Why Did I Get Banned - The Official Thread

> Can you please telling why I got the Ban. I am inheritor, I have no reason boosting anything. If you happen to reset my rank, I’m seriously upset. Thank you … selleranet

If you’re an inheritor, why do you care in the slightest about credits?

If anything, I would think you would welcome a credit ban, since it allows you to progress your commendations without having them freeze once you hit the cap.

I just created a new account on an xbox which I bought from a friend recently anattempted to play Halo 3 and it says that I have been banned from matchmaking on Xbox Live when I haven’t even played the game prior to today. I am able to play Custom Games, Forge, and the Campaign. Please help

I just created a new account on an xbox which I bought from a friend recently and ttempted to play Halo 3 and it says that I have been banned from matchmaking on Xbox Live when I haven’t even played the game prior to today. I am able to play Custom Games, Forge, and the Campaign. Please help

> > > > Just curious, my friend My Day Is Good was credit banned recently. He had been playing with me almost the entire day and it doesn’t make sense as we weren’t doing anything and the ban only applied to him.
> > > >
> > > > He changed his gamertag today, it was KimJongIlThe2nd before.
> > >
> > > He was banned for AFKing in Living Dead.
> >
> > How was he AFK? He commited suicide a bunch. He even got more kills than I did.
>
> Yeah he didn’t get banned for that game…However…
>
> [This](http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=958337648&player=My Day Is Good)
>
> [This](http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=958339997&player=My Day Is Good)
>
> [This](http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=958351472&player=My Day Is Good)
>
> [And This](http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=958354005&player=My Day Is Good)
>
> This is really why “your friend” should come on here and find out for himself. the first game 0 kills. The second -17? No kills and 17 penalties? And he cant understand why he was banned? People like that should be banned for a month just for doing stuff like that. That ruins the game for anyone else on your team that isn’t in your party.

Geez dude, you didn’t have to come off as hostile.

So, anyway, he was banned for playing the game. Okay, that makes sense. Obviously he wasn’t AFK if he got so many penalties. And I guess any fun outside of getting kills is prohibited because, you know, BTB is the most competitive playlist out there.

> > > > > Just curious, my friend My Day Is Good was credit banned recently. He had been playing with me almost the entire day and it doesn’t make sense as we weren’t doing anything and the ban only applied to him.
> > > > >
> > > > > He changed his gamertag today, it was KimJongIlThe2nd before.
> > > >
> > > > He was banned for AFKing in Living Dead.
> > >
> > > How was he AFK? He commited suicide a bunch. He even got more kills than I did.
> >
> > Yeah he didn’t get banned for that game…However…
> >
> > [This](http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=958337648&player=My Day Is Good)
> >
> > [This](http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=958339997&player=My Day Is Good)
> >
> > [This](http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=958351472&player=My Day Is Good)
> >
> > [And This](http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=958354005&player=My Day Is Good)
> >
> > This is really why “your friend” should come on here and find out for himself. the first game 0 kills. The second -17? No kills and 17 penalties? And he cant understand why he was banned? People like that should be banned for a month just for doing stuff like that. That ruins the game for anyone else on your team that isn’t in your party.
>
> Geez dude, you didn’t have to come off as hostile.
>
> So, anyway, he was banned for playing the game. Okay, that makes sense. Obviously he wasn’t AFK if he got so many penalties. And I guess any fun outside of getting kills is prohibited because, you know, BTB is the most competitive playlist out there.

Thats the thing, he wasn’t playing the game. He was screwing up the game for every other person on his team. Custom challenges are big right now. What if someone had a challenge for getting 20 wins in MM, they get stuck on a team with your friend, and goes -17? Not too fair for the others. Also he got 0 kills. For 4 straight games. And you call that playing the game? The point of the game is to increase your score by getting KILLS.

> Why the hell is my 5 year old suddenly banned on this today?
>
> He actually is very good, and I have told him never to leave a match so that he can at least learn from the good players… however it appears that because I travel to different countries and use our second login to play with him and spend some fun times, he can suddenly get banned because of one of these ‘flags’ ?
>
> Are you 343 programmers really that stupid? You create an awesome platform so that folks can play together, communicate, and (used to be able to watch movies)… and now you start screwing this up for families?
>
> Get this S#*t fixed, and tell MS to get back the netflix movie sharing while your at it.
>
> OneRevGen

Ok, sooo…Apparently ThreeRevGen is your 5 year old (Although the game is rated M for mature meaning 17 and older). Here are some games that you two played together in 2X Score attack.

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

Game 4

You can look at his game history Here. check his last 15 games, 12 had 0 kills. The computer program that does the banning will definitely ban for that. Although, at 5 I don’t see why he would worry about credits, a credit ban doesn’t stop you from playing online. So you guys can still play together, but If he isn’t going to get kills, then he will be banned. Plus it seems that Halo might be too complicated for a 5 year old, which is probably why doesn’t have an E rating.

> I just created a new account on an xbox which I bought from a friend recently and ttempted to play Halo 3 and it says that I have been banned from matchmaking on Xbox Live when I haven’t even played the game prior to today. I am able to play Custom Games, Forge, and the Campaign. Please help

You might want to get your money back and go to like Gamestop or something. I’m pretty sure gaming stores can get console bans lifted so they can resell them. It sounds like your friend got a perma console ban for Halo3 and new GT or not the console is blacklisted. Doesn’t seem like a real good friend if he didn’t tell you the console had a ban on it.

not that I got banned or anything but i think i know someone who should be… caught THIS guy boosting… IN FIREFIGHT! he had inheritor rank but when i played with him, he barely got any to NO points(hopping, shooting at nothing the whole game in the same place)

Here’s the link
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=27270879&player=ReaperCE
look for the I service tag.

UPDATE: if anyone is looking for this video it was recently deleted by me

> not that I got banned or anything but i think i know someone who should be… caught THIS guy boosting… IN FIREFIGHT! he had inheritor rank but when i played with him, he barely got any to NO points(hopping, shooting at nothing the whole game in the same place)
>
> Here’s the link
> http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=27270879&player=ReaperCE
> look for the I service tag

The ban hammer will catch him eventually, just give him a bad player review and carry on.

> > Why the hell is my 5 year old suddenly banned on this today?
> >
> > He actually is very good, and I have told him never to leave a match so that he can at least learn from the good players… however it appears that because I travel to different countries and use our second login to play with him and spend some fun times, he can suddenly get banned because of one of these ‘flags’ ?
> >
> > Are you 343 programmers really that stupid? You create an awesome platform so that folks can play together, communicate, and (used to be able to watch movies)… and now you start screwing this up for families?
> >
> > Get this S#*t fixed, and tell MS to get back the netflix movie sharing while your at it.
> >
> > OneRevGen
>
> Ok, sooo…Apparently ThreeRevGen is your 5 year old (Although the game is rated M for mature meaning 17 and older). Here are some games that you two played together in 2X Score attack.
>
> Game 1
>
> Game 2
>
> Game 3
>
> Game 4
>
> You can look at his game history Here. check his last 15 games, 12 had 0 kills. The computer program that does the banning will definitely ban for that. Although, at 5 I don’t see why he would worry about credits, a credit ban doesn’t stop you from playing online. So you guys can still play together, but If he isn’t going to get kills, then he will be banned. Plus it seems that Halo might be too complicated for a 5 year old, which is probably why doesn’t have an E rating.

Ok I think I am getting the picture…

and BTW: I was using ‘ThreeRevGen’ on those games, not my son. He is always using OneRevGen… I guess because I am pretty lousy at the game, or because I have to step away to check on they daily house stuff (laundry, dishes, and the like)… he got banned. That is still pretty low in my opinion, as normal folks playing the game that have many priorities, can cause ban issues.

Credits are important to him… the guy is mastering math because of his love of the game, and he really tries to read what all the medals are for, and buys armor whenever he can. So when he doesn’t get credits, he gets all distressed because he can’t buy armor… and asks “Why did I get 0 credits?”… so you can imagine what is happening every time we play this game… (if you have a kid that says “are we there yet” you will know what I mean when my son says…)

“Why did I get 0 credits?”…“Why did I get 0 credits?”…“Why did I get 0 credits?”…“Why did I get 0 credits?”…“Why did I get 0 credits?”…“Why did I get 0 credits?”…

You get the picture.

Again, he is pretty good. He alone has gotten to Lt. Colonel, I actually like watching him play and point out things on the screen that help. It is definitely not complicated for him, but I did have to mute people because of the language many of the players use, which is something we don’t say.

There are games that I don’t let him play, because of the gore… such as Skyrim, where people’s heads can get chopped off or Dragonage, where it looks like you showered in blood every time you get in to a fight. Halo is really tame when it comes to gore compared to these other games. It actually looks like a paintball war game at times.

But I grew up with Halo, and my best friends play with there 5, 6, 7 year olds kids Halo because it is fun to watch them get ton of confidence playing against their dads and winning, which is almost impossible to physically do otherwise in the real world.

It is an enormous confidence booster in my book, and it definitely helps them add and subtract credits, because of the armor aspect to it.

But I wish I knew how to get his temporary credit ban lifted, so that he can earn credits and buy more armor while I am here in the country with him.

Cheers
A

dear 343 i was using my acount and helping a find of mine wit the achievements for halo reach i did not mean to quit too many games i was only using a guest to help wit the achievements then keep saying bann cuz i left too many games but now i can rejoin in so if guys can lift my bannd i would be happy i promes to not no more games for now i eran it the hard way for achievements this brandon yates

> But I wish I knew how to get his temporary credit ban lifted, so that he can earn credits and buy more armor while I am here in the country with him.
>
> Cheers
> A

You can’t get it lifted for that since it was a justified ban. If it is the first time it is over within 48 hrs (usually). Although your case seems pretty severe in the fact that there were so many games, so it may be longer. Just know for the future if you have to do household stuff you have to back out of the game, otherwise this will happen again.

> dear 343 i was using my acount and helping a find of mine wit the achievements for halo reach i did not mean to quit too many games i was only using a guest to help wit the achievements then keep saying bann cuz i left too many games but now i can rejoin in so if guys can lift my bannd i would be happy i promes to not no more games for now i eran it the hard way for achievements this brandon yates

Its just a 10 minute quit ban, stop quiting and it’ll go away. 343 isn’t going to get rid of a quit ban, especially since you purposely quit, which means you did in fact mean to. If it’s a credit ban, then you probably did something to cause it. I can dig through your game history if you want. Or everyone can agree it was a just ban and move on, wait it out it’ll be over soon.

for some reason I was banned from earning credits and I do not know what I did and how long it will last cause this is my first time getting banned but I do not afk maybe for a portion like 2 min cause I had to do something but I try to complete my games so I do not try to quit cause I do not want my teammates to lose cause then I would feel bad.

> > not that I got banned or anything but i think i know someone who should be… caught THIS guy boosting… IN FIREFIGHT! he had inheritor rank but when i played with him, he barely got any to NO points(hopping, shooting at nothing the whole game in the same place)
> >
> > Here’s the link
> > http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=27270879&player=ReaperCE
> > look for the I service tag
>
> The ban hammer will catch him eventually, just give him a bad player review and carry on.

I did, and filed a complaint against him, too. And as a ‘punishment’, I actually ‘led’ an Elite towards his location(and of course the elite killed him)… and then he started hop-shooting again(I finally got his name, it was Deltadelphi)

> > > not that I got banned or anything but i think i know someone who should be… caught THIS guy boosting… IN FIREFIGHT! he had inheritor rank but when i played with him, he barely got any to NO points(hopping, shooting at nothing the whole game in the same place)
> > >
> > > Here’s the link
> > > http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=27270879&player=ReaperCE
> > > look for the I service tag
> >
> > The ban hammer will catch him eventually, just give him a bad player review and carry on.
>
> I did, and filed a complaint against him, too. And as a ‘punishment’, I actually ‘led’ an Elite towards his location(and of course the elite killed him)… and then he started hop-shooting again

What did you file a complaint for exactly?

I filed it for cheating, and I think his ‘buddy’ was probably him just sittin there
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=962462659&player=ReaperCE

It does look like my question was answered in the forum, however, my son and I have shared an account and played various games and have never had a problem. Until last night, whatever he did got my account and console banned for one week but only for halo reach matchmaking. I made him his own account today so this doesn’t happen again. But in the meantime I would like to see if I can get the ban reversed. I have a couple more weeks until I am well enough to go back to work and halo is my main entertainment outlet. If there is anything I can do, let me know. Thanks.

for some reason I was banned from earning credits, can you please tell me what I did and how long it will last cause this is my first time getting banned but I do not afk maybe for a portion like 2 min cause I had to do something but I try to complete my games so I do not try to quit cause I do not want my teammates to lose cause then I would feel bad.

I waited over 2 hours for a answer

i just got my xbox and im not the best at this game so i get barely any kill or no kills, im still getting used to the game itself and it banned me from getting credits out of no where. I read that being afk will get u banned but i wasnt afk im just not good so i would get 0 kills or betray my teammate on accident.

> > > > > > Just curious, my friend My Day Is Good was credit banned recently. He had been playing with me almost the entire day and it doesn’t make sense as we weren’t doing anything and the ban only applied to him.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > He changed his gamertag today, it was KimJongIlThe2nd before.
> > > > >
> > > > > He was banned for AFKing in Living Dead.
> > > >
> > > > How was he AFK? He commited suicide a bunch. He even got more kills than I did.
> > >
> > > Yeah he didn’t get banned for that game…However…
> > >
> > > [This](http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=958337648&player=My Day Is Good)
> > >
> > > [This](http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=958339997&player=My Day Is Good)
> > >
> > > [This](http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=958351472&player=My Day Is Good)
> > >
> > > [And This](http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=958354005&player=My Day Is Good)
> > >
> > > This is really why “your friend” should come on here and find out for himself. the first game 0 kills. The second -17? No kills and 17 penalties? And he cant understand why he was banned? People like that should be banned for a month just for doing stuff like that. That ruins the game for anyone else on your team that isn’t in your party.
> >
> > Geez dude, you didn’t have to come off as hostile.
> >
> > So, anyway, he was banned for playing the game. Okay, that makes sense. Obviously he wasn’t AFK if he got so many penalties. And I guess any fun outside of getting kills is prohibited because, you know, BTB is the most competitive playlist out there.
>
> Thats the thing, he wasn’t playing the game. He was screwing up the game for every other person on his team. Custom challenges are big right now. What if someone had a challenge for getting 20 wins in MM, they get stuck on a team with your friend, and goes -17? Not too fair for the others. Also he got 0 kills. For 4 straight games. And you call that playing the game? The point of the game is to increase your score by getting KILLS.

Chill out dude. I’m just saying, and I’ll say it again, any fun outside of getting kills is prohibited. You’ve already made your point about me being right. If he’s moving and playing, whether he gets a kill or not, he’s playing. It’s not like we’re mentally handicapped and don’t know what’s going on. We just find fun in finding alternative ways to play.

And honestly, I know you’ll debate this, but if people are that upset that they’re teammate isn’t playing they can quit. I’ve been on the forums almost daily for more than half a year and I see that generally people are upset that there is almost no consequence for quitting. It isn’t the norm for people to get so many penalties in one game if you didn’t realize that.

Can someone reputable tell me why I haven’t been banned?