
We aren't sure why this wasn't already the case, but Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone players will soon be able to disable cross-play with PC in the restricted Ranked Play mode, which Activision hopes will "improve the gameplay experience." This news follows the firm's claim that it just banned a casual 136,000 cheaters from the competitive playlist, which only launched in November. The option to exclude PC players from the equation arrives with the advent of Call of Duty's imminent Season 2 of service content, scheduled to start on 28th January.
Considering you have to log at least 50 wins in multiplayer to access Ranked Play, it is passing strange that the ability to disable cross-play wasn't there at launch; it's not like the setting is unheard of, and let's be honest here, legitimate cheaters on consoles are exceedingly rare, and we all know how the aim bots are getting in. Hence, any multiplatform multiplayer arena that includes PC players is unlikely to ever be genuinely fair for console players, which is before accounting for the relative difference in controller inputs.