Call of Duty Hit With Huge Ban Wave

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Activision has announced that over 58,000 accounts that used cheats in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 or Warzone have been banned. The publisher says that more ban waves targeting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone violators are expected in the near future.

With the Call of Duty community continuing to highlight the franchise's cheating problem, Activision has announced various improvements to its Ricochet Anti-Cheat system over the last couple of months. Recently, Activision confirmed that over 27,000 accounts had been banned over the span of a weekend thanks to upgraded detection systems. Although cheating is certainly still an issue in Call of Duty, it seems that greener pastures might be on the horizon.

In a statement from an Activision representative given to Call of Duty news Twitter account CharlieIntel, it was revealed that nearly 60,000 accounts were banned in one day, presumably due to another improvement in Ricochet's detection methods. It seems that the bans were applied to more than just traditional cheaters, as those who used third-party tools to unlock paid skins for free were also targeted, including a professional CDL player. It's unclear what proportion of the 58,000 Call of Duty accounts were using gameplay-affecting cheats like wallhacks or aimbots, but hopefully it was quite high.


Call of Duty's more exclusive cheating software seems to be pretty sophisticated and can easily counter Ricochet, as of February of this year at least. Like in other games, it's often difficult for anti-cheat systems to stay ahead of new cheating software due to an anti-cheat's reactive nature. However, fans hope that Activision's massive pool of resources can eventually fix the issue. Activision has repeatedly stated that it's focusing on Call of Duty's cheating problem and will continue to do so, although many players are still understandably frustrated.

Following the recent ban wave, some affected users claimed on social media they were incorrectly suspended. Activision pushed against these claims by stating no false permanent bans were given out and that all bans are final. It's possible these users were using the previously mentioned tools for unlocking skins rather than more traditional cheats.

Despite cheating issues, Call of Duty just enjoyed its best weekend on Steam of 2024. The game hit over 166,000 concurrent users on the PC platform, and likely had many more across Battle net, PlayStation, and Xbox. This was largely due to Call of Duty's free trial that ran from April 4 to April 8.

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Source: https://gamerant.com/call-of-duty-banned-modern-warfare-3-warzone/

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ReidsoPosted:

there will be a huge ban wave again very soon :P

GhostPosted:

Got banned and unbanned in the space of 4 days, it's strange.

XeCookiePosted:

From the release of verdansk until today they have yet to release an accurate number of bans. Some may ask what do I mean by this. If your in the cheating community for COD you know that most cheaters use alt accounts which can be bought for as cheap as 20 cents and you can also get cracked activision accounts for around the same price if buying in bulk. In my opinion that 58,000 accounts they banned can easily be shaved down 50% to about 29,000 if not even more tbh. I personally had more then 20 alt accounts banned during that ban wave. Upon further investigation they were not banning cheaters using aimbot and wall hacks but cheaters using soft unlock camos. Digging deeper I also seemed to find that they had only banned people who had soft unlock camos from the beginning of February to April 9th and those affected had colorful blueprint names. I have plenty of customers who bought in that window and did not get colorful blueprint names who had survived that ban wave without any account infractions. Where am I getting with all this? Activision seems to care more about camos then they do about Aimbot users ruining the gameplay for everyone dont be fooled their AC works average at best.

junoPosted:

long overdue, they can never stop the hacking.

RuntsPosted:

Yeah there has been soo many cheaters sadly smh get them all gone off of rebirth island

FederationPosted:

I hope they ban Chosen lol ;)

XeCrippyPosted:

Seems like more than a coincidence that unknown cheats and some other sites were attacked not too long before these ban waves rolled out. Apparently UC wasn't just a data breach but a malware attack that affected users.


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