xSwagNinja69x, who used aimbots. H1TM4N_N0SC0PE1365, who used wallhacks. ItzAnActualNazi, who used a stat booster because he’s an unemployed college dropout who can’t even talk to girls, and cheating makes him feel like he’s in control but he isn’t because it’s cheating. Gone but also almost instantly forgotten, like a fart on a breeze.
Activision’s most recent ban wave adds these names I made up but are probably close enough to the real things and 59,997 more to Call of Duty: Warzone’s ranks of ignominy, now totalling over 300,000, the publisher has confirmed, citing “zero tolerance” for cheaters.
“We know cheaters are constantly looking for vulnerabilities,” the company explains, “and we continue to dedicate resources 24/7 to identify and combat cheats, including aimbots, wallhacks, trainers, stat hacks, texture hacks, leaderboard hacks, injectors, hex editors and any third party software that is used to manipulate game data or memory.”
Like every other multiplayer game ever, Call of Duty: Warzone has had its problems with cheaters since it launched in 2020, with multiple subsequent ban waves and the inclusion of two-factor authentication and improved in-game reporting not mitigating the situation much because cheaters gonna cheat. 60,000 more cheaters, coming up.