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Warzone – Activision imposes hardware bans on cheaters

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Raven Software is tackling the ongoing cheating problem in Call of Duty: Warzone with new waves of bans – repeat offenders are now even being hit with hardware bans.

Cheating has long been a serious problem in the battle royale Warzone. That’s why publisher Activision and developer Raven Software have stepped up measures against cheaters since the beginning of the year.

The latest waves of bans have been going on since the end of March and now affect no less than 475,000 Warzone accounts that have allegedly cheated in the battle royale since the release of Warzone. Activision now confirms that hardware bans will also be imposed for repeated cheating in order to finally get to grips with the problem.

Hardware ban for incorrigible cheaters

Call of Duty: Warzone, being a free-to-play game, is particularly vulnerable to cheaters and hackers. Raven Software can simply ban certain accounts after breaking the rules, but that doesn’t stop the actual cheater behind the account. Without further ado, the person simply creates a new account – or any number of them – and can easily switch back and forth in case of a ban.

For this reason, Raven Software has now taken the next measure: As soon as it is determined that several banned cheating accounts originate from the same device, the player in question must now expect a hardware ban. Because as easy as it is to create a new account in a free-to-play game – a new device to play Warzone is not simply available for most people.

Since this measure can cut players off from Warzone completely in case of doubt, Raven Software says it is making sure to only use hardware bans against “repeat and serial cheaters”.

Is there finally an end to cheating?

In the blog post, Raven Software emphasizes that it has employed a team around the clock to individually check and ban accounts. Since February, seven ban waves have been initiated, including the most recent one.

Unless repeatedly convicted cheaters have dozens of PCs or laptops to play with in addition to dozens of Warzone accounts, the hardware bans could be a real breakthrough in solving the problem. Either way, cheaters won’t disappear overnight and will certainly have more aces up their sleeves to avoid their punishment.

We’ll keep you posted on further developments in Warzone’s cheating problem.

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