Warzone devs reiterate promise to fix cheating and \u201cimprovements\u201d to anti-cheat ActivisionWarzone has reiterated its promises to players to overcome the game\u2019s hacking issues and make significant \u201cimprovements\u201d to its anti-cheat system. Warzone\u2019s first year has been an unmitigated success, with millions of players around the world dropping into Verdansk and enjoying CoD\u2019s second attempt at a battle royale, after Black Ops 4\u2019s Blackout. However, certain aspects of the game have become common targets for criticism. The strength of skill-based matchmaking and the prominence of hackers in games of all standards have been incredibly frustrating for fans. What has worsened both issues, though, is the lack of a tangible response from Activision. Players have been incredibly frustrated by the silence from the billion-dollar company, which they argue has more than sufficient resources to solve the cheating issue and implement a robust anti-cheat system. While there has still been no major public announcement \u2013 from a Twitter account or senior staff member \u2013 an in-game daily message that was originally from April has resurfaced, being displayed to players once again. The message, highlighted by Redditor \u2018SSMKh\u2019, is titled \u201cCheaters Not Welcome\u201d. The player\u2019s own caption of \u201cAre you sure about that Activision?\u201d tells us much about the scepticism and frustrations among the community. \u201cWe work aggressively to keep Warzone fun and fair,\u201d the in-game communication says. \u201c24\/7 security monitoring, ALL possible cheats, hacks reviewed, Planned improvements to in-game cheat reporting, 50,000+ global perma-bans to date, More updates coming soon.\u201d The message is originally from April of 2020, but appears to be being shown to players in game in January of 2021. It goes some way to explain why the number of permabans stated in the message is so low. It\u2019s unclear whether messages of the day are chosen specifically or on some kind of automatic rotation. With Activision\u2019s inactivity already under scrutiny, the reiteration of a 7 month old message seems all the more bizarre. We\u2019d like to think that the number of permabans is now far higher, especially given the incredible amounts of people who have dropped into Verdansk. The re-statement of improvements coming will be welcome, but the sceptical responses make clear that many believe the issue has already got out of hand, and been allowed to go on for far too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone devs reiterate promise to fix cheating and \u201cimprovements\u201d to anti-cheat ActivisionWarzone has reiterated its promises to players to overcome the game\u2019s hacking issues and make significant \u201cimprovements\u201d to its anti-cheat system. Warzone\u2019s first year has been an unmitigated success, with millions of players around the world dropping into Verdansk and enjoying CoD\u2019s second attempt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}