The official Halo 5 "Why was I banned?" thread

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> My son is -Yoink!- and greatly enjoys all the halo games. He is rather good at them too, but was recently banned for an unknown reason from Halo 5: Guardians. I have all of his social settings disabled so he can’t voice chat or hear other teammates, send or recieve friend requests or messages. He sometimes does not play the game as intended which he has no control over. His gamertag is TheLilAnswer21 and we both would greatly appreciate his reinstatement.

Every time he presses that quit button during a match, or disconnects from games, the banhammer keeps track of that, and if done too often, results in a temporary ban.

He has about 12 matches that he did not finish within the last week, and most of those matches were on the 6th.

Why am I banned EVERY TIME I quit? Also since penalties go up for each subsequent banning, my penalties are getting more and more severe despite me, for the most part, doing absolutely nothing wrong. Show me this concrete data your system is pulling from my account. It’s hard to justify playing your game if I know that the minute I step one foot out of line, even if I’ve done nothing wrong for several months, I’m not allowed to play for an arbitrary amount of time. My 45 minutes of free time today has been ruined by your system. I got 2 games in, no idling, no betraying, no suicides, no quitting. I think I played last Sunday or Monday, plenty of games played, no misconduct. I can’t remember the last time I’ve quit a game or even idled during one. I quit one game after a friend is dropped from the server so that we can all play together and I get banned. No need to lift it since I can’t play with my friends again until maybe Sunday night now, but come on. My violations are not frequent enough to warrant a ban every time I quit. Just show me the concrete data your buggy system is tracking.

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> Why am I banned EVERY TIME I quit? Also since penalties go up for each subsequent banning, my penalties are getting more and more severe despite me, for the most part, doing absolutely nothing wrong. Show me this concrete data your system is pulling from my account. It’s hard to justify playing your game if I know that the minute I step one foot out of line, even if I’ve done nothing wrong for several months, I’m not allowed to play for an arbitrary amount of time. My 45 minutes of free time today has been ruined by your system. I got 2 games in, no idling, no betraying, no suicides, no quitting. I think I played last Sunday or Monday, plenty of games played, no misconduct. I can’t remember the last time I’ve quit a game or even idled during one. I quit one game after a friend is dropped from the server so that we can all play together and I get banned. No need to lift it since I can’t play with my friends again until maybe Sunday night now, but come on. My violations are not frequent enough to warrant a ban every time I quit. Just show me the concrete data your buggy system is tracking.

Frequency doesn’t matter, the system doesn’t reset and appears to be based off of your percentage of quits. If you finish enough games to have a low quit percentage then it should give you some slack.

So not only did I lose 20 champion places from being kicked from the game I was also banned for 3 hours.
We were winning 13-2 so as you can see we have absolutely no reason to quit out. My friend got kicked out and then about 15 seconds later it kicked me out. We both lost the 30CSR, which at champion rank is a lot to lose. Here is the link to my last played game to show the stats, etc.https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/dcf3a822-3766-4cbe-85fd-262763bd4186/players/oni%20scorpion?gameHistoryMatchIndex=0&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All

Anything that can be done about this?

My connection has been getting dropped by the Halo 5 system. Not me quitting games. And yet I get banned? What for? It’s not my fault that systems issues has been getting me disconnected. This is clearly unfair!!! My Internet Connection is solid and has not been going down. As a paying customer of Gold membership I expect better service than this. Review my history and you’ll see that I do not condone quitting games nor have a history of it at all. The recent DNF’s were only because YOUR SYSTEM HAS BEEN DISCONNECTING ME,

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> So not only did I lose 20 champion places from being kicked from the game I was also banned for 3 hours.
> We were winning 13-2 so as you can see we have absolutely no reason to quit out. My friend got kicked out and then about 15 seconds later it kicked me out. We both lost the 30CSR, which at champion rank is a lot to lose. Here is the link to my last played game to show the stats, etc.https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/dcf3a822-3766-4cbe-85fd-262763bd4186/players/oni%20scorpion?gameHistoryMatchIndex=0&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All
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I think there’s something going on with the system because the identical thing has happened to me as well.

Awful program set up, I make a new account, banned again cause I killed someone once because they killed me over 5 times with a fuel rod gun and THEY are still in the game but I get banned for 9 hours after I just restart my entire profile. Et to brute my -Yoink- going after a triple cross when I killed ONE person but the real idiots get to kill everyone with no penalty???

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> > I’ve been banned for nine years for accidental suicides, everyone keeps telling me it must be nine minutes but it’s been six days and I still can’t enter any arena games, I read it right. I guess it’s back to halo 4 then…
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> 6 days? That’s strange, because your service record shows that you have been playing games in Arena and Warzone all week
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Oh thats strange cause I had to make a new profile you idiot and I’m still getting banned, at least it’s 9 minutes now,amateur devs.

So why aren’t the smurf accounts getting banned? I mean in my games they are the 95% of the time the poison in the game. Yet that behavior is OK? Lmao Talking about some double standards. I mean come on now and address the smurf accounts that are killing the game faster than quitters.

banhammer? i didnt quit any games… i was mid game an was returned to the screen… then returned to matchmaking and played a full game!! then was banned! what?

So I finished 1 war zone game and decided to play arena next thing you know I got banned (from arena) for what? it’s been a good week since I played Xbox

This is very disappointing, the fact is we never leave a game, but we have been kicked from the server a few times during the past three months and more so during the last week. Why would you leave a game when you invest so healvely in Requisitions?

Anyway, today we were banned (9:45) for a game violation (leaving a match), which I suspect was a server issue not us as users…oh well, might be time to find an alternative ?

Thought I would provide more detail, the issues are disconnections which is difficult to attribute the cause (my end or yours)…but it returns me to the Matchmaking page…nothing I can do about it.

We are back in…played one game of firefight…went into matchmaking for a new lobby, then got booted to another lobby halfway through round one?..not complaining, but we get thrown into active games a lot, so their should be some consideration made…OK rant over !

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> banhammer? i didnt quit any games… i was mid game an was returned to the screen… then returned to matchmaking and played a full game!! then was banned! what?

You’ve got 3 DNFs out of your last 10 Arena games over the past 3 days. The reason you got banned after you finished a full game is because the banhammer runs late sometimes; you actually triggered the ban with your DNF the previous game.

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They’re a bunch of -Yoinks!-, there’s nothing we can do anymore, they aren’t like bungie

Really tired of being banned for server failure. It’s getting obnoxious.

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In this case, they are like Bungie, since they would ban you for too much quitting as well.

Not banned yet, was being harrased on many posts by a team, the posted allot of yoink, not really sure but think it was about personal stuff, The one before on same team(thought something was weird so I checked profiles n made notes), so one was saying things like a Halo ring fell on the Diadac n killed him, actually 3 dif reasons and tagged them as spoilers and several other attacks, so I politely sugestted a book on lore and left. Each post was a different violation so I turned in 2 plus then his stats n team were deleted I turned them in #3, an obious attempt to cover it up, another different issue, but after sent it said I could get banned too. So what they can break 50 rules while attacking you and you can turn in only 1 thing? Unbelievable, right, not banned yet but im thinking me n not them???

I got just banned mid-game for quitting too many matches, when I haven’t quit at all. Been playing with my friend for three hours straight. What’s the deal?

So I was just playing Social Snipers after a long day at work. All of a sudden, I was backed out into the main menu, received a message that my fire team had changed and now I have a 10 minute ban for “quitting too many matches.” Go ahead and check my service record, I have nothing to hide, all my matches have been all completed. Have I quit a match or two in the entire span of this game’s existence? Sure, but I haven’t been quitting habitually lately to warrant this. I’m only concerned about this ban because of the record they keep. I can safely say I am no rage quitter and this ban was unwarranted. The only DNF that will appear was the one I was banned out of.

EDIT: inb4 someone accuses me of rage-quitting, I was going 12-3 before I got banned and disconnected.

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> In this case, they are like Bungie, since they would ban you for too much quitting as well.

Maybe after 3 times a “DAY” and not because of connection,server and console failures