Call of Duty creator of content, YouTube personality and co-owner of the London Royal Ravens, Vikram ‘Vikkstar’ Singh Barn, has announced that he is quitting Warzone, revealing that only a major update of the game can convince him to return.
Call of Duty: Warzone took the Battle Royale scene by storm with its release on March 10, 2020. In nearly a year since its debut, the game has reached impressive milestones, including 80 million downloads, along with millions of hours spent on platforms as Twitch and YouTube have watched. .
Warzone started strong, but has experienced a number of problems since its release. Several game-breaking bugs and benefits, along with an increasing number of cheaters, have led to more and more criticism from the game’s forwards and content creators.
The latest creator to share their concerns is the power source YouTuber Vikkstar. Formerly one of the top players and creators of the game, he announced his departure from the BR and confirmed that it will take a lot to bring him back.
Vikkstar’s video shows footage of another player hacking and streaming on Facebook Gaming at the same time.
In a recent video, Vikkstar began explaining the decline in Warzone-based content on its channel, confirming hackers are the reason for its move away from Verdansk. “The game is in the worst condition it has ever been,” he noted, exclaiming the infestation of hackers who had taken over Warzone.
“Activision really does not address how many hackers there are in the game,” he continued. Furthermore, the streamer says that while playing Warzone earlier in the day, he encountered a hacker who streamed their game – hacks and all – to more than 100 viewers on Facebook Gaming.
“They’re a Prestige 2 account with a lot of hours at stake, and they just sat there chopping and nothing is being done about it,” he pointed out. “There are always more and more hackers,” he continued, reflecting the feelings of many other creators when it comes to the large number of fraudsters in the game.
‘It’s in a terrible, horrible state. It’s sad for me, ”said the creator as he looked back on his time as a participant and host of his own Warzone tournament. He also expressed frustration over the failure to address Warzone’s fraud problems, reiterating that ‘the player base of the game is now so saturated with hackers’.
“You laugh or you cry about how sad it is, that it’s the state of a game we loved and honed every day,” he continued. Vikkstar dives into his relationship with Activision, and how he hopes this video can help draw more attention to the fraud issues.
‘Even though I’m a CoD partner, it’s a way to reach out to Activision and say’ It needs to be addressed. It really needs to be fixed, ” he confirmed. The creator also shared his grim view of the fraud situation and warned that ‘it will really be the death of the game’.
With no anti-cheat in sight, some of #War zone‘s best might stop competing 😬
Top players @Symfuhny, @TylerTeeP and @jukeyz take, or have considered, taking a breather from WZ tournaments – with Sym recently explaining why it’s at stake. pic.twitter.com/oGL7OCQRpp
– DEXERTO Call of Duty (@DexertoIntel) 29 January 2021
Like the recent critique of Mason ‘Symfuhny’ Lanier, Vikkstar then revealed that playing with so many hackers was simply too stressful to continue creating content in Warzone: ‘Maybe if there’s a new update at stake, we have some new things to cover, a new card that will bring me back, but until then it’s so painful to play. ‘
“Hopefully you appreciate me putting out my platform for that, and we can work together a little bit, strengthen it and really bring out a message to Activision and Raven,” he added. After showing his viewers footage of the hacker to Facebook, Vikkstar simply said, “What an absolute joke.”
The YouTuber is far from being the first creator to express his concern about the state of fraud in Warzone, but as a CoD partner and co-owner of a Call of Duty League team, Activision is likely to pay attention to his criticism as the fraud problem. in Warzone is still growing.