A few days ago, playstation announced that they will not be bringing any sanctions to anyone caught using this glitch online. It is too difficult for activision itself to do anything on the consoles as they all connect through 3rd party servers.

Xbox have followed suit with an announcement, however this is slightly different than the one made by the boffins at playstation! Microsoft have spoke to infinty ward who say that the glitch has been patched up and the patch will be available with the next round of updates. However, until then they have something in store for those people caught cheating.

You will now be banned from xbox live for a period of 24 hours. You all know what a ban entails, you will not be able to sign into xbl and you will have code of conduct on your profile to label yourself as a cheat! If you have been banned in the past then it will probably be even harsher, may even be 72 hours!

A comment from Stephen Toulouse said

“While IW works on getting the MW2 glitch fixed, people we catch using it will receive suspensions from Live. Play fair everyone”

“For those asking, cheating suspensions are usually 24 hours for first offence,” he added later. “But egregious cheating can be 2 weeks!… Using any bug or glitch to gain advantage in a game is expressly against our Terms of Use and Code of Conduct.”

For those who don’t know what the Javelin glitch is, please see the youtube video attached below and discuss in the comments section!

The developers at infinity ward announced on twitter that anyone who is using a steam account with hacks and glitches, will be found and removed from the infinity ward servers stopping your ability to play the game online.

The tweet on twitter was posted as follows

@toncijukic Top men are on it. In fact, the steam ban hammer is coming down on about 2,500 confirmed #MW2 cheaters on PC today

This will come as a welcome relief to anyone using twitter who has experienced these cheaters on Modern Warfare 2. It is believed that the cheaters will only be removed from the PC unless people who play pirated games, have found a way to introduce the steam glitch to their console.

If they do have top guys on it, then I would probably also expect anyone using a glitch online on a console, to be banned at the same time.

This will create 1000s of angry gamers screaming that its against the rules to stop you playing on only their server. However they will find themselves frustrated as it is in the terms and conditions of playing online, that you don’t alter the game in any way. Infact they should probably publish ip address and usernames of these gamers so that other companies can keep an eye on people who cheat.