136,000 Call of Duty accounts have gotten banned since ranked launched for Black Ops 6: “We’re not slowing down in our mission to shut down cheaters”

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is barreling towards the launch of Season 2, and ahead of that the devs are taking a moment to update the community on what’s going on with anti-cheat. In short, well over 100,000 accounts have been banned since ranked mode was introduced, and the devs are working to make further anti-cheat improvements in Season 2 and beyond.

There have been “over 136,000 Ranked Play account bans since the mode launched,” according to a new blog post. Notably, these are indeed account bans – the devs say they’re not making use of IP bans “because they tend to take action against entire groups within a range that aren’t problematic. For example, a college campus or internet café would be swept up in an IP-based ban wave when only a single machine was targeted.”