As many of you know, when stats were at bungie.net - in order to share a game link from your, or someone’s game history, you simply found the link and shared it. I’ve recently ran into an issue doing this here on Waypoint, in that when someone shares a link with you, it loads the site, loads the player, but fails to find the game. You get the message:
Sorry, we encountered a problem while processing your request.
I’ve found this to be a consistent problem, especially for running ladders, and collecting games from tournaments at HaloCommunity.com. Users play games, and submit them on our site, but these links are all broken. What is the proper way to interact with these links, such that they can link me to whatever game, and I can immediately have access to the stats?
My only workaround so far is to copy the game ID from their link, open waypoint, load one of my games, and change the gamertag and ID. This is simply a pain, and I’m wondering if there is more to this issue, or if there is something I should know about…
I agree when you are trying to share a game link all you should have to do is copy and paste the link. It is very tedious as it is now, I do not imagine it was done intentionally. Fixing this would be nice, or have a share link somewhere on the game history.
There have been several threads about this, so I’m hoping they know about it and can make something slightly more user friendly by the time halo 4 arrives, but until then I’ll copy my response from another thread:
> If you just go right to your profile and select a game, you’ll get a link like this:
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> http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Career/HaloReach/GameHistory#/?game=989329941§ion=Unknown
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> Which doesn’t work for anybody else. You need the link to include “?gamerTag=ThePlayer’sGamertag” like this:
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> http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Career/HaloReach/GameHistory?gamerTag=trueflyingcow#/?game=989329941§ion=Unknown
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> To get that link, you need to reach your game history differently. You can use the search box near the top right of waypoint and search for the gamertag of the person whose game link you want. It’ll say “Player Found” with the gamertag below, which you click on. It brings you to their service record, and says “You are viewing [somegamertag]'s profile” on the right so you know it’s working. Then you select game history as usual, and pick the game, and then the gamertag will be already included in the link. A shortcut to get to this page without going through all those different waypoint pages/searches is to just modify this link:
> http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Career/HaloReach/GameHistory?gamerTag=Somebody’sGamertag
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> Another way to get working links is to just manually edit the links yourself. If you plug the “?gamerTag=ThePlayer’sGamertag” into the correct spot (after “GameHistory?” and before “#”, and spell the gamertag correctly, waypoint won’t know the difference.
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> Though even with the correct link, sometimes it seems to take too long to load and waypoint just gives up and sends you to their game history. My solution for that is to paste the link into the browser and try again.
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> Also, if you have a website, you can include something like this little html form that will let your people enter their gamertag from your site and bring them right to their game history where they can find working links. I use this since it bypasses most of the unnecessary waypoint sillyness. And it’s easier to explain: “Use this box, then pick the game!” vs. “Search for your own gamertag, then switch from service record to game history, then double check that your gamertag is still in the link, then pick the right game.”
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> <form method=“get” action=“http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Career/HaloReach/GameHistory” name=“gamehistory” target="_blank">
> <fieldset>
> <legend>Enter your gamertag and you’ll be brought to your waypoint game history where you can find the link.</legend>
> <p><label for=“gamerTag” class=“preField”>Gamertag:</label></p>
> <input type=“text” id=“gamerTag” name=“gamerTag” value="" />
> <input id=“button1” type=“submit” value=“View game history!”/>
> </fieldset>
> </form>
Another really fun aspect to this system is that if the person making the link ever changes their gamertag, all their old links will promptly break. Which is a terrible system if you care about using the game history to record any sort of stable history of games played. So even if everything is right, when XxBossDudexX decides to become xXxBossManxXx, everything gets raped all over again.
> We hear you loud and clear on the links. We’ll have the entire link issue cleared up in a future update. Apologies for the trouble on this.
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> Waypoint team
> jh
