Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 bans affect 1,600+ users

by Alexander Sliwinski on Nov 21st 2011 9:30AM

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 isn't a safe place for anyone on the business end of a sniper shot or cheats. MW3 community czar Robert Bowling recently announced on Twitter that Activision issued over 1,600 bans and reiterated "any attempt to cheat, hack, or glitch in [Modern Warfare 3] will not be tolerated."

"Reporting [cheaters] in-game through [Modern Warfare 3] goes directly to our security team, who issues the bans directly after verifying," Bowling noted. "Every ban unique to the level of douchiness of the offense. The greater the douche, the greater the length. PermaDouche possible."

We appreciate the effort Activision apparently goes through to keep each ban fresh and clean. Last week, Battlefield 3 went through a similar cleansing.

Via: PCR
Source: Twitter - @FourZeroTwo

Tags: Activision, Activision-Blizzard, bans, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3, Infinity-Ward, microsoft, modern-warfare-3, pc, playstation, ps3, Robert-Bowling, xbox

Reader Comments (68)

GOOD! If you cheat, use a modded controller, or glitch to gain an advantage then you can go die in a fire! Or just get banned, I guess that works too.... Little less dramatic though, needs more fire and brimstone.

@covertpetersen Yeah but the amount of glitches in Call of Duty games is getting kind of ridiculous...

@Tommy758 Getting? It's been ridiculous for about 3 years, or whenever MW2 was released. I like the series, I truly do, I just hate the direction they're taking it. The series used to have some dignity to it. Look at CoD4, CoD2, even W@W and you'll find something about them that was at least a little dignified. Now they have titles and titles with pictures of woman on their backs, in bikini's, holding pistols like their in last stand. Not to mention titles with skulls smoking joints called "joint ops"... The series has lost all self respect, and then they leave the community to beta test it. No game feels like CoD when you play it, it's got a smoothness to it. The second another game figures out how to do that, I'm jumping ship.

@Tommy758
Have you even played MW3? There has only been 1 map hole and it was patched already. Have not personally found a single bug yet and I'm almost 2nd prestige...

@covertpetersen I said glitches, not the games themselves. But towards what you said, I find nothing wrong with those titles, doesn't hurt anybody.

@(Unverified) 12 hours of MW3 multiplayer. I'v seen the Village map glitch, stealth bomber glitch, sniper glitch, air support glitch, so on.

@Tommy758 Damn, never ran into them, but let's hope they get the patch attack.

@covertpetersen

Even though I already jumped ship during the first months of Black Ops, I agree with this.

"No game feels like CoD when you play it, it's got a smoothness to it. The second another game figures out how to do that, I'm jumping ship."

Battlefield got alot smoother than it was with BC2, But its still not there.

People think copying killstreaks and all that shit will sell their game, When its actually the feel that will sell it.

@covertpetersen

Personally, if I was in charge of dealing with this stuff, I wouldn't ban them, I would just modify the system so that each cheater was marked in a database but there was no indication that they're on the list. Once a player gets on this list, weird shit happens to their gameplay... their bullets randomly do no damage... other people's bullets seem to go straight to the head... maybe their load outs get reset randomly... you know, generally frustrating things that they can bitch about... oh, also they get sent to a different server so that they can play weird mode with each other.

@covertpetersen

"No game feels like CoD when you play it, it's got a smoothness to it. The second another game figures out how to do that, I'm jumping ship."

I love COD and play it all the time, but I'm with you on this!

@covertpetersen The fact they've had weed themed ones for years is proof they not only know their market but they have no dignity. At least the ones with women in Black Ops are like pin ups. I have no idea bout the ones from MW3.

@covertpetersen

"No game feels like CoD when you play it, it's got a smoothness to it. The second another game figures out how to do that, I'm jumping ship."

I figured it out a long time ago. In CoD games now, there's really not that much going on behind the scenes. There aren't building physics, no dynamic lighting, no gravity simulation, etc. They allocate all those unused resources to making the framerate buttery smooth.

People aren't lying when they call CoD a simple game. The code is so easy to rehash year after year after year.

All hackers should get permadouched. Then they need to drink it. Those douches, I mean.

If you divide the number of bans by 100, you get the average age of users effected.

@Lone Starr Ok, credit where it's due, that was fairly funny.

@Lone Starr 160?

@mguillen

@mguillen 1600/100=16 not 160. That would be 1600/10...

@mguillen Where did you learn math?

@Tommy758 It was a joke guys.

@mguillen how is that new fuzzy math working out for you

@mguillen
just say oops, noone would make a joke that bad

@(Unverified) offended 16 year old kids might

@(Unverified)
There are three valid responses to such a mistake:

Man up to it and admit you're wrong.
Try to play it off as a joke.
Or.. Umm.. Give me a second.. I can't remember the third one. Oops

@Daverator

I'm more offended by the misuse of the word "effected." The word you were looking for is affected.

The more you know...

Okay so the morons with buttons in their names -- especially on the 360 version -- those guys are hacking, right? 'cos I've reported every one I've seen.

@TheChezDispenser ... I think so. I report them every time I see them too.

@TheChezDispenser
Technically it's an exploit, not a hack, but it's still ridiculous.

@TheChezDispenser
THIS! I report them too.. it's pretty distracting seeing buttons and thumbsticks dancing around the map when you're trying to look for baddies.

@TheChezDispenser

Its not a hack. You put in your clan tag by typing an M, then A (with accent mark), and then push any letter from a to f to turn them into those button shapes you see.

@TheChezDispenser That isn't hacking or modding. So congrats, you false flagged people who are doing nothing wrong.

@Prime y0
Unfortunately, you're wrong. It's an exploit, and reportable, and people who do it will be banned.

ref:
http://activision.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/activision.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php?p_faqid=78822&p_created=1321632585&p_sid=Qo_-hHJk&p_lva=&p_li=&p_redirect=&p_sp=

Oh wow 1600! Really cracking down!!

haha why do people purchase this joke of a game? not even the people who make it take it seriously.

@Pok3rFac3D Treyarch seemed to try to actually do a good job with Black Ops. The MW2 support was a complete joke. There was no excuse for the atrocious support (or lack thereof) for that game. At least they're doing something for MW3 now instead of waiting until next year like they did with MW2.

@Pok3rFac3D
1600 is pretty good actually considering they have to see proof of a cheater/exploiter.

@YimYimYimi

"There was no excuse for the atrocious support (or lack thereof) for that game"

I think the studio slowly falling apart is a pretty decent excuse.

I'm glad to hear this...I went back to play COD4: Modern Warfare to work on prestiging there, since I hadn't before...and I couldn't believe how many people were using sniper hacks. It was clear from the kill cam and from the custom status messages, there was some sort of auto-aim hack going on. I know they won't patch that, but I'm glad to see that they are addressing this in MW3 before I start playing...

the quick scoping with the sniper rifle is beyond ridiculous. Happy to hear that they are banning the ppl that are doing that

@tdrwiega ... Word! They don't even have to hit you half the time and you still die. I hate that crap!

@tdrwiega
I see your sarcasm and I raise you one "BULL$#!*"

I wonder, how do they ban the douches who use modded controllers? My index finger and thumb on my right hand, were permanently challenged after an accident and I haven't thought of using modded controller once....I camp instead. lol

Glad that they got rid of cheaters. Robert Bowling always comes across as a "permadouche" though. Just one of the brahs.

@Kyle4
i was looking at his twitter he is such bro, like laughably so

Is boosting considered cheating?

@joer22784

I don't think its cheating but it's reportable.

@joer22784
yes

They should just confine them all to the same server where they have to play each other all the time.

1600 down 1,000,000 more to go!(on each console) Infinity Ward is the most overrated developer now a days. They get way too much credit for the actual "work" they do.. They made little to no changes from mw2 - mw3 and can't even keep cheaters out for a month? Someone explain to me how they aren't making these crack like addictive games for the money

@Gutterpipe Well with the internet and google search, it only takes one person to find a glitch and post it online for a couple of thousand idiots to use said glitch.

When you consider that roughly 0.1% of the population of the world own this game, it's not very likely it will take 1 person a long time to F it up for everyone.

@ gangcar
lol

Right I figure there's far more than 1600 people hacking out there. I don't play MOD3 but lets hope they keep a hold on the siteeation

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