Activision took the servers for Call of Duty: WW2 offline just days after it arrived on PC Game Pass to investigate reports of “an issue.”
Originally released in 2017, the series’ 14th main installment, including its multiplayer component, landed on the PC version of Microsoft’s subscription-based service on June 30.
On July 5, less than a week after its Game Pass debut, Activision pulled the servers offline. The reason for the service interruption? Activision said WW2 on the PC Microsoft Store was brought offline while they investigated “reports of an issue.”
What exactly that issue entails remains to be seen officially, although considering the action coincides with numerous reports from WW2 players of being hacked, there’s a good chance the two are related.
Call of Duty players report being hacked
On X/Twitter, players shared images and clips of their game being interrupted, warning others to stay away.
“I just got hacked playing WW2! Do not play WW2 on Game Pass!” one user wrote, accompanied with footage of their game freezing mid-match
Others posted images of their game receiving error codes stating they’d been hacked:
The hacks have been attributed to RCE, or Remote Code Execution. The term refers to a process in which a hacker can install malware on another person’s computer when online play uses peer-to-peer connections rather than dedicated servers, allowing them to take partial or full control of the affected PC remotely.
Reports of such issues have been circulating online since at least July 4. If Activision’s decision to take WW2’s servers offline relates to these reports, it remains to be seen how they’ll prevent the problem from reoccurring when service resumes. Watch this space for further updates.