Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Already Has A Big Ban Problem

has had many issues over the years, from balancing problems to complaints of a toxic community, and Activision Blizzard has done its best to counter them. However, while at times its efforts can be made in earnest, often it goes overboard, with the publisher implementing overzealous features that can end up being detrimental to the whole experience. This has led to a fanbase who can be punished for doing little more than playing the game.

This overzealous attitude to fixing problems can be best seen in the series' infamous anti-cheat system, which all too frequently accidentally bans players for little to no reason. With previews of calling for more innovation, players may be wondering if it, too, falls prey to the problems of its predecessors. Unfortunately, players, including world champions, are having issues with 'santi-cheat once again.

The franchise is infamous for its rampant banning of players, regardless of whether it's fair or not, which has led to much discussion about how effective the system is. Recently, in the Beta, several players, including pro players such as Cloud 9's KiSMET (via X, formerly Twitter), have been banned while playing. This is quite surprising, as pro players are almost exclusively against cheating or using exploits, and it seems highly unlikely that Kismet was caught cheating, especially as he is the 2023 World Champion, and therefore good enough at the game to not need to cheat.

Similarly, 2020 and 2024's World Champion Shotzzy was also banned while streaming (clip courtesy of the Shotzzy HQ X account), alongside several other prominent streamers, all of whom have no track record of cheating, nor would they be likely to. However, while many are claiming this is the RICOCHET anti-cheat gone wild, it's more likely to be accidental glitch bans that are occurring as Activision actively fine-tunes the anti-cheat system to work for. The official Call of Duty Updates account on X states that the RICOCHET team is being extra vigilant