If there’s one thing that can make me rage quit in CoD these days it’s when I hit the target on 28ms latency and my shots disappear. This is what killed XDefiant, and this is why Warzone and Black Ops 6 are hated these days. But, through all the late bad news regarding Call of Duty, some positive blows are coming, telling us that Activision might just switch the games’ servers to Microsoft Azure.
The news comes as a recent job listing posted almost a month ago. Now there were a ton of rumors when Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard last year that Call of Duty‘s servers might get a switch to Azure with their new game, AKA Black Ops 6. However, that’s not the case, at least for now.
Demonware, the department handling Call of Duty games and their online servers for a very long time, now had a job listing post stating that they’re looking for expert platform engineers for “a large-scale migration to Microsoft Azure and the development of our managed and scalable Kubernetes solution.” Promising is all I can say.
As of right now Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops 6 are running on 20hz and 60hz servers, which is why you don’t feel your shots not registering on the target in your daily gameplay. So, is Microsoft Azure any better? We can’t confirm that yet. But whatever that is it’s much better than the current situation we’re stuck at. And if the new servers aren’t better, why the migration?
There’s also another thing that we should keep in mind regarding the Call of Duty server changes, and it’s that it won’t happen like a flip of a switch. It takes time, especially with a large-scale game like Warzone or Black Ops 6. So if things go smoothly and Activision actually does invest in Microsoft’s servers, it might be next year with the new game or maybe even in 2026 for CoD to launch on the new servers.
Either way, take this with a grain of salt, as Activision and the developers have not confirmed or denied this news. But, it’s official that Call of Duty‘s server management is looking for experts to migrate over to Microsoft Azure, and we can look up that.
