‘Spike in cheating’ has led to thousands of Call of Duty players being banned
Activision, the publisher of CALL of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, has reported that players have been banned from the game en masse.
About 6,000 players have been banned over the past five days, following what the company calls “a spike in cheating within the community.”
Cheating has been reported as “rampant” in the latest Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare 3.
Players caught cheating or hacking the game will be banned for life to promote a level playing field for all.
In the notes accompanying the latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 patch, the team said: “The Ricochet Anti-Cheat team has been monitoring a spike in cheating within the community.
“We are currently testing for additional security updates; however, the following updates have just been deployed”
The statement then explains how game codes for temporary benefits, such as super speed, have been disabled.
The report continues: “As part of ongoing security updates, a single telemetry system was taken offline for upgrades this weekend.
“This action resulted in cheat developers claiming that Ricochet Anti-Cheat was offline. It was not.
“As a result of the monitoring activities over the weekend and the deliberate reactivation of this upgraded system, Team Ricochet was able to identify and ban more than 6,000 accounts for cheating and hacking between February 16 and 20.
“Our team continues to work on security updates for issues across modes in Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 3.”
Users have complained that Modern Warfare 3 is “infested with blatant cheaters” as players use software to edit the game and give them an advantage.
The Call of Duty series is one of the most popular in gaming and players were devastated when the servers went down.
If you want to read more about the game, check out the multiplayer review of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Written by Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.
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