The CrackWatch effort has had a significant impact on the piracy landscape for Modern Warfare III. According to some estimates, the initiative has resulted in:
In the past, scene groups would bypass the online requirement by tricking the game into thinking it was connected to a local server (emulating the authentication servers). This was seen with previous Call of Duty titles (like the 2019 Modern Warfare reboot, which took nearly a year to see a playable offline bypass via "Campaign Unlockers"). For Modern Warfare III , even this method has proven incredibly difficult to stabilize. call of duty: modern warfare iii crackwatch