{"id":77346,"date":"2014-11-25T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=77346"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:20:21","slug":"activision-tries-to-shut-down-youtube-videos-explaining-cheats-for-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/activision-tries-to-shut-down-youtube-videos-explaining-cheats-for-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision tries to shut down YouTube videos explaining cheats for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cheating<\/strong> in online multiplayer <a href=\"http:\/\/games.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">games<\/a> can be a real problem. It upsets the playing field, and while some players profit, they do so at the expense of other players&#8217; enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>Activision has a new tactic in the fight against cheaters &#8211; taking down YouTube videos that explain cheats, exploits, and glitches in <a href=\"http:\/\/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare<\/a>. Eurogamer reports that game video network <strong>Machinima<\/strong> has discovered Activision issuing copyright notices against any videos highlighting game glitches that can be exploited by players.<\/p>\n<p>While some YouTubers have claimed that Activision is censoring them, Activision says that it doesn&#8217;t censor videos of gameplay, just those showing players how to cheat. As Eurogamer points out, there are still many glitch and exploit videos online &#8211; it seems as fast as Activision takes action against them, more pop up in their place.<\/p>\n<p>While this is one strategy against cheaters, of course Activision and developer Sledghammer Games also have a responsibility to find and patch glitches that players exploit in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, to ensure it remains fun for as many players as possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2014-11-24-activision-clamps-down-on-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-exploit-videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare review. future looks familiar\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-a-slight-upgrade\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare review, future looks familiar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Watch the hilariously bad funeral scene from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/watch-the-hilariously-bad-funeral-scene-from-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the hilariously bad funeral scene from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kevin Spacey talks about being in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/kevin-spacey-talks-about-being-in-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin Spacey talks about being in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheating in online multiplayer games can be a real problem. It upsets the playing field, and while some players profit, they do so at the expense of other players&#8217; enjoyment. Activision has a new tactic in the fight against cheaters &#8211; taking down YouTube videos that explain cheats, exploits, and glitches in Call of Duty: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/activision-tries-to-shut-down-youtube-videos-explaining-cheats-for-call-of-duty-advanced-warfare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Activision tries to shut down YouTube videos explaining cheats for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2701],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-77346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectioncall-of-duty-advanced-warfare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329792,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77346\/revisions\/329792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77346"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=77346"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=77346"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=77346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}