So, I don’t know if I’m doing this right becuase this is my frist time. I played 4 people earlier in halo reach matchmaking. And they did threaten me and sent a bad message to me. I never even said a word to them. I filed a complaint on them but is there any way I can tell a bungie emplyee personally? I want to make sure something is done… I feel more uncomfurtable to play this game the more people harass me. Same as my friends. But these guy were the worst. Is there an e-mail or phone number I can use to tell someone? Thanks for the help.
There isn’t any way you can contact anyone outside just filing a complaint. And just so you know, Bungie no longer owns or operates the Halo franchise, it is all 343 Industries now.
I understand that it doesn’t feel good to get messages like that, but there is no way to avoid it on the internet aside from just ignoring them. Maybe block communications so it can’t happen again?
I am sorry for what has happend during your 1st game in Reach but namely you cant do much except for file a complaint and just hope Microsoft catches the -Yoinks!-. Other than that, I suggest you try to block the guys and if they continue to message ya with threats, call Microsoft. I hope that helps out in someway.
i feel ur pain. but there isn’t much more you can do about it fileing a complanit. you can message someone if they have hacked a system, but sadly nothing more
Give a bad player review, mute them and move on without responding to their msg, it about the best you can do.
> Give a bad player review, mute them and move on without responding to their msg, it about the best you can do.
This.
Filing a complaint will only get them banned if they sent that exact same message to X amount of people. One complaint does nothing.
Unfortunately, there isn’t much you can do to prevent people from sending you problematic Xbox LIVE messages. There also isn’t much that ever gets done to punish those people. After receiving a harassing message, you can open it and choose “Block Communications”; doing so will at least stop that specific player from sending you anything in the future.
If you have problems with people yelling you at in-game, however, there are a few things you can try:
If someone gives you trouble in a lobby, you can select their name from the list of players and choose “MUTE”. If you’re in-game, just hold the Back button, use the joystick to move through the scoreboard, and hit the X button to mute them quickly.
If you wish to talk only with friends, then start an Xbox LIVE Party Chat and invite them. If you change your settings, you can make it so that you can’t hear Game Chat while you’re in Party Chat. (For example, if you set both chats to only play from a headset, then Party Chat will take priority and you won’t hear Game Chat.)
Another option, if you wish to communicate with randoms (strangers you encounter in Matchmaking) on your team, is to change your Reach settings. If you go to the “AUDIO/VIDEO SETTINGS” menu, you can set in-game voice to “TEAM AND PARTY ONLY”, which will prevent you from hearing the enemy team.
It’s unfortunate to hear that those kinds of players are among the first ones you’ve encountered in Reach. Hopefully, things get better for you soon.
I can certainly empathize. Everyone in here has been dead on - mute, leave negative feedback, file a complaint, and block. I actually called XBL customer support once to report someone who was sending me lewd and threatening messages and the person I spoke to said to the above, but to make sure and leave the message in my inbox so that the team could investigate it.
I don’t know if this part is still true - having to keep the message in your inbox - but if you haven’t, you might not want to delete the messages.
While every single guy is going to come to your defense and act like you’re the major victim here, the truth of it is that your gamertag calls attention to your -Yoink!- (Assuming you even are a woman).
Sorry that you thought the world of desperate boys would accept you, but they won’t. I’m not telling you to drop ten bucks and change it, but you better be well aware that it’s stupid, and unnecessary. You don’t need to parade around the fact that you’re a girl, it only attracts the sort of attention you have already encountered. This is not entirely your fault, you have the freedom to create a gamer tag as whatever you would like, but for you not foresee this inevitable outcome is ignorance.
Most girls who are able to play the game with a sense of security don’t have overly obvious “HAY IM A GURL HER DUR” gamertags, and if they DO, they should roll in a party, and set the other team to mute as default. There is no logical reason for you to hear the other team, with your gamertag, they’ll just immediately harass you, and, as I’m SURE you’ve seen, spam you with friend requests.
Sure, it’s not fair. But that’s how it is.
> While every single guy is going to come to your defense and act like you’re the major victim here, the truth of it is that your gamertag calls attention to your -Yoink!- (Assuming you even are a woman).
Didn’t even notice the name until after I posted. lol
I was just being a good neighbor to a noob in need.
> > While every single guy is going to come to your defense and act like you’re the major victim here, the truth of it is that your gamertag calls attention to your -Yoink!- (Assuming you even are a woman).
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> Didn’t even notice the name until after I posted. lol
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> I was just being a good neighbor to a noob in need.
Same here, actually. I can understand the accusation, though.
@Darkm0d: I fail to see how it changes the situation. Advertising her gender may not have been the smartest move, but it’s not the OP’s fault that sexism is so rampant in the gaming community.
> Didn’t even notice the name until after I posted. lol
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> I was just being a good neighbor to a noob in need.
Meh. Just sayin’ I don’t really feel bad for someone with that stupid of a gamertag.
Assuming you are entitled to a special title such as “gamer girl” just because you play games and are a female is ridiculous. Yep, we all know more men play than women, it’s not hard to figure that out (Despite plenty of flawed polls suggesting more girls play, if they do, cool, but it shouldn’t matter.)
It’s like that line from Hot Fuzz. It’s not a police lady, it’s a police officer. The fact that she is a woman doesn’t mean you should call her something unlike what you would call her male counterpart.
>Females want equal treatment.
>Females make it blatantly obvious they’re females.
It’s not like I’m GamerBoiDarkm0d. 
A female who plays games is a gamer. A guy who plays is a gamer. A 99 year old sea turtle who plays games, albeit rather odd, is a gamer.
> @Darkm0d: I fail to see how it changes the situation. Advertising her gender may not have been the smartest move, but it’s not the OP’s fault that sexism is so rampant in the gaming community.
Absolutely. It’s not entirely her fault, as a girl I feel you SHOULD know you’ll catch crap for a name like that, but meh. I’m not blaming her for the plethora of idiots, I’m just saying in our day in age, you either hide the fact, or do(whats been advised) to mitigate the stupidity of the common teenage boy.
> Absolutely. It’s not entirely her fault, as a girl I feel you SHOULD know you’ll catch crap for a name like that, but meh. I’m not blaming her for the plethora of idiots, I’m just saying in our day in age, you either hide the fact, or do(whats been advised) to mitigate the stupidity of the common teenage boy.
I can understand that attitude, but I think it does more harm (to guys, ironically) than good.
Most gamers actually aren’t sexist, and I think roughly 40% of all gamers are female. However, all gamers are stereotyped as sexist male idiots because the sexist idiots are vocal, while the non-sexist ones aren’t. If everyone just says, “Well, it’s your fault; you shouldn’t have said you’re a girl,” that doesn’t reflect on us very well – it does little to make us look like anything other than a bunch of sexist basement-dwelling forever-alone dudes. And so forcing girls to hide their gender OTI (lest they be flamed) forces all of us to hide our, eh, gamerness IRL (lest we look like sexist idiots).
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> > Didn’t even notice the name until after I posted. lol
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> > I was just being a good neighbor to a noob in need.
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> Meh. Just sayin’ I don’t really feel bad for someone with that stupid of a gamertag.
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> Assuming you are entitled to a special title such as “gamer girl” just because you play games and are a female is ridiculous. Yep, we all know more men play than women, it’s not hard to figure that out (Despite plenty of flawed polls suggesting more girls play, if they do, cool, but it shouldn’t matter.)
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> It’s like that line from Hot Fuzz. It’s not a police lady, it’s a police officer. The fact that she is a woman doesn’t mean you should call her something unlike what you would call her male counterpart.
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> >Females want equal treatment.
> >Females make it blatantly obvious they’re females.
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> It’s not like I’m GamerBoiDarkm0d.
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> A female who plays games is a gamer. A guy who plays is a gamer. A 99 year old sea turtle who plays games, albeit rather odd, is a gamer.
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> > @Darkm0d: I fail to see how it changes the situation. Advertising her gender may not have been the smartest move, but it’s not the OP’s fault that sexism is so rampant in the gaming community.
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> Absolutely. It’s not entirely her fault, as a girl I feel you SHOULD know you’ll catch crap for a name like that, but meh. I’m not blaming her for the plethora of idiots, I’m just saying in our day in age, you either hide the fact, or do(whats been advised) to mitigate the stupidity of the common teenage boy.
Well, this is something I never thought would be discussed on Halo Waypoint. Anyway, yeah, I doubt that advertising your -Yoink!- is a good idea ANYWHERE. But I wouldn’t call the common teenage boy stupid.
> Most gamers actually aren’t sexist, and I think roughly 40% of all gamers are female. However, all gamers are stereotyped as sexist male idiots because the sexist idiots are vocal, while the non-sexist ones aren’t. If everyone just says, “Well, it’s your fault; you shouldn’t have said you’re a girl,” that doesn’t reflect on us very well – it does little to make us look like anything other than a bunch of sexist basement-dwelling forever-alone dudes. And so forcing girls to hide their gender OTI (lest they be flamed) forces all of us to hide our, eh, gamerness IRL (lest we look like sexist idiots).
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You theorize as if kids these days are capable of maturing and change. I mean, come on, you don’t really think that’s possible do you? I’m not an optimist, so maybe, well, CLEARLY you need to be optimistic to believe that sort of change is possible, but in reality, it’s not.
Here’s the brutal tru7h: (This is just MY version, obviously) – I only run into two types of “female gamers” You have the ones that are obnoxiously stupid, attention craving types (The ones guys REALLY swoon for) and then you have the type who never say a word. Or, more shockingly, are good / make call outs, keep things professional. Yes, I threw “are good” in there, don’t be mad, because you know it’s just a fact. Most girls suck at shooters. That’s ok, they shine in plenty of other area’s, I just rarely see girls who devote the time us guys can afford into gaming, that’s all.
What I’m saying (getting back to your quote) is that guys don’t call attention to their -Yoink!-, so why do girls need to? It’s that simple. They do not need “girl”, “gurl” “chick” or any other variation in their gamertags. It’s just, why? Why put it there? Who cares.
I compare this to girls who wear shirts with text right on their breasts, and then ahve the AUDACITY to scoff at every guy who looks at their chest. Why call attention to yourself if you don’t want attention? I know she might have wanted “good” attention, but that’s just not reality.
Then there is just obvious gamertags without obvious -Yoink!--based tags. Girls are more prone to being into girl-like things (This is not exclusive, just expected). Lets compare two hypothetical gamertags…
XxXd00mSlay3rXxX.
Zanooka.
Now, we pretty much can already almost instantaneously assume certain key factors about each gamertag, and their respective operators behind them. Now, the first, I clearly exaggerated, but you get my point. The second, I used an actual females gamertag. It almost never fails most guys seem to somehow just know/assume/guess that “Zanooka” sounds feminine. Most girls pick stuff that’s feminine. It’s just how it is.
I don’t think it’s fair that they need to pull out a rule book when doing something as simple as creating an online identity for themselves, but it doesn’t change the fact that they still follow standard and predictable methods that only lead to problems because that’s just the sort of world we live in.
–Edit: Wanted to notate that nothing I say is directed at anyone, eg; “don’t be mad”. Speaking generally, blah blah.
There are privacy settings in the profile dashboard you can alter to not receive any communications from other players and so forth. Also, check voice options in the game itself.
> > Most gamers actually aren’t sexist, and I think roughly 40% of all gamers are female. However, all gamers are stereotyped as sexist male idiots because the sexist idiots are vocal, while the non-sexist ones aren’t. If everyone just says, “Well, it’s your fault; you shouldn’t have said you’re a girl,” that doesn’t reflect on us very well – it does little to make us look like anything other than a bunch of sexist basement-dwelling forever-alone dudes. And so forcing girls to hide their gender OTI (lest they be flamed) forces all of us to hide our, eh, gamerness IRL (lest we look like sexist idiots).
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> You theorize as if kids these days are capable of maturing and change. I mean, come on, you don’t really think that’s possible do you? I’m not an optimist, so maybe, well, CLEARLY you need to be optimistic to believe that sort of change is possible, but in reality, it’s not.
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> Here’s the brutal tru7h: (This is just MY version, obviously) – I only run into two types of “female gamers” You have the ones that are obnoxiously stupid, attention craving types (The ones guys REALLY swoon for) and then you have the type who never say a word. Or, more shockingly, are good / make call outs, keep things professional. Yes, I threw “are good” in there, don’t be mad, because you know it’s just a fact. Most girls suck at shooters. That’s ok, they shine in plenty of other area’s, I just rarely see girls who devote the time us guys can afford into gaming, that’s all.
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> What I’m saying (getting back to your quote) is that guys don’t call attention to their -Yoink!-, so why do girls need to? It’s that simple. They do not need “girl”, “gurl” “chick” or any other variation in their gamertags. It’s just, why? Why put it there? Who cares.
> I compare this to girls who wear shirts with text right on their breasts, and then ahve the AUDACITY to scoff at every guy who looks at their chest. Why call attention to yourself if you don’t want attention? I know she might have wanted “good” attention, but that’s just not reality.
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> Then there is just obvious gamertags without obvious -Yoink!--based tags. Girls are more prone to being into girl-like things (This is not exclusive, just expected). Lets compare two hypothetical gamertags…
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> XxXd00mSlay3rXxX.
> Zanooka.
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> Now, we pretty much can already almost instantaneously assume certain key factors about each gamertag, and their respective operators behind them. Now, the first, I clearly exaggerated, but you get my point. The second, I used an actual females gamertag. It almost never fails most guys seem to somehow just know/assume/guess that “Zanooka” sounds feminine. Most girls pick stuff that’s feminine. It’s just how it is.
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> I don’t think it’s fair that they need to pull out a rule book when doing something as simple as creating an online identity for themselves, but it doesn’t change the fact that they still follow standard and predictable methods that only lead to problems because that’s just the sort of world we live in.
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> --Edit: Wanted to notate that nothing I say is directed at anyone, eg; “don’t be mad”. Speaking generally, blah blah.
Funny because you forgot to mention the 3rd type of girls that I know in RL known as the -Yoink- kicking type, meaning they could dominate male players easily while I can go ahead and have a good conversation with them without being sexism whatsoever. You surely dont know the Half of what females could do to ya, Besides making you very much ashamed for being beaten by a proffesional female player.
Just remember, there probably either:
10 year old’s that try to act hard over the internet.
20 yer old nerds that live with their mums.
keep that in mind and laugh!!!
…Its the interent, don’t take it too seriously.
Besides…You have probably said much worse to people in a face to face confrontation, or over the phone etc etc…
Block communications and avoid.
Muting helps too.
Also try to play a different playlist then were you met them, it helps to avoid them.