MW3 Delivery Truck Hijacked!

[Luk3us 63]

French site TFI News reports that the truck suffered a collision with a car on saturday morning in Créteil, south Paris, before two masked individuals emerged.

The criminals reportedly used tear gas to neutralise the truck drivers before hopping in and making off with the video game shipment said to be worth 400,000 Euros.

Separate reports say the truck contained a delivery of Activision's much-anticipated shooter, Modern Warfare 3 - an estimated 6000 copies of it.

This wouldn't be the first theft Activision has suffered, after an employee reportedly stole a copy of the game from a shipping warehouse in California before pirating the disc and uploading it to the internet.

Activision has warned that playing Modern Warfare 3 before it's official release is "not authorised" and that doing so may earn you a ban.

 

http://www.computera...in-truck-heist/

 

Of all the things in the world to do, why would ANYONE do this? I mean seriously, a truck full of video games? Bloody hell. To be fair though I wouldn't be surprised if this was some lame PR stunt by Activision.

[Gben 20]

Video Game Pirates!

[Doctor Destiny 42]

I straight up laughed at this. In fact, I'm still laughing about it.

[NODSOLDIERGIRL 2]

That's so funny lol

[dbjs2009 25]

I was told about this but I thought it was a joke.

[Luk3us 63]

Its so stupid you can't make this **** up.

[Doctor Destiny 42]

Truth is often stranger than fiction.

[Malevolence 6]

What an epic news! Those robbers must be EA/Battelfield 3 developers or fanboys!

[PurpleGaga27 43]

What an epic news! Those robbers must be EA/Battelfield 3 developers or fanboys!

 

I highly doubt that.

 

MW3 uses Steam while Battlefield 3 uses Origin. That may have explained the rowdiness of this incident, which no wonder why people still hated Steam so as for those people to pirate the game(s).

Edited November 8, 2011 by zocom7

[Nyerguds 103]

They used the tactics from MW2 to steal secure the sequel? XD

[Doctor Destiny 42]

Speaking of that, Nyerguds, I wonder if anyone said "The package is secured." Man, how ****ing awesome would that have been? Goddamn, that's incredible just thinking about it.

[Plok 334]

When they used tear gas, did they expect the truck drivers to receive some epic l4g?

[PurpleGaga27 43]

Well it didn't matter, now that Activision's MW3 beat out number of units and even sales over EA's Battlefield 3. 6.5 million units sold for MW3 over 5+ million units sold for BF3. But people still ranting low ratings for MW3 even though they bought it. What are they thinking?

 

Source: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/11/activision-65-million-modern-warfare-3-units-sold-profits-just-beginning.ars

[TheBlackOut 7]

Speaking of that, Nyerguds, I wonder if anyone said "The package is secured." Man, how ****ing awesome would that have been? Goddamn, that's incredible just thinking about it.

LOL. Cops get there, "Ah hell, he used a great line. We'll let this one slide. Boys will be boys!"

 

I was told about this by a friend too, I did not believe and just thought he was making **** up. Then when he linked me to the article...