Call of Duty: Warzone hacking made headlines again after a plethora of high-profile players stopped cheating.
The BBC reported on YouTuber Vikkstar’s decision to suspend Activision’s free play battle royally after it released a video saying Warzone was in ‘the worst condition it has ever been’.
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Vikkstar, real name Vikram Singh Barn, has more than seven million subscribers on YouTube. His video stating that he decided to quit has been viewed more than 1 million times.
“Activision does not address how many hackers are in the game,” Vikkstar said. He revealed that he came across a hooker who actively hacked themselves on Facebook Gaming. “The player base of the game is now so saturated with hackers, that you tend to find it in every lobby.”
Vikkstar’s decision to stop Warzone comes at a difficult time for the game. Leading players have questioned Activision’s allegedly ineffective anti-cheat, with doubts about the viability of tournaments in which hundreds of thousands of dollars are at stake.
“Unfortunately, without anti-cheat, authentic Warzone tournaments are simply no longer possible,” FaZe member Nicholas “NICKMERCS” Kolcheff said Twitter recently.
The jerk Jaryd “summit1g” Lazar also started Twitter to complain about Warzone cheating, although they later apologized for questioning developers’ commitment to solving the problem.
Call of Duty YouTuber Drift0r, which has more than 1.5 million subscribers, recently posted a video titled “Hackers are KILLING Warzone! Why no anti-cheat !?” In it, Drift0r reveals that he regularly encounters hackers in the game.
Since Warzone came out in March 2020, it has faced a fraud issue, and some console gamers have eliminated crossplay with computer gamers in an effort to prevent them from running into hackers.
While Activision has issued bans in the past, saying it has zero tolerance for fraudsters, it appears that Warzone is now, almost a year after its launch, no closer to its reputation as a game with a hacking problem shed than it was nine months ago.
Indeed, the issue has escalated over the past few weeks, and stories hitting mainstream news sites such as the BBC have put Activision under greater pressure to announce new measures to combat fraud.