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jftmike
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I've been searching all around and it seems like if anybody would know how to help me, I would probably find them here.
So here's my story: I bought a PS3 and COD: Ghosts back in 2013. I played for a bit, then got caught up with life. Got married. Had kids. Here I am 7 years later, and I've got some free time on my hands. I decided to plug the ol' PS3 in and have some fun. I loaded up COD: Ghosts and started playing. Three months now I've been toiling away on multiplayer to rank up, and all I wanted was to get to Prestige 5 so I could get that golden knife. I ranked up one squad member, then another, and another, and another. I was to level 58 on squad member #5, hours away from my golden knife... then this happened.
I was playing a match last night, and some weird thing happened. I suddenly got kicked out to the multiplayer screen with a message that said something along the lines of "connection to host lost." I went back to "FIND GAME" and immediately landed in a game with a DLC map, I don't recall the name (I just purchased the season pass so I could play some new maps). I was floating up in the sky, and then I started flying straight up and down real fast, like someone hijacked my character and was having their way with me. Next, I see a bunch of other players up in the sky standing still shooting like crazy. I freaked out and didn't know what to do, so I jumped up and turned my playstation off and back on again.
Now it gets really, really sad. I load my game back up, go in to FIND GAME, and land in a normal game again. Everything was normal again, so I thought everything was fine... until I ran around and got some kills and ranked up... to PRIVATE. I immediately exit the game, and sure enough, my rank is at 2. I was mortified. I went into my squad, and ALL OF MY SQUAD MEMBERS are level 1. All my prestiges gone. Then I notice ALL of my squad points are GONE. I had earned a few in that game, but that's it. I had hundreds stacked up before because I never used them. So I start poking around some more to see what else I lost.. interestingly enough, all my challenges are suddenly " -1 / whatever ", but completed. I have all the patches, but lost my prestige patches. So I go into loadouts.. I still have all the things I purchased, but all the perks are locked out, and I either have to buy them or earn them back. BUT... I have ALL weapon camos, most of which I never earned. I immediately contacted Activision Support on FB Messenger, and they told me "sorry, the title is too old, we can't help."
And now, I'm so freaking sad. I've spent the past day trying to google and learn what happened to me and what I can do, and all I've gathered is that I must have wound up in some "hacked lobby" and they screwed me over. The only thing I remember from that hacked game is when it first loaded, some of the players had a clan tag "RUNU". I've tried searching that, but with no luck, hoping maybe I could pay them to give me back my stuff or something. I've worked months to EARN points, patches, perks, etc. and now I've got a bunch of crap I didn't earn, and all my stats are gone. I'm a military veteran, and in general, a person with morals. It disturbs me having a bunch of crap I didn't earn. I tried figuring out how to just reset and start over, but I can't even do that. Apparently, the only way to reset my COD: Ghosts is to rank up to Prestige 10, and THEN the game will let me reset... but now I rank at a snail's pace. I played for another hour or so after everything happened last night feeling so depressed, and because I can't complete any challenges, I rank and earn squad points soooo sloooow.
Can anyone out there please help me? Is there another way to reset my game fresh so I can start back at square one and EARN my ranks the right way? And more importantly, is there a way to be sure this never happens to me again? Do I need a firewall or something?
So here's my story: I bought a PS3 and COD: Ghosts back in 2013. I played for a bit, then got caught up with life. Got married. Had kids. Here I am 7 years later, and I've got some free time on my hands. I decided to plug the ol' PS3 in and have some fun. I loaded up COD: Ghosts and started playing. Three months now I've been toiling away on multiplayer to rank up, and all I wanted was to get to Prestige 5 so I could get that golden knife. I ranked up one squad member, then another, and another, and another. I was to level 58 on squad member #5, hours away from my golden knife... then this happened.
I was playing a match last night, and some weird thing happened. I suddenly got kicked out to the multiplayer screen with a message that said something along the lines of "connection to host lost." I went back to "FIND GAME" and immediately landed in a game with a DLC map, I don't recall the name (I just purchased the season pass so I could play some new maps). I was floating up in the sky, and then I started flying straight up and down real fast, like someone hijacked my character and was having their way with me. Next, I see a bunch of other players up in the sky standing still shooting like crazy. I freaked out and didn't know what to do, so I jumped up and turned my playstation off and back on again.
Now it gets really, really sad. I load my game back up, go in to FIND GAME, and land in a normal game again. Everything was normal again, so I thought everything was fine... until I ran around and got some kills and ranked up... to PRIVATE. I immediately exit the game, and sure enough, my rank is at 2. I was mortified. I went into my squad, and ALL OF MY SQUAD MEMBERS are level 1. All my prestiges gone. Then I notice ALL of my squad points are GONE. I had earned a few in that game, but that's it. I had hundreds stacked up before because I never used them. So I start poking around some more to see what else I lost.. interestingly enough, all my challenges are suddenly " -1 / whatever ", but completed. I have all the patches, but lost my prestige patches. So I go into loadouts.. I still have all the things I purchased, but all the perks are locked out, and I either have to buy them or earn them back. BUT... I have ALL weapon camos, most of which I never earned. I immediately contacted Activision Support on FB Messenger, and they told me "sorry, the title is too old, we can't help."
And now, I'm so freaking sad. I've spent the past day trying to google and learn what happened to me and what I can do, and all I've gathered is that I must have wound up in some "hacked lobby" and they screwed me over. The only thing I remember from that hacked game is when it first loaded, some of the players had a clan tag "RUNU". I've tried searching that, but with no luck, hoping maybe I could pay them to give me back my stuff or something. I've worked months to EARN points, patches, perks, etc. and now I've got a bunch of crap I didn't earn, and all my stats are gone. I'm a military veteran, and in general, a person with morals. It disturbs me having a bunch of crap I didn't earn. I tried figuring out how to just reset and start over, but I can't even do that. Apparently, the only way to reset my COD: Ghosts is to rank up to Prestige 10, and THEN the game will let me reset... but now I rank at a snail's pace. I played for another hour or so after everything happened last night feeling so depressed, and because I can't complete any challenges, I rank and earn squad points soooo sloooow.
Can anyone out there please help me? Is there another way to reset my game fresh so I can start back at square one and EARN my ranks the right way? And more importantly, is there a way to be sure this never happens to me again? Do I need a firewall or something?