In speaking with NowGamer, Activision’s Product Director Noah Heller said that Call of Duty Elite would help Infinity Ward enforce Modern Warfare 3′s anti-cheating policies.
“Another thing Call of Duty: Elite is helpful for is cheating. When you have the data, you can analyze… like hey, every time I get in a match, that guy is killing the same four people over and over. When we run competitions, we can make it fairer. We can crack open the data and understand what’s going [on]. If you see someone you suspect of cheating and you analyze the data, it’s like there you go, they all stand in a line and he shoots a bullet through all of them. So it’s really valuable for us.”
Heller added that the consequences for cheating would range from having your stats altered to a ban. In terms of the competition, invalidating the terms of service, we might ban you, we might invalidate your results. If someone gets 100 headshots in an hour… you know? We have a 24/7 live ops team, they’re multilingual, we’ve got folks in Europe, folks in the States. We’ve learnt a lot by talking to the Blizzard guys. What we do is we’ll be running a lot of competitions, we’ll be looking at the leaderboards. We do a lot of cheat detection.”
