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

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> > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.
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> > You say 12 DNF’s in the past 30 days. To reach 12 DNF’s, that takes it back to August 23rd. I have 12 DNF’s in a span of 300 games since that first one you quote. So in that span i have completed 96% of my games. This equates to 1 DNF every 25 games. Half of those DNF’s were due to halo 5 servers and XBL so we’ll take 6 away from that and 2% are actually quitting. Taking away those 6 for system instability brings it to a DNF every 50. For me to receive a ban because of system -Yoink- is absolutely unacceptable. Instability of servers is not on the players. So a 2% actual quit rate merits a ban of 20-30 minutes at least with a 98% completion rate (taking away system issues)? Absolutely ludicrous. This is the reason many players are unhappy with 343, because of things like this.

Don’t forget to click on “all” on your game history, WZ games count as well.

So I hope this works, I consider myself a decently behaved gameer, no rage quits, finish even tho the matchmaking leaves us 2 vs 4 for awhile. I received a ban, no info why, for a few minutes. I was wondering if there was a way to find out why?

Dude, I literally finished yet another wonderful match of Breakout with yet another wonderful stacked team against me and right as it started showing the other teams winning cutscene my Xbox connection timed out and I got a ban for a little over an hour! You can literally look at the latest video in my Xbox clips and see it firsthand how it happened for me! I understand if people leave the game too often get banned, but when something out of my control (like my internet randomly deciding to kick me out) happens, I can’t do anything about it. Maybe people purposely disconnecting from the internet to quit should not be the main worry the devs have here, maybe it should be to make sure if someone gets banned they actually deserve it? I’m really sick of this increasing banhammer time crap and all the bullcrap that comes with it. I hate posting in the official “why was i banned” thread because all anyone tells me is im banned (which i already know) and that i deserved it. Thats BS dude. Idk what to do.
Update: I’m actually at an 8 hour ban now (yes from 1h11m to 8h) for Arena because i actually left one match to go because I had no choice and needed to leave. Is there any way to help this? Could there perhaps be an appealing process put in place? Idk but idk what to do now

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> > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.You
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> > > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.
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> > > You say 12 DNF’s in the past 30 days. To reach 12 DNF’s, that takes it back to August 23rd. I have 12 DNF’s in a span of 300 games since that first one you quote. So in that span i have completed 96% of my games. This equates to 1 DNF every 25 games. Half of those DNF’s were due to halo 5 servers and XBL so we’ll take 6 away from that and 2% are actually quitting. Taking away those 6 for system instability brings it to a DNF every 50. For me to receive a ban because of system -Yoink- is absolutely unacceptable. Instability of servers is not on the players. So a 2% actual quit rate merits a ban of 20-30 minutes at least with a 98% completion rate (taking away system issues)? Absolutely ludicrous. This is the reason many players are unhappy with 343, because of things like this.
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> Don’t forget to click on “all” on your game history, WZ games count as well.

Last I checked warzone DNFs and bans are a seperate thing from arena but I’m not sure

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> > I got banned because same guy wanted me to leave and i didn’t he call me all sort of F***ing names say -Yoink- then after my next game i got banned for “Leaving to many games” even though i always use boost so i don’t leave. can anyone tell me 1. why this happened 2. help me stop this.
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yer that one i got lagged out at the start so that one didn’t count did it??

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> > > I got banned because same guy wanted me to leave and i didn’t he call me all sort of F***ing names say -Yoink- then after my next game i got banned for “Leaving to many games” even though i always use boost so i don’t leave. can anyone tell me 1. why this happened 2. help me stop this.
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> yer that one i got lagged out at the start so that one didn’t count did it??

Sadly they count anytime you leave at all as ragequitting. Whether you lag out, your power goes out, you actually leave, etc etc it all is the same to them. This system sucks

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> > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.You
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> > > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.
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> > > You say 12 DNF’s in the past 30 days. To reach 12 DNF’s, that takes it back to August 23rd. I have 12 DNF’s in a span of 300 games since that first one you quote. So in that span i have completed 96% of my games. This equates to 1 DNF every 25 games. Half of those DNF’s were due to halo 5 servers and XBL so we’ll take 6 away from that and 2% are actually quitting. Taking away those 6 for system instability brings it to a DNF every 50. For me to receive a ban because of system -Yoink- is absolutely unacceptable. Instability of servers is not on the players. So a 2% actual quit rate merits a ban of 20-30 minutes at least with a 98% completion rate (taking away system issues)? Absolutely ludicrous. This is the reason many players are unhappy with 343, because of things like this.
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> Don’t forget to click on “all” on your game history, WZ games count as well.

I’m well aware. That statistic was including WZ games. Thank you very much.

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> > > > I got banned because same guy wanted me to leave and i didn’t he call me all sort of F***ing names say -Yoink- then after my next game i got banned for “Leaving to many games” even though i always use boost so i don’t leave. can anyone tell me 1. why this happened 2. help me stop this.
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> > yer that one i got lagged out at the start so that one didn’t count did it??
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> Sadly they count anytime you leave at all as ragequitting. Whether you lag out, your power goes out, you actually leave, etc etc it all is the same to them. This system sucks

that Fing sucks

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> > > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.
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> > > > You say 12 DNF’s in the past 30 days. To reach 12 DNF’s, that takes it back to August 23rd. I have 12 DNF’s in a span of 300 games since that first one you quote. So in that span i have completed 96% of my games. This equates to 1 DNF every 25 games. Half of those DNF’s were due to halo 5 servers and XBL so we’ll take 6 away from that and 2% are actually quitting. Taking away those 6 for system instability brings it to a DNF every 50. For me to receive a ban because of system -Yoink- is absolutely unacceptable. Instability of servers is not on the players. So a 2% actual quit rate merits a ban of 20-30 minutes at least with a 98% completion rate (taking away system issues)? Absolutely ludicrous. This is the reason many players are unhappy with 343, because of things like this.
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> > Don’t forget to click on “all” on your game history, WZ games count as well.
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yer i keep laging out as they are working with the NBN here but thank you for telling me that mate

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> > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.You
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> > > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.
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> > > You say 12 DNF’s in the past 30 days. To reach 12 DNF’s, that takes it back to August 23rd. I have 12 DNF’s in a span of 300 games since that first one you quote. So in that span i have completed 96% of my games. This equates to 1 DNF every 25 games. Half of those DNF’s were due to halo 5 servers and XBL so we’ll take 6 away from that and 2% are actually quitting. Taking away those 6 for system instability brings it to a DNF every 50. For me to receive a ban because of system -Yoink- is absolutely unacceptable. Instability of servers is not on the players. So a 2% actual quit rate merits a ban of 20-30 minutes at least with a 98% completion rate (taking away system issues)? Absolutely ludicrous. This is the reason many players are unhappy with 343, because of things like this.
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Those statistics were including warzone games, i made sure to include that. So yet again, 2% DNF rate in 300 games? Banning system is out of control and needs to be fixed.

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> > > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.You
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> > > > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.
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> > > > You say 12 DNF’s in the past 30 days. To reach 12 DNF’s, that takes it back to August 23rd. I have 12 DNF’s in a span of 300 games since that first one you quote. So in that span i have completed 96% of my games. This equates to 1 DNF every 25 games. Half of those DNF’s were due to halo 5 servers and XBL so we’ll take 6 away from that and 2% are actually quitting. Taking away those 6 for system instability brings it to a DNF every 50. For me to receive a ban because of system -Yoink- is absolutely unacceptable. Instability of servers is not on the players. So a 2% actual quit rate merits a ban of 20-30 minutes at least with a 98% completion rate (taking away system issues)? Absolutely ludicrous. This is the reason many players are unhappy with 343, because of things like this.
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Actual server disconnects don’t show up as a dnf, lost connection to the server can also mean it was lost on your side so you will have to add those 6 games back.

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> > > > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.You
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> > > > > > > The banning system is out of control. I got kicked from game because of the halo 5 servers having a glitch and saying that i “left fireteam” while i was in the middle of a doubles game and then i get banned for 20 minutes? How is this fair? I haven’t quit out of a single game today and IF i quit, its maybe once every 2 or 3 days and yet i still get a ban for that saying excessive quitting. This is absolute garbage.
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> > > > > > You have 12 Dnf’s in the last 30 days, as far as we know the system doesn’t forgive or forget, meaning the system doesn’t reset. The bans will increase with every dnf.
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> > > > > You say 12 DNF’s in the past 30 days. To reach 12 DNF’s, that takes it back to August 23rd. I have 12 DNF’s in a span of 300 games since that first one you quote. So in that span i have completed 96% of my games. This equates to 1 DNF every 25 games. Half of those DNF’s were due to halo 5 servers and XBL so we’ll take 6 away from that and 2% are actually quitting. Taking away those 6 for system instability brings it to a DNF every 50. For me to receive a ban because of system -Yoink- is absolutely unacceptable. Instability of servers is not on the players. So a 2% actual quit rate merits a ban of 20-30 minutes at least with a 98% completion rate (taking away system issues)? Absolutely ludicrous. This is the reason many players are unhappy with 343, because of things like this.
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> > > Don’t forget to click on “all” on your game history, WZ games count as well.
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> > Those statistics were including warzone games, i made sure to include that. So yet again, 2% DNF rate in 300 games? Banning system is out of control and needs to be fixed.
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Regardless, that’s a 4% DNF out of 300 games. Still a -Yoink- reason for banning.

I sometimes get banned if my internet gets too slow. “Banhammer Strikes Again” I just play firefight for a little bit and it always goes away.

Hi my gamer tag is grantano
Halo keep booting me from all my first games and after they boot me they banned me its been hapening for 2 weeks it says my party has change and i get boot and baneddddddddd right now 8 hours !!! Please helppppppppp

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> Hi my gamer tag is grantano
> Halo keep booting me from all my first games and after they boot me they banned me its been hapening for 2 weeks it says my party has change and i get boot and baneddddddddd right now 8 hours !!! Please helppppppppp

Hard reset usually takes care of the fireteam issue. Make sure you are not set to appear offline as well.

Im finishing games and getting connection lost errors RIGHT before it goes to the menu. Im up to a 3 day ban and debaiting on trading 5 for MMC because at least youre not forced to wait DAYS to play again. Does 343 have an explaination of WHY they bans can go up to days? Halo 3 took XP and Reach banned you fpr 15 minutes, why such a dramatic change? Dont fix something thats not broken.

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> Im finishing games and getting connection lost errors RIGHT before it goes to the menu. Im up to a 3 day ban and debaiting on trading 5 for MMC because at least youre not forced to wait DAYS to play again. Does 343 have an explaination of WHY they bans can go up to days? Halo 3 took XP and Reach banned you fpr 15 minutes, why such a dramatic change? Dont fix something thats not broken.

5 DNF s in your last 20games.
The ban you recived is not for your last game,this counted as finished.
The ban is for the game before with the DNF.
The banhammer has an one round delay.

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> > Im finishing games and getting connection lost errors RIGHT before it goes to the menu. Im up to a 3 day ban and debaiting on trading 5 for MMC because at least youre not forced to wait DAYS to play again. Does 343 have an explaination of WHY they bans can go up to days? Halo 3 took XP and Reach banned you fpr 15 minutes, why such a dramatic change? Dont fix something thats not broken.
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Okay so how many games do I need to play before the time is reduced?

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> > > Im finishing games and getting connection lost errors RIGHT before it goes to the menu. Im up to a 3 day ban and debaiting on trading 5 for MMC because at least youre not forced to wait DAYS to play again. Does 343 have an explaination of WHY they bans can go up to days? Halo 3 took XP and Reach banned you fpr 15 minutes, why such a dramatic change? Dont fix something thats not broken.
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If you are up to a 3 day ban then you will have to finish a lot of games to reduce ban time. Not sure anyone other than 343 could give you an exact number.

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> > The banning system just banned me erroneously. I have 1 recent DNF…26 matches ago. I played 25 matches over the past 3 days and roughly 10 matches today. Mid-game in Team Doubles I get pulled to a loading screen and told my fireteam changed and then I’m banned for “quitting too many matches”. 1 DNF in 26 matches. Seriously Bungie. This is ridiculous. Get your -Yoink- together.
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I disagree. The banning system is a game behind. Meaning even if I had a disconnect on my end, I’d be able to play roughly another match before the ban would effectively kick in. I was returned to the main menu with this fireteam error and IMMEDIATELY banned. The problems lay on the server side.