Activision shares a Call of Duty: Warzone cheating update as permabans near 500,000

Over 475,000 players have been permanently banned in Call of Duty: Warzone.

Activision has released an update on its Call of Duty: Warzone anti-cheat progress, detailing how many permabans have been issued and how the team roots out cheaters.

According to the official Call of Duty blog, over 475,000 players have been permanently banned from Call of Duty: Warzone. The latest ban wave, which crashed onto Verdansk’s shores on April 12, was the seventh large-scale ban since this February alone. Activision states that its security and enforcement teams issue bans daily “to individual offenses or repeat offenders.”

Activision is also cracking down on cheat providers and resellers, or people who create accounts, farm them, and sell them at a premium. The developer has banned 45,000 “fraudulent, black market accounts used by repeat offenders” and is making sure those cheaters won’t be able to move to alternate accounts. Activision even issues hardware bans against repeat “or serial” cheaters.

Call of Duty: Warzone is a popular target for cheaters and exploiters, so it’s nice to see Activision is working hard to make the game more fair.