So I got banned after leaving a game and getting disconnected from two others over a 6 game stretch. The first game was left because 2 of our party members didn’t even make it into the game. The two disconnects happened mid-game. A 10 minute ban isn’t a huge issue but it is pretty stupid that they can’t tell a ban from a disconnect and that I would have otherwise had to leave or suffer 7 mins of 2v4 because people couldn’t connect. I get punishing leavers because it is annoying when they do but punishing people for leaving because the matchmaking dropped them or for disconnecting is really dumb.
Distinguishing between ban and disconnect would just encourage people to “quit” by shutting off their consoles/internet connection. It’s been done plenty of times in the past (Gears was particularly bad in this regard) so I guess 343i just want to avoid such situations and picked the lesser of two evils. Understand your frustation but I really doubt 343 will actually change the way that the ban system works. If anything, they might make it a bit harsher.