Activision Blizzard is battling cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone and publicly announces the bans. They highlight having banned a specific cheater and post it on Twitter. However, as it turns out: they celebrated too soon. The cheater is still active.
This is how Call of Duty advertised the banned cheater: Yesterday, Call of Duty: Warzone released a video on Twitter. Clearly, the announcement was made: “If you cheat, we will hunt you down.”
It stated:
- Bans are continuously happening. They have just banned 100,000 cheaters
- Stronger anti-cheat measures are coming to PC in 2021
- A lot of cheaters are now angry about the bans
Then they particularly highlighted a cheater’s reaction and showed his “real reaction”: “Rushman360” says he cheats for fun and posts videos on TikTok. But now Call of Duty: Warzone is serious:
“Every single one of my accounts is banned. Even the ones I haven’t even played yet. So I got a hardware ban.”
The cheater then explicitly praises Activision Blizzard – he appreciates that. They are now serious. Other content creators will return to the game now.
The Twitter clip was a success for Call of Duty: It received 13,580 “likes” and was viewed 529,000 times.
Cheater keeps going
This is the surprise: As PCGamer found out, the cheater “Rushman360” is apparently not as “hard banned” as he claimed.
Because after Activision Blizzard had advertised with him, Rushman360 was seen back on YouTube: In a stream today, on September 1st, which was broadcast live, the player was seen again in Call of Duty: Warzone, using cheats (via YouTube).
As PCGamer writes, he and his partner openly acknowledged in current videos that they use aim-bots.
Activision Blizzard learns: Trust no cheater
This is what it is about: Activision Blizzard sees how difficult it is to advertise with individuals. Because even a hardware ban can apparently be circumvented by replacing hardware. Maybe the cheater is also using particularly sophisticated programs to mask the hardware.
It was apparently a mistake to trust a cheater and deliberately advertise with him. Even though his statement fits well with Activision Blizzard’s intention to clearly signal: “We understand you, we are taking strong action.”
The fight against cheaters is probably not so easy to win.
Why is cheating such a huge issue in CoD Warzone? Practically all popular free-to-play games suffer from cheaters: When they are banned, they simply create new accounts.
In Call of Duty: Warzone, the problem is particularly severe because Activision Blizzard apparently has not installed a good anti-cheat protection. Therefore, cheaters have been a huge issue since the release of the battle royale mode:
“CoD needs to fix this, otherwise Warzone will be dead in a week”
