Call of Duty fan made clients and experiences are under attack from Activision/Blizzard...

These clients are no threat to the publisher of Call of Duty as they are no different from the open source content uploaded to the Steam Community Workshop for Call of Duty: Black ops 3...

Yet for some reason, because they can, and because they don't care, ACTIVISION/BLIZZARD is punishing the Call of Duty community and consumer-base in the most disgusting way possible, borderline MALPRACTICE...

These clients are free to play, don't effect the base game, and are NON PROFIT. Built for enjoyment for all who love Call of Duty...

Hours of work (for little-to-no money) goes into these clients and everybody who plays them, enjoys it. It's not our fault (the players who buy Call of Duty every year) that these clients are well received and enjoyed far-more than the actual game...

Activision sending Cease & Desist letters to these client developers, to threaten legal action unless they shut them down, is one of the most petty and immature act of greed/business malpractice ever committed by a multi-billion dollar company, and in the gaming industry in general...

Activision, a company who is no stranger to horrible controversy, has officially raised the bar to a new high, while setting it's credibility to an all-time low (and as if "sexual assault" was one of the worst things their high-profile executives could commit)...

Sm2 was about to become North America's answer to Call of Duty: Online - a Call of Duty experience that combines multiple maps, weapons, and features of appreciated Call of Duty titles (Black ops 1, Black ops 2, Modern Warfare 2 (2009), Modern Warfare 3, World at War, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), etc). However, this custom built experience developed on the IW4 engine was exclusive to China and later shut down by Activision in favor of Call of Duty: Mobile. Sm2 was on the verge of delivering an identical experience to the Call of Duty community, and this would also be eliminated by Activision...

BoIII was a client for Black ops 3 that had various quality-of-life features that the latter game desperately needed, such as a fix to the Steam DLC checker (which infamously caused performance issues in Multiplayer), an actual anti-cheat, and client-side protection from RCE exploits used by Hackers (who could use to remotely access other player's computers, causing potential havoc or malicious harm to said 'players' in real life. Despite this: Activision would ONLY approve of an update to 'temporarily' fix the RCE exploits). Despite requiring legitimate Steam licenses, BoIII was eliminated by Activision...

However, there is hope. A larger multi-billion dollar company (one that is unanimously more consumer-friendly), is in the process of acquiring Activision/Blizzard, not just for the goal of "OWNING IT", but actually making quality-of-life changes for the entire Call of Duty franchise, community and consumer/player-base. That company is Microsoft...

Microsoft (known for developing the Xbox consoles, and also known for not taking legal action against modders and developers who utilized all of the PC-grade hardware inside the first Xbox to emulate other consoles, and on the contrary--was impressed by them). Yeah, that SAME company, has almost sealed the deal to acquire the ownership of all Activision/Blizzard/King IPs and game titles, including Call of Duty. Is that a bad thing...? No, because...

The current CEO and spokesperson for Xbox, Phil Spencer, is known for many good things (working as a high-profile executive for Microsoft for the past 30 years), but one thing above everything else, his love of gaming. He is a gamer before everything else, and he loves competition. Whether it's from Sony, or whether it's from client developers from previous Call of Duty titles. Competition drives the gaming industry FOREWARD and the markets UPWARD. Suppressing competitors may be something Bill Gates had interests in, but Phil Spencer does not...

On the condition that all clients would require 'LEGITIMATE GAME LICENSES': Phil Spencer will not only retract these Cease & Desist letters, giving client developers permission to make their own modded clients (Sm2, BoIII, etc), but will also give them permission to monetize some aspects of them (hopefully in terms of only cosmetics). Activision/Blizzard has already made billions off of it's consumer-base while NEGLECTING them at the same time, to the point where even Phil Spencer would say "enough is enough", inciting that any possible monetary threat these clients have posed to the previous administrators at Activision/Blizzard are 'non-existent'...

Phil Spencer is ON OUR SIDE and HE WILL LISTEN TO US, but we have to let him know. We need to make petitions to have Microsoft/Xbox overturn/retract the Cease&Desist letters. This is the only way we can SAVE Call of Duty. Sign my petition, and many other like it with similar objectives, as I will sign those too...

Thanks for reading and signing my petition. Petition video.

-Grandmaster Exorcist says "h8_mE"