One of the sure-fire ways to know that a player was cheating was when their Activision account was permanently banned. As we have seen on numerous occasions, most notably with Wagnificent, when a player is found to have been using cheats, including but not restricted to Aimbot, Wallhacks & Unlocker tools, Activision will impose a permanent ban on their account. The use of the word permanent is clear, the ban is, in name at least, irreversible.
How then, has it been possible for some people to have their account bans reversed in the past? Again, the clearest example is Wagnificent.
It was explained in his case, that the ban was removed after some of his fellow content creators with ties to Activision reached out to the developers (through their contacts as COD partners) and raised the issue of this “false ban”. The ban was swiftly reversed, Wagnificent claiming that it should never have happened in the first place, and onwards he marched in his journey as a content creator. To Wagnificent’s fans this was a clear indication that he was a legit player, the hackusations were false and it helped (in no small way) his channel grow significantly over the following months.
It would be nice to live with the knowledge that players who are banned are the ones cheating and players who are not are the ones playing legitimately. However, we know this not to be the case purely based on the fact that Ricochet anti-cheat is so dismal at actually detecting hackers within the game, with many people still able to rage hack on a single account live on Twitch, Facebook Gaming or YouTube for weeks on end with near impunity.
In addition to knowing that Ricochet does not effectively ban those cheating, we now have cause to believe that those who are banned are able to bypass the ban in a short space of time and continue to play with the same Activision ID.
In a recent YouTube video, our writer, ItsHapa has revealed exactly how some cheat providers are offering a service that can use the Call of Duty API data to essentially emulate the stats and details of a banned Activision account, essentially cloning it onto a new account, which would then have the same stats and Activision ID. While this is not exactly a full reversal of the ban, it will appear to be exactly that as the new account will perfectly reflect the banned account, meaning it will be impossible to notice.
This is a relatively new feature that is available publicly, however as with most things you can find in a google search, there is a very real probability that the service has been available privately for much longer. If this is the case (as it most likely is) it raises a lot of questions, questions about whether certain content creators accounts were actually “unbanned by Activision”. Questions about why certain content creators took short breaks from streaming or uploading content around the same time as ban waves in the past. And the biggest question it raises…
How on earth, can a company the size of Activision, not have the resources to combat this kind of service being offered by cheat providers. As a multibillion-dollar corporation, Activision has undoubtedly got the money to develop resources to combat the cheating issue, and in that knowledge we have to ask why on earth they have yet to effectively do so.
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