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

I Was just banned for idling one time is that the standard usually should I have quit the game instead I had to move my car smh. It says 12:12 does that mean 12 days or hours???

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> I Was just banned for idling one time is that the standard usually should I have quit the game instead I had to move my car smh. It says 12:12 does that mean 12 days or hours???

Check the first post of this thread for a breakdown on the format of the ban timer.

Idle boots happen after 3 min of inactivity. At that point, you’ll get removed from the game, so it’ll register as a DNF just like a quit.

I got banned for no reason I was supposedly greifing but it was my first couple games back on a new match and it said I got banned for greifing because I fell of the map three times and now it says I’m banned from playing halo 5 guarding a and I don’t know for how long it won’t say anything it just saying I’m banned like as if to say permanently

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> I got banned for no reason I was supposedly greifing but it was my first couple games back on a new match and it said I got banned for greifing because I fell of the map three times and now it says I’m banned from playing halo 5 guarding a and I don’t know for how long it won’t say anything it just saying I’m banned like as if to say permanently

You will have to post on the actual gamertag that got banned in order for anyone to help you at all.

I was banned for 2 weeks for “intentionally choosing to ruin the fun of the game for other players” but I don’t know what I did wrong? How do I get more information?

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> I was banned for 2 weeks for “intentionally choosing to ruin the fun of the game for other players” but I don’t know what I did wrong? How do I get more information?

Usually means deranking or playing with a deranker.

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Except I didn’t do that. I literally played with a group we won several games together and then our whole fire team got banned. We did nothing wrong, not cheating, not deranking, no betrayals, no trash talking the other teams etc. we just got banned for two weeks for no reason. It makes no sense whatsoever.

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> Except I didn’t do that. I literally played with a group we won several games together and then our whole fire team got banned. We did nothing wrong, not cheating, not deranking, no betrayals, no trash talking the other teams etc. we just got banned for two weeks for no reason. It makes no sense whatsoever.

Checking the Enforcement logs shows there is a member of your fire team that very obviously deranked.

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> > > > I was banned for 2 weeks for “intentionally choosing to ruin the fun of the game for other players” but I don’t know what I did wrong? How do I get more information?
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> > Except I didn’t do that. I literally played with a group we won several games together and then our whole fire team got banned. We did nothing wrong, not cheating, not deranking, no betrayals, no trash talking the other teams etc. we just got banned for two weeks for no reason. It makes no sense whatsoever.
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> Checking the Enforcement logs shows there is a member of your fire team that very obviously deranked.

Okay, so I’m being punished for something someone else did, that I had no knowledge of? That’s unfortunate. If it’s so obvious that one member of the fire team deranked why ban all of us and not just that person? Guilty by association I guess?

this is the dumbest thing. it makes me want to play other games.


gotta go take care of your kid while you’re in the middle of a game? we’re sorry. you should’ve thought of that before you started. you can either quit or hope that you can make it there and back in the 48 seconds it takes to time out. oh, you didn’t make it back? banhammer. for how long? oh, sorry. you don’t get to know. however long we want. could be 2 hours. could be 2 days. just play something stupid with all the other quitters until we decide you’re forgiven.

alright. we forgive you. go play again. try some ‘capture the flag’. what’s that? the rest of your team has quit and the other team won’t capture the 3rd flag and is just spawn-killing you over and over again? sorry. you gotta just sit there and take it for the next 11 minutes, or it’s another 2-day banhammer. your time might be precious to you, but it certainly isn’t precious to us.

edit because I can’t reply: like I said, this is the dumbest thing. I had to back out 2 days ago and I’m still banhammered… it sure makes me want to play more. let me wait around another day to see if I get to play more crappy games with crap players who aren’t really committed because they’ll also be banned if they back out. oh, shoot. wait. I have a family and a kid and a life. I just want to sit down and play some frickin Husky Raid, and I don’t even get to pick that variant anymore. so frickin dumb.

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> gotta go take care of your kid while you’re in the middle of a game? we’re sorry. you should’ve thought of that before you started. you can either quit or hope that you can make it there and back in the 48 seconds it takes to time out. oh, you didn’t make it back? banhammer. for how long? oh, sorry. you don’t get to know. however long we want. could be 2 hours. could be 2 days. just play something stupid with all the other quitters until we decide you’re forgiven.

You only get banned after multiple offences and the time starts out small - only a few minutes, then it increases with subsequent bans. You’re only going to get banned if you’re quitting or idling on a frequent basis. Additionally, the idle timer in-game I believe is 3 minutes before you get kicked out.

Jumping off to take care of something every now and again is fine, but if it’s happening too frequently then yes you will get banned. You’re disrupting the game for everyone else playing. If you need to leave, make sure and back out to the lobby or don’t start a game if you know you might need to leave and do something half way through

Why is it our problem and frustration to get banned when the servers kick us out and is there any way to reverse bans for this reason?

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> Why is it our problem and frustration to get banned when the servers kick us out and is there any way to reverse bans for this reason?

They don’t currently have a way to tell server kick vs your connection dropping so it’s all treated the same. It needs to happen often enough for you to get banned, and the first ban starts very short and increases with more disconnects / quits. If it happens often, it’s best to troubleshoot to find what’s causing the issue (connection quality, open NAT, firewall settings, etc).

You can’t reverse bans — unless you dropped out tons of times your ban shouldn’t be very long.

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> Why is it our problem and frustration to get banned when the servers kick us out and is there any way to reverse bans for this reason?

If you are getting banned for disconnects, then you are disconnecting much more often than the average player, which means your connection is ruining the game for players that aren’t having the same issues nearly as often, which means bans will be likely until the amount of disconnects goes down to a normal level.

I got banned for idling through games in both warzone and arena. I was playing only warzone firefight mode last night and I didn’t got kick out for idling through games. Why I got banned for 14 days?

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> Why I got banned for 14 days?

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> I got banned for idling through games in both warzone and arena.

Seems you answered your own question.

I literally just had back to back network disconnections and am being told I’m banned. No time frame or anything. It was network disconnecting, and I had top gun in one match with no motive or intent to disconnect, just was removed from the server. How is this a “you are obviously in the wrong?”

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I didn’t do anything about idling and I got banned for idling, lol thats fair enough.

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If I did idle through games, I would be kicked out from the games,but I finished every games that night, so I want to know why I got banned

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> If I did idle through games, I would be kicked out from the games,but I finished every games that night, so I want to know why I got banned

If you’re idling enough, you can be banned even if the boot timer doesn’t kick in.

Trying to avoid the boot timer is worse, it’s going to assume that you’re abusing the system.