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Activision Bans Over 100,000 CoD: Warzone Accounts (Again)
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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#5942048 Posted on: 08/29/2021 09:05 AM
I understand completely your reasoning and i agree as far they go with their own app instad of Google authenticator or something. All i was saying is that if it can be used to fight the cheating plague in such games i can see why they would do it.
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.
I understand completely your reasoning and i agree as far they go with their own app instad of Google authenticator or something. All i was saying is that if it can be used to fight the cheating plague in such games i can see why they would do it.
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#5942165 Posted on: 08/29/2021 08:02 PM
annnnnnd they're back
annnnnnd they're back
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#5942171 Posted on: 08/29/2021 08:38 PM
And more angry then ever it appears.
annnnnnd they're back
And more angry then ever it appears.
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#5942176 Posted on: 08/29/2021 09:06 PM
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:
... 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.
Activision won't even get your number if you use a third party authenticator app which doesn't even need to be Google's.
The app generates a code which you type in upon login on a new computer/installation, unless you set it to not remember your login.
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:
... 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.
Activision won't even get your number if you use a third party authenticator app which doesn't even need to be Google's.
The app generates a code which you type in upon login on a new computer/installation, unless you set it to not remember your login.
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I would think most people have an authenticator app anyway - my google authenticator app has almost 20 services linked to it at this point. I've also recently required 2FA via app at the company I manage because so many people are getting hit with sim swaps attacks. I would imagine in the next 5 years or so most services will require it.