❘ Published: 2024-10-17T20:23:08

After reports circulated that Call of Duty hackers could seemingly permanently ban you for no reason, Activision came forward and admitted that legitimate accounts had been affected.

On October 3, 2024, CoD content creator BobbyPoff’s account was permanently banned. The streamer categorically defended himself and argued that he never cheated, but was unable to overturn the decision.

The story took another turn when Zebleer claimed that there is an exploit that allows you to falsely permanently ban CoD players even if they are not in their lobby. Zebleer estimates that thousands of accounts, including BobbyPoff, were affected by the exploit.

Players had doubts about the legitimacy of this claim, but a day after Zebleer’s post, Activision responded: “RICOCHET Anti-Cheat has identified and disabled a detection system workaround in Modern Warfare III and Call of Duty: Warzone which affected a small number of legitimate players. accounts.”

All affected accounts have been restored and the development team has assured players that monitoring will continue.

However, the response wasn’t enough to satisfy some confused and frustrated players who demanded more answers about how this happened in the first place.

ModernWarzone pushed back, asking: “What is ‘small number’ and how long has this ‘workaround’ been used?”

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After facing backlash for allegedly cheating, BobbyPoff celebrated having his ban overturned. “Despite all the brain rot, cancel the vultures who lead lives so unfulfilling that they chronically spend their time online seeking to tear down everything anyone has worked hard to build: F**k off,” a said Bobby Poff.

This all comes after CoD players already had doubts about RICOCHET before Black Ops 6 launched.

Community sentiment indicated that cheating issues were more prevalent than ever in Warzone and Multiplayer. On February 21, Activision responded after players reported an increase in cheaters in Warzone Ranked and believe that anti-cheat has been temporarily disabled.

Activision’s admission of the exploit’s existence certainly won’t help assuage these concerns as BO6 approaches.