Activision posted a video on Friday showing a legal representative serving a cease-and-desist order to a well-known Call of Duty cheat maker. The publisher filmed the whole thing and posted it for the world to see. It’s the latest move in an escalating fight against cheating, delivered this time on camera instead of buried in a court filing.
The video, posted to the official Call of Duty X account, shows the representative arriving at the home of Elocarry. He is a developer who builds and sells cheats for Rust, Apex Legends and Call of Duty. The representative walks up to the front door, hands over the papers and leaves. Elocarry asks “What’s that?”, and the representative suggests he call the attorney’s office listed on the documents.
Why Activision targeted this Call of Duty cheat maker
The exchange itself is brief and civil, closer to a delivery than a confrontation. There’s no shouting and no chase, just a short conversation on a doorstep. That plainness appears to be the point. Activision wants other sellers to know legal action can show up at their door, then online for anyone to watch. Filming a Call of Duty cheat maker receiving legal papers turns a private legal step into a public deterrent.
Activision said in a follow-up post that it has sent 80 cease-and-desist letters as part of the campaign. The publisher listed some of the results so far:
- 80 cease-and-desist letters sent to alleged cheat makers and resellers
- 375 reseller operations disrupted
- 30 vendors shut down entirely
Elocarry’s own Discord server later showed a message stating he had “temporarily paused sales” of Call of Duty cheats while he “review[s] a matter internally.” Activision has pursued legal action against a Call of Duty cheat maker before. This appears to be the first time it filmed the delivery and posted it publicly.
Anti-cheat changes coming to Modern Warfare 4
Activision tied the campaign to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. During last weekend’s beta test, the publisher said, infection rates were lower, hardware bans were harder to evade and its time to action improved. It did not share further detail on how those gains were measured. The timing lines up with a wider push to make an example out of this Call of Duty cheat maker and others like him before the game launches.
The game’s second beta weekend is running now and is open to all players, unlike the invite-only first weekend. Alongside multiplayer, it includes a mission from the campaign and a session of Warzone battle royale. Activision has previously relied on its Ricochet anti-cheat system to detect and remove cheat software. The publisher says that system continues to run alongside the legal side of its enforcement effort.
PC Gamer’s Morgan Park went hands-on with Modern Warfare 4 earlier this year. He came away impressed by the level of detail on show, though unconvinced by its maps. Activision has not said whether it plans to publish further videos of cease-and-desist deliveries against other Call of Duty cheat sellers.