> Sorry, but I do not understand why both my console and my account have a ban from earning credits. My son and I were playing various matchmaking sessions yesterday and having a lot of fun. We don’t mod anything or look for cheats. Please just tell me if one of us did something to bring this about - and we will be sure it doesn’t occur again. We even have been trying to review our history online to understand this, but unable to see what brought this about. If you are going to ban us without telling us why - then we will never know, and will continue to more than likely do it again simply out of ignorance.
> I would also ask for mercy if we did do something to cause this ban, since we are both still new and just trying to get better in every honest way. Thank you in advance.
Is your son ‘MrSquareFrames’ by any chance?
He had a few zero kill games which results in a ban for AFKing activity.
First time bans tend to last 24-48 hours.
> I was banned on halo3 for three months, 2/5/2012 and todays date is 5/6/2012 why am i still banned??? its been 3 months already
Bans will always end the exact moment they were added, does your ban actually say three months or are you assuming?
> > Bans are not appealable, they simply don’t have enough eyes & ears to check every ban, as you said, the only thing the ban hammer checks is the zero kill games, which you showed.
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> > However, the community will help keep you honest. You have a public game history for everyone to see. If you post you were banned unjustly, the community is in their rights to check out your history to confirm or deny your claims. Please, just keep it clean.
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> So if we can’t appeal bans, what exactly is the point of this thread again? You can’t even tell us the exact time length of our ban. I just find it strange that my 9 year old brother is not allowed to play with me because the game considers him AFK, and 343i decides to not look into their bans. I guess i’ll have fun explaining to my little brother why he’s not allowed to play his favorite game(because big ol’ 343i decides he’s not good enough). I have a lot of respect for the game, it’s been most of my childhood and life, but I have to say that I have just lost all respect for 343i.
This topic is to tell community members why you are bannned, it is likely that a nine year old will struggle to get kills in a game which almost always equals a ban for AFKing acivity due to the zero kills.
It has been like this since Bungie was in control, heck, it was Bungie’s idea to track AFK players, mainly because it was the only way to track them, it was either implement this system to ban the AFKers or let them run rampant.
Either way they did it was a win & loss, 343i aren’t going to update it to track AFKers better, it would take a lot of effort when it could go into Halo 4’s ban hammer which would be a lot better, especially with the ATLAS technology.