Anyone who logs in to Call of Duty: Warzone must now take an additional security measure. Because the developers of Infinity Ward are now doing that Two-factor authentication is mandatory.
So you can theoretically no longer play a warzone if you do not have your Activision account connects with your smartphone or your mobile number. However, this sounds more dramatic than it is. Because this step hits a very precise group of players.
Security Update: We have initiated two-step SMS authentication for new #Warzone PC users, who log in as free to play as another step to provide an additional layer of security for players.
– Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) May 12, 2020
Who does this measure affect? According to the official tweet, two-factor authentication is only mandatory for new users of the Free2Play variant of CoD: Warzone. This means that you do not need your mobile phone for gaming if you have had an account for the Battle Royale game for a long time.
Everyone too CoD: Modern Warfare owners don't have to worry. Because anyone who has downloaded Warzone as part of the current main call-of-dutys also remains exempt from two-factor authentication.
How exactly does two-factor authentication work?
In addition to the password (something you know), the 2FA requires a second factor (something you own) for the account login. This is usually a number that is created via SMS, email or via a generator app on the smartphone. Prominent examples of a 2FA are the Steam Guard Code or the Blizzard Authenticator.
More security for CoD players
Who the battle royale mode on the PlayStation or Xbox gambles, already has to connect his or her respective account with the smartphone. So the measure for the PC version is not a completely new step, but rather another in the eternal fight against fraudsters.
Because Cheater and hacker have been a huge problem in Call of Duty since release. With the new two-factor authentication for the Free2Play variant of Warzone, Infinity Ward now wants to offer "an additional security measure for the players". Because whoever has to connect each new free account to a cell phone number at best then loses the desire to cheat.
As early as mid-April, the developers reported 70,000 bans in CoD: Warzone. They have also recently introduced a new method by which player-reported fraudsters in Call of Duty are thrown together with other cheaters in their own matchmaking.
