Activision Takes Down Call of Duty Fan Clients X Labs, BOIII, And More
Activision seems to have taken some surprising actions against Call of Duty hackers. But this time, these hackers are not cheaters or cheat sellers.
As shared in the Call of Duty Fandom forums, various unofficial Call of Duty clients have been shut down after receiving cease and desist messages from Activision.
It all started with SM2, a client based on the Call of Duty Modern Warfare Remastered engine. SM2 was still in development, but the team intended to release the client free when it was ready.
On May 17, the SM2 Twitter account shared this message:
“Today, a team member received a Cease & Desist letter on behalf of Activision Publishing in relation to the sm² project. We are complying with this order and shutting down all operations permanently. Thank you all for your support over the past 2 years.”
Some of SM2 work was put into X Labs, another fan project that set up clients for Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Call of Duty Ghosts, and Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, named iW4X, iW6X, and S1X, respectively. Unlike SM2, fans were already using X Labs’ clients, but we’ll get back to that later.
In a tweet from yesterday, X Labs shared this message:
“Today, we have received a Cease & Desist letter on behalf of Activision Publishing in relation to the X Labs project. We are complying with this order and shutting down all operations permanently. Thank you all for your support over the years.”
Subsequently, BOIII is a client for Call of Duty Black Ops III associated with X Labs, possibly sharing some code or developers. Maurice Heumann, who was associated with both projects, shared this update about BOIII:
“We have received a Cease & Desist letter on behalf of Activision Publishing in relation to the X Labs project. Because
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