Activision published its Player Trust & Positive Play: September 2026 Progress Report on September 29, 2026. The report follows Season 5 and covers Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Call of Duty: Warzone, with fresh data on disruptive voice behavior and prosocial interactions in multiplayer.
Harmful voice interactions fall in Black Ops 7 and Warzone
In the first six months after Black Ops 7’s release, Activision compared the figures with similar Black Ops 6 and Warzone windows. The team reported a roughly 40 percent reduction in players exposed to harmful voice interactions, a roughly 50 percent reduction in disruptive voice offenders, and a roughly 16 percent reduction in repeat voice offenders.
Activision attributes those changes to detecting disruptive behavior earlier and improving moderation efficiency and effectiveness.
What Positive Play and the prosocial data show
Positive Play studies prosocial behavior, defined as actions or interactions that benefit other players or the community. Examples include supporting teammates through communication, reviving or buying back a teammate, thanking a teammate after a revive or buyback, sharing resources or loot, and using voice or text chat to call out enemy positions, points of interest, or harmful interactions.
A recent Call of Duty: Warzone case study on prosocial voice interactions found roughly 22 percent of players encountered at least one supportive voice interaction, roughly 6 percent of players initiated at least one supportive voice interaction, and roughly 66 percent of matches containing prosocial voice interactions also included at least one cooperative action, such as reviving or thanking another player.
The report also found that in select Warzone modes, receiving a thanks from a random teammate was associated with players continuing to play together in the next match.
Research, enforcement, and what comes next
The report lands during the current Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 06 window. It also follows the security team’s earlier breakdown of how Activision reviews bans and fights cheaters.
Activision says the work continues with investment in proactive detection, moderation, enforcement, measurement, and system improvements, alongside academic research and industry collaboration. That includes a recently published collaboration with Caltech exploring player behavior at scale, available at research.activision.com.
