I’ve always been the perfect Halo citizen. I always finish games even under heavy losses and have for years. I can’t stand quitters trust me. Yet tonight sorry but my life got in the way and I had to get the door and speak to the person for a few minutes. I got back and tried to join another game. Nothing happened for a minute or two and then I get a ban hammer - you have been banned for 4:35 - what? Hours? Minutes?
In fact why the heck am I banned at all!? OK so I stopped playing during a game ONCE IN 10 YEARS. Get a grip 343.
This together with the ridiculous aiming issues (bullets not finding targets) in SWATNUMS and the fact SWATNUMS comes up way too much and the loss of voting on maps and … and … well I think I’ve just about had enough. I can only take so much reduction in the Halo experience.
I had this happen to me last night. I had to quickly run upstairs to assist my wife in consoling my two young daughters which had woken up. When I got back, I had a message saying that I had been kick out due to inactivity, Then a message saying that I had been banned till 8:11. I assumed it was a time, but my local time was 10:07 so I was a little confused. My friends played a match without me, then I was able to join in after that. So maybe wait a few minutes, then try again.
I’m curious whether you left the game late, or early in the match. I can see that you were in the match long enough to go 3K 12D. Maybe their system assumes that you rage quit because you were losing? I wonder if you would have got the ban if you had just gone idle in the match?
I was idling because I was no longer on the controller.
The game was shocking - the blue team had a great spot and I was enjoying trying to sneak up and taking some kills. But I never quit and never intended for someone to ring my doorbell.
I am back in - it’s MINUTES on the ban message - they should fix that.
If that is the only game you have quit in the history of Halo that would likely mean 4min and 35sec which is nothing to go crazy over in my opinion. If you are a quitting machine I could see a 4hr 35min ban making more sense. Quitters are a pretty bad issue in this game right now so they have to do something.
One of my teammates got dumped last night for idling. Which was fine because he was a free kill for the opposition for the 1st 5min or so and then we turned the tables and won the game. Obviously if it was CTF or Stronghold we would have been screwed either way but we can easily overcome a 3V4 on Slayer.
Honestly, I don’t think they’re too concerned with quitters - all they do is agravate other players.
The REQ system, however, is where the rubber hits the road, so to preserve its integrity, they treat idling seriously. If not, it’s too easy to farm and abuse.
Alright the issue guys is that the ban message was not clear about the time units - is 4:35 a time in a different timezone, or is it hours and minutes or minutes and seconds? It turns out it was minutes and seconds but not setting the expectation made me angry as I thought perhaps it was hours and minutes - I mean, why put seconds?