Summary
By now you’ve probably heard of the rampant uptick in cheating spread across Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and its free-to-play WarZone mode following the game’s release on Game Pass. If you haven’t, let us catch you up.
Activisionspoke out following the influx, noting that there was an issuewith its proprietary RICOCHET Anti-Cheat system. More so,Activision explained how it is able to detect what platform a player is on, despite whatever platform is showing up, and that the company was “committed” to combating cheaters.
Now, a few days later, Activision has come out and said that it’s banned thousands of accounts.
65,000-Plus Cheaters Have Gotten The Axe, Per Activision
In a statement posted to Twitter, Activision revealed that it has purged the leaderboards ofCall of Dutyranked play, going as far as to ban the accounts involved with cheating and boosting.
The company went on to reveal that over 65,000 players have now been banned as the RICOCHET system accelerated its enforcement system. Those cheaters were allegedly doing so in both Ranked Play and non-Ranked modes. Activision’s full statement is as follows:
The RICOCHET Anti-Cheat team has now purged the Ranked Play leaderboards in both Call of Duty: Warzone and#MWIII, banning accounts for cheating and boosting.
#TeamRICOCHEThas accelerated cheat vendor enforcements resulting in over 65,000 account bans across Ranked Play and non-Ranked modes in#Warzoneand#MW3this week.
The team will continue to monitor and issue enforcements to anyone cheating or boosting in all game modes.
That’s a heavy influx of cheaters, and it’s possible that the number will steadily grow as the system catches up with past reports. While Activision originally said it is able to detect what platform a player is on, it appears that there was some level of discrepancy following the GamePass release that allowed cheaters to infiltrate in droves.
Regardless, it seems like Activision has some stuff it needs to clean upbefore Black Ops 6 becomes the first day-and-date COD on Game Pass. A similar situation happening at launch would be catastrophic to say the least.
