I was just reading the guidelines of the forum here, and I read this:
"UNSOLICITED IDEA SUBMISSION POLICY
Microsoft or any of its employees do not accept or consider unsolicited ideas, including ideas for new advertising campaigns, new promotions, new products or technologies, processes, materials, marketing plans or new product names. Please do not send any original creative artwork, samples, demos, or other works. The sole purpose of this policy is to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes when Microsoft’s products or marketing strategies might seem similar to ideas submitted to Microsoft. So, please do not send your unsolicited ideas to Microsoft or anyone at Microsoft. If, despite our request that you not send us your ideas and materials, you still send them, please understand the Microsoft makes no assurances that your ideas and materials will be treated as confidential or proprietary."
- BS Angel, in the Forum Guidelines thread.
Basically, Microsoft doesn’t listen to or accept any of the ideas you post on here… so what’s the point? 
Maybe we should focus more on simply discussing our experiences in Halo 4, since apparently 343 does not take in our feedback (it’s not their fault, just microsoft policy). Thought I’d share this with you guys in case you didn’t take the time to read the rules, hopefully this’ll lead to more productive discussions and less wasted time.
> So esentially all of the “scripts for Halo 5” that people keep posting are totally useless as Microsoft will never use any of them and are not worth making up.
Those are Ideas. Not feedback.
There’s a difference.
The post ties primarily to business related and development related ideas, not suggestions for the game itself. Suggesting a change to the game is a lot different than sending unfinished scripts, demos, or videogame ideas to microsoft.
> Maybe we should focus more on simply discussing our experiences in Halo 4, since apparently 343 does not take in our feedback (it’s not their fault, just microsoft policy). Thought I’d share this with you guys in case you didn’t take the time to read the rules, hopefully this’ll lead to more productive discussions and less wasted time.
And the bias comes out.
You are trying to twist words in order to fill your agenda of getting people to stop complaining about the game.
I know it sucks well heres an experience I had today! I ranked down 3 levels when winning!! Isn’t that amazing!!!
> The post ties primarily to business related and development related ideas, not suggestions for the game itself. Suggesting a change to the game is a lot different than sending unfinished scripts, demos, or videogame ideas to microsoft.
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> > Maybe we should focus more on simply discussing our experiences in Halo 4, since apparently 343 does not take in our feedback (it’s not their fault, just microsoft policy). Thought I’d share this with you guys in case you didn’t take the time to read the rules, hopefully this’ll lead to more productive discussions and less wasted time.
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> You are trying to twist words in order to fill your agenda of getting people to stop complaining about the game.
Not true at all. I hate this game, but I just wanted to point this out since I found it in the forum guidelines. Simple as that.
So esentially all of the “scripts for Halo 5” that people keep posting are totally useless as Microsoft will never use any of them and are not worth making up.
> So esentially all of the “scripts for Halo 5” that people keep posting are totally useless as Microsoft will never use any of them and are not worth making up.
Unless of course, they are being made solely for fun.
> So esentially all of the “scripts for Halo 5” that people keep posting are totally useless as Microsoft will never use any of them and are not worth making up.
Exactly.
Sending Microsoft and 343 gameplay ideas, game demos, products and stuff along the lines is not what they want.
In short, they don’t want you to send them crap.
Feedback is not included as crap. I can say, however, that they are not looking at this particular forum for feedback, especially weapon balancing, as that belongs to the War Games Feedback forum. The Halo 4 forum is just a corner for us to fight in.
i know and everybody knows that microsoft is copying Nintendo.
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> Basically, Microsoft doesn’t listen to or accept any of the ideas you post on here… so what’s the point?
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It’s fun as hell…
^would be hilarious if 343 saw this while looking for good suggestion threads.
And we speculate because its fun to make up ideas.
Oh, they listen… They just blatantly disregard because they trust their numbers and interpretation of their numbers more.
They look at raw numbers of how many people use DMR and came to the conclusion “oh, it looks like everybody loves the DMR”
Any feed back that doesn’t go with their interpretation of the numbers… Listened to but totally thrown out of consideration.
You’re reading it wrong; that’s a legal/business disclaimer to protect their IP and defend against litigation. And most likely keep them from hiring an army of Spartans to man the mail room.
It does not prohibit suggestions or feedback, otherwise this board wouldn’t have lasted very long :_)
Here’s the three key sentences:
> …unsolicited ideas, including ideas for new advertising campaigns, new promotions, new products or technologies, processes, materials, marketing plans or new product names. Please do not send any original creative artwork, samples, demos, or other works. The sole purpose of this policy is to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes when Microsoft’s products or marketing strategies might seem similar to ideas submitted to Microsoft.
It’s a legal thing. All they are saying is you can’t sue them if something you said on the forum ends up in the game. It’s a warning that you can’t claim ownership of anything you post on this forum. It is not telling to not leave feedback, it’s just saying “if you give us advice, don’t get mad at us for using it, and don’t say you deserve something for something you freely gave.”