(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); An independent gaming pressure group has told IncGamers it is to report Activision to the Office of Fair Trading after the publisher failed to respond to an open letter regarding the buggy 'unfinished' versions of Black Ops on PC and PS3.

Gamers' Voice, which was founded in 2009 by MP Tom Watson, was set up to represent gamers in the UK by making their voice heard to government and mainstream media.

The organisation issued an open letter to Activision on December 22, revealing that they have been 'inundated with complaints from people who have bought copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops. They all concern the PlayStation 3 console and PC versions of the game.'

The letter asked Activision what they are going to do to 'recompense' buyers, giving the publisher one calendar month to respond. Activision, however, failed to do so.

Chris O'Regan, Head of Industry Relations at Gamers' Voice, told IncGamers: "As a result of their inaction we will test the might of government agencies against Activision. We can only hope this brings about some litigious action. These agencies do exist to protect our rights as consumers, let us see if they can fullfill their remit on this pressing issue.

"GV wish to set an example with Activision to ensure games are not released in an unfinished state. If litigation is initiated, then a precedent would be set. In other words, publishers will have to reconsider releasing unfinished code in the future, in the UK at least."

O'Regan said it could take 'months' for a formal government investigation, stating: "For the government agencies, months if they do start a formal investigation. For Activision, they may re-act a might quicker, although it will likely be a rebuttal and nothing more."

The news comes after IncGamers was told by Trading Standards that buyers should get a refund for bug-ridden versions of the game.


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Edge, Why does my thread that was posted exactly 1 minute before the news team get closed :confused: Drackos just completely blanked me when I asked him

It's not the goverment, but an agency in the goverment that deals with consumer goods. And their job is to ensure quality in all products and when something is defective they do recalls, if you don't care about agencies like these. Well lets just say we could be eating rotten food and our electronics could burn and malfunctions and we would have no rights to return them,,,, SMH:wtf:

If it fixes the connection they can blame barack obama for all I care for all of it, I just want to be able to play

is this serious?

Yea it's sad since it's aa HUGE franchise that's what drove more attention it, if it was an underrated game it would'nt be a problem and they made atleast 1million+ off of ps3 users that's a big scam.

I completely agree, in fact the reason I posted this was because of the irony involved with this story, but hey, just a nice little interesting thing. The game itself isnt all bad. The connection issues you can barely complain about, however host migration is such a pain but other than that, I see no reason to argue

Terrorism? I lol'd

Correction its a ****ing sh** video game.

I'm a PS3 gamer so I understand being upset. But when people think they can get money back or it's some right for them to have a great multiplayer experience it makes me laugh.

I mean when TreyArch says something about glitching being illegal everybody is all, "they can't do that to us, we didn't break the law"

But then you turn right back around and think the gov't will step in to do something for you.

The same way the Gov't won't do shit about Treyarch's wannabe threats to glitchers, the Gov't won't do shit about this.

So the govt will do something alright...Right after they come to your homes for all the illegal music probably lurking on computers.

It's seriously not that serious. I don't care what the gov't has important or not, but this damn sure ain't a Gov't issue.