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

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> > ZaedynFel,
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> > I’ll add in as well that we are thankful for the clarification with all this. The changes you discussed to broadening the doubles matching criteria is exactly what we have been after, so we’re grateful for the changes to help the community. You can see the confusion we have faced, basing our actions around the only statistics we had to hand.
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> > In light of all this discussion can we perhaps now discuss the length of the ban? We feel 175 days for entering onyx 1505 (and by extension, falling into champ!) is somewhat extreme for two players’ first offense. And clearly, you can see we are very passionate about H5! It would be unfortunate to try find other games till September 2nd based on what you have read here.
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> You do have a fair point that you were pre-season Champs and not late season ones, so I’ll see what enforcement thinks.

In Mexico, we are many people with the same problem, a ban of 175 days is exaggerated for people who commit their first penalty, and more when halo 5 is losing its population, I stream that game and at this moment I no longer have Champs. Would be grateful if you could reconsider that ban, for something lower, 15 days would be fine, since it is our first mistake. We also have the right to fail.

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> > > ZaedynFel,
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> > > I’ll add in as well that we are thankful for the clarification with all this. The changes you discussed to broadening the doubles matching criteria is exactly what we have been after, so we’re grateful for the changes to help the community. You can see the confusion we have faced, basing our actions around the only statistics we had to hand.
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> > > In light of all this discussion can we perhaps now discuss the length of the ban? We feel 175 days for entering onyx 1505 (and by extension, falling into champ!) is somewhat extreme for two players’ first offense. And clearly, you can see we are very passionate about H5! It would be unfortunate to try find other games till September 2nd based on what you have read here.
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> > You do have a fair point that you were pre-season Champs and not late season ones, so I’ll see what enforcement thinks.
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> In Mexico, we are many people with the same problem, a ban of 175 days is exaggerated for people who commit their first penalty, and more when halo 5 is losing its population, I stream that game and at this moment I no longer have Champs. Would be grateful if you could reconsider that ban, for something lower, 15 days would be fine, since it is our first mistake. We also have the right to fail.

Your situation is different. This is the difference between 1500-level Champs (not really Champs), and #1 Champ (in your case), which is a lot more abusive.

good afternoon
I share what was said by my community partners.
In the same way I was banned for 175 days, I know what I did was wrong and personally I feel sorry, I know that creating lower-level accounts affects the fun of others, personally believes them because it was excessive to find a game and to some extent boring, (I do not try to justify myself) but this penalty is somewhat excessive, because I practically bought the xbox for the halo and now I feel frustrated because I did not receive any warning, and I did not know about the changes that would be made to the regulation, in my opinion when one looked at the daily messages published in the game I watched important news, but it is important for me to communicate what is being done (I am referring to the investigation of the low level accounts) and the measures that are going to be taken to eradicate this. I feel that in that part communication was lost a bit.
Returning, instantly, I was banned, without a previous warning, for me that is important, because one does not know what is being done wrong until they announce it or correct it, but as I mentioned earlier, the ban is excessive.
I would like to know what is going to happen, I do not know if I hope to buy another game or sell the xbox. I get some important information.
Thanks for your attention

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> good afternoon
> I share what was said by my community partners.
> In the same way I was banned for 175 days, I know what I did was wrong and personally I feel sorry, I know that creating lower-level accounts affects the fun of others, personally believes them because it was excessive to find a game and to some extent boring, (I do not try to justify myself) but this penalty is somewhat excessive, because I practically bought the xbox for the halo and now I feel frustrated because I did not receive any warning, and I did not know about the changes that would be made to the regulation, in my opinion when one looked at the daily messages published in the game I watched important news, but it is important for me to communicate what is being done (I am referring to the investigation of the low level accounts) and the measures that are going to be taken to eradicate this. I feel that in that part communication was lost a bit.
> Returning, instantly, I was banned, without a previous warning, for me that is important, because one does not know what is being done wrong until they announce it or correct it, but as I mentioned earlier, the ban is excessive.
> I would like to know what is going to happen, I do not know if I hope to buy another game or sell the xbox. I get some important information.
> Thanks for your attention

K

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> > > > ZaedynFel,
> > > >
> > > > I’ll add in as well that we are thankful for the clarification with all this. The changes you discussed to broadening the doubles matching criteria is exactly what we have been after, so we’re grateful for the changes to help the community. You can see the confusion we have faced, basing our actions around the only statistics we had to hand.
> > > >
> > > > In light of all this discussion can we perhaps now discuss the length of the ban? We feel 175 days for entering onyx 1505 (and by extension, falling into champ!) is somewhat extreme for two players’ first offense. And clearly, you can see we are very passionate about H5! It would be unfortunate to try find other games till September 2nd based on what you have read here.
> > >
> > > You do have a fair point that you were pre-season Champs and not late season ones, so I’ll see what enforcement thinks.
> >
> > In Mexico, we are many people with the same problem, a ban of 175 days is exaggerated for people who commit their first penalty, and more when halo 5 is losing its population, I stream that game and at this moment I no longer have Champs. Would be grateful if you could reconsider that ban, for something lower, 15 days would be fine, since it is our first mistake. We also have the right to fail.
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> Your situation is different. This is the difference between 1500-level Champs (not really Champs), and #1 Champ (in your case), which is a lot more abusive.

I’m not champ # 1, how much I’ve arrived is # 110 I think, and I’m currently Onix. I think that’s why I deserve a reconsideration in my house. Since I never tried to abuse the system, I just did not know it was good and that it was wrong. There was no warning, just a very long punishment, for someone who is making his first mistake. I am seriously thinking about selling my xbox, since halo 5 is the only thing I play, it is not a threat to you, since a single player will not affect the whole world of Halo, I only express my opinion based on what another person with This same problem they are thinking. Since this punishment is exaggerated and even unfair to many people. I hope not only an answer if I do not solve, it’s been 2 days without being able to play and counting …

good afternoon
Like the other classmates banned me for 175 days and I think it’s something excessive, I know that the use of secondary accounts ruins the happiness of someone, but have they started thinking or seeing the community?
I looked with my colleagues in the original accounts and it took us up to 2 hours to find something illogical that they gave us just for that reason and do not take into account that it takes hours to find a game, the only reason why I continue in xbox is halo and I find it very difficult to be without playing this game and its banning is very excessive I understand them but I think the most appropriate is 10 or 14 days of banning not 175!
I hope they can solve something because halo is very important for many people!

It is not fair that they are doing this kind of bangles to people who play clean even worse is the servers are disgusting, I mean you can only get to find a game if you use a new account, as you can play, I can not see just this error, that way they will make the game die and I think that the 175 days is exaggerated, just as their game is going to die completely.

Like other people I’ve been banned for 175 days, so I’ve read is due to the use of Smurf accounts.
This shows that the 343 team doesn’t have the minimum attention on their H5 community, in case, they didn’t know, we have many players that we can’t play together because the rank system doesn’t find a game, and this ruins us too much that we still have teams and we want to practice in matchmaking, which is completely impossible cause the game never find a match for us, this forces us to create new accounts to be able to find games, it’s the only exit that you, 343, leave us, so I don’t understand the reason for such an excessive ban, if you don’t like the Smurf account are used, fix your rank system so that players like me and my teammates we can find games and don’t wait to hours looking for a match, I really hope a quick and good solution.

The 6 month bans are not for smurfing, they are for boosting to near the top of the Champ leaderboard. That goes well beyond just making alt accounts in order to matchmake.

In the banning logs it’s very obvious these accounts were boosting, not just smurfing, and for that, they do not get to finish this or the next ranked season.

In past Halos, leaderboard rank boosting was an automatic lifetime permanent console ban from matchmaking, relative to that, Enforcement is being lenient with only seasonal bans.

When players do this, they ruin the game for everyone in their placement matches, and then they ruin the game for everyone they play against that they shouldn’t be playing against.

It also drastically raises the quit rates of everyone they play against (there were a ton more quits from players in just the games these players played in), which leads to a spreading network of negativity and disengagement among all of the players affected.

Just because there isn’t enough pop in a playlist to matchmake a stacked team doesn’t justify ruining the game for a much larger group of players than just yourself. If you can’t matchmake, it means there aren’t any matches available that would be fair for a stacked team, and not lead to ruining someone elses’ game. In those cases, you have to play in smaller parties just like every other Halo, and not ruin the game for other players.

We lose a lot more players due to deranking and boosting than we do to banning the small amount that do this.

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> > > > > ZaedynFel,
> > > > >
> > > > > I’ll add in as well that we are thankful for the clarification with all this. The changes you discussed to broadening the doubles matching criteria is exactly what we have been after, so we’re grateful for the changes to help the community. You can see the confusion we have faced, basing our actions around the only statistics we had to hand.
> > > > >
> > > > > In light of all this discussion can we perhaps now discuss the length of the ban? We feel 175 days for entering onyx 1505 (and by extension, falling into champ!) is somewhat extreme for two players’ first offense. And clearly, you can see we are very passionate about H5! It would be unfortunate to try find other games till September 2nd based on what you have read here.
> > > >
> > > > You do have a fair point that you were pre-season Champs and not late season ones, so I’ll see what enforcement thinks.
> > >
> > > In Mexico, we are many people with the same problem, a ban of 175 days is exaggerated for people who commit their first penalty, and more when halo 5 is losing its population, I stream that game and at this moment I no longer have Champs. Would be grateful if you could reconsider that ban, for something lower, 15 days would be fine, since it is our first mistake. We also have the right to fail.
> >
> > Your situation is different. This is the difference between 1500-level Champs (not really Champs), and #1 Champ (in your case), which is a lot more abusive.
>
> I’m not champ # 1, how much I’ve arrived is # 110 I think, and I’m currently Onix. I think that’s why I deserve a reconsideration in my house. Since I never tried to abuse the system, I just did not know it was good and that it was wrong. There was no warning, just a very long punishment, for someone who is making his first mistake. I am seriously thinking about selling my xbox, since halo 5 is the only thing I play, it is not a threat to you, since a single player will not affect the whole world of Halo, I only express my opinion based on what another person with This same problem they are thinking. Since this punishment is exaggerated and even unfair to many people. I hope not only an answer if I do not solve, it’s been 2 days without being able to play and counting …

The account you were boosting with attained a high rank in Champ.

There’s no warning for banning for rank-boosting because it’s so obviously a terrible behavior. It ruinis the game for everyone the account touches.

The goal here is that enforcement doesn’t want boosters on the leaderboards, and so they are banned from affecting them both the current and next seasons.

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> The 6 month bans are not for smurfing, they are for boosting to near the top of the Champ leaderboard. That goes well beyond just making alt accounts in order to matchmake.
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> In the banning logs it’s very obvious these accounts were boosting, not just smurfing, and for that, they do not get to finish this or the next ranked season.
>
> In past Halos, leaderboard rank boosting was an automatic lifetime permanent console ban from matchmaking, relative to that, Enforcement is being lenient with only seasonal bans.
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> When players do this, they ruin the game for everyone in their placement matches, and then they ruin the game for everyone they play against that they shouldn’t be playing against.
>
> It also drastically raises the quit rates of everyone they play against (there were a ton more quits from players in just the games these players played in), which leads to a spreading network of negativity and disengagement among all of the players affected.
>
> Just because there isn’t enough pop in a playlist to matchmake a stacked team doesn’t justify ruining the game for a much larger group of players than just yourself. If you can’t matchmake, it means there aren’t any matches available that would be fair for a stacked team, and not lead to ruining someone elses’ game. In those cases, you have to play in smaller parties just like every other Halo, and not ruin the game for other players.
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> We lose a lot more players due to deranking and boosting than we do to banning the small amount that do this.

I agree with you but I’ve been champion for 5 seasons and for one time only one of my teammates enters a smurf with a platinum rank. Do they give me a 6 month ban?
it’s something very unfair, I accept 2 or 3 weeks but months?
and more apart you comment that players lose for that reason, lose more players unnecessarily banning players who only seek to find a game and not waiting 3 or 4 hours to play a single game, and another good thing is fine if my account has already been banned. Well, why not play on another account?
he paid for my gold, he paid for my Halo 5 and they refuse to play me just because we resorted to using a platinum account to find a game?
Do not you feel it’s very drastic?
I tell you good if I got ban from my main account I accept it even if it is somewhat exaggerated, but why not let it play in other accounts, is it even in other consoles it leaves me?
this is worthy of demand because they forbid us to play something for what we pay.

Your server kicked me out 5 times and now I’m banned you guys need to lift bans if it’s your fault that I can’t play the game.

It is absurd 175 days to “play with low accounts” is not our fault that their pairings are wrong, when I play alone I always find "low accounts and it’s not my fault.

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> Your server kicked me out 5 times and now I’m banned you guys need to lift bans if it’s your fault that I can’t play the game.

Not going to happen I’m afraid - leaves the game open to abuse if people could just disconnect from their network, claim they were kicked and not be penalised for it. All disconnects need to be treated the same

so wait if you were banned for being idle is it possible for you to be permanently banned just from being idle??? cuz that makes no sense… people will stop purchasing the game from bad reviews and halo i am positive will have to un-ban everyone if they want to stay alive…
idle is a common thing in games and not for the reason of “cheating” our way through or whatever as you may think, halo. im idle in minecraft a lot, but they simply just dont give me any experience points for those multiplayer matches which is fine since i wasnt there. can’t you do something like that?

also how do i check how much longer i am banned? cuz it wont tell me…just sayd one or more on your team has been banned… i was just away in the bathroom for a minute or two…

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> also how do i check how much longer i am banned? cuz it wont tell me…just sayd one or more on your team has been banned… i was just away in the bathroom for a minute or two…

Try closing the H5 app, then reopen it to see if the ban message reappears

I don’t think you can get permabanned for idling. If you get banned often, then your ban could be long, but not likely permanent.

The game doesn’t kick you for idling until 3 min have passed, so you were in the bathroom for a bit longer than 1 or 2 minutes.

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> It is absurd 175 days to “play with low accounts” is not our fault that their pairings are wrong, when I play alone I always find "low accounts and it’s not my fault.

We do not ban for that.

Being honest and short here, i was smurfing other accounts but not my main account. 168 day ban to all my accounts. I’m guessing it was a console I.D banned. Lesson learned. Will buying a new Xbox and using my banned gamertag let me play matchmaking (I’m speaking about my main account banned for association to the my console i.d. I suppose) .

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Stupid 343 ur system of BAN is stupid than your game .l. chinguen a su -Yoink- madre con su sistema