I haven’t played MCC in over a year. I renew my xbox live membership just to play this game and come back to xbox from PC to readjust myself with Halo again as I’m incredibly excited for MCC on PC. The new setup for social is brilliant and the competitive playlist setup is great. Then I start playing competitive to grind my way up the ranks. All of a sudden I’m up 13-5 and my game crashes. That hurts but I was confident my teammate would be able to still handle his own and possibly pull out a win in duos. My game starts up again but not only did I LOSE A RANK IMMEDIATELY but I got BANNED for 5 minutes do to the game crashing… This game has been out for so long and 343 still hasn’t fixed game crashes and penalizes the players for their own game crashing? This is completely unacceptable I’m in complete shock right now. Not only is it ridiculous for this to happen but straight up negligent. How do you expect Halo to ever thrive again thinking this is acceptable?
While it’s unfortunate that your game crashed, the temporary ban was a necessary inclusion to the game last year. Left unchecked players were able to quit out of matches / dashboard / turn off their console to avoid losing, also taking no penalties for doing so. This was doing quite a bit of damage to the game and quit rates reduced quite a bit after the quit bans were implemented. If you want to read more about these bans or discuss it further, feel free to use the ban thread pinned at the top of the forums for any queries on matchmaking bans.