Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War status: server issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War users through our website.

• Online Play (51%)
• Game Crash (20%)
• Sign in (15%)
• Glitches (9%)
• Matchmaking (5%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Columbus	Online Play	3 days ago
Broye	Online Play	13 days ago
Appleton	Game Crash	14 days ago
Suffolk	Sign in	19 days ago
Norfolk	Game Crash	21 days ago
Singapore	Sign in	29 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  anthony (@Mrfoxydoodle) reported 13 seconds ago

  I hope the entire team who worked on the latest call of duty is let go because this is some Ai filled dog ****. It’s like they just used the game to test out Ai spawn systems that ***** with the game outcome. How are there cash tournaments and ranked ? Live service is ****** #cod

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  Kevin (@__gnaA) reported 5 minutes ago

  @CODLeague @CallofDuty Let go LAG

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  𝔖𝔬𝔩𝔬 🥀 (@SoIohh) reported 5 minutes ago

  @jassibbyy @kronehearts There HAS to be more to the story no way he crashed out like that cause you didn’t wanna get on cod there’s either sum more or he genuinely has mental issues 😭

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  Nova (@1AO_Nova) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Parasite @CallofDutyCM @CODLiveSeasons If cod would switch to the easy anti cheat it would solve a lot of problems

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  PlatinumMidge (@MidgeGames82) reported 7 minutes ago

  @OrionLupus @unknown152022 @The_One_Boom There’s virtually no input lag on the native 360 games… the emulation is what causes that, it also causes weird analogue stick curves where dead zones are stuck at like 30% too. The Xbox one/series emulation for cod is awful.

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  Mr. Jones (@HJayZ91) reported 9 minutes ago

  @xxyourdisease @DetectiveSeeds That’s not the point. It’s never expected to get the money back. The mandate was to round out game pass since a subscription is thirsty for content. And you don’t want a subscription service with only halo gears cod forza. The culprit is GP growth stagnated.

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  Max Otaku🤓🏳️‍🌈 (@ThatLazyOtakuVT) reported 11 minutes ago

  They didn't put them on there cause they know those were the good cod titles and wanna boost the money that could be milked by dropping this SLOP! into the service

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  PotaCrimson (@APotatoSoph) reported 11 minutes ago

  @DamienHarrisEra @hadmyback @HATETHEREALME ..so it improved literally all the problems of the actual game while doing nothing to police itself from the worst of the cod community.. unsure what yalls obsession with grinding is. Haven't you all ever just... enjoyed a game for the sake of fun?

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  Charu Saraswat (@CharuSaraswat02) reported 13 minutes ago

  Most D2C ops teams report their RTO cost as one number: the reverse courier charges. A pain, not worth having, especially if you are prone to bleed in competitive industries like fashion, duh? That number is wrong. Not lying, but actuallyyy quite incomplete :/ While we were auditing orders from a fashion D2C brand shipping 8,000 orders/month, 2,400 of them RTO: Ops team's reported cost: ₹48/order, but actual all-in cost: ₹194/order! They were underestimating their RTO burden by 4x. Where the other ₹146 was hiding: - Courier forward charge - ₹65 (the part everyone tracks) - Courier reverse charge - ₹45 (often missed — return shipping isn't free) - Reprocessing cost - ₹30 (someone has to open, inspect, re-tag, restock) - Resale delay carrying cost - ₹40 (inventory sitting idle isn't free either, it's capital not converting). - Packaging + handling - built into the above but rarely broken out. Multiply that gap by 2,400 RTO orders a month and you're looking at a number that never shows up clean in any P&L line, it's smeared across logistics, ops, and inventory. Why this matters beyond the math: founders make decisions on which categories to push, which cities to ship to, whether to tighten COD verification, based on the ₹48 number. The decision changes completely at ₹194. If your ops team's RTO number only includes the courier fee, you're not seeing the real cost. You're seeing a quarter of it. Calculate your number: forward courier + reverse courier + reprocessing labor + carrying cost of unsold inventory. Then compare it to what your ops dashboard currently shows. The gap is usually bigger, and btw, we've cracked at finding such gaps!

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  🔥 (@JalenTL) reported 14 minutes ago

  @Zubi_Vision @charlieINTEL Sounds like a xbox skill issue, yall bought cod but yall cant even play all the old games in peace

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  Rafi (@RafiCOOD) reported 20 minutes ago

  @Jinnjaaaaa1 not a stair glitch who ever the admin is dont play cod

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  🇵🇷 (@Zerminator_) reported 21 minutes ago

  4. EXCLUSIVITY TALK (PART 1): Xbox-Original single-player franchises (Halo, Forza, Gears, Fable) stay exclusive while Xbox-acquired franchises and multiplayer games (Elder Scrolls, COD, Minecraft, Sea of Thieves, Crash) remain multi-platform. Don't care. Talk to the wall. (4/?)

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  Bigg Hardcore Gamer (@biggiehardcore) reported 23 minutes ago

  @LordFarquaazdj @SpawnYaardReply @klobrille Even crap cod releases sell well. Them putting it in GP, as well as the quality, affected sales. I think it should be 6 months for that to go to GP, instead of 12, but they know people will buy it at launch now. People want their cod fix and won’t wait

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  DANNYonPC (@DANNYonPC) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Critz5 no way im ever gonna do that. Fix ur **** instead @InfinityWard

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  Gniewomir (@gnievchenko) reported 31 minutes ago

  Dug into what’s being done on the permitting front yesterday and had a meeting with EU Commission team where we discussed the topic. Turns out they are at least attempting to solve the permitting problem. Directive 2025/0400(COD) has lots to like: reduced and harmonised deadlines; expanded use of tacit approval; greater flexibility in applying environmental rules; and a presumption that renewable energy, grids, storage and related infrastructure are in the overriding public interest. Directive currently making its way through EU Parliament. Worth noting that EU’s flagship REDIII directive already included lots of permitting reform. The challenge has been transposition at the national level. The deadline was July 2024. So far, only Denmark had fully implemented it. And herein lies the crux of the problem - Member States drag their feet on implementation of EU Directives. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink it. You wouldn’t know that if you only followed the discourse on here.

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  Harry’s Balzania (@bottygerjoe) reported 31 minutes ago

  @DeekeTweak Let’s be honest. Xbox’s biggest focus has been finding content for game pass, not “how do we sell games” or “how can we increase revenues from game pass”. That’s very apparent. First step towards fixing that in 9 years was when they pulled CoD from the service.

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  crazybandit02 (@crazybandit02) reported 31 minutes ago

  @EpicNewsroom @Fortnite sort ur fkn game out, i have a good pc and its just not optimized for gaming lag stuttering every 2 seconds, bullets not registering its just as bad as cod all u do is care about cosmetics and not players sort it out

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  GodlyZ (@GodlyZOfficial) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Center_Ice_Utah @ApeXClanFR @InfinityWard I don’t see MW4 having great success because of this and GTA 6. GTA 6 is gonna be massive same way GTA 5 was for 13 years. Tons are tired of the new CODs. Have been for a while. If MW4 Beta isn’t good, IW could be in trouble. They haven’t made a banger since OG MW2 so no faith

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  🌬️Yaga💨💨💨 (@Yaga_42o) reported 35 minutes ago

  @CODPersonal @CallofDuty @TreyarchCM Soz I done a previous post. Today’s games felt really off and the pass times I’ve had this issue I’m sure it was just visual. Today I felt my damage I normally have wasn’t there. Had to do fall reinstall to get them back where before a simple restart fixed it.

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  COD Warf사re (@CODWarfareForum) reported 36 minutes ago

  @wllmlew but whats the problem with the backwards compatibility versions? Locked to 720p. Hackers all over the place. Had my account stolen and reset on BO2. BO2 servers barely work and when they do its empty. Xbox 360 P2P servers. COD TV which a video to get a mod menu. Input delay.

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  kingscottt1 (@The_Most_Epic) reported 39 minutes ago

  @ATVIAssist @Activision @CallofDuty please fix it I really need this game to work I wanted to play pc cause I have too much storage on console those whole bios firmware everything is on I checked but I still can’t play thanks…

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  Alex Fedotoff (@FedotOff90) reported 45 minutes ago

  Romania is a sleeper market in Eastern Europe almost no US founder has tested. 19 million people. EU member. High mobile penetration. Romanian content works (with Hungarian as a secondary option for the 6% Hungarian-speaking minority). Meta CPMs at $2-3 in beauty and supplements. The local ecom market is dominated by AliExpress, eMag (the Romanian Amazon equivalent), and a few weak local brands with poor creative. US-style direct response with proper offer structure and creative testing infrastructure has almost zero direct competition. Payment infrastructure: card processing is standard (Stripe Romania works), cash on delivery handles roughly 35% of orders in Romania, 40%+ in Bulgaria and Hungary outside the capitals. FAN Courier plus Sameday handle last-mile in 24-48 hours nationwide. A founder I know runs a hair growth brand exclusively across Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. Combined $220K/month run rate, 18 months in. Two-person team. CAC $16 in Romania, $18 in Bulgaria, $21 in Hungary on paid traffic. COD refusal runs 20-30% across the 3 markets, so real cost per delivered order is meaningfully higher than the paid CAC suggests. AOV $44 blended. Reorder rate within 60 days around 30% (auto-billed subscription doesn't work well here because of COD prevalence - the retention engine is WhatsApp and email re-engagement on repeat purchase). What's hard about it: translation and customer service across 3 languages. He uses native-speaker VAs in Bucharest, Sofia, and Budapest at $6-9/hour. Each market has its own dedicated CS rep. The operational lift is real but manageable at this scale. Eastern Europe combined (Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia) is roughly 100M+ people. Most US founders ignore the region entirely because it requires multi-language creative testing. Worth testing if you have a product that translates well and operational bandwidth for 3-5 language markets at once.

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  Clayton "Demising"🌌☄️🚀🪐🛰️ (@RealDemising) reported 46 minutes ago

  @ExoGhost I've been playing since COD 4. MW19 is only seen as a top 5 COD if you main either Search and Destroy or Ground War. The rest of the game was ****, and TTK while being its own problem wasn't at the top for issues. Plus the older games had worse net code so their TTK felt slower

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  Michael Kelly (@Azazelop123) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Dark1337ness @puikula_peruna @ThePapaGut I brought up COD and Fortnite. You then talked about Fortnite. So I kept the topic on Fortnite. What exactly is the issue here?

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  MaxeyXO 👑 (@MaxeyXoo) reported 51 minutes ago

  @xProMvz Bro honestly stfu, you have no right to call someone a no life when you have been playing in ******* bot lobbies since bo3, every new cod that has ever come out after bo3 you refused to buy it because of a “skill issue” so bro get ******** off the internet… respectfully 🫵🤡

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  David Clark 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱🇷🇺🇷🇸 (@DavidClark9293) reported 51 minutes ago

  @DooM49 Not really, EA haven't been the same since the real developers left, too much aimbot slop and becoming like COD and CS2. REDSEC is AIMBOT heaven. **** gets broken every update. 2042 got better overtime until 6 came out, 6 is the last BF I'll buy/play. 2, 3, 4, and 1 are Elites.

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  Balaams *** (@xBalaamsAssx) reported 52 minutes ago

  @TrentJordanFan @danbickley @AZSports Dont forget they were the ones living and dying on Kylers study clause, blew up the CoD way out of proportion and were all too happy to see him leave because of "leadership issues" that werent actually issues or were standards they only put on Kyler

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  𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐃𝐚𝐝𝐕𝐈𝐈 (@GameDadVII) reported 58 minutes ago

  @marknlife MMOs mostly have subscriptions, especially back then. COD and such were full priced games that released around the holidays. The issue is the low barriers to entry along with seasons and content that never end, why would they play anything else, especially the kids.

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  BrikWall02 (@BrikWall3) reported 58 minutes ago

  the craziest part is that CoD fans will buy into their nostalgia slop and forget all about the failures that activision has been putting out for the last 5 years. Broken promises, Bad games, BUT BO2 IS BACK BOYS 😭😭 i’m willing to put money on this being broken at launch too.

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  p🦅 (@BlackfenEagle) reported 58 minutes ago

  @ChrisO_wiki This is a problem of the computer game / CoD generation I suspect. These crappy arcade style fps games give a generation of kids a false sense of how warfare and fighting really works. (Good for Ukraine I guess)