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A hacker was able to access my Activision account and link a steam account without any kind of email confirmation. This user was unable to play call of duty MW3 under my name on their steam account. When I noticed, friends were being added, that I did not add, and I started being kicked off-line, because there were too many user request for my account, I reached out to Activision for support. I also reset my password to ensure anyone with a I also reset my password to ensure anyone with unauthorized access would be kicked out. They did not respond in a timely manner. As a result, the hacker was able to play a considerable amount enough to warrant a ban. When I tried to appeal the case, and explained that I had taken all of the steps that a person should take in this case to secure my account, Activision declared as the account holder it is my fault for any unauthorized access. I will never again purchase an Activision game or any Activision affiliated game.

As I delve into the reviews of Activision Blizzard, Inc., I find a mix of sentiments that paint a complex picture. While some users praise the engaging gameplay and dynamic tournaments, others express frustration with technical issues, poor customer service, and unfair bans. It's evident that the community is divided, with concerns ranging from game crashes and glitches to accusations of corporate greed. Despite the polarizing feedback, one thing is clear - Activision Blizzard, Inc. evokes strong emotions and opinions among its player base.

So recently, I have been playing warzone 2, DMZ to be specific. They promised us so many fixes with season 2's update and I gota tell ya. The game is worse than ever before. And they do NOTHING about it. They made a, what, 17gig? Update for this game that was nothing but weapon skins, maps and other nonsense that did NOTHING to resolve problems with the game. I give it a 2 star, because they have a really l, REALLY fun game. It's a damn shame that it's glitches and buggy as all Hell. This company is more concerned to sell battlepasses and the game itself rather than actually giving a $#*! about its players. For any activision employee that would possibly read this, pull your head out of your $#*!.

Why the flying fudge is there a canted laser sight on the mcpr sniper rifle. It is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

I have been a fan of Activision games, especially the Tomb Raider Franchise.

I recently got banned on my COD account on blizzard for absolutely no reason. I have been told that I have been hacking and using software and that is completely false as I have never used anything like that. I've grinded my account for years and to be wrongfully convicted of something like this is wrong, I have tried many many many times to reach Activision to figure out a resolution and nothing about this issue is being helped. It even got to the point where I had to re-buy the game in order to play again, to later find out my account is shadowbanned and that I can't play online with others. I don't understand this as I've done nothing wrong! I can't tell you the amount of times I've complained about how many hackers are on Warzone and Modern warfare and now I'm amongst them?! Please somebody help me as i'm honestly begging for help at this point. I've tried to get in contact through twitter multiple times, tried calling, put out tickets, and now to this. It's just super upsetting at this point. Hopefully I can reach a resolution

Account got perm banned after not logging in for 2 weeks and then playing plunder: blood money for 5 games I have contacted activision support many times but the results are the same, the support just answered: "I was able to confirm that Security actions were taken on your account, unfortunately, as player support we don't have the exact details as to why this happened, however, please be aware that the Enforcement team runs a thorough investigation before taking these actions on the account so all bans are final and not subject to review or appeal, and therefore are irreversible. For more details about this please check our Security and Enforcement policy" I've been playing this game for over a year at most kills is 24 and the next day a shadowban / review is required, but that's okay if it's just a shadowban and not a perm ban, but now i am getting perm banned i hope my old stream can proof i never using cheat or anything https://www.facebook.com/MikkiMiwari I hope you can reconsider I will definitely give a better review when the problem with my account is solved, thanks

False bans are discouraging recurring customers. Chip in $1,000,000 from your budget towards more competent anticheat devs and quality assurance members. The fact that this passed QA is incredibly concerning. A few stupid implementations I've read/experienced are: - Getting more than 15 kills in WarZone (20 now), gets you shadowbanned until a team member manually reviews your game footage. - Using software distributed by mouse manufacturers to adjust DPI and refresh rate false flags you to be manually reviewed. - If your account gets reported enough, you are automatically due for a manual review. Anticheats should be a dynamic system and need not limit players based on arbitrary values, which are totally achievable by any legitimate player. Your anti-toxicity team should be focused more on interactions between players rather than reviewing gameplay footage triggered by false flags. You are burning money this way. Some members report waiting up to two weeks for their account to be reinstated for false flags. I'll remind you, each of your games come out yearly. You are inducing, what I presume are recurring customers, a whopping 4% of the game's remaining life to COD jail. Most of the players who are getting banned are genuinely good players who actually enjoy the game and are more receptive to buying microtransactions. The entire system is a money pit, the game itself has minor bugs here and there, but nothing that surpasses the severity of this.

There's no way to get support for the CoD games... My email for my account was destroyed so I can't get support about it...

I think release o black opps CW at 1200 noon is absolute unprofessional and a loss to business ppl payed good money ppl work in the aftnoon ppl where streaming u game we al eagerly waited for so screw u for not realesing ur game at 12 midnight witch would of been ideal for u and enouph with this battl royale takes alot of money an u just made u game pay to win if ur anything like world war 2 not smart if u want ppl to play ur games in the future

A few days ago I logged onto warzone on my PS4 and there was an update. Once it finished updating, it made me log into my activision account again. However, it would not let me log in. So I tried resetting my password *** it would not send me the resent link. Then I signed up for another activision account using the same email and my PSN account was linked to it. Once I got into warzone on my PS4, I saw that all my stats had disappeared along with everything that I had bought from the store (season 3 battle pass, all previous battle passes, several operators that I had bought including Nikto, etc.). My activision ID was also changed. This is extremely frustrating as I have spent a lot of money on this game and have over 36 days played with 150 wins. I have screenshots of my previous account along with many YouTube vids of me playing. I have submitted an account recovery ticket but have not gotten a response yet. Please help me out!

Hi, my activision ID is TsunamiPapi#XXXXXXX and my PSN is bhattithegreat. Today I logged onto warzone and there was an update. Once it finished updating, it made me log into my activision account again. However, it would not let me log in. So I tried resetting my password *** it would not send me the password *** link. Then I signed up for another activision account using the same email and my PSN account was already linked to it. Once I got into warzone on my PS4, I saw that all my stats had disappeared along with everything that I had bought from the store (season 3 battle pass, all previous battle passes, several operators that I had bought including Nikto, etc.) This is extremely frustrating as I have spent a lot of money on this game and have over 36 days played with 150 wins. I have screenshots of my previous account along with many YouTube vids of me playing. I have already submitted an account recovery ticket. Please help me out!

I'm emailing you to passionately *** that you allow for Shoot-the-Ship to be a permanent option in Multiplayer Mode
Based on the "COD Players only want one thing" playlist naming alternatives, I believe you are aware of its popularity. I 'm sure I'm not the first, but I wanted to address [whoever] directly. I don't need to tweet this, and put it on some public Reddit forum for virtual support. I want to go straight to the source. I'm emailing every relevant email address I could find online, because you all don't make it easy to contact, or make us feel it's been received.
I implore you to allow us to indulge in the game modes we enjoy. Isn't that what gaming is all about? Let meindulge. Otherwise, when the maps alternate between Chesire Park and th dreaded Tank Factory, I'm going to be apt to grow up and stop gaming for the night. I'm 30+ yrs old, and I'm not inclined to play game modes/maps that bore me to an early bedtime so I can complete my honey-do tasks in the morning.Â
During these pandemic times, gaming is the only interaction I have with most of my friends. Many of my friends have not moved on to the new Cold War game because of the strain on resources. If one of our friends can't afford to update, then none of us will move on. (This was an issue in previous games as well when we could not spend the money for add-on maps)

The game is great I just got banned and put in shadow *** lobbys with hackers and I dont even hack. So it ruining the Experience with the game.

Please help me this is a scam I spent so much money and had to buy the game multiple times and keep getting shadow banned even the day I get unbanned I get ban again

I just got the game and I am shadow banned never hacked before this is my second account the same thing happened before I have bought the game twice now I need help pleases its urgent I feel they will ban me again soon PLEAE HELP!

My account was hacked, I reached out immediately to Activision who told me I needed to wait 10 business days. I was nervous from all the negative reviews and worried I wouldn't hear anything back but after exactly 10 days, my account was restored and I couldn't be happier. I will forever speak favorably of Activision.

my account was hacked not too long ago and I am so worried about not getting my account back after hearing people's experiences, please recover my account as soon as possible. I tried reaching out but I can't find any option so very sorry for using this method but I just want to hear some response as soon as possible. I am eager to hear the response.

I have no real complaints with COD Warzone or Activision Blizzard. I can't find a way to contact them except for having a game issue. I don't have an issue, I have a suggestion for something I would like to see in Warzone. Activision Blizzard does well with bringing out new operators and skins for them, and many are part of the veteran community which I am thankful for as a veteran. My suggestion for a new skin would be Ephraim Mattos. He was a Navy Seal that deployed to Afghanistan and other places, but after he got out of the military he went on his own to Iraq to help out with a group called the Free Burma Rangers. There is video and articles about what he did there. He then started his own charity called Stronghold Rescue and Relief. If you put out a skin of him and give a link with it to the website for Stronghold Rescue and Relief it would be a huge help worldwide to bring awareness of that charity and what they do. I hope Activision Blizzard takes the time to read this, look up Ephraim and his charity, consider it, and let me know. Thank you.

First and foremost, I absolutely love this game which is why I am very pationate about this issue. I am immensly disapointed by Activisions lack of transparency in account banning procedures and their total lack of customer support (including zero human to human interaction). False positives have been frequent and affected many innoncent players, myself included. When this happens, Activision won't even send an email to the affected players to inform them of their decisions. Let me get this straight, you'll send me an email telling me I received a friend request, but you can't be bothered to tell me that I have been "banned" and why? Activision also makes it impossible for affected players to plead their case, nor does it offer proof supporting its accusations. The "Appeal a ban" feature does not trigger any email responses/followups and seems to only confirm the decision without having an actual human review the case. If humans did review ban appeals, they should have access to gameplay, stats and real data that would clear false positives immediately and undoubtedly. I feel I have been robbed. Robbed of the two 80$ copies of MW I bought for PS4 and PC. That's Activision barring me from my purchases totalling 160$ under false pretexts. These false accusations have also taken a toll on me psychologicaly. I have been fasly flagged as a cheater, which is embarrassing and humiliating because some friends believe Ricochet to be 100% accurate. Activision's unreliable service has cost me financialy, and has also affected my reputation. Please, Activision, get your act together or change your vision of what a FAIR customer experience should be.

I'll admit I called a kid a [censored] only after he used the N word an obscenely amount of times, so I took the 3 day ban. Only to get it back yesterday I played 4 a couple hours, didnt say anything not even to the team i was playing with, they were [censored]in bout the other team cheating, again said nothing because ultimately its not worth it, went 2 work, only 2 play 2day 2 c a 14 day ban, who can I talk 2 bout this, cuz now I'm getting severe bans 4 winning in game, and not even saying a thing, I'm not even using my headphones, u need 2 do better in investigating I'm 44 years old, and these kids r banning people 4 beating them or just group punishing 4 a select few. If not corrected I'll just stop playin this game 4 good, I've been with call of duty 4 20 years, this is out of hand

After problems and expressing "lefty" views on X against slavery my phone was illegally accessed hacked.

There is some indication that this was being done before this by LVMH & Phillip Green based on the comments of the related lawsuit I found and things which occurred.

I discussed a dislike for slavery on X and shortly after what appears to be a bogus lawsuit was put through the courts which basically stated that the defendants planned to subject someone to illegal modern slavery via covert and digital means. Which would include extreme financial exploitation, financial abuse, theft of intellectual property and ideas, befriending with the goal to extract sexual data, feticide, rape. Charlene Latham.

I was then groomed on IG and Lipstickalley around this time. I also found out that the people involved were directly the celebs and associates of ales Twins and Beyonce,

On close inspection it appeared he was streaming this scam to corporations and videos/movies were distributed from the illegal hacking of my phone.
(I have evidence to support this and the relevant bogus legal lawsuit suggests the same)
The "plaintiff" also seems to have run for republican presidency.

After the abuse my algorithm on IG became altered and my feed began to show perversion, threats and things connected to the interactions I had. This was NOT the regular algorithm.

I had previously invested heavily in ads on IG which started showing no traction even after improving content and my account was sabotaged with sex and illuminati bots.

My pixel appeared to be provided intentionally to competitors to drive me out of the market, I recieved emails and followers which encouraged suicide or repeated excepts of conversations I had at home or insinuating I'd miss my time to be a mother.

I was stalked, my vehicle tampered with on more than 4 occasions.

My models began parroting parts of my conversations had at home.

It appears the boys involved were heavily paid for being part of it or the face of it.

Shortly after my family started acting weird some crying, worried and scared, one gave me unwrapped gifts that hinted at nazis.

This abuse has been ongoing for 4 years.

I cannot say for certain who the billionaire elites were that paid for this to occur and watched as the lawsuit suggests but I do know who he constantly referenced.

*** The gentleman involved REGULARLY reference this brand.

The are on Zuckerberg's friend list.

I've been blackmailed and recieved veiled death threats INCLUDING info about being skinned alive or my face cut off.

They laughed about me going to the food bank to save money for my business, the laughed about blackface and had discussions with me about Sara Baartman and Ota Benga. When you understand these were black people kept in human zoos for white viewing you see how depraved what they did is to make these CEOs laugh for money.

The gentlemen involved have done this to a number of people and publicly laundered payment from my abuse.
I will fight everyday to expose what's happening.

They promised to destroy my life and harm my family for speaking up. The world should know.

As a result based on the evidence I believe Activision Blizzard CEOs sponsor these gentlemen and if they are not involved in the illegal voyeurism of women these gentlemen abuse for public entertainment, then they are still sponsoring him and he has multiple complaints of rape that have been suppressed.

That coupled with all the other allegations from women about this company is why I cannot support them.

Guess you allow cyber bullying and don't care about kids!
Thanks Activision for being so supportive of my 10 year old son. After I contacted the better business Bureau the guy who called me on the phone from El segundo, California. Had the nerve over the phone to tell me well there is nothing we can do about your kids fresh restart but look at the bright side he can't do it again. I was so upset I am done with them. Reply back if you have had a similar thing happen to your 10 year old kid or even yourself.

Secure connection with Support Agent established. Welcome, Thomas

Ronald C: Activision Support reporting for duty!
How may I help you today?
Me: Hi
Me: My name is T
Ronald C: Hello T! How may I help you?
Me: I play call of duty black ops three with my son on X-Box one.
Me: I am in the military and was hospitalized last month due to some problems I have.
Me: My son at the times gamer tag was FasteningColt2
Me: He is now PLUSYOURFAT
Me: I am Debo369
Me: He was in a game chat with Vurx Vypho
Me: When this guy convinced my 10 year old son and all his friends that they were going to receive everything in the game if they listened to him
Me: My son and his friends didn't now any better and they listened to him.
Me: This guy had them reset all their guys back down to level one
Me: My son was so upset that he hasn't played x-box one until today again
Me: He was a prestige master at or around level 188
Me: The worst part is I usually play with my son but I was in the hospital at that time so I couldn't even help him
Me: Please let me know if there is anything you can do.
Ronald C: Let me assist you with this and check the account.
Me: I can provide you with all my information and I have set up both accounts on my two xboxs
Ronald C: Thank you for providing the gamertags. When did this happen?
Me: around a month ago but he was so upset and I was in the hospital for two weeks that he hasn't played xbox consistent until today
Me: They were in a game chat with his friends
Me: It happened to them to as well
Me: I can give you there gamer tags to as well MickeyMouse2111
Me: he got his stuff reset to by this guy
Ronald C: Okay. Just a moment and let me check the account. Give me 2 minutes to check this.
Me: You can see both accounts went to level one on the same day
Me: Thank you so much
Me: I have had a rough month and would like to get back on black ops 3 with my son
Me: I know my son was the one who reset it but this guy tricked them into it and it really upsets me because I usually don't let him play by himself most of the time when I can I am Debo369 and we always play together. I have an Xbox upstairs and he has one downstairs we put on our headsets and love to play black ops 3 for hours.
Me: I will hold on thank you so much
Ronald C: Thank you for waiting.
Ronald C: I'm afraid it's taking a bit of time to check the account. Just to check, how did your son reset his account? Did he use the Fresh Start Prestige Award in the game?
Me: yes because Vurx Vyphro told him and his friend MickeyMouse2111 to
Ronald C: I see. Thanks for the info.
Me: If you go to fasteningcolt2(now PLUSYOURFAT) and his friends account mickeymouse2111 you can see they were both fresh started at the same day because this vurx guy tricked them. My son is ten he doesn't know any better but now he has learned his lesson you can't trust people
Ronald C: Regarding the award, I'm afraid that using this award will completely reset a player's account in the game like it has never played the game before. There are warnings when using this award in the game and one of it's warning states that if this award is used, the stats can no longer be restored to the account. This is due to the account data being deleted in our system once this award is used in the game.
Me: He is ten
Me: you mean your going to let that guy get away with this
Me: I am a disabled vet who was in the hospital I couldn't even protect him from that
Ronald C: I understand how you feel about this and where you're coming from. We can create a report for regarding the player's conduct in the game so that we can have him checked and provide appropriate actions to the player. As for your son's account, I'm sorry to say but I'm afraid the stats can no longer be restored if the Fresh Start award was used.
Me: Wow lame
Me: Guess we won't be playing any of your games agian
Me: He is a ten year old kid
Me: I was in a mental hosptial
Me: thanks allot
Me: I am not asking for money or other games or anything like that just help the poor kid out get back to were he was he had played that game forever
Me: imagine if that was your son
Me: what would you do?
Ronald C: I understand how you feel. Let me take this as a feedback for the game and regarding the said award. I would like to help restore the account if possible since I also play the game and would also feel the same way if this would happen to me.
Me: Since your the activision guy you would help him out
Me: So Vurx can keep tricking kids into doing this
Me: Unreal
Me: Well thank you for you time.

Dear Sir/Madam,

My account on activision with e-mail adress haure.[protected]@gmail.com and Activision ID BetterCallHau#3716599. My account has been banned and put on limited matchmaking twice in a time span of one month.

I would to complain hereby about whatever algorythm you have that establishes an account is eligible for a limited matchmaking ban pending review.

Whatever it is, the system is faulty and as you may already know impact alot of players across the world. Players have to wait for 5 to 10 days before the ban is lifted. Most of the accounts put on the limited matchmaking list end up being unbanned since alot of the bans are due to unvalid and ungrounded reports from other players in game.

Please adress this frustrating issue that affects a substantial amount of players.

Best regards,

Haure Gardie

Just wanted to make a complaint about the poor game choices available right now as some of us only plays plunder with friends and we’re no good at anything else. This takes the fun out of this game by removing a game that we have a chance at having fun.

Just don’t understand why you guys not have all the option to the public.

Thanks for taking the fun out of this game.

I regret to inform you that my account has been compromised by a fraudulent individual on February 16, 2024, at approximately 13:06. The perpetrator changed all account details, including my name and purchases. To address this issue, I deactivated my Activision account. I urgently seek assistance in rectifying this situation, including compensation for any damages incurred and addressing the security breach on my account

Hello my name is angel I played warzone whit my account [protected]@abv. Bg and player id: explode#6946305

Before 5 days when I played I was banned for no reason I was 5 days I llmited matchmaking state after this 5 days I got a pernament ban for no reason I appeal the ban and they told me that I have manipulate the game but that is nor true I buy this game I spend money on it I know very good what will happen if I use cheat I wont my case to be checked again and ban removed becouse this is wrong ban I write a appeal also to blizzard, bbb.org and I will write everywhere that e can becouse this ban is not legit and if I am cheater I will not send appeals everywhere I will just make new account and play

So please help me my problem to be fixed

Customer support is useless and feed you the exact same scripted message.

I have been shadowbanned now FOURTEEN TIMES with absolutely zero help or explanation. Typically these are 2 week long states of where you can still open the game and buy bundles! That’s about it though because you won’t find any lobbies or the lobby you do find will have 100ms+ ping with people rage hacking/ aimbotting, etc. For me personally this equates to roughly over half a year of being denied access to a product and service I paid for. The amount of people this has affected is surely capable of alarming the FTC, we all know how they feel about you and Microsoft. Can we all say mass arbitration?

Hey Act, me again I was trying to do a boost in game using a mod to use a FSR3 with my GTX 1080, I never use something to unlock or hack the game. You can see my historical with the game, could you help me with this?

I use this archive https://www.reddit.com/r/ModPiracyV5/comments/18pw291/all_lukefz_mods/?rdt=47137 for better performance.

I play this game during the pandemic and help me a lot and I would like to continue play this game. Sorry for bad English.

I recently re-downloaded Call of Duty to play with my friends to find out my account had been hacked and then banned. I can’t fix it via the website because a webpage error will not let me log in to appeal a ban. I’m furious as someone who has spent tons of money on previous call of duties it is very frustrating that you can’t call a help line or even speak with a person. My personal email is [protected]@aol.com and my Xbox email is Timothy.[protected]@aol.com please help me appeal this ban and fix my account that should’ve been safe while I wasn’t playing

Like many, many hundreds / thousands of others, I woke one morning to log onto my game to find I was permanently banned for using illegal software / manipulation of game data. I am a very casual game with a very poor k/d ratio who plays to unwind in my spare time. I do not cheat, never have and dont condone the thousands of overseas cheats who continually plague lobbies.

The appeal process is a scam which means they send an automated email to say the ban is being upheld. Your anti-cheat software is pathetic, allowing cheats to continually ruin the game while banning hundreds / thousands of innocent players.

Scamming company with absolutely no customer service.

Hi I've received a temporary ban sign on my mw3 2023 account. I haven't done anything remotely close to a ban! I don't use game chat it's turned off and I do not hack I have a day job and only play a few hours a day when possible! I've paid £70 for a game that I can't play properly because of a shadow ban for nothing. Please sort this out its because I'm an iridescent player and people don't like when I drop a good game and I get spam reported. This isn't on been a passionate cod gamer since cod4 and never been banned for 15 years of playing. Not good I look forward to playing and then this happens please un shadow ban my account. Not how they should treat a player of 15 years of playing they system is so wrong and punishing good players for no reason.

My account was hacked on 13 October 2023 I reach out to Activision support for assistance. But all they are doing is sending me the same old message the whole time. Activision is only they're for my money but when it comes to support their nowhere to be found. I send emails videos, photos and even screenshots and still no luck. I tried thousands of times to make recovery form but still no help all I get is the same old message.

Hey Activision you're in so much for a rush to put out a game every game of Call of Duty for Modern Warfare to tomorrow more fair-free every time I try to play a game I'm lagging I'm getting Ben with tissues and I said it's only whenever a place called why is that and it's not me it's multiple multitude of people that have complained and years don't seem to have the right act to fix it now that you get on there shut it down for a few days get it going properly sort out all your f****** server issues and have a and have a go

You all banned me for no reason at the start menu never violated any rules or used any exploits on this game hell I barely play it but now that I preordered the 100$ version of mw3 boom banned I don't even know how to hack and I work 12 hour rotating shifts I do not have the time trust me. This is just crazy. I've always used a playstation and once my phone to play cod games you're banning peoples accounts for no reason and you need to pay attention to it. I would love for my profile unbanned I actually love this company introduced me to gaming groups I spent 100$ u.S. Dollars on this game and pre-ordered to be permanently banned before even leaving the start menu. Terrible experience people in these review/banning positions not robots. Your system has failed you please stop trying to cover it up im willing to provide any details and even send you my personal playstation 5. Monitor my games everyday if you want I wouldn't cheat.

I have been unfairly banned on 13th November 2023 and have given no reason for being banned. I appealed but they have upheld the ban. A mere 3 days after purchasing MW3 they have now snatched the product out of my hands and don’t even have the decency to refund me. It’s criminal behaviour and needs to be stopped.

UK Consumer Act 2015 provides me with rights with regards to faulty software. This software is faulty as it has incorrectly banned a non cheating player.

Account is medal123#2693

I was wrongfully banned after only 2.8 hours of gameplay. I couldn’t even refund the game through steam because they don’t refund games in which you are banned. Ban Appeal does absolutely nothing.

Now I just feel scammed.

I was using MSI Afterburner at the time for GPU/CPU temperatures and average FPS, I don’t know if thats why I was banned, but it’s unjust and wrong to keep me banned for doing nothing wrong.