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Activision is currently on a hot streak of taking down popular community-made Call of Duty mods by sending cease-and-desist letters to the developers. These third-party mods allowed players to access older CoD titles without any security hazards, as Activision failed to keep the games' servers up-to-date, allowing cheaters to run rampant.
Now, SM2 and X Labs Project are the two latest community mods that have been taken down by the video game publisher in the past week. Plutonium Project is the only remaining major community mod that players can freely access, but there is a high chance of Activision taking it down.
What is Plutonium Project in Call of Duty?
Plutonium Project currently has clients for older CoD titles, including Black Ops, Black Ops II, Modern Warfare 3, and World at War. The mod's clients allow players to play these titles without the risk of them losing their personal information.
Currently, if players access these older titles on PC or console without the Plutonium mod and log in to the official servers, they will come across many cheaters.
The security in Activision's official servers for their older Call of Duty titles has not been updated for several years, allowing cheaters to get players' IP addresses, inject viruses into their PC or consoles, and carry out other dangerous activities.
Plutonium Project circumvents such problems by having its own anti-cheat system that bans cheaters instantly and does not let them run rampant in matches. Furthermore, the mod also provides players with more features, such as dedicated servers, a built-in friend list, and additional content, including guns and maps.
Why may Plutonium Project be taken down?
Plutonium Project uses Activision's intellectual property, customizes it, and allows players to access it without the publisher's permission. Legally, Activision is fully in the right to take down such community mods, and the company has already taken down SM2 and X Labs Project, similar community-made mods.
Meanwhile, SM2 project was an upcoming mod for Call of Duty that was to be made available for free with all CoD maps, guns, and modes accessible in one mod. The developers received a cease and desist letter on May 17, forcing them to shut all operations permanently.
X Labs Project was the next mod to receive the letter on May 22, which had clients for Ghosts, Modern Warfare 2 (2009), Advanced Warfare, and Black Ops III. Now, these games are not accessible without putting players at risk.
If Activision decides to take down the next biggest Call of Duty mod available to players, Plutonium Project will also receive a cease and desist letter, forcing them to shut down immediately before the developers decide on a legal battle.
However, the mod currently remains online, and players should take advantage of it before the older CoD titles become permanently inaccessible.
