Activision Bans 175,000 CoD: Warzone Players in Two Months

Activision, along with developers Raven Software and Infinity Ward, have said they have permanently banned more than 475,000 players from Call of Duty: Warzone to date. That number was just over two months ago at 300,000 players.

Activision writes that this total number of 475,000 accounts removed is the result of a now completed seventh round in which a large number of accounts have been banned. Since February there have been seven such series in which a relatively large number of players have been removed at a time. In February, the total number of deleted accounts was still over 300,000.

In addition to these actions, which involve removing large numbers of players at once, the game makers take action against individual cases involving individual infractions or players committing repeated fouls. This category includes, for example, fraudulent accounts of cheaters that are sold on the black market and used by players who break the rules several times. Of them, 45,000 accounts were recently deleted. Activision says this is also an important goal: to prevent cheating gamers from easily switching to alternative accounts.

In addition, Activision uses the measure to exclude certain hardware. According to the company, these hardware bans are only issued to players who cheat multiple times. The company says this is an important means of tackling these players.

In detecting cheating players, among other things, self-developed, internal anti-cheat software is used. Warzone does not use well-known, third-party anti-cheat tools, such as Easy Anti-Cheat and BattleEye. The problem of cheating in Warzone is widespread. It is especially a problem on the PC, although it therefore also plays on the consoles, because crossplay is possible.