Warzone players slam Activision for \u201cwrongful\u201d Overwolf bans ActivisionCall of Duty Warzone players have noticed a wave of bans when running popular video recording software, Overwolf, on Windows 11. With Call of Duty\u2019s newest installment, Vanguard, just around the corner, players have been flocking back to the title\u2019s battle royale, Warzone, in order to get into the spirit. Vanguard will introduce all new maps to the fray, including one based in the Pacific. Some players, though, might not be able to play it through no fault of their own. After receiving a permanent ban while running Overwolf\u2019s Windows 11 Insider, one player has sparked quite the debate. Warzone players banned using Overwolf on Windows 11 Voicing their frustration on Reddit, one angry player warns \u201cdo not use Windows 11 and Overwolf at the same time.\u201d \u201cAfter getting permanently banned a few weeks ago because of a well known and apparently rather common issue \u2013 that being that if you attempt to open Cold War while Overwolf is open and you\u2019re running an Insider build of Windows 11 \u2013 I have finally received a response from Activision telling me that despite being innocent, they cannot unban my account,\u201d they write. \u201cThey have acknowledged the error in the ban, but are refusing to lift the ban as all bans are final.\u201d \u201cIf someone from Activision ends up reading this, sort your game out,\u201d they conclude. \u201cI\u2019ll admit, I should have done some research into Windows 11 before upgrading but who the hell would assume that having the newest OS and a popular Video Recording software would result in a ban\u2026? It doesn\u2019t even cross someone\u2019s mind.\u201d Warzone players hit back at Activision As hinted at in the original post, this is an issue that appears to plague others who are also running the game on Windows 11. \u201cGood post! I switched to 11 and bam! Got perma banned.. I\u2019ve spent the last week grinding and Activision offer no solution for it\u2026 Just goes to show you how backwards Activision is!\u201d fumes one commenter. \u201cInsane they are not unbanning when [they] confirmed faulty ban,\u201d states another, while a final response notes \u201cI can\u2019t wait for the wave of wrongful bans that will follow Ricochet\u2019s release\u2026. And probably 99% of them will not be reversed.\u201d Overwolf respond In an October 26 Medium post, Overwolf addressed the ongoing ban issues. Writing: \u201cDear Call of Duty players, we are aware of a number of users who have been banned after playing Cold War and Warzone on Windows 11 while using Overwolf,\u201d Overwolf copywriter Liri Katz goes on to explain what that the platform is making adjustments to combat the issue. While highlighting that Overwolf \u201care not responsible for the bans\u2026 We have released an update to our games list to change the way the Overwolf overlay works and will no longer trigger a ban from Activision while using Windows 11. It\u2019s important to note that in the 24 hours following this change, we have not had any new ban reports.\u201d Additionally, the team are \u201cworking closely with the very top levels at Activision, and we\u2019ll do whatever we can to help those whose accounts have been banned. We can\u2019t promise it will work, but we\u2019ll give it our best shot.\u201d As the issue continues to cause havoc, it\u2019ll be interesting to see whether or not Activision choose to reverse the bans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Warzone players slam Activision for \u201cwrongful\u201d Overwolf bans ActivisionCall of Duty Warzone players have noticed a wave of bans when running popular video recording software, Overwolf, on Windows 11. With Call of Duty\u2019s newest installment, Vanguard, just around the corner, players have been flocking back to the title\u2019s battle royale, Warzone, in order to get […]<\/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-34033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34033","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=34033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}