Modder Unlocking other Player's Trophies. Can I sue them.

[Deathon6]

About a week ago I joined a public match on BO2 Origins. Little did I know there was a modder among us. 

 

I did not know I was in with a modder until the "Unlocking All Trophies" message appeared on the left center of the screen. 

 

I immediately killed the ps3 by hitting the power button on the console to try and prevent trophies from popping but I think only 3 story mode trophies managed to get unlocked.  

 

Here is a video of this happening. 

 

The video taken below was taken using the in game's theater mode. This is from the modder's point of view. 

 

 

 

 

 

These people are ruining my reputation. Making me look like a cheater. Risking my account to a ban. 

 

So can I file a lawsuit against these players? 

 

I know money isn't going to re-lock my trophies but it would hit them hard and hopefully the kid who does it will learn a lesson from it and won't ever do it again. 

Edited April 28, 2016 by Deathon6

[DaivRules]

Stricken is probably the only one that can offer a tangential legal perspective, but from what I know about US law, no. You could sue to be reimbursed exactly what the PSN account costs you to open: $0.00. I'll see if I can dig up the cases I'm thinking of where people had their iTunes and Amazon accounts banned did not win anything, even though the accounts had been used to legitimately purchase hundreds to thousands of dollars of digital items in years prior to being banned.

 

Report the users so if it comes back to you, you at least look like you tried to do the right thing. If you're lucky, you'll get a sympathetic person from Sony in the event your account gets banned and they'll reverse it for you.

[NathanielJohn]

Sure, you can file a lawsuit against them. You can also be laughed at hysterically by every judge and lawyer who has to deal with you.

[SnowxSakura]

Your best bet is to contact sony to report said player. You may not have any legal recourse against the player, however sony does as it is illegal to modify and abuse their network in an unintended way

Edited April 28, 2016 by SnowxSakura

[TheVader66]

Well depends if they live in America as well. Since it has become pretty easy to sue people in recent years here, but I highly doubt you can find the grounds on what to sue them. Just report them and hopely Sony shows mercy on you.

[Sly Ripper]

You got lucky killing the power, not enough trophies to flag here.

[diskdocx]

Your best bet is to contact sony to report said player. You may not have any legal recourse against the player, however sony does as it is illegal to modify and abuse their network in an unintended way

I would probably NOT do this. More likely Sony will ban you as it is your account with the now hacked trophies.

 

I doubt Sony will ever track you down, and a couple of hacked trophies is highly unlikely to get anyone else's attention if you don't draw notice to yourself.

 

IMO

[hpknight]

Just put it down to experience and don't ever join any randoms playing Black Ops 2. Plenty of others have had the same thing happen to them. 

 

Try making a gaming session and boosting the trophies that way. Don't risk your account for a few trophies.

[Beyondthegrave07]

You can't sue them. Even if you found a way to track them down, and sue them, it wouldn't be worth the legal fees as you would effectively get nothing in return in civil court.

[gohabsgo31price]

Next time, don't sync, obviously, log out, back your saves via usb if it's not already done, delete your session, create another and connect on it with your account. Alternatively you could always hide those trophies with the feature.

[TG_MuffinMan]

I would probably NOT do this. More likely Sony will ban you as it is your account with the now hacked trophies.

 

I doubt Sony will ever track you down, and a couple of hacked trophies is highly unlikely to get anyone else's attention if you don't draw notice to yourself.

 

IMO

 

I don't think so. Sony will look into it and check his players met and interactions. They will then find out when the trophies were given out and the time the player was met that matches the time the trophies were unlocked will allow for them to identify them. If it adds up then they will potentially terminate their account.

[Stargazer2600]

damn i hate modders...

[TG_MuffinMan]

I am not necessarily a trophy hunter but I don't want them unlocked for me. Same with stuff like GTA money. I once had a modder drop money on me without me asking so I dropped my homing launcher and bought another and kept on doing it til I was back to where I was.

[HardXDXtraga]

If there is a next time just delete your ps3 account and make another one before you sync the trophies, no more hacked trophies

Even if someone does acuse you of hacking you have that video where you left literally 1 second after the trophies started popping, enough evidence to clear your name

Edited April 28, 2016 by HardXDXtraga

[SnowxSakura]

I would probably NOT do this. More likely Sony will ban you as it is your account with the now hacked trophies.

 

I doubt Sony will ever track you down, and a couple of hacked trophies is highly unlikely to get anyone else's attention if you don't draw notice to yourself.

 

IMO

You would rather a hacker/modder get away with it, than to simply report them? Sony customer service isn't unreasonable, especially having video footage showing there was a hacked lobby.

[mako-heart]

Since you left right away, I don't see why they wouldn't side with you.

[Lordidude]

You can sue them.

But you will not get anything out of it.

 

1. You don't own your PSN account, Sony does.

2. There's no compensatory damages

[Paige-ID]

Suing people for bullshit reasons is what's killing the US and this would be no exception. I'm waiting for the day someone sues another successfully over a damn video game. It'll be a sad day. 

[Galactic Hyper Balls]

Man your crazy, suing over trophies

 

I wish you luck

Edited April 28, 2016 by Titanic Balls

[kidson2004]

Truthfully, I don't see the point in suing someone over being a modder, its kind of a normal thing to run across modders in the gaming world now (Hard to say, but its the truth). There's has to be far more important things in your life than this; it has to be.

[Senbon Kaguya]

At least you didn't get screwed over and had a ton of trophies unlocked for you. Modders like to do things like that so it can bite you in the ass later.

[IJJosh]

best thread of the day award goes to this Comedy gold

[Kishnabe]

Another reason to avoid COD games.

[Dr_Mayus]

Sure, you can file a lawsuit against them. You can also be laughed at hysterically by every judge and lawyer who has to deal with you.

When I read the OP I immediately thought of this clip from Frasier

 

[Lance_87]

I immediately killed the ps3 by hitting the power button on the console to try and prevent trophies from popping but I think only 3 story mode trophies managed to get unlocked. 

 

Protip: set the trophy list to Offline mode, so you can simply erase your profile (you'll lose all locally stored saves, avatars, themes and game activations) instead of torturing your system like this.

 

Also, suing a random guy like that? You gotta be kidding?