Call of Duty modders are now working with Activision to avoid banhammer
The beloved Call of Duty modding platform known as Plutonium is adding a new piracy feature in a bid to earn 'good faith' with Activision amid mass fan-made mod shutdowns.
26th May 2023 14:25
Activision | Plutonium
Call of Duty modders are now working with Activision to avoid banhammer
The beloved Call of Duty modding platform known as Plutonium is adding a new piracy feature in a bid to earn 'good faith' with Activision amid mass fan-made mod shutdowns.
26th May 2023 14:25
Activision | Plutonium
Activision's copyright hammer is swinging and taking out multiple fan-made projects, completely wiping them out and ending years of community work, all to save their Call of Duty IP from dilution.
After years of mods and fan-made projects being used to protect and populate their old titles, projects that have supported the likes of Black Ops 2, Advanced Warfare, and Ghosts have now been slapped with cease-and-desist orders.
Now, the biggest modding community, which has previously worked alongside the publishers, is fearing for its existence and is pulling out all of the stops to avoid being the next demolition job.
Plutonium Call of Duty mod adds a pirate scanner to avoid Activision's cease-and-desist warpath
Activision's copyright warpath has kicked into gear this month, as they recently ended the development of a fan-made Call of Duty game named SM2 which was bringing together the best of the franchise history in a CoD: Mobile fashion for PC. The publishers also sent cease-and-desist orders to X Labs in the same week, a modding community that made old Call of Duty titles safer to play on Steam.
Now, the biggest Call of Duty mod, Plutonium, is trying to prevent becoming the next project to fall, as they have now added a pirate scanner in "good faith" that prevents the mod from being added to disingenuous Call of Duty copies.
Taking to Twitter, the mod community said, "We would like to inform you all of our intention to add ownership verification to our supported games to ensure players and server owners are using authorized copies of the games."
Call of Duty Plutonium mod is pulling out the stops to prevent Activision strikes
The new measures added by Plutonium have been introduced as the modding platform has prepared itself for an "inevitable" strike from Activision.
Plutonium and X Labs have been a proven source of protection against hackers on old Call of Duty games too, now that Activision has stopped their support, as players such as Adin Ross were subject to malware hacks from playing Black Ops 2 on Steam; although the streamer himself has been swinging a DMCA hammer as of late.
The Plutonium mod has previously been involved in Activision-backed events, such as Team Summer Time's Black Ops 2 throwback tournaments featuring old-school professional players, which last summer needed approval from the publishers to run.
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