Cheating in multiplayer video games is a fact of life. Developers do the best they can, but there will always be those in the gaming audience who would rather cheat than play on a level playing field. It frankly sucks, and not just for players, but for developers as well, and in a recent interview with VGC, Amos Hodge, associate creative director at Raven Software, said that players of "Call of Duty: Warzone" expressed serious frustration with "ruining the game" for other players.

"No one hates cheaters more than we do. 'We create this content for our players. While you are upset that they ruined your game, I am upset that they ruined some of the best work of my life.

"I created this content for the players and I know everyone on the team feels the same way. We put our heart and soul into this content, we have 100 million players, it's been a year since launch, this is a big stage and some of the best work we've ever done. Having cheaters come in and ruin the game bothers us more than anyone else."

Hodge said that Raven and co-developer Infinity Ward were "banning people in droves" and that the security team was "continually updating" to address the issue. And so it has: the developers brought the hammer down on 60,000 cheaters in the February ban wave, another 30,000 in March, and earlier this month Activision announced that it had banned a total of more than 475,000 cheaters since Warzone went live

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But these numbers speak to the scale of the problem: unless Activision cracks down hard on cheat developers and distributors, or introduces effective CS:GO-style detection tools, it is unlikely to make any meaningful headway against cheating.

If you are a Warzone player and think you may be affected by unfair play, be sure to check out our guide to detecting cheaters and hacks.