Gamers using GeForce NOW to play Call of Duty are reportedly being banned
Gamers using GeForce NOW to play Call of Duty are reportedly being banned

Just a moment...

Gamers using GeForce NOW to play Call of Duty are reportedly being banned
Just a moment...
Doesn't the publisher of the game have to approve for a game to be put on GeForce Now?
I mean, don't get me wrong - I know anti cheat detection has never been perfect, but you'd think this would be something they heavily try to make sure they get right.
Banning people for playing a game that they are not cheating in does not constitute getting anticheat right. It is not enough to catch cheaters but you have to do that without catching players that are not cheating. Playing the game on a different platform should not in of itself constitute cheating.
Right, I didn't mean to imply that playing on GFN was cheating by any means - I probably should've worded that a bit better.
I meant more of "If Call of Duty explicitly allowed GFN to add the game, then players who play via GFN shouldn't have a chance to be banned just for playing through it"
eh, I don't think they've tried very hard at anything at all these last few cycles, except to make money
Activision was required to put Call of Duty on GeForce Now for the EU to approve the acquisition by Microsoft. Just pure incompetence
Nope! It's probably the only cloud service that lets you use Steam/Epic/whatever.
Once I woke up a bit more I had another look at the article, and this phrasing certainly makes it sound like it needs approval at some point:
Perhaps though it's a case of "Better to ask for forgiveness than permission" and they just add games until someone tells them to pull it off, I'm not sure. It's been 4+ years since I looked into GFN, I tried it out during the beta period but I don't believe I've used it since then.
Two different managers that didn't bother talking to each other.