3 Call Of Duty Titles Joined NVIDIA GeForce

3 Call of Duty titles joined NVIDIA GeForce (2024)

What you need to understand

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023), Modern Warfare 2 (2022) and Warzone joined Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud streaming service on November 30.
The agreement to add Call of Duty to the GeForce Now cloud streaming service was made to appease regulators in the context of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard King.
Just 24 hours after the cloud streaming began, gamers reported on Reddit that their accounts had been banned.
Call of Duty games use proprietary anti-cheat software known as RICOCHET, which can confuse cloud streaming services as a form of cheating.

Call of Duty HQ, which includes the two latest Modern Warfare games and Warzone, was added to NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW service on November 30. The launch of cloud streaming did not go as well as many had hoped, with gamers reporting on Reddit and Twitter that their Activision accounts were blocked after playing Call of Duty in the cloud.

3 Call of Duty titles joined NVIDIA GeForce

When Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard King, it struck a deal with Nvidia to add the Call of Duty franchise to its cloud streaming service to alleviate regulatory concerns about the nascent market. The addition of COD HQ to the cloud streaming service is the first step in bringing this deal to fruition, with newer COD titles available to play now via the cloud, and older COD titles later.

However, the latest Call of Duty titles are using RICOCHET’s proprietary anti-cheat software, called RICOCHET AntiCheat. If RICOCHET detects problematic software, anti-cheat action is triggered, which can result in a player’s Activision account being blocked, and there have been problems with some players confusing the RICOCHET AntiCheat software with software that can be used to cheat in online multiplayer games.

Some gamers have reported that they have appealed bans received in the last 24 hours for playing games through GeForce Now, but these bans are not often overturned. To date, neither NVIDIA, Activision, Microsoft nor the creators of Call of Duty have acknowledged any concerns about RICOCHET or false recognition bans through NVIDIA GeForce Now.