Before we dive into this video, I do want to apologize if I seem kind of tired or if I sound
tired I woke up from a pretty bad nightmare last night I had this really bad dream that Activision
decided to just take down all of the old Call of Duty games all the old clients and stuff like
xlabs plutonium and boy and then I woke up and you know Activision would they would just never
do that they would never actually go after the old Call of Duty games it's their Roots they they love
those games but then I logged on Twitter and in less than a week's time they have ordered a cease
and desist to x-labs so here we go again rip xlabs and the boy client now again just so we're Crystal
Clear they have only sent a cease and desist to the x-labs project the x-labs team the boy
clients and Maurice they didn't specifically get a cease and desist order but he is preemptively
taking the project down so that way he doesn't have to get one from Activision but xlabs is a
hundred percent dead it's done guys once again our fun our childhood our favorite Call of Duty
games are being taken away from us they're being robbed by the clutches of Activision now since the
sm-2 project just got shut down less than a week ago people are wondering why is Activision doing
this why are they sending these cease and desists to x-labs to sm2 why would they do this and like
I said before they're doing it because they can Activision doesn't necessarily need a good reason
I mean sure this is their property it's their IP it's their assets whatever they are still making
this decision just because they hate us I don't know what else to tell you they don't officially
endorse these projects they don't try to reach out to them they do not actively do anything to
try to make this situation better the reason these clients exist is so that way we can go
back to the old Call of Duty games and populate the servers and have it be a safe experience as
well these bozos don't even realize that most of these old Call of Duty games have security issues
they don't even do [ __ ] about it yet these [ __ ] will gladly charge you sixty dollars
for a game you've probably already bought before right and full price for the old DLC
knowing full well that you can still get your ass hacked on these games look man it was one thing
when they took down sm-2 a game we've never even played a project that had a lot of promises that
a lot of people thought were going to be empty and unfortunately those are empty promises now
because of Activision and their stupid cease and desist orders but this time around they've really
pissed me off the website's down too but I can't even look at the xlabs website oh my God so while
we're reflecting on this situation let's talk about what x-labs actually was it was a modded
client on PC that would allow you to play Modern Warfare 2 Modern Warfare 3 and advanced Warfare I
I actually can't even remember remember if there were more games at this point I can't even access
the information I want to say that it was just those three games that could be accessed from
the client but I'm pretty sure it was just those three games that could be accessed from the xlabs
launcher but essentially with the xlaps client would let you do is actually find servers and
find games for Call of Duty games that otherwise are not really populated or the matchmaking is
broken and you can't even actually find games you can't even play these old games and obviously one
of the major benefits of playing on xlabs versus playing the vanilla games like the original games
is the fact that you could get access to like the console commands so you could customize your game
even further there are all kinds of really fun modded servers that you could play on and at
least in the case of s1x which was modded Advanced Warfare on PC there wasn't unlock all commands
that would unlock everything not just your weapon levels and your prestige and stuff like that but
also all the DLC like the supply drop stuff so all of the overpowered weapon variants and stuff
and the Cosmetic customization that stuff would all be given to you for free and I already know
after saying that there's going to be some people that are like well let me get my glasses excuse
me March bunik of they are clearly stealing Activision's precious assets the overpowered
ballot as someone you're not supposed to get that for free you're supposed to waste hundreds
of thousands of dollars like I did back then you [ __ ] idiot if they really cared that much
why didn't they do anything back in 2021 when it first came out you know when it was at the height
of its popularity which again was maybe only a couple hundred people on the servers playing it
regularly since the x-labs website is shut down I can't even imagine that it's possible to get
back on x-labs and actually check the numbers but last that I checked the last time I played on s1x
there were maybe a couple dozen people playing it so don't give me this [ __ ] about pirating
the games and stealing from Activision I talked about this on nerd place and I kind of shared my
thoughts more I didn't want to speculate on the situation I was trying to get as much information
as I possibly could get before talking about it more but I'm just gonna talk about it now like
I said on nerd plays the amount of money that is potentially being stolen from these clients
existing for these old Call of Duty games is literally not even close to pennies to what
Activision actually makes on a regular basis like on a daily basis weekly monthly yearly it's not
even [ __ ] close Activision is making money that literally none of us can comprehend they generate
over a billion dollars a year just off of selling new Call of Duty games yearly every single quarter
which is four times a year they're generating billions of dollars off of the microtransactions
that they sell in shitty games like Modern Warfare 2 2022. it doesn't really matter if it's bundles
or pay to win bundles supply drops that are paid to win or supply drops that aren't paid to win
they've got it made dude ninety percent of that money could just go up in flames and they would
still be Filthy Rich let's not pretend like this is some kind of Act of Justice by Activision that
they're doing right by the IP and going after these people because they have stolen from them
no in every single piece of content that I made covering xlabs games like the modded clients I
never once actually told anyone to go off and pirate games I've bought every [ __ ] Call of
Duty game that exists it's not an issue of piracy and it's definitely not about the money they hate
us plain and simple if you are someone who's an OG in this community and you like to play the
older Call of Duty games they don't want anything to do do with you after all this [ __ ] that's
gone down it's more apparent than ever that they do not care about this part of the Call of Duty
Community it's not like the x-labs clients got some kind of recent update they didn't switch
to any engines they didn't change or do anything they have just simply been existing for the last
year or two now that was enough for Activision to send them a cease and desist all they had to
do was just exist and keep doing what they were doing so where exactly does that leave us like
what do we do after all this has happened like I briefly mentioned earlier the boy project which
was the modded client for Black Ops 3 Maurice is shutting that down preemptively so it doesn't get
a cease and desist from Activision him doing that kind of feels like a chess move like I'm not sure
if he's trying to get ahead of Activision and maybe try to Shield the modded clients for Black
Ops 3 from anything that could potentially happen later on I I don't know but regardless that is an
unintended side effect from all this stuff with X Labs happening now let's talk about plutonium
if Activision decides to go after plutonium next then I think as a community we really do need to
take a stand against them and against Call of Duty because if they shut down plutonium next
like what the [ __ ] do we do plutonium of all things it is providing safe servers for us to
play and enjoy the old Call of Duty games on and if they come after that next we are so screwed
Pluto is currently giving us access to Worlds at War Black Ops 1 Black Ops 2 Modern Warfare
3. oh my god dude I still can't believe x-lab is gonna be gone you can't play the original Modern
Warfare 2 on PC on Steam it's not safe same thing with Black Ops 2. if they actually [ __ ] cared
about their games then they would not be doing this so yeah if they come after plutonium next
then we are really doomed and what's even sadder about this [ __ ] is that they're not going to do
anything about it it's not like Activision it's gonna be your ultimate hero with the Call of Duty
IP and make a better game make a good experience like a Call of Duty Master Chief Collection type
thing where they put all the best pieces all the best Maps guns game modes everything they're not
gonna do that they're not gonna make sm2 for us they're not going to host these servers they're
not going to do [ __ ] this is the point I've been trying to make in all these videos anytime I talk
about this and cover this they do not care about us they do not care about you they only care about
money that's why Modern Warfare 2 the current one is in such a terrible State and even though we can
only assume things for the next Call of Duty game so far I think it's safe to assume that we're not
getting anything remotely close to what these old Call of Duty games could offer it's most
likely going to be called Modern Warfare 3 2023 it's probably going to have all the changes and
content that we expected from Modern Warfare 2 or possibly even for year two of that game
and they're just gonna do that instead they're gonna charge us another 70 plus dollars to buy
that and experience that and it's gonna be loaded with bundles you already know 70 plus
bundles every single season for Modern Warfare 3. dog [ __ ] yeah man that's the video I'm [ __ ]
done I'm pissed I I can't believe they're doing this but at the same time I can't [ __ ] them