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Kotaku has reached out to Activision for comment.

Reactions to this display of game systems exploitation range from folks laughing at the absurdity, dropping the requisite “he’s already dead” Simpsons meme, and commenting on how cheap and silly it is. “In the future,” reads a reply from one such opinion, “games will not have objectives, it will just be empty space where people hurl abuse at each other.”

Call of Duty has already seen a number of patches to mitigate unintended means of farming XP. Whether this exploit falls under that category remains to be seen. $2400 is fairly trivial to earn in a match. That said, I hope they don’t kill the ability to revive downed enemies. That sort of thing allows the game to have its own level of simulation and internal logic that I think makes for interesting, unexpected events. In solos, I could easily see reviving a downed enemy at a distance to cause havoc for other foes, for example. While it’s fun to be cheeky and silly, this kind of exploit arguably ventures into, dare I say it, unsportsmanlike conduct. Two minutes in the penalty box for you.