Tom Henderson

Session joining in BO2 was easy, because the majority of the time people went for gameplays in Ground War so lobbies didn't fill up that much. What also made this strategy easier, is that lobbies did not reset after each game. So you could stay in the say "bad bracket" lobby.

K4RNAGE, WeAreAMPClan and other "clans", although were in competition, had a secret "pact" where you would back out of a noob lobby if a pubstomper was already in the lobby before you. The continued in Call of Duty Ghosts.

Advanced Warfare was the next biggest CoD to introduce a harsher SBMM system and this time hackers and modders played a massive part in Reverse Boosting. Just several weeks after release, you could buy a RB account with 100,000+ deaths, all weapons unlocked and max prestige.

The cost of such an account varied, but generally $10-$20 was the normal. Some pubstompers would turn this $10 investment to $100,000s in YouTube ad revenue.

The next couple of Call of Duty titles were a little bit stale, but session joining was the norm and some pubstompers went as far as filling up their pre-game lobby with subscribers that had terrible stats.

Modern Warfare (2019) was the next biggest change, where pubstompers would search for a game with a noob account and join that noob account whilst it's in the lobby before the match. This would allow the pubstomper to get a noob lobby and they would back out their noob account.

There was another "pact" mentality with a lot of pubstompers and telling people how to do it was a no go. This continued throughout until today, where now the community has figured out the methods and are divided between what's right and what's wrong.

Finally, my thoughts: I don't care about reverse boosting. This is the first CoD I've done it in since buying a hacked account in Advanced Warfare and I've had the most amount of fun I've had in years. The truth is, pubstompers will do anything to get noob lobbies (cont)