Call of Duty reveals in court that even the best streamers cheat

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Created: 10/07/2022, 4:17 p.m

Of: Philip Hansen

A German seller of cheat software is summoned before a US court. It turns out that big top streamers are also cheating, and a witch hunt begins.

SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – Call of Duty rages on in a David vs. Goliath battle in which you may be for the giant for once. Now streamers are getting caught up in it. In the mega hit Warzone, even “top-class” streamers should only owe their skills to cheeky hacks. All this reveals a lawsuit before Activision’s US court against a German cheat seller.

Activision is fighting a German cheat seller for Call of Duty’s honor in court

This lawsuit is about: Call of Duty has had a problem with cheaters for years, i.e. players who want to gain an advantage with unfair methods. A large provider of such cheat software is based here in Germany. To protect honest players, billionaire publisher Activision took two measures.

Call of Duty got a new anti-cheat system (RICOCHET) and Activision resorted to the secret weapon lawyer. The legal battle has now lasted almost a year. Here is the short version:

• ingame.de already reported in early 2022 that Activision is taking the German seller of cheating software, EngineOwning, to court.
• The background is that the hacks from this company drove it too wild in Call of Duty, primarily in Warzone.
• In response, the German cheat empire then distributed free hacks to get back at Activision.
• Then, in September 2022, Activision identified the brains behind EngineOwning and wants the money from all cheat sales as compensation.
• The German cheat providers didn’t let themselves be impressed at all and then advertised that you can already buy cheats from them for Modern Warfare 2, which will be released on October 28th. Even in the MW2 beta there was already chatting.

Witch hunt for “Call of Duty” streamers begins – lawsuit in court officially speaks of cheaters

This is what the lawsuit now reveals about streamers: In the course of the latest legal disputes, a document now officially reveals that well-known streamers are among EngineOwning’s customers: “Cheating software customers include high-profile ones [high Profile] Streamers of the COD games located in the United States.” (The mention of the USA serves to locate the lawsuit in the California court).

So in plain language: some of the top US streamers are cheaters. Here you can download the 48-page Activision Complaint against the German cheat seller EngineOwning.

Cheating Software’s customers include high-profile streamers of the CoD games.

Which Streamers Cheat? Activision is not (yet) revealing specific names in the lawsuit in court – as of October 7, 2022. There is of course wild speculation in the community as to which of the “high profile streamers” is a cheater.

That’s why this topic is so hot: Streamers are often accused of cheating. There is no other way to explain the blatant headshots or the superhuman skill. Activision’s lawsuit against the German cheat seller now of course pours fresh oil into the long blazing fire.

Many Call of Duty players are currently starting a real witch hunt against a female streamer who is said to be cheating in Warzone. Streamer Nadia boasts, “the best“To have easily erased CoD professionals. With that, they turned half the game rulers against them, who now claim to have found conspicuous cheater gameplay everywhere.

Since Activision has not yet named any names, the presumption of innocence should, as always, apply until there is concrete information. Are you on the side of the billionaire publisher Activision or the rebellious German seller in this fight? Bungie, the creators of Destiny and Halo, have also had a fight in court – an internet troll now has to dig deep and pay a fortune.