Activision Serves Cheat Seller with Papers in Dramatic Doorstep Confrontation

In a move that’s sending shockwaves through the Call of Duty community, Activision has taken its fight against cheating to a whole new level. The gaming giant recently posted footage of one of its legal representatives personally serving a cease-and-desist order at the Ohio home of Elocarry, a notorious seller of Call of Duty cheats.

Taking the Fight to the Source

The roughly one-minute clip, posted on the official Call of Duty account, shows a representative pulling up outside a house, meeting a man whose face is blurred throughout, and handing over paperwork. The caption reads: “RICOCHET Anti-Cheat doesn’t end when your match does. Cheat makers operate around the world. So do we. We’re taking the fight directly to cheat sellers.”

“I just got some paperwork for you,” he said. “Attorneys for Activision and, uh, it’s a cease-and-desist order for you.” The representative then tells the man to contact the attorney’s office listed on the documents and leaves.

Elocarry: A Known Offender

Elocarry is no stranger to controversy. Before Activision’s visit, the seller was reportedly offering a Black Ops 7 and Warzone cheat pack advertised as safe from RICOCHET detection, with three-month subscriptions priced up to £79.99. The cheats extended beyond Call of Duty to other multiplayer games including Rust and Apex Legends.

A Broader Crackdown

In a follow-up post, Activision shared a screenshot from Elocarry’s Discord confirming sales of Call of Duty products had been “temporarily paused” while a “matter” is reviewed internally. This incident is just one part of a much larger operation. Activision claims to have served over 100 cease-and-desist demands, targeted over 375 reseller operations, and shut down more than 30 vendors entirely.

“build cheats, sell cheats, we will find you,” Activision warned, leaving no doubt about its commitment to eradicating cheating in Call of Duty. The company also used the opportunity to highlight improvements coming to anti-cheat measures in Modern Warfare 4 itself, noting lower infection rates and improved action times during last weekend’s beta.

Modern Warfare 4: Beta Weekend Underway

The first session saw five days of multiplayer action, with high player numbers on Steam and elsewhere, despite mainly being available to players who pre-ordered the game. Modern Warfare 4 launches 23rd October on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Switch 2. The full game includes 12 6v6 multiplayer maps, as opposed to the four in the beta.

Phasmophobia Gets a Quality of Life Boost

Elsewhere, Kinetic Games has released Phasmophobia’s second Quality of Life update, adding a raft of new Restricted maps, streamlined Evidence collection, VR fixes, and considerably more ways to die. Now live on PC and PlayStation (the Xbox release is “to follow”), the Quality of Life Part 2 update builds on Quality of Life Part 1 which introduced the revamped 13 Willow Street map back in July alongside a batch of other gameplay tweaks.

We’re getting a (long-overdue!) set of new small-to-medium Restricted maps for Prison, Brownstone High School, and Point Hope, bringing condensed versions of the original maps designed to speed up investigations and add more variety to runs. Evidence collection has also been streamlined. Rather than manually checking the in-game journal, players can now tell whether a piece of evidence has already been logged directly from their Photo Camera, Video Camera, or Sound Recorder via faded overlays and yellow LEDs.

VR players get a more responsive character rig that better tracks real-world body movement, along with a range of community-flagged bug fixes. There are changes to death, too: dying now turns a player’s skin greyer and their eyes mistier, and cuts their voice chat the moment they’re killed.

The update arrives a couple of months after Kinetic Games confirmed Phasmophobia’s 1.0 launch had slipped from this year into 2027, as the studio said it was prioritizing quality over speed following a rocky reception to its Player Character Update. Kinetic Games ended up apologising to players for issues with its long-awaited ‘Player Character Update’, admitting it “missed the mark” and “didn’t deliver on our promises to you”.