Posted below is my dialogue with EB. Not sure if it really changes anything though. If a newer version of the widescreen fixer stumbles over any PB tripwires, I strongly suspect said widescreen fixer user is still going to catch a bouncing betty. Hopefully though EB will be a bit more lenient if that happens.
Dope, I am still going after Treyarch and IW. Once I get a response from them, I will drop a line.
I'm interested though; we got anybody around here that has been PB banned for using the fixer? If so, did you get reinstated?
DIALOGUE TRANSCRIPT:
MY INITIAL:
Gents/Ladies,
I am looking to upgrade my hardware soon, and was thinking of going with three screens and a Matrox Triple Head to Go which is capable of 5040x1050 (3x22in @ 1680x1050). My clan is an ardent supporter of the CoD series (10-78 clan), and even though surround support is not organic to the game, there is a kludge available by a guy who goes by the name of 'dopefish' over at the Widescreen Gaming site. IIRC, you have actually certified one of the versions of his "widescreen fixer" for Cod4, so he may be somewhat known to you.
My question is, would using his kludge get me banned? It is not a wall hack or aimbot, it simply helps the game scale and widens the FOV to stretch over the available screen real estate. And just FWIW, I am a nearly 40 year old former Marine who games for fun. I am getting the three screens for work, and figured that gaming on them would be a lot of fun, especially flight sims or auto racing.
What can you tell me?
Thanks very much for your time...
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01/19/2009 19:45:59 - "Adam Dunahoe"
Note #2: What widescreen fixer are you looking at using?
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01/19/2009 21:25:03 - "Chris"
Note #3: Check this site out:
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
And in particular this thread:
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/node/7971#comment-157564
The gentleman with the name "dopefish" has numerous replies in it.
This is his site:
http://imk.cx/pc/widescreenfixer/
Please take a look around. As you can see, it is legit. This is a very bright young man who has taken it upon himself to come to the rescue of all those with multiple screens, but who live in mortal fear of being PB banned by you all. In the very first paragraph you can see that he has already talked to you (EB) on his own about this. Scroll about halfway down the page to the download section and every single version of his widescreen fixer is there, freeware available for download at any time, and every one of them with the disclaimer, "Use at your own risk".
What am I looking to do here is to not only get you all to look at what he is doing and bless it as safe to use on PB enabled servers, but to formalize a relationship between him, you, the publisher and the devs. This is a legit issue. I grant you that it is a relatively small one, given that the number of multi-monitor gamers out there is probably microscopic, but it is a legit issue nonetheless.
What can you all do to facilitate this process?
Thanks very, very much for your time. Keep up the good fight busting punks ;~) .
semper fi,
Chris
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02/24/2009 17:04:45 - "Glenn Courington"
Note #6: I apologize for the delay in response. You should find that as long as you are using the most recent version of this software, you should be fine. There was a version quite some time ago that did trigger a violation (one that we found to be legitimate), but the developer reworked it with some guidance from us and it's been fine since.
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I responded with an effusive 'thank you', and then asked again if you (dope) could submit new versions to them for verification. I strongly suspect that this request will go unanswered for some time, but at least they are talking to me....
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