Activision Bans Over 100,000 CoD: Warzone Accounts (Again)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/27/2021 08:15 AM | source: tweakers | 27 comment(s)

More than 100,000 accounts have been banned from Call of Duty: Warzone, according to Activision. The corporation targeted players who had violated the terms of their license on many occasions and encouraged them to utilize cheats and cheat suppliers.

Call of Duty: Warzone accounts have been banned in significant numbers before. Individual faults or repeated infractions resulted in a total of 475,000 accounts being removed from the system, according to a company statement in April. Then there were gamers that cheated by using cheats or false accounts of cheaters that were sold on the black market to other players. More than 50,000 accounts were canceled by the game's publisher for the same reason a month earlier as well.

Activision utilizes their own anti-cheat software to combat cheating software, rather as more well-known anti-cheat utilities such as Easy Anti-Cheat or BattleEye, to combat cheating software. Weekly security upgrades are also released by the developer, which should help to strengthen the in-game reporting methods. For new PC gamers who sign up to play the free battle royale component of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, unapproved software providers will be blocked and two-factor authentication will be activated. Since 2020, the corporation has started putting players who are suspected of cheating in a separate section of the lobby.

The company said that new anti-cheat software for the PC is in the works as well.

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Denial
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#5941782 Posted on: 08/27/2021 06:39 PM

Uhm...

So they are forcing two factor auth because... ?
They just want to grab cell phone numbers so they can sell them as well...

They have an option to use an authenticator app which is more secure and no phone number.

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#5941803 Posted on: 08/27/2021 08:29 PM

Since when is two factor authentication a bad thing?

Giving away the phone number to people should be something you think twice about. If you don't mind everybody having your phone number, that's a personal choice. I'd rather go down this route:

They have an option to use an authenticator app which is more secure and no phone number.

... which probably still gives them information to sell, but I'd prefer that. Thanks for the intel, luckily I've had an account long enough to dodge them forcing me to use any app or give them my phone number.

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#5941813 Posted on: 08/27/2021 09:17 PM

So they are forcing two factor auth because... ?
They just want to grab cell phone numbers so they can sell them as well...

I have had Battlenet 2FA before I had a mobile phone.

https://winauth.github.io/winauth/download.html

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#5941974 Posted on: 08/28/2021 08:40 PM

Uhm...

So they are forcing two factor auth because... ?
They just want to grab cell phone numbers so they can sell them as well...

to be the devils advocate the 2fa does not seem like a bad idea ... with out knowing how they implemented it they might be using it to prevent people from making a new acount when they get banned a lot do not care since is free just make a new one and cheat again ...but what if you need to get a new phone number every time ?

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#5942014 Posted on: 08/29/2021 12:54 AM

to be the devils advocate the 2fa does not seem like a bad idea ... with out knowing how they implemented it they might be using it to prevent people from making a new acount when they get banned a lot do not care since is free just make a new one and cheat again ...but what if you need to get a new phone number every time ?

I apologize if the reasoning behind my reluctance is highly subjective, but I don't fancy installing another app on my phone or giving them my number because somebody else cheated.

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