Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Will Be ‘Riddled’ With Cheaters, but Why Are They So Hard to Stop?

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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 launches this week and as players fight to save the world from Vladimir Makarov’s machinations in the single-player campaign, they’re bracing themselves for the next battle in the seemingly endless war with video game cheaters.

Modern Warfare 3’s beta tests were home to cheaters who used aimbots and wallhacks to defeat legit players in multiplayer matches. While the PC platform forms the bulk of the cheating that goes on in video games, consoles are susceptible to cheats, too. In fact, one clip went viral on social media for showing cheating in the then PlayStation 5-exclusive Modern Warfare 3 beta.

this smh on ps5 too pic.twitter.com/dZy2SYYPmN

Remarkably, cheat makers were spotted handing out free cheats for the Modern Warfare 3 beta to promote their cheats for the release version. In brazen advertisements online, one significant cheat maker sold limited-time pre-orders for lifetime access to its Modern Warfare 3 cheat, but warned it would stop selling lifetime access once Modern Warfare 3 came out, perhaps taking a leaf out of the sales tactics employed by the publishers whose games they are ruining.

All this despite Activision’s best efforts to combat cheating in Call of Duty, and multiple blog posts proclaiming waves of bans and more effective technology. “PC MW3 will be riddled with cheaters,” declared the self-styled ‘Anti-Cheat Police Department’, a video game cheater watchdog group that works to take down cheat makers from the inside, in a tweet viewed 300,000 times. Activision failed to comment when contacted by IGN.

PC MW3 will be riddled with cheaters. A provider is giving out free cheats for the entire beta to promote their cheat further. pic.twitter.com/MMUHSiM8pb

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