The Call of Duty: Warzone hack returned to the headlines after a large number of high-profile players gave up for cheating.
The BBC reported on YouTuber Vikkstar’s decision to end Activision’s free-to-play Battle Royale after he released a video saying that Warzone was “in the worst state of all time”.
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Vikkstar, whose real name is Vikram Singh Barn, has more than seven million subscribers on YouTube. His video stating his decision to stop has been viewed more than 1 million times.
“Activision is not addressing how many hackers there are in the game,” said Vikkstar. He revealed that he found a hacker who was streaming live, actively hacking on Facebook Gaming. “The game’s player base is now so saturated with hackers that you tend to find them in every lobby.”
Vikkstar’s decision to leave Warzone comes at a problematic time for the game. Prominent players questioned Activision’s allegedly ineffective anti-cheat, with some casting doubts about the viability of tournaments in which hundreds of thousands of dollars are up for grabs.
“Unfortunately, without anti-cheat, authentic Warzone tournaments are no longer possible,” said FaZe member Nicholas “NICKMERCS” Kolcheff in Twitter recently.
Twitch streamer Jaryd “summit1g” Lazar too Twitter to complain about Warzone’s cheating, although he later apologized for questioning the developers’ commitment to solving the problem.
Call of Duty YouTuber Drift0r, which has over 1.5 million subscribers, recently published 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 was released in March 2020, it has faced a cheat problem, with some console players disabling cross-game play with PC players in an attempt to avoid hackers.
Although Activision has enacted bans in the past and said it has zero tolerance for cheaters, it appears that now, almost a year after launch, Warzone is no closer to getting rid of its gaming reputation that has a hacking problem than there is. nine months .
In fact, the problem has escalated in recent weeks, and stories that have made it to major news sites, such as the BBC, have put Activision under increasing pressure to announce new measures aimed at curbing cheating.