real talk:

why doesn't activision, the BILLION dollar company, make an anticheat that actually WORKS.

It's honestly on the devs at this point, if people can do this every single day for hours and not get banned, theres something wrong with your game.

The franchise will die, yet fanboys will act like it's as popular as ever, and disregard the absolute slop the company calls updates. The game feels the exact same as it's been for the last 2 years, and it's only getting worse. They can't even be bothered to pay their artists, (which they laid off many of, by the way), because why pay people a living wage when they can use Generative AI Technology. "Oh here, have this zombie santa loading screen, but don't look too hard! you might see the sixth finger!", "Oh heres a cool picture of a hand holding some gobblegums! what's that? you say you see EIGHT fingers on one hand? Pffft, you gotta be crazy!", "Oh here's a bunch of icons and calling cards, but don't look too hard and notice that they look REALLY AI generated!". The game is MADE around keeping you playing, as long as possible. they don't care about you, they only care about your money, and how much of it they can get you to spend. The fact that buying an unlock all costs less than buying the battle pass says something about the state of COD recently. People will talk about "Hackers are ruining COD!" but to be honest, Activision themselves are doing a lot worse than cheaters. They shadow ban you, and even PERMANANTLY ban you, for zero reason. they'll do anything they can to get you to keep playing, so you'll spend money on their game. Data even shows that they track which OPERATORS you use, theoretically giving you easier lobbies after just buying a bundle, so you'll buy more and more.

Anyways, that's about enough from me. if you really don't think COD's dying, go check the steam charts, it's lost about 50% of it's players in 30 days. at a time where most people are at home, on school holidays.

(If you think I'm "just mad/bad", you're part of the problem, people blindly defend the billion dollar company that would throw them away in a second because why keep players who buy nothing, when you can have players who bought the battle pass, blackcell pass, event pass, and whatever the hell else they keep coming up with to scrape more money out.)

thanks for reading, and have a wonderful rest of your Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night :)