see the “private” match crap get fixed. The new infinite ammo will be fixed too (which I did not experience yet, thank god). As my previous post stated, the Model 1887′s are for sure getting balanced! I just hope they get it right this time.

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@fourzerotwo Still loving the game! I mean, its amazing right now, but fix the 1887′s and private match glitches and it’ll be Perfect!

and Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling replied with the following:

@KnownAsMclovin Thanks man. Expect to have both of those resolved as fast as we can.

This is good news! Now I already know the 1887′s have good range in real life, but in the game, in many people’s opinions the range is just too much. Those that you hear different from, most likely are the kids using this weapon and will soon not be able to get those easy kills, easily.

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Working with the @infinityward team for a solution to the Public “Private Match” hack going on in #MW2 at the moment. I’ll keep you posted.

Glad to see them actually working on something, especially this. Since lately it seems to be every few matches you will get put into these, it was very common last night.

Now if only they could work on matchmaking better. I don’t know how many times that it picks a host that should not be host, when I or others should be host, see below:

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