Call of Duty's Twitter account announced Saturday that more than 90,000 accounts had been banned in ban waves executed over the past week.
Cheaters remain a constant problem in Call of Duty: Warzone, as hackers find new ways to evade detection or punishment. Players complain just as constantly about the problem, and Warzone steward Raven Software has worked hard to meet the rising challenge with anti-cheat measures, and this series of ban waves is just the latest high yield effort.
#TeamRICOCHET update: 90,000 accounts were removed in banwaves this week. Happy Friday.
— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) March 19, 2022
Account bans are the simplest punishment Raven Software can hand out, and also among the easiest to evade. In most cases, cheaters can simply make new accounts and resume their cheating ways. In the past, Raven has also employed hardware bans that target the hardware ID associated with the cheating account. This is much more severe, forcing players to buy new hardware or employ software to mask their hardware ID.
It's hard to objectively measure the number of cheaters still actively playing Warzone, but after years of struggle it doesn't look like Raven will ever be able to completely stamp out the problem.
