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

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> I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.

You have quite a few DNFs in your recent history,so thats maybe why.
But you say you are console banned,so you cant play any online game?If thats the case,noone on this forum can help you.

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> I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.

If you received a ban then you would have had a message sent to your console (your screen would read “The banhammer strikes.”) stating the length of the ban and the reason for it. If it’s a two day or longer ban (and is for your entire console, not just your profile) than it is probably for something more sever than the normal matchmaking bans we deal with.

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> > I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.
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> Maybe stop smurfing.

That isn’t really helpful. If you want to help out trying providing information that we know about the ban system, rather than accusations.

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> I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.

Thank you for the post, RyTy. We’ll look into this and get back to you with an update as soon as we can.

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> > I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.
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> If you received a ban then you would have had a message sent to your console (your screen would read “The banhammer strikes.”) stating the length of the ban and the reason for it. If it’s a two day or longer ban (and is for your entire console, not just your profile) than it is probably for something more sever than the normal matchmaking bans we deal with.
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> > > I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.
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> That isn’t really helpful. If you want to help out trying providing information that we know about the ban system, rather than accusations.

He’s a known smurfer who has been banned in the past. He has made videos about it.

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> > > I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.
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> > > > I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.
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> He’s a known smurfer who has been banned in the past. He has made videos about it.

It doesn’t matter. This isn’t the place for that.

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> I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.

Hello RyTy,

Thank you for inquiring about your recent cooldown. After reviewing your account, we can see that this happened as a result of the following offenses:

  • Griefing, which was found to include instances of targeted griefing, on multiple accounts - Habitual quitting, on multiple accounts - Attempting to manipulate the ranking system, on multiple accounts - Ban evasion, on multiple accountsUpon further review, it also looks like this was not your first warning or cooldown for performing many of these offenses. In fact, you have received numerous incremental bans before this due to the transgressions listed above. To be more transparent**, you obtained over 380 temporary cooldowns while attempting to evade bans on over 60 different Xbox Live accounts** – some of which were even console-wide cooldowns. These console-wide cooldowns are necessary when players attempt to consistently evade bans by swapping to different accounts, usually so that they may continue their unsportsmanlike behavior. Your numerous, and in many cases, severe wrongdoings warranted a console-wide cooldown until August 7, 2552 at 9:52 AM PT.

We hope this helps clarify any confusion surrounding your cooldown.

Thank you,
The Forum Team

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> > I’m currently console banned with no ban message, no time/date given until the ban expires. This is shown in this game dvr clip i recorded: http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/RyTy/video/34946796 I’ve been banned for 2 days now and am unaware of why.
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> Hello RyTy,
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> Thank you for inquiring about your recent cooldown. After reviewing your account, we can see that this happened as a result of the following offenses:
> - Griefing, which was found to include instances of targeted griefing, on multiple accounts - Habitual quitting, on multiple accounts - Attempting to manipulate the ranking system, on multiple accounts - Ban evasion, on multiple accountsUpon further review, it also looks like this was not your first warning or cooldown for performing many of these offenses. In fact, you have received numerous incremental bans before this due to the transgressions listed above. To be more transparent**, you obtained over 380 temporary cooldowns while attempting to evade bans on over 60 different Xbox Live accounts** – some of which were even console-wide cooldowns. These console-wide cooldowns are necessary when players attempt to consistently evade bans by swapping to different accounts, usually so that they may continue their unsportsmanlike behavior. Your numerous, and in many cases, severe wrongdoings warranted a console-wide cooldown until August 7, 2552 at 9:52 AM PT.
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> We hope this helps clarify any confusion surrounding your cooldown.
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> Thank you,
> The Forum Team

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Why is does griffball, of all gamemodes, ban you for accidental team betrayal? You know everyone has gravity hammers and the maps are relatively cramped towards the objective right?

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> Why is does griffball, of all gamemodes, ban you for accidental team betrayal? You know everyone has gravity hammers and the maps are relatively cramped towards the objective right?

Because at some point, it stops being an accident and starts being griefing. Even in Grifball, there need to be checks and balances to make sure players aren’t doing what they aren’t supposed to do. If you are accidentally betraying often enough in Grifball to get booted or banned, play more carefully.

Does this mean I am “console banned”? There is no banhammer message but, i cannot find a match in halo 5, I have tried multiple playlists, but it just searches and searches and then says unable to find other players. I cannot even find a match when I go on Halo MCC and try there. I can join games in custom browser but that’s it

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> Does this mean I am “console banned”? There is no banhammer message but, i cannot find a match in halo 5, I have tried multiple playlists, but it just searches and searches and then says unable to find other players. I cannot even find a match when I go on Halo MCC and try there. I can join games in custom browser but that’s it

If you were banned it would give you a message stating, "One or more members of your fireteam is banned from matchmaking.’ or something of that ilk when you try to join a playlist.

I just got banned for having to take a phone call in the middle of a game for idling. Seems a bit much can you help?

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> I just got banned for having to take a phone call in the middle of a game for idling. Seems a bit much can you help?

You have 4 DNFs in your last 20 games,thats enough to trigger a ban.

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> Does this mean I am “console banned”? There is no banhammer message but, i cannot find a match in halo 5, I have tried multiple playlists, but it just searches and searches and then says unable to find other players. I cannot even find a match when I go on Halo MCC and try there. I can join games in custom browser but that’s it

If you were banned from matchmaking via the Halo 5 system, it wouldn’t even let you enter match searching for the playlists.

The fact that you can enter matchmaking but can’t find a match immediately suggests to me that your have bad Xbox Live reputation. You should check your reputation on enforcement.xbox.com. If your reputation is in the red, it means Xbox Live will not match you with players who have normal, green reputation, which can affect your ability to find games.

I need to stop playing halo

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> I idled one game because my team was gone.
> So what am i supposed to do play 1v4 ??
> Quitting is not an option because it will count as a quit?

If it was a ranked game than there isn’t a quit penalty if you’ve had a teammate leave already.

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> > I idled one game because my team was gone.
> > So what am i supposed to do play 1v4 ??
> > Quitting is not an option because it will count as a quit?
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> If it was a ranked game than there isn’t a quit penalty if you’ve had a teammate leave already.

Literally banned for idling one game…

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> > > I idled one game because my team was gone.
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> Literally banned for idling one game…

You know you aren’t supposed to idle. If you leave the controller with no input for three minutes you will be booted and banned. I’m not sure what you’re looking for.