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Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] DigitalCatcher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In fact, it's actually better to pirate them and use Plutonium for Multiplayer. This is due to the fact that many pre-Infinite Warfare Call of Duty titles have unpatched RCE vulnerabilities that Activision never bothered to fix, but have been in Plutonium.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20817

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2190/Activision.html

[โ€“] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Jesus, thank you for the heads up. That's scary.