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

I have been banned countless times because the servers kick me out of a game for no reason and then ban me for leaving the game! This has happened every day since the last update and I am currently banned for leaving a session when I just played two straight games!!!

I have had a ban about every day when I try to play halo! My connection is perfectly fine and the servers i’m playing on are having problems that get me banned up to 24:00:00 while I didn’t do anything wrong! Also I have been killed by the same teammate countless times and when I leave I’m banned for killing them when they were the ones killing me!!!

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OK this just -Yoinking!- happened to me again. You kicked me and then banned me. Well -Yoink- your game if you don’t want me to play I won’t.

I get constantly banned from arena after I get disconnected from 1 game. I play a second one but lose connection with the servers after it finishes and get banned for 24 hours! If there is a way to fix halo 5 please fix the banning system in the next update or halo 5 arena will be practically unplayable due to issues in banning innocent players! this ongoing problem makes stops me from playing halo 5. I woke up this morning and thought “what game should I play?” I started up halo 5 " oh yea, I forgot I’m banned for 24 hours" I honestly want some help with this problem because I can’t just wait until tomorrow to play only to be banned the very next day for another 24 hours and be expected to try playing halo 5 again. Also halo 5 is the only game I really enjoy playing, Call of Duty lets you get killed too fast and Destiny needs a new DLC that I have to pay for, It’s sad to see that halo 5 is on my list of games not to play because of little server and banning issues.

It says I’m banned from all multiplayer, including campaign, but I never received a ban hammer message. What’s the deal?

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> > > > > > > Ok so, today I quit 2 games in a row because of horrible lag and because some teammates already did (team-arena).
> > > > > > > I was banner for About 1 hour, ok fine. After that I played a bunch of matches untill my intermission got stuck and ‘dedicated server had issues’. So I rebooted my game and was banned for 8:30 hours… what…??
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> > > > > > Ok, I found the 2 Team Arena DNFs. It was followed by a Warzone DNF, but I don’t think that would have triggered the 8:30 ban since you played many games after that Warzone game. But interestingly, your last CTF game was also a DNF, where only two people on your team (including you) left, and you both weren’t doing so hot in the game (this suggests that you left rather than disconnected). But you say that you rebooted your console during an intermission, which would have only occurred after the game completed, meaning it should have registered as complete in your history. So I’m not fully following your story. Perhaps the banhammer kicked in for the CTF DNF during the intermission between games (though I’ve never heard of this happening).
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> > > I know, but a 24h ban for 1 disconnect…? Why penalty’s for faulty server connections…
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> > You originally said you left that Team Arena game. Right here:
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> > > I never quit a game unless theres extreme lag or teammates betraying, idling, etc…
> > > I never left a match after that Warzone game.
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> > > And to make things worse, I’m now banned, again. I left 1 team-arena game, then I -completed- a BTB game but the moment the carnage report should’ve popped ,it said connection lost. Thus banning me for 24 hours…
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> > I know getting banned isn’t fun, but please be honest when posting here. Trying to gain sympathy by making it seem like you didn’t actually quit does nothing to help you. And in the case of that Team Arena game you are referring to, it doesn’t look like a server error because only two people didn’t finish, and both of you were doing so well in the game (which looks like intentionally leaving, for one reason or another).
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> Chimera30, I appreciate help, but don’t start a ‘fight’ here. Because now you’re just acting like you’re all-knowing, implying that I’m just another kid that lies about stuff like this. “Trying to gain sympathy by making it seem like you didn’t actually quit”. Really, I don’t need that, you’re not helping me man…
> I’m an adult, just like you (I hope). I’ve been playing Halo sinnce day 1. And I know my stuff, I know when I quit or when I get disconnected. Don’t claim things to be true/false unless Youre sitring right next to me.
> And by the way, I have about 200mb down with 0 PL. It has to do with US/Europe connections.

I was merely pointing out a discrepancy between what you said before and what you said later. Not starting a fight; simply trying to keep people honest. Typically when people say they “left” a game, it means quitting. In most cases where people disconnect, they refer to it specifically as a disconnect. If overseas you all use different terminology for leaving games then that’s fine and simply something I didn’t know. I don’t pretend to be all knowing; I always qualify my statements in that they are conclusions I’ve drawn based on available information. I understand I could be wrong, but that’s not going to stop me from posting logical responses based on what information I can see.

I’ve been playing halo 5 for a while and it appears that the screen stalls for a about 2 second to 3 second duartions which is a long time when playing multiplayer. Not only that but players sometimes pop in and out on screen which ruins the game for me. Any idea on the cause of the problem? It seems it has gotten worse for me, especially huge stutters during moments i can’t explain. This only happens on Halo 5 too, not in other games like doom multiplayer.

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> I’ve been playing halo 5 for a while and it appears that the screen stalls for a about 2 second to 3 second duartions which is a long time when playing multiplayer. Not only that but players sometimes pop in and out on screen which ruins the game for me. Any idea on the cause of the problem? It seems it has gotten worse for me, especially huge stutters during moments i can’t explain. This only happens on Halo 5 too, not in other games like doom multiplayer.

This thread is for ban discussion; your issue sounds separate, so you’d be better off making your own thread in the support section for your specific issue (looks like you already did, so you can just take this reply as a PSA for any future posting you do).

Why cant we just get an answer to why this ‘ban-system’ is such a failure. It’s more like a 'how do I shrink my player-base even more-system…

They state that it’s reliable and whatnot, but it’s just trash.
It bans you for ‘quitting’ when you get Kicked from the match…? Sometimes it’s their faulty servers getting you disconnected, resulting in the same ‘quit-ban’, which is even worse…

It bans you for repeated betrayal, when you are the one getting betrayed. Seriously, what’s wrong with you guys? Fix your stuff.

Also, why is there No contact info, at all? You’re probably the first company to not have any.
Where is the email…

Don’t understand why I am penalized for situation beyond my control
The system keeps removing me from my fire team and I get banned

So I just got banned for quitting too many matches.
The problem is that I haven’t quit, at all, today.
Even when I was part of several games where teammates quit regularly.
So, the -Yoink-?

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> Don’t understand why I am penalized for situation beyond my control
> The system keeps removing me from my fire team and I get banned

Hard reset your console and make sure you aren’t set to appear off-line. That usually clears up the fireteam

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> Why cant we just get an answer to why this ‘ban-system’ is such a failure. It’s more like a 'how do I shrink my player-base even more-system…
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> They state that it’s reliable and whatnot, but it’s just trash.
> It bans you for ‘quitting’ when you get Kicked from the match…? Sometimes it’s their faulty servers getting you disconnected, resulting in the same ‘quit-ban’, which is even worse…
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> It bans you for repeated betrayal, when you are the one getting betrayed. Seriously, what’s wrong with you guys? Fix your stuff.
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> Also, why is there No contact info, at all? You’re probably the first company to not have any.
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You weren’t booted for someone betraying you. The only way you’ll get booted for betrayal if you betray a team mate.

As for being disconnected, use the search feature at the top. There are many threads devoted to improving your connection or reducing your chance of disconnects.
glitch.

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> So I just got banned for quitting too many matches.
> The problem is that I haven’t quit, at all, today.
> Even when I was part of several games where teammates quit regularly.
> So, the -Yoink-?

You have a Tank Word game in your history that is listed as DNF. That is probably what triggered the ban.

this thread is longer than all those “why halo isent halo threads” yikes!

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> > So I just got banned for quitting too many matches.
> > The problem is that I haven’t quit, at all, today.
> > Even when I was part of several games where teammates quit regularly.
> > So, the -Yoink-?
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> You have a Tank Word game in your history that is listed as DNF. That is probably what triggered the ban.

Yeah, but I did finish it. I remember because I had at least one teammate afk and one or two that quit. It resulted in a 3-0 loss.

I was unfairly banned for being disconnected I didn’t leave Edit: My ban expired it was only 18 mins but if this keeps happening in going to have a hefty ban

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> I haven’t played this game in almost a year, I come back to play, and it says I’m not permitted to play MP matches. And I have absolutely no idea how long I’ve been banned for. I’ve had a hankering to jump back into this game, so, it would be nice to at least know how long I have left.

Have your Gold membership run out,normally you get the not permitted message when you dont have Xbox live gold.
Also you have 9DNFs in your last 20 games,which is really high.

Sometimes I have connection issues… There can be as many as 5 people streaming and playing other games at the same time. It’s not always an issue but I dc out of maybe 20% of my games.

i play team doubles a lot too and if I quit it’s usually because my teammate already quit. I really wish there was a forefeit option.

long story short I got hit with a month ban. Why is it so ridiculous? The franchise is dying and players are being alienated from the game on top of that.

So it’s fine to ban a person for leaving a game (let alone just grabbing a weapon off the ground in general) when the other team is spawn camping the entire time ruining the game play and entertainment for said players, but not the other way around?