Activision's legal campaign against Call of Duty cheat sellers produced a named result this week. On September 4 the official Call of Duty account said that, following its lawsuit against the developers behind the Zenith and Devware cheats, those developers apologized to the community and confirmed that their cheat services are permanently shut down. The post closed with a line aimed at everyone still in that business: they are not the only cheat maker Activision says it has put on notice.
Confirmed. This comes straight from Activision's own Call of Duty account, which named the lawsuit, both cheat products, and the permanent shutdown in a post dated September 4. Nothing here rests on a press read or a secondhand claim. What the post does not carry is any number: no totals, no case detail, no launch promise.
Why Hardcore SnD cares
Hardcore Search and Destroy has no second chance built into it. One player with an unfair read on positions does not skew a scoreline, it ends the round and shapes the two that follow, because your team stops trusting its own information. Banning accounts treats that one round at a time. Closing the shop that sold the service treats the supply.
- Fewer sellers, fewer re-entries Every service taken offline is one less place a lobby ruiner can buy back in after a ban. That matters most in a mode where a single round decides a map.
- League nights get easier to schedule A night is only worth organizing if the result means something. Pressure on the sellers is the part of that problem a player cannot solve with better comms.
- The timing points at launch MW4 arrives October 23. Enforcement applied in September is what a competitive population looks like on day one, not a promise made after the fact.
What the post actually says
Read narrowly, it is short. Activision sued the developers behind Zenith and Devware. Those developers issued an apology to the Call of Duty community. They confirmed the cheat services are permanently closed, and told other cheat makers to stop before Activision reaches them too. Activision framed the whole thing as proof the fight is being taken to the sellers rather than only to the accounts, and said other cheat makers are already on notice.
Bans clean up a lobby. Lawsuits clean up the supply.
What is not confirmed
The post gives no current enforcement totals, no case detail, and no timeline for the other sellers it says are on notice. It makes no promise about what MW4 lobbies look like on October 23. Two services closing is real, and it is not the same thing as a clean launch. Read this as pressure being applied, not as a problem solved.
This updates the cease and desist watch we opened when Activision published the process server footage during the beta. If another named seller closes, or if Activision publishes fresh RICOCHET totals before launch, it lands here.