Warzone bans 60,000 cheaters – community that’s not enough

The cheaters are an eternal nuisance in Call of Duty: Warzone, but they are on par with the feeling that Activision doesn’t care. At least the community has that, as the reactions to the ban from 60,000 cheaters show.

Call of Duty and the Cheaters – the franchise has not just struggled with this problem since Warzone. But the great success of the Battle Royale is now increasingly drawing attention to this topic.

The basic problem facing the community is simply: there are far too many cheaters in Warzone. This is the problem for the community with the poor communication linked to the topic and the transparent handling of the measures that are initiated against the cheaters.

At least when it comes to communication, players can now carefully tick the box, albeit better with a pencil. The official Call of Duty channel announced in a tweet that over 60,000 accounts had been banned and referred to one Blog post with more information on the “Anti-Cheat Plans “for Call of Duty.

60,000 is better than 0

That is true, but under the premise that two teeth are better than no teeth in the dentition, you can still not chew with them. The information in the blog post that over 300,000 accounts have been banned since Warzone was launched is only a minor improvement. The last reliable number of Warzone players is from December 2020 and amounts to 85 million. In the same official Activision post you can also read that the entire Call of Duty franchise generated revenues of $ 3 billion in 2020 (net).

It is difficult to say how high the percentage of cheaters in Warzone is, but it is a constant topic in the community and tEvery day there are new posts on Reddit from players who encounter cheaters.

Activision’s current post is also discussed and criticized on Reddit:

Past and future actions

The measures taken so far include Update of the report mechanisms, the Turn off cheat developers and the Introduction of a two-factor authorization. The latter was quickly circumvented by selling accounts that had already been verified. The community has the impression that the measures taken so far have not really had any effect.

For the future, Activision has Improvements to the internal anti-cheat software promised, whose existence has been confirmed here for the first time for many. Besides, it should more communication with the community give and at least one monthly update. Furthermore should more resources provided and tougher against cheat developers be proceeded.

This time everything will be different !?

In October 2020, Infinity Ward presented the successful blocking of 200,000 accounts and also announced improvements at that time, but the players did not notice anything. Whether it is 200,000 or 300,000 makes little difference with the high number of players. On top of that comes that with one Free2Play game like WarzoneAccording to the community, cheaters can easily create a new account.

Although the announced measures sound sensible, the players don’t seem to have a lot of confidence in Activision.