CoD WaW!!!...Why You Should Not Buy On Steam! Buy Hard Copy...

[Justice]

Ok...I don't know if Steam is installing these patches or not when you guys are buying this game from them! But you should have this patch installed so everything works corectly.

http://www.fileplanet.com/202406/200000/fileinfo/Call-of-Duty:-World-at-War---Ultimate-Patch-v1.7
This game is not a steam game and it has a lot of files and other mods that have to be manualy installed the right way! Multiplayer dose work and there are servers for this game. I have had this game since it's release back in 2008... Also if you are planning on playing this game online you may want to take into consideration that PUNKBUSTER does not support this game any longer and you will be at the mercy of hackers and cheats who look to mess up everyones play time.

Posted Dec 7, 2013 - 02:50 PM
PUNKBUSTER

Even Balance has dropped support for Call of Duty: World at War

http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php

http://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/call-of-duty-world-at-war-windows-file88.html
http://www.pbbans.com/forums/files/call-of-duty-world-at-war-linux-file92.html

NOW....I don't know if Steam is using VAC on this game or not! But highly unlikely that they are. I know everything there is about this game and I know the best way to install it and enjoy it is buy getting a hard copy of it and not download it through Steam.

Perchase CoD WaW: http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-World-at-War-PC/dp/B001AWBYRA




Call of Duty World at War Servers List.....

https://www.gametracker.com/search/codww/US/

Have & Run: Your Own CoD WaW Server:

http://www.gameservers.com/game_servers/cod5.php

[Zombie_Horde]

I would like to also put my $0.02 in on this. I contacted Evenbalance on this and their reply was this:

Note #2: Hello,

I'm sorry, but Even Balance is no longer supporting PunkBuster for Call of Duty: World at War. You will need to contact Activision directly for support regarding PunkBuster.

https://support.activision.com

Thank you.

Just a kindly way of telling us, "You're Screwed."

[Friendly]

Originally posted by OTLW RubberDuck:

I would like to also put my $0.02 in on this. I contacted Evenbalance on this and their reply was this:

Note #2: Hello,

I'm sorry, but Even Balance is no longer supporting PunkBuster for Call of Duty: World at War. You will need to contact Activision directly for support regarding PunkBuster.

https://support.activision.com

Thank you.

Just a kindly way of telling us, "You're Screwed."

But you're not! All you have to do is manually get the latest punkbuster files for the game, put them in the right folder an multiplayer will work fine. You have to do the same for CoD 4. The links should work I assume, since I got my copies of it from pbbans too.

As of what he says about being at the mercy of hackers... of the few I've seen there has been active admins on most the good servers I've played.


Oh additionally - I imagine the steam version does indeed give you the latest uptodate patch (the patches include the dlc maps if you didn't know) but I don't know about punkbuster.

[S4taN]

Steam version is already v1.7.1263 what's your problem?
That's why you buy games on Steam so you don't have to worry about what patch for which game came out, because you always get latest updates via Steam.

[Zombie_Horde]

If you use pbsetup.exe and then try and select the codwaw game it is not there. I decided to follow my instinct and try another way. I found this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_281902835&feature=iv&src_vid=PaG09DZkvqw&v=pOLu6ZzYx8Q

that led me to this link:

{LINK REMOVED}http://www.mediafire.com/download/sdifopf7v91bc9p/codwaw_win32.zip

to where the latest pb files could be downloaded. Now Evenbalance could have left this as a selectable download to automaticly install the pb folder. Now not knowing how old this pb is hackers are going to have advanced past this pb folder with new hacks that Evenbalance will never update for.

Plainly speaking, also if you have not realiized it. You have been ripped off if you bought this game though steam. Amazon.com has is for $11 instead of the $20 that you paid for it on steam. Just because steam puts a game up that they continue to do save yourself some time and look at game stores for the game before you buy it. Why would you spend $20 for an 6 year old game? Thats on the verge of stupidity. Just sayin.

Another point i would like to make if the updates (from activision and pb as well) to the game are not installed correctly you WILL NOT see any server list. There is a way around this by going to www.gametracker.com you can see a list of servers for COD:WAW. Althought Steam has nerver screwed up updates (NOTICE THE HEAVY SARCASIUM) Like with Arma II instaling the first go into the game, log out, log back in, download and install the next part of the game, start the game, log out and back into steam, etc., etc.,etc. That's some screwed up bs. So far ppl have been lucky with this one, but i would not put it past Steam to screw something up in the future.

The point is everything MUST be installed correctly.

[Justice]

AGREE..... OTLW RubberDuck......+1 Very well said brother.

[S4taN]

Originally posted by OTLW RubberDuck:

If you use pbsetup.exe and then try and select the codwaw game it is not there. I decided to follow my instinct and try another way. I found this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_281902835&feature=iv&src_vid=PaG09DZkvqw&v=pOLu6ZzYx8Q

that led me to this link:

{LINK REMOVED}http://www.mediafire.com/download/sdifopf7v91bc9p/codwaw_win32.zip

to where the latest pb files could be downloaded. Now Evenbalance could have left this as a selectable download to automaticly install the pb folder. Now not knowing how old this pb is hackers are going to have advanced past this pb folder with new hacks that Evenbalance will never update for.

Plainly speaking, also if you have not realiized it. You have been ripped off if you bought this game though steam. Amazon.com has is for $11 instead of the $20 that you paid for it on steam. Just because steam puts a game up that they continue to do save yourself some time and look at game stores for the game before you buy it. Why would you spend $20 for an 6 year old game? Thats on the verge of stupidity. Just sayin.

Another point i would like to make if the updates (from activision and pb as well) to the game are not installed correctly you WILL NOT see any server list. There is a way around this by going to www.gametracker.com you can see a list of servers for COD:WAW. Althought Steam has nerver screwed up updates (NOTICE THE HEAVY SARCASIUM) Like with Arma II instaling the first go into the game, log out, log back in, download and install the next part of the game, start the game, log out and back into steam, etc., etc.,etc. That's some screwed up bs. So far ppl have been lucky with this one, but i would not put it past Steam to screw something up in the future.

The point is everything MUST be installed correctly.

I bought it on sale. It was 7.99

You must be a real troll to recommend people buy the hardcopy of game outside steam.

[Friendly]

@S4taN - no, he really isn't. For me the game costs £20 on steam. I bought the physical copy off amazon for £7. The only problem is figuring out you have to download all this stuff, but if you are at all computer literate this isn't really a problem.

[S4taN]

Originally posted by Beast:

@S4taN - no, he really isn't. For me the game costs £20 on steam. I bought the physical copy off amazon for £7. The only problem is figuring out you have to download all this stuff, but if you are at all computer literate this isn't really a problem.

You wouldn't need to download all these stuff if you bought it on steam.

[Alastora]

Originally posted by Beast:

@S4taN - no, he really isn't. For me the game costs £20 on steam. I bought the physical copy off amazon for £7. The only problem is figuring out you have to download all this stuff, but if you are at all computer literate this isn't really a problem.

Correct.

[Friendly]

Originally posted by S4taN:

Originally posted by Beast:

@S4taN - no, he really isn't. For me the game costs £20 on steam. I bought the physical copy off amazon for £7. The only problem is figuring out you have to download all this stuff, but if you are at all computer literate this isn't really a problem.

You wouldn't need to download all these stuff if you bought it on steam.

It took me maybe an hour or so to figure it out, find it and download it and I saved £13. So why would I care about that? If I can get a game cheaper elsewhere, I'll do it. I don't need steam to baby me with downloads.

[S4taN]

Originally posted by Beast:

Originally posted by S4taN:

You wouldn't need to download all these stuff if you bought it on steam.

It took me maybe an hour or so to figure it out, find it and download it and I saved £13. So why would I care about that? If I can get a game cheaper elsewhere, I'll do it. I don't need steam to baby me with downloads.

Yet you're on Steam seems legit.

[Friendly]

Originally posted by S4taN:

Originally posted by Beast:

It took me maybe an hour or so to figure it out, find it and download it and I saved £13. So why would I care about that? If I can get a game cheaper elsewhere, I'll do it. I don't need steam to baby me with downloads.

Yet you're on Steam seems legit.

So what? The point was if I can get it cheaper elsewhere at expense of convience I'll do it, I'm sure plenty of others will too. If you don't have anything meaningful to say don't reply.

[S4taN]

Originally posted by Beast:

Originally posted by S4taN:

Yet you're on Steam seems legit.

So what? The point was if I can get it cheaper elsewhere at expense of convience I'll do it, I'm sure plenty of others will too. If you don't have anything meaningful to say don't reply.

That wasn't the point. Point is some noob was trolling people that Steam is not giving them latest updates.

[Friendly]

Originally posted by S4taN:

Originally posted by Beast:

So what? The point was if I can get it cheaper elsewhere at expense of convience I'll do it, I'm sure plenty of others will too. If you don't have anything meaningful to say don't reply.

That wasn't the point. Point is some noob was trolling people that Steam is not giving them latest updates.

Well does steam give you the punkbuster files you need to actually play online? I think that's probably the most important question that needs answering, one that I don't know myself as I have the physical copy like I mentioned. An well I'm guessing probably he did too.

[Gargoyle]

I don't get what S4's problem is with other people getting the game elsewhere?
I get my games elsewhere when ever possible. Why? Not just because it's cheaper...
...But also because of the principle.

I shouldn't be charged more just because I live in Europe, and use € as my currency.
But unfortunately Steam sucks at math, and they think that 1$ = 1€... (They don't convert prices, they just change the currency symbol.)
What this means that at today's exchange rate a new game of $49 actually costs me ~$62
...if I use Steam.

If I use a) other online retailers or b) national stores that sell the hard copy (delivered to my door) I get it cheaper than the original ~39€ which it should cost for me (currency converted).
But most importantly: I'm not giving my money to blackhats who reap off the benefits of globalisation while trying to deny customers benefitting from the same.

And then -- in the end -- I just open the case, read the steam code, type it into steam and VOILA, the exactly same game is in my Steam Library and begins to download.